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Lyrics >> Artists - Letter E >> Elvis Costello >> Spike

Elvis Costello - Spike Album
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Elvis Costello's Warner Brothers debut saw him shooting for new standards of literacy and sophistication. Leaving behind the raw spleen of Blood and Chocolate, Spike used a multitude of guests and luminaries--Paul McCartney, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, guitarist Marc Ribot--to flesh out wordy, acerbic tales of soldiers and graceless women (for example, the Margaret Thatcher of the enraged "Tramp the Dirt Down"). For many fans, the songs were too artful by half, with knotty arrangements that belied an absence of memorable music. The Beatle-esque hit "Veronica" notwithstanding, Spike smacked of cleverness on the grand scale. --Barney Hoskyns

Spike
by Elvis Costello
Song Lyrics
... This Town ...
Any King's Shilling
Baby Plays Around
Chewing Gum
Coal Train Robberies
Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
God's Comic
Last Boat Leaving
Let Him Dangle
Miss Macbeth
Pads, Paws And Claws
Satellite
Stalin Malone(Instrumental)
Tramp The Dirt Down
Veronica
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