My Aim Is True Music Cd

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True

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My Aim Is True      Artist : Elvis Costello      List Price : $13.98 USD        Your Price : $9.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2007-05-01      Studio : Hip-O Records      Label : Hip-O Records      Avg. Customer Rating : (7 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for My Aim Is True      Angry, clever young man.      Rating:      Back in 1977, it must have taken exactly 1:23 min to realize that Elvis Costello was a serious case and would be around for a long time. Welcome To The Working Week bursts in with so much nerve and confidence that you want to go back to check it again. But Miracle Man is equally as good. As most of this album is. This geeky Liverpudlian with Buddy Holly glasses delivers american rock and roll with punk attitude and a lot more chords than you would expect. Fast and angry but clever. The backing band is competent but it's Costello's sneering vocals and song-writing skills that make the difference. Costello sounds like an urban Springsteen - the same passion without the good-heart. My Aim Is True is still one of Costello's best albums, but as someone wrote "the best was yet to come". I'll save the 5 stars for the next ones. This release comes in a nice digipack with a small booklet containing little more than lyrics.     Customer Reviews for My Aim Is True Cd      an impressive debut ..... but the best was yet to come      Rating:      Music writers in 1977 hailed the appearance of this record as the introduction of a major new songwriting talent. Indeed, EC demonstrates here an astonishingly precocious ability to combine sophistication and popular sensibility with both personal ("Alison") and sociological ("Less than Zero") themes. Of course the musicianship is considered the primary flaw of the album (it's not worth getting bent out of shape over 'remastering' - I've heard these songs for thirty years and they have always sounded weak and tinny in any format). It's very easy to mock 'Clover''s performance as either lazy or incompetent but in the interest of fair play I would like to propose that they were a victim of the disease of 'mellow', i.e. a perception that popular music success in the 1970's required the suppression of both tempo and volume. As all EC fans know, immediately after this release he began the formation of The Attractions, a band that was most definitely NOT mellow and in fact created some of the most energetic and exciting sounds in rock music history (I can't possibly imagine what "Pump it Up" would sound like if Clover attempted it). If you are new to EC's music I would put this fifth on the list to purchase behind 'This Year's Model', 'Armed Forces', 'Get Happy' and 'Imperial Bedroom'.