Following the frenzied pop-soul of Get Happy!!, Elvis Costello & the Attractions quickly returned to the studio and recorded Trust, their most ambitious and eclectic album to date. As if he were proving his stylistic diversity and sophistication after the concentrated genre experiment of Get Happy!!, Costello assembled Trust as a stylistic tour de force, packing the record with a wild array of material. "Clubland" has jazzy flourishes, "Lovers' Walk" rolls to a Bo Diddley beat, "Luxembourg" is ockabilly redux, "Watch Your Step" is soul-pop, "From a Whisper to a Scream" rocks as hard as anything since This Year's Model, "Shot with His Own Gun" is Tin Pan Alley pop, "Different Finger" is the first country song he put on an official album, and that's not even counting highlights like "New Lace Sleeves" and "White Knuckles," which essentially stick to Costello's signature pop, but offer more complex arrangements and musicianship than before. In fact, both "complexity" and "sophistication" are keywords to the success of Trust -- without delving into the minutely textured arrangements that would dominate his next pop album, Imperial Bedroom -- Costello & the Attractions demonstrate their musical skill and savvy by essentially sticking to the direct sound of their four-piece band. In the process, they recorded, arguably, their most impressive album, one that demonstrates all sides of Costello's songwriting and performing personality without succumbing to pretentiousness.
So I'm spending yet another quiet evening slogging through my CD collection, uploading it more or less alphabetically into iTunes (I'm only on the C's...Lord help me), and I have arrived at my Elvis Costello CDs. Now I used to own a ton of Costello stuff on vinyl and cassette, but somehow the only albums of his I ever got around to owning in CD form are King of America and Trust. Probably my tw...
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that this is my last self-centric post (that is, post about, in whole or major part, me) for a little while.But I was just on Facebook for one of my every-few-months check-ins (I should go on there more often, it's one of the better soc-nets out there) and I saw a picture of myself I'd forgotten about. I was Trust-era Elvis Costello for Halloween one year in Santa Cruz, and it was one of the fe...
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that this is my last self-centric post (that is, post about, in whole or major part, me) for a little while.But I was just on Facebook for one of my every-few-months check-ins (I should go on there more often, it's one of the better soc-nets out there) and I saw a picture of myself I'd forgotten about. I was Trust-era Elvis Costello for Halloween one year in Santa Cruz, and it was one of the fe...
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So I'm spending yet another quiet evening slogging through my CD collection, uploading it more or less alphabetically into iTunes (I'm only on the C's...Lord help me), and I have arrived at my Elvis Costello CDs. Now I used to own a ton of Costello stuff on vinyl and cassette, but somehow the only albums of his I ever got around to owning in CD form are King of America and Trust. Probably my tw...
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Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, or perhaps I missed something. I've been on MOG for 4 months now (some how it seems so much longer - in a good way). But there tends to be a lot of inside information, jokes and terms going on between old moggers that some of us newbies might have missed. I see the term EMCD, from which I've gathered from a post from chucky that it has something to...
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| 1 Clubland |
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| 2 Lovers Walk |
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| 3 You'll Never Be a Man |
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| 4 Pretty Words |
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| 5 Strict Time |
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| 6 Luxembourg |
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| 7 Watch Your Step |
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| 8 New Lace Sleeves |
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| 9 From a Whisper to a Scream |
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| 10 Different Finger |
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| 11 White Knuckles |
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| 12 Shot with His Own Gun |
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| 13 Fish 'N' Chip Paper |
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| 14 Big Sister's Clothes |
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