San Diego State Daily Aztec, March 1, 1989: Difference between revisions
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Back in 1977, Elvis Costello said he didn't want to be around for his own artistic decline. | |||
Well, it's been nice knowing you, Elvis. | |||
The problem with Costello's latest, ''Spike'', isn't that it's ''bad''; it's just been done before. | |||
Production-wise, <i>Spike</i>'s sound is an amalgam of ''Imperial Bedroom'', ''King of America'' and especially ''Goodbye Cruel World'', full of decent-yet-derivative rehashings of old Costello tunes. | |||
For example: "Let Him Dangle" sounds identical to <i>Cruel World</i>'s "Inch By Inch," and "Victoria," the album's first single (and a collaboration with Paul McCartney) ventures far into the very familiar territory already crossed in <i>Punch the Clock</i>'s "Love Went Mad." However, despite the rewritten tunes, some of the songs sound better in their new versions. | |||
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