Re: Costello's Low Points

"Andrew T. Kay" <lastredleaffalls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in 
news:1159689580.813708.39340@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ARMED FORCES: "Sunday's Best," unless that doesn't count because it was
> left off the US version in favor of "Peace, Love, and Understanding"
> (to the benefit of the US version), in which case "Chemistry Class"
> (some good wordplay; not much else).

You are correct. Holy cow, I listened to the Ryko version of Armed Forces 
for only the second time last weekend and Sunday's Best just jolted me out

of my seat (and I was driving!). It does not fit with the rest of the 
album. Taking Liberties (or Ten Hail Marys) is where that one belongs!

Moods for Moderns was the low point of the American version. It is never 
correct for a chorus to consist of the same line repeated 4 times 
(notwithstanding the huge commercial success of Springsteen's Born in the 
USA, on which nearly every song did so yet spawned 7 hit singles). And for

the song to OPEN with such a gaffe is unforgiveable. Triple that with the 
fact that this refrain was simply uncreative and monotonous, and you have
a 
true dead spot.