Reviews (page 8 of 8)
This isn't good. I don't even know what I would call this. It's super not good
Boring and bland. Everything melded together like a forgettable film soundtrack.
honestly didn't like it too much, i dont really like his voice, and the songs are a little boring
Might as well rename this website into "the Elvis Costello portfolio", given this is the 6th album of his I'm getting here. And it's just as boring as the other 5. Believe it or not, there are other artists out there!
dont like his voice lmao
Dafuq?! What an uninspired, akwardly thin produced school band album… Here‘s really nothing, absolutely nothing explaining why this is part of the list.
Elvis Costello is BITCH MADE
I have listened to two Elvis Costello albums thus far and recently learned there are SIX on this list. This is not good news to me.
turhaa ja elitistisen kuuloista. melkein rockoopperaakin välillä, kuin Muse ois ottanu vaikutteita.
Costello toteuttaa omaa visiotaan siitä, miltä popmusiikin "pitäisi" kuulostaa. Mutta hänen biisinsä kaipaavat jotain muuta kuin rockin historian tuntemusta tai 60-lukulaista formalismia. Ne kaipaavat KOUKKUJA. Edes yksi please!!
Not into it
hate elvis costello
As a man whose job it is to be brutal to the youth, let me tell you what I think about Elvis Costello. He's a fuckin' little bitch man who could never be as brutal to kids as ive been.
I can't. I just can't with that voice. All that uppy downy on every syllable thing he does makes me want to hurt not just him but anyone I can get hold of. It's an instant rage maker. I get that he's very popular, but no, you can't make me listen to this, no amount of persuasion will work. Ick, I heard half a song, I want to scrub myself clean.
Elvis Costello is not my thing. It is just bad. He is clearly the favorite of the creator of this list.
This is not the first Elvis Costello album I have listened to. When I completed the Rolling Stone top 500 album list from 2012 I know there were a few of his albums on the list. Guess I just don't get him.
This album is pretty trash in my opinion! I quite like the odd song from Elvis Costello but listening to this entire album was very boring and didn't particularly inspire any feelings in me lol. Even musically I didn't really enjoy most of it or find it that impressive. I guess he's popular with lots of dads? But personally, I can't see why this would be on the list.
This album is remarkably boring. Elvis Costello's punk tendencies are wasted here, or even there, especially when "20% Amnesia" actually makes vocal sense, contrary to the rest of the album. Lyrically and musically, we can respect the creativity and composition of this album. This listener would never discourage Elvis Costello from making this music ever again, but it is telling that the need to say that is even necessary.
Fucking awful I just hated this. Preferred all the death metal we'd had. I cannot STAND his weird singing voice, it upsets me.
This was not very good.
bullshit
couldn't finish it :(( he annoys me
Not impressed. This one should stay in the 90's.
Not for me.
Elvis Costello, on this album, sounds like what Billy Joel would sound like if Billy Joel kinda sucked. The sound is... Unoriginal. It's exactly what you would expect it to sound like if someone who grew up in the rock&roll/punk scene, and who also happened to love Broadway musicals, but wasn't a talented enough singer to make it, told you that they were going to make a 50s pop revival album. The influences seem to be just a list of the most tired genres of white American/British music. The instrumental aspects of the album, with a few exceptions, are slightly more boring than necessary to achieve their purpose, which is apparently to be entirely subordinate to the vocals. This is unfortunate, because the vocals are pretty annoying. Costello is not a great singer, and I think the mix engineer did him no favors here: the vocals are dry, abrasively saturated, and way too loud. We looked up some of the lyrics, and our consensus was that it was difficult to tell if he had anything interesting to say, but it pretty much felt like the answer was no. Lots of love/breakup songs. Some annoying choruses (e.g. "this is hell"). Wouldn't recommend.
Oh man I don't think I'm an Elvis Costello fan but here we gooooo. Ugh this is just not good. I don't understand how he got so popular. I want to understand his context. Is he power pop? Pop rock? I cannot wait for this to be over.
I would rather go to a 5 hour nickel back concert then ever listen to this album again... I wish I could give him zero stars
Absolutely cannot stand his voice, it's like a cheese grater chuffing on my soul
Not my bag at all. Wasn't really interested in any of the tracks
bloody awful album