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There's a whole crowd who can draw from Elvis Costello's 12-year survey of romance like it's a dictionary of quotes; he's put out reams of acrimonious sentiment, enough to animate the poison-pen letters of ''any'' love life. But bitter lovers will have to turn elsewhere for acerbic puns, since, with ''Spike'', Costello has largely left their ranks to investigate, with more sensitivity and skill than ever before, different territory. Perhaps it's knowing that he may very well be discomfiting some segment of his audience that Costello offers. on the album cover, his own fatuously grinning head mounted on a plaque that bears the inscription "The Beloved Entertainer " as if to beat to the punch those who will consign him to obsolescence. | There's a whole crowd who can draw from Elvis Costello's 12-year survey of romance like it's a dictionary of quotes; he's put out reams of acrimonious sentiment, enough to animate the poison-pen letters of ''any'' love life. But bitter lovers will have to turn elsewhere for acerbic puns, since, with ''Spike'', Costello has largely left their ranks to investigate, with more sensitivity and skill than ever before, different territory. Perhaps it's knowing that he may very well be discomfiting some segment of his audience that Costello offers. on the album cover, his own fatuously grinning head mounted on a plaque that bears the inscription "The Beloved Entertainer," as if to beat to the punch those who will consign him to obsolescence. | ||
We no longer have an angry young man eloquently ranting in front of a bare-bones backup band, pumping out top-of-the-form pop tunes easy to bang out on your roommate's guitar. On ''Spike'', glockenspiel, Uileann pipes. tympani, Irish harp, and snazzy horn arrangements create complex, evocative back-drops for Costello's observations about capital punishment, imperialism, and the dark side of organized religion. | We no longer have an angry young man eloquently ranting in front of a bare-bones backup band, pumping out top-of-the-form pop tunes easy to bang out on your roommate's guitar. On ''Spike'', glockenspiel, Uileann pipes. tympani, Irish harp, and snazzy horn arrangements create complex, evocative back-drops for Costello's observations about capital punishment, imperialism, and the dark side of organized religion. |
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