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<center><h3> Painted From Memory </h3></center>
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Elvis Costello can still sing a kick-butt "Radio Radio," but what if he wrote it 100 times? That's what bands like Rancid are for — regurgitation. The point is, Costello's been around for 20 years and has proven his bona fide musicianship from country and pop standards to the classical chamber-pop of ''The Juliet Letters''. So if this collaboration seems a little wimpy, and yes, it is easy listening, trust Costello'S judgment. He's been around, and his later work clearly wouldn't have been the same without the influence of Burt Bacharach.
Elvis Costello once dissed pop music in the 1980s by dubbing it the "decade that music forgot," but there are plenty of his fans who argue it differently: The 1980s were the decade in which Costello forgot how to make music.


Though it's a collaboration, with both artists credited for composition, ''Painted From Memory'' sounds like Costello singing Bacharach. But what Dionne Warwick made sound like a summer stroll Costello renders gloriously painful, saving the record from Muzak hell.  Bacharach's swelling, sentiment-bloated arrangements (the liner notes credit about 70 "extras") beg for a reality check, and even Costello's limited vocal range fits the bill perfectly. He handles jazzy, jumping Bacharachian melody lines with gusto and honesty. Consider ''Memory'' a pleasant and valuable history lesson.
It's a familiar tale now how Costello blazed onto the scene in the late 1970s. He spent most of the '80s and '90s dabbling in everything from country to unsatisfying collaborations with Burt Bacharach. And suddenly, it's Elvis is back in the building. ''When I Was Cruel'' is a terrific and surprising return to form, and one of year's best rock records. Bristling with tricky song structures and a subtle sonic tricks, Costello's still-unconventional rock writing and guitar work injects a staticky, nervous energy into even the quietest cuts, giving an edge-of-the-seat anxiety to the whole affair: Costello at his best always worked on a tightrope, and he's climbed back.
 
The disc stands solidly on Costello's vicious, delicious wordplay. His topics range from environmental pillage to the sad lies lovers tell, all rendered in the oblique cockiness that once made his songs so clever they were scary. Be ready to be happily scared once again.


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[[Kathi Kizirnis]] reviews ''[[Painted From Memory]]''.
[[Ron Rollins]] reviews ''[[When I Was Cruel]]''.


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When I Was Cruel

Elvis Costello
Ron Rollins

Elvis Costello once dissed pop music in the 1980s by dubbing it the "decade that music forgot," but there are plenty of his fans who argue it differently: The 1980s were the decade in which Costello forgot how to make music.

It's a familiar tale now how Costello blazed onto the scene in the late 1970s. He spent most of the '80s and '90s dabbling in everything from country to unsatisfying collaborations with Burt Bacharach. And suddenly, it's Elvis is back in the building. When I Was Cruel is a terrific and surprising return to form, and one of year's best rock records. Bristling with tricky song structures and a subtle sonic tricks, Costello's still-unconventional rock writing and guitar work injects a staticky, nervous energy into even the quietest cuts, giving an edge-of-the-seat anxiety to the whole affair: Costello at his best always worked on a tightrope, and he's climbed back.

The disc stands solidly on Costello's vicious, delicious wordplay. His topics range from environmental pillage to the sad lies lovers tell, all rendered in the oblique cockiness that once made his songs so clever they were scary. Be ready to be happily scared once again.


Copyright, 2002, Cox Ohio Publishing. All rights reserved.

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Dayton Daily News, May 3, 2002

Ron Rollins reviews When I Was Cruel.

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