Ramblings about My Records
Don’t let the relative roughness of this record cover fool you – this thing is in pristine condition. Verve was one of those labels that, for whatever reason, had indestructible vinyl. Every Verve record...
It’s an odd compilation album that officially, on the spine, lists “Various Artists” when there is, in fact, one artist in common to every song on the album: Elvis Costello. This collection was released...
“King of America,” which came out in February 1986, and which I only experienced in compact disc as it was one of my very first CD purchases, was a goddamned masterpiece. It only reached...
In 1989, Elvis Costello released “Spike,” one of the few times I have really anticipated an album, really wanted it the moment it came out. I tend not to get excited about new material...
Hoo boy. Back when I first got into my Elvis Costello vinyl, I talked about how I really missed him in his early hit-making years. I wasn’t hearing him on radio, wasn’t very trendy,...
When I started this blog, I never envisioned that at some point I would just be posting pictures of albums with almost nothing to say about them. I mean, most of these records have...
When my roommate sent me the CD of The Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions in 1985, it was the later songs that really stood out for me, especially the sad history of...
“Almost Blue” came out in 1981, just 10 months after “Trust,” not an unusual pace at the time but still hard to imagine. In order to meet that kind of pace, an artist may...
As I’ve been saying, all my early Elvis vinyl, everything that happened before King of America, I bought after King of America. I didn’t know any of those albums before the mid-to-late ‘80s, other...
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