Hey, Remember This Guy?
The Onion A.V. Club has a great little feature this week (last week?) consisting of excerpts from Elvis Costello's self-penned liner notes to the albums included in Rhino Records' reissue set. Some great stuff, including this "perspective" on the making of Punch The Clock (released in 1983):
"Between 1979 and 1983 something strange happened. The British government mutated from an annoying and often disreputable body that spent people's taxes on the wrong things into a hostile regime contemptuous of anyone who did not serve or would not yield to its purpose."
Sound at all familiar?
Anyway, the article provides a great reminder of just how great Costello and the Attractions were back in the day (2 of the 16 greatest albums of the '70s and 1 of the 19 greatest albums of the '80s).
If you're at all interested in what he's up to these days (I'll admit that I'm basically not), here is a terrific live set and interview from "Morning Becomes Eclectic." This is the aptly named KCRW (Santa Monica, CA public radio) show -- hosted by the eminently British Nic Harcourt -- that is unparalleled when it comes to in-studio live sets from great bands. A great number of these are archived in RealVideo on the KCRW website (as is this set from Costello). Other archived acts include: Jem, The Decemberists, Andrew Bird, Beck, M. Ward, Bloc Party, The Arcade Fire, and PJ Harvey. Check it out.
"Between 1979 and 1983 something strange happened. The British government mutated from an annoying and often disreputable body that spent people's taxes on the wrong things into a hostile regime contemptuous of anyone who did not serve or would not yield to its purpose."
Sound at all familiar?
Anyway, the article provides a great reminder of just how great Costello and the Attractions were back in the day (2 of the 16 greatest albums of the '70s and 1 of the 19 greatest albums of the '80s).
If you're at all interested in what he's up to these days (I'll admit that I'm basically not), here is a terrific live set and interview from "Morning Becomes Eclectic." This is the aptly named KCRW (Santa Monica, CA public radio) show -- hosted by the eminently British Nic Harcourt -- that is unparalleled when it comes to in-studio live sets from great bands. A great number of these are archived in RealVideo on the KCRW website (as is this set from Costello). Other archived acts include: Jem, The Decemberists, Andrew Bird, Beck, M. Ward, Bloc Party, The Arcade Fire, and PJ Harvey. Check it out.
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