My Aim Is True
September 29, 2007
What’s the best Elvis Costello album? Man, I dunno. I’m hardly a fanatic. You could make a pretty good case for Get Happy! and there are definitely some killer tunes on This Year’s Model. A lot of people put Armed Forces and Imperial Bedroom up there as well. In my infinite wisdom I would say that it’s…..
Elvis Costello – My Aim Is True
Yeah, yeah, I’m not the only one but it’s pretty hard to go against his debut album. Straight off the bat this weedy little geek acts like its his 30th album. There is so much confidence and polish on this that its hard to imagine what it would have sounded like back in ’77, never having heard of him before. First of all there’s the straight up classic songs (‘Alison’, ‘Angles Wanna Wear My Red Shoes’, ‘Watching the Detectives’) and then theres Costello’s comic wit and unique voice that carry what would initially seem like lesser songs. The best thing about this album and the whole concept behind it is that its so easy to imagine seeing it in a bargain bin today. What could have been a disaster ended up as one of the best, most distinctive debuts of the 70s.
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Best Songs:
- Welcome To The Working Week
- Blame It On Cain
- Alison
