Bonus Song Thursday - Elvis Costello "Oliver's Army"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Singer, songwriter, musician Jesse Elliot (jesseelliot.com) joins Brian and Bill once again to discuss Elvis Costello. We jump a couple albums into the artist's discography to discuss his single "Oliver's Army" from Armed Forces (1979, Radar/Columbia), the second album to feature backing band the Attractions. We discuss the polish and improved production on this album, Costello's move into New Wave, what the song's lyrics refer to, irony, the use of controversial lyrics, and when Costello recently addressed that topic.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Don't start the talking.
0:15.0	I could talk all night.
0:20.0	My mind was sweet walking
0:23.6	While I'm putting a world to write
0:26.6	Call career's information
0:29.6	Have you got yourself an occupation
0:33.6	All of us all is here to stay
0:36.6	All of us all is you to stay All of us are underway
0:40.0	And I would rather be anywhere else
0:44.5	Friety today
0:47.7	Hello, I'm Bill
0:49.8	And I'm Brian
0:50.7	And this is the great albums podcast
0:53.2	Bonus Song Thursday.
0:55.6	Welcome to it.
0:56.7	And as you were just listening to right there, we are talking about Elvis Costello.
1:02.2	Yep.
1:02.8	And the attractions.
1:04.0	And the attractions.
1:06.1	Welcome aboard, guys.
1:08.5	Bruce Thomas, Pete Thomas, and the A4 mentioned in Monday's episode, Steve Naive.
1:15.5	So what were we talking about on our previous episode, Brian?
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