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Choosing the best work from one of the wittiest and most consistent voices in rock music is at best a difficult task. That may explain why this record features so many songs — it would have been tough to eliminate any of the 16 included here. | |||
The most remarkable thing about having Costello's eight-year career squeezed into a compilation album is seeing the tremendous development he's undergone. | |||
Side one of this album, featuring the often angry, brutally intense songs from his first three LPs, could almost have been performed by a different artist than the one who recorded the songs on side two, which is luxurious, romantic and almost Cole Porter-like in its wit. Rarely does the outright anger of early Costello surface in his later work. | |||
A "best of" package is not the ideal forum in which to savor Costello — his albums are too textured and cohesive to be chopped up and spliced together like this. Each possesses a special personality, whether it be the Stax sendup of ''Get Happy'' or country posturing of ''Almost Blue''. But even under these circumstances, Costello comes across as a songwriter and performer of startling ability. | |||
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