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Costello/Attractions: "(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea"

submitted by tremormilo
1 decade 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago

Maybe the best track on _This Year's Model_, cut from the American version of the LP for being "too English". In the late 70s there was no songwriter more cleverly, crushingly vitriolic than Elvis, and there was no backing outfit more tight, frenetic, and exciting as the Attractions.

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He was pretty hostile when he was younger. Once, when he was in America, he had an argument at a bar with somebody and called Ray Charles "an ignorant n*". Elvis got punched out, and I think it's around that time that he started to lighten up.

Welcome. Nice first post!

Tags changed from "miniskirt waddle" to "miniskirt waddle, 1978, 70s, 70's" by gold star member swampgirl.

tremormilo says...

Woo! Thanks! This is actually my third sift, but the first to make the cut. Thanks for the push, Swampgirl.

*british, mate!

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