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The Buddy Holly glasses have been traded in for a pair of thin, wire-rimmed specs. | |||
His face has gathered many a new hair. | |||
But the songs are still grittily honest, playfully fun and lyrically brilliant. | |||
''Mighty Like a Rose'' serves as a prime example of Elvis Costello's return to grace from 1989's disappointing ''Spike''. | |||
The Beatle-esque "Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs arc Taking Over)" is the musically richest and most verbally amusing cut on the album. | |||
"All Grown Up" is reminiscent of an Irish pub song but with a lyrically caustic bite. | |||
The haunting "Broken" describes a man's ability to control or disguise every emotion except the pain felt over the loss of his lover. | |||
And "Playboy to a Man" is a song with constipated vocal strainings of Costello pitted against a jumbled melody that meanders but never loses its point. | |||
Over his extensive career. Costello has clung to his "angry young man" image. if the years have hindered that image physically, they have only enhanced them lyrically. | |||
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