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The crowd probably didn't understand what he was up to, but Costello, to his credit, refused to pander. "It's a bit of a dilemma," he told Miller after a concert in San Diego earlier this year. "You've got to play what they (the fans) came to see. But I'm not a one-dimensional sort of paper tiger. You can make songs so crass that everyone can understand them, or complicated enough that they're interesting." Wednesday night he managed to do a bit of both, thrashing out on such things as a stellar version of "Watching The Detectives" from his 1977 debut album, ''My Aim Is True'', and then winding down to relay the complicated aches of "Long Honeymoon" from his newest work, ''Imperial Bedroom''. | The crowd probably didn't understand what he was up to, but Costello, to his credit, refused to pander. "It's a bit of a dilemma," he told Miller after a concert in San Diego earlier this year. "You've got to play what they (the fans) came to see. But I'm not a one-dimensional sort of paper tiger. You can make songs so crass that everyone can understand them, or complicated enough that they're interesting." Wednesday night he managed to do a bit of both, thrashing out on such things as a stellar version of "Watching The Detectives" from his 1977 debut album, ''My Aim Is True'', and then winding down to relay the complicated aches of "Long Honeymoon" from his newest work, ''Imperial Bedroom''. | ||
For that matter, the nearly two-hour performance seemed designed to pull the fans that still want the Elvis Costello who was once tagged "the angry young man of | For that matter, the nearly two-hour performance seemed designed to pull the fans that still want the Elvis Costello who was once tagged "the angry young man of Britain's New Wave" into his more adult, and more complicated, present vision. | ||
Costello never has been one for labels, though Lord knows that hasn't done much to keep people from trying to pin one on him. When he first appeared on these shores, he was dubbed by rabid followers as the obvious successor to the recently defunct original Elvis. | Costello never has been one for labels, though Lord knows that hasn't done much to keep people from trying to pin one on him. When he first appeared on these shores, he was dubbed by rabid followers as the obvious successor to the recently defunct original Elvis. |
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