Tag: my aim is true

• SNOT ROCK CD Selections 001: Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True

  

  I’m starting this CD reviews series with a personal favorite: My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello’s 1977 full-length—the album where Declan Patrick MacManus conclusively proved that mixing jittery nerd-rock, cynical lit-pop, semi-goofy vintage posturing, and biting, self-aware toxicity makes for a pretty solid angst-pop cocktail.  I first heard Costello in high school. It was a…

  roddiesnock

  August 25, 2022

  Music, nonfiction, reviews

  1970s, 1977, alison, Music, my aim is true, pop, punk, retrospective, review, reviews, rock, throwback