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Tom G. - 2009-06-03 19:44:38
Paula I heartily agree! Been a fan from the beginning and he's never let me down. Momofuku from last year was exceptional. Looking forward to his latest. I'm a bit puzzled over some of the reviews I've read complaining that this latest crop of songs are "fussy". Any idea what that means?
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Paula - 2009-06-03 20:10:49
Well, especially on the chamber opera stuff he uses very precise, poetic language, but the music itself--and certainly the off-the-cuff feel of the recording--don't strike me as fussy. Hmm. And "Sulfur to Sugarcane" is kinda word-playish and bawdy.
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Steve - 2009-06-03 20:24:41
The new EC is also on emu.
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2fs - 2009-06-04 00:59:42
Mostly agree...although moments on Goodbye Cruel World come close to being awful. Frankly, that one's redeemed primarily by its reissues' bonus tracks. Still: that was, what, 1984? And I definitely appreciate that he's not just doing the same-old same-old. First impressions of ...Sugarcane... are pretty positive...
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felix milan - 2009-06-04 16:06:45
something happened to EC after 'Goodybe Cruel World' (arguably his last good album - check out 'Love Field'). his singing became unlistenable with overworked johnny mathis-ish vibrato...and the Attractions may have meant more to him than they might.
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MacGregor - 2009-06-05 08:57:31
I can't say I've followed Elvis Costello all that closely, though I've never heard anything by him that I have ever had any negative thoughts on. That is a lot more than I can say for most artists, including those I like a lot. It's hard to say, however, what has kept me from being a devotee. I was thinking about his voice, which can be as perfect and expressive as any I've heard, but sometimes can strike me as uninvolved and detached from the songs. That feeling is at odds with my feelings for singers that are emotive and melodramatic... I can't put a finger on it. And of course I'm just rambling now. It's funny though--a couple years ago I was asked by a friend (a jazz musician) if I had any EC she could borrow, as she'd only heard him for the first time on a Kurt Weill compilation. It always catches me off guard, being that my little world revolves around pop music, that there are people that live their entire lives within another pop milieu so far removed from my own.
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tris mccall - 2009-06-05 14:55:34
the greatest of all time! seriously, i even like *goodbye cruel world*.
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