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A great power pop artist.
1 posted on 11/17/2015 1:13:00 PM PST by Cecily
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To: Cecily

And the Mrs. is pretty accomplished as well.


2 posted on 11/17/2015 1:15:43 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Cecily

Oh, I used to be disgusted / And now I try to be amused


3 posted on 11/17/2015 1:16:01 PM PST by major-pelham
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To: Cecily

I never heard of it. And five seconds
of it on Youtube is enough to be glad I missed out.


4 posted on 11/17/2015 1:16:44 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: Cecily

Dang. Now I need to go rooting around my cassette tape collection. I used to have this on cassette.

From Wiki....

My Aim Is True is the debut album by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello.

The album was recorded at Pathway Studios in Holloway, London Borough of Islington, over the course of 1976 during late-night studio sessions, in a total of approximately twenty-four hours. It was the first of five consecutive Costello albums produced by Nick Lowe and cost £2000.[9] The backing band was made up of members of Clover. They were uncredited on the original release due to contractual difficulties; some early publicity for the album identified the backing band as “The Shamrocks”.

In 1977 Rolling Stone magazine named the album one of the best of the year.[10] In 2003, the TV network VH1 named My Aim Is True the 80th greatest album of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 168 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[11] In 2004, it was ranked 37 of the top 100 albums of the 1970s by Pitchfork which reported the album to be “held by many as the most impressive debut in pop music history.”[12] In 2007, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[13]


6 posted on 11/17/2015 1:18:01 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Cecily

One of the greatest moments in SNL history was when Elvis stopped in the middle of a song to play “Radio, Radio” an attack on the radio industry which SNL told him not to play.


7 posted on 11/17/2015 1:19:44 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Cecily

Seems like a similar thing happened to a different Elvis, but he told them to “lay off my blue suede shoes!”


8 posted on 11/17/2015 1:20:35 PM PST by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: Cecily
Everything is less than zero, hay, hay-eh

Say what you will about Costello, but this remains one of my favorite albums of all time.

10 posted on 11/17/2015 1:39:36 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Cecily
Oh, I said, "I'm so happy I could die"

She said, "Drop dead" then left with another guy

11 posted on 11/17/2015 2:05:07 PM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: Cecily

Thanks for posting this. Ordered his book within a minute of knowing that it existed!


12 posted on 11/17/2015 4:40:21 PM PST by islander-11 (Save Nantucket - Vote Republican!!!)
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