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What's so funny about peace, sensitivity, and emotion? Nothing — and Elvis Costello is out to prove it with a new album. | What's so funny about peace, sensitivity, and emotion? Nothing — and Elvis Costello is out to prove it with a new album. | ||
I may be wrong, but if my memory serves me well, I was one of Winnipeg's earliest Elvis Costello fans — not the first, but I was listening to ''This Year's Model'' when most of my acquaintances were still head-banging to ''Some Girls'' way back in '78, and I did catch his show in Winnipeg, an occurrence which many of his current fans in town probably don't even know about. Incidentally, after that show Elvis and his band went to the St. Vital Hotel and jammed with The Fuse, local Boy Wonders of the music scene who are now starving out in Toronto, unjustly so, may I add. | I may be wrong, but if my memory serves me well, I was one of Winnipeg's earliest Elvis Costello fans — not the first, but I was listening to ''This Year's Model'' when most of my acquaintances were still head-banging to ''Some Girls'' way back in '78, and I did catch his [[Concert 1978-11-15 Winnipeg|show]] in Winnipeg, an occurrence which many of his current fans in town probably don't even know about. Incidentally, after that show Elvis and his band went to the [[Concert 1978-11-15 Winnipeg (late)|St. Vital Hotel]] and jammed with The Fuse, local Boy Wonders of the music scene who are now starving out in Toronto, unjustly so, may I add. | ||
Anyway, I digress. What I'm trying to get at is that, despite a fanatical start, Elvis and I haven't been all that close for the past couple of years. I think that it was ''Get Happy!'', his fourth album, that did it to me. Sure, it was good, but 20 songs on one album proved to be beyond the limits of my rather limited retentive powers. And then, when he came out with the same trick just a few months later, on ''Taking Liberties'', it became far too much for me to assimilate. Forty songs in a period of little more than six months caused me to reach my E.S.P. (Elvis Saturation Point), As a result, I hadn't bought another Costello album until this last week, when I bought all three missing albums, ''Trust'', ''Almost Blue'', and the newest, ''Imperial Bedroom''. The latter is to be the subject of this essay, should I ever get around to it. | Anyway, I digress. What I'm trying to get at is that, despite a fanatical start, Elvis and I haven't been all that close for the past couple of years. I think that it was ''Get Happy!'', his fourth album, that did it to me. Sure, it was good, but 20 songs on one album proved to be beyond the limits of my rather limited retentive powers. And then, when he came out with the same trick just a few months later, on ''Taking Liberties'', it became far too much for me to assimilate. Forty songs in a period of little more than six months caused me to reach my E.S.P. (Elvis Saturation Point), As a result, I hadn't bought another Costello album until this last week, when I bought all three missing albums, ''Trust'', ''Almost Blue'', and the newest, ''Imperial Bedroom''. The latter is to be the subject of this essay, should I ever get around to it. |
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