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'''Elvis Costello — reluctant star, savage lyricist, smartass songwriter, man of true aim — this is your vinyl career. | '''Elvis Costello — reluctant star, savage lyricist, smartass songwriter, man of true aim — this is your vinyl career. | ||
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Warning! | "Warning! This... may produce radical reaction in narrow-minded people." The label applied to Elvis Costello And The Attractions' Nashville album ''Almost Blue'' — but the warning could as easily apply to everything Costello has ever done, 11 albums on from his 1977 emergence as the vitriolic young pop icon. In those eight years he's travelled from the forefront of the new wave movement via Stax, Nashville and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to a Telstar greatest hits album. | ||
But even if ''The Best Of Elvis Costello — The Man'' and the creative marketing of a multi-format "Green Shirt" release are out of line, bear in mind that they weren't his ideas and realise that he's stayed remarkably true to his standards. Anyone who can bite the hand that feeds by scoring an airplay smash with probably the most savage attack on pop music radio ever recorded ("Radio Radio") and can point an accusing finger at other society institutions without them even knowing ("Shipbuilding," "Pills And Soap") and still be an albeit reluctant star in that society is more than smart. | But even if ''The Best Of Elvis Costello — The Man'' and the creative marketing of a multi-format "Green Shirt" release are out of line, bear in mind that they weren't his ideas and realise that he's stayed remarkably true to his standards. Anyone who can bite the hand that feeds by scoring an airplay smash with probably the most savage attack on pop music radio ever recorded ("Radio Radio") and can point an accusing finger at other society institutions without them even knowing ("Shipbuilding," "Pills And Soap") and still be an albeit reluctant star in that society is more than smart. | ||
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