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The "One Album Per Sifter" Quest (Rocknroll Talk Post)

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Elvis Costello - "Everyday I Write the Book"

winkler1 says...

found in http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=50986--

This is what Elvis had to say about the song:

"Every Day I Write The Book" is kind of a hack pop song. It doesn't have any feeling behind it. It's just an exercise in writing that sort of bad Smokey Robinson song with all the tricks of the trade...To balance [the album], we had a thing like "Everyday I Write The Book," that anybody could whistle, and that was written in 10 minutes, as a spoof. Originally I tried to do it as a lovers' rock song, and then we grafted on this kind of modern rhythmic treatment. It always begged to be done in some kind of pop style."

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