Yesterday, purchased one of the three recently reissued Elvis Costello records. The album: Mighty Like a Rose, is the 1992 opus from Mr. Costello, touching on the collapse of communism, the fragility of human relationships and the power of a well-shaped guitar solo.
The other two albums also reissued: Armed Forces and Imperial Bedroom. All are two-disk sets, the second disk in each case containing many bonus tracks to distract and entice. They are part of an ongoing reissue project from Rhino Records. The company is relasing the entire back catalogue of Costello in groups of three . . . nine past albums have now been released. At least eight remain.
And as for Ms. Benatar, all I can say is shame on you. Shame, shame, shame, shame.
This is the archived edition of a blog kept from Nov. 24, 2002, to
Feb. 29, 2004, by Clay Wirestone.
The original description: "From the overstuffed mind of writer,
editor, cartoonist and crank Clay McCuistion comes a blog full of
-- well -- stuff. And things."