Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (w/ guest Jesse Elliot)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2016

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Singer, songwriter, and musician Jesse Elliot (jesseelliot.com) joins Brian and Bill to discuss Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True (1977, Stiff/Columbia) as we continue to highlight debut albums in January's First Month of First Albums! Incorporating an innumerable score of influences, Declan Patrick McManus (aka Elvis Costello) burst out of the British pub rock scene with some spiky music and a brash attitude. We discuss how Jesse first came to know the music through a mix tape, inherited from his brother and played in his crappy old car, before trying to delineate between punk, post-punk, and new wave. Along the way, we talk about what genre each album track belongs in, Nick Lowe's contributions as a producer, whether Clover was up to the task of backing Costello or if the Attractions would have done a better job, what causes the clipping we hear in the recording, Irish folk music, if Less Than Zero is actually a subpar tune, which songs are totally about sex, and as always a track by track review! Additionally, it's the new year, and we've got a new segment where our guest plays an Elvis Costello tune for us!

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0:00.0	Callin Mr. Ozzell with a swastooker good tattoo, there is a vacancy waiting in the English food do, carbon
0:18.0	deep for metal on the field tip of his head and it's had a number that maybe you'll take him to bed too
0:26.1	feature needs a light for a whistle she was dead
0:35.4	Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast I I'm Bill. And I'm Brian.
0:39.7	And today we are going to be talking about, as you just heard right there, Elvis Costello.
0:44.9	Mm-hmm. I can just... The Pub Rock.
0:49.3	Bring it. His debut album from July of 77, My Name is yeah and this is the second second episode of debut album
0:58.8	january yes so what we're doing here this month is each week we are taking a different debut album
1:04.7	so for the rest of the month uh that's what you're going to hear last week we did big stars number one
1:10.2	record which was a fun one to do.
1:12.6	And now we're doing Elvis Costello, just making our way through the 70s.
1:16.4	Yeah, right?
1:17.5	Yeah, 72.
1:18.3	Now we jump ahead to 77.
1:20.8	If you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do hear every week is take a different
1:24.9	album of music and talk about what makes it great.
1:28.3	We're going to talk a little bit about our personal interaction with the music and what it
1:33.7	makes us feel on the inside.
1:35.8	And then we're going to talk a little bit about the production and the making of the album.
1:39.9	And finally, we're going to do a track-by-track review later on in the show.
1:43.4	Does an album make you feel anything on the outside ever?
1:48.4	Maybe, like, if someone hit me with it, I'm not really sure.
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