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<center><h3> ''Armed Forces'' captures perfect rating </h3></center> | <center><h3> ''Armed Forces'' captures perfect rating </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' Elvis Costello ''' / Armed Forces </center> | <center>''' Elvis Costello ''' /'' Armed Forces'' </center> | ||
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'''‘Behold. Here is a man who is not content. Armed Forces, (Elvis Costello’s) third album in less than 1½ years, is a masterpiece.’''' | |||
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Editor’s note: Albums reviewed in the following column are rated on a scale of one (worst) to ten (best). | |||
Behold. Here is a man who is not content. ''Armed Forces'', his third album in less than 1½ years, is a masterpiece. Don’t be turned off by the title or the album cover: this is pop-rock (no, not punk rock) at it’s best. | |||
Gone is the slashing guitar with it’s primitive (yet also wonderful) wiry, twangy sound. Instead, Costello’s urgency is backed by a majestic, full melodic sound. Elvis borrows riffs from [[The Doors|the Doors]], codas from [[the Beatles]] and harmonies from [[the Beach Boys]]. Still, these arrangements and his phrasing and voice inflections are uniquely his own. These songs thrive on paranoid humor – just look at the song titles: Goon Squad, Moods for Moderns, Two Little Hitlers, etc. He doesn’t just poke fun at people, he rolls heads into baskets. | |||
The LP closes with a devastating Nick Lowe rocker “[[(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?|(What’s so Funny ‘bout) Peace, Love and Understanding]].” The performance shocks us back to the reality that the humor is serious stuff. Five or six of these songs are definitely Top 40 hits. | |||
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