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If somebody is interested in making an argument that this album has importance that goes beyond the quality of the songs themselves, they could probably make it pretty easily. Because - firstly - albums don't tell the whole story: the non-album a-sides, b-sides, rarities etc are sometimes more important in terms of understanding the artist, and - secondly - time-constraints meant the vinyl LP was never an ideal medium anyway. It's an unsustainable, false idea in my opinion that an album should be both packaged, and consumed, exactly as-per-the-original release. I think not commenting on the bonus tracks added to the (better, more worthwhile) reissues is a mistake. He also had a hilarious cameo on the Simpsons, and that's one of the best ways for a musician to endear themselves to me. Overall, then, he gets a *** rating from me, and it's about as stable a *** as could be, which is not a bad thing.
I do feel like, in so many of his songs, there's an emotional intensity that's begging me to tap in and share in his sardonic approach towards life, and maybe if I'd started seriously listening to him in my angry early 20s rather than my more satisfied late 20s I'd have resonated more with these songs, but as is, I've always filed Costello away in my mind as an "entertaining" musician rather than a "great" musician. While I respect Costello tremendously and always enjoy it when something from his more famous albums pops up in my listening routine, I also find that I feel a slight bit of coolness towards his music that keeps me from quite loving him.
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His lyrics, from the beginning, are cutting and sarcastic and full of word play, and while I've never really found a need to sit down and just read his lyric sheets, I find that there are a lot of lyrical moments that jump out at me if I'm paying attention. From the beginning, he couldn't sing in a conventionally "attractive" manner, but from the beginning, there's a reckless abandon to his singing, with him clearly not caring that he can't sing in a conventionally "attractive" manner, that I find incredibly endearing. He had to work for a little while as a data clerk and as a computer operator before he got to record his first album, where he was paired with a rather anonymous backing group called Clover (which later became Huey Lewis and the News, an act that had lots of commercial success but I don't find especially interesting). If there's a common thread in Costello's career, so far as I can tell, it's the combination of a massive chip on his shoulder and a confidence that, even if what he has to offer is unconventional, it's still good enough.
Most of his career is rock-centric, yes, but he's done country albums, and he's done jazz albums, and he's done albums of him backed by a string quartet, and so on, and the result is a career that, in total, is shockingly eclectic. Starting with Get Happy!!, though, he started mixing up his approaches a lot, and he ended up going far, far beyond the genres with which he is primarily associated.
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In terms of reputation, he is very tightly associated with his first three albums, where he emerged as a Punk/New-Wave update of Buddy Holly, and there's a good reason for it the first one ( My Aim is True) is quite good (if definitely a first time effort), while the next two ( This Year's Model and Armed Forces) are top-notch albums that complement each other extremely well, and these three albums are (for the most part) consensus critical favorites to this day.
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