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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen
LOVE this thread. Costello has recently become my favourite artist ever.
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Cheers pal. It's always good to know people actually read stuff I've done here.
So then, let's get to the meat of this eh
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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen
I feel that a mere 6/10 for Armed Forces however is reprehensible. You seem to have a particular vendetta against that album that I don't feel fairly reflects its merits. Sure thing, I agree wholeheartedly that of EC's first five "proper" albums AF is certainly the weakest. But I can see no justification for saying it is anything less than "very good". AF should have been an 8.
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What I don't think I said in that review is that I didn't give that 6 to AF lightly. It was, after all, the first Costello album I ever bought, and thus the one that got me started towards collecting the discography, reading the books and eventually making this thread. As you can imagine, it's a very important album to me, even if I don't like it as much as other albums.
I know plenty of people love that album and that I'm in a minority with my take on it, but to me it suffers from the same key pitfall that a lot of other out-and-out stabs at a high chart position does, that being that the singles are fantastic but surrounded (mostly in this case) by more mediocre numbers. Busy Bodies, Chemistry Class, Green Shirt, Moods For Moderns - a few album-only cuts that I think drag the album down.
True, that review's going to be three years old come November, but I stand by giving it a 6 to this day.
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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen
And This Year's Model, while a no-brainer 10/10 in my books, should at least have been a 9 in yours.
Shame! To shame!
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It would've been, but there are a lot of Costello albums I listen to more and prefer to it though. And I didn't really want to go around dishing out 9s and 10s with this thread any more like confetti than I already have. It's also worth mentioning that .5 ratings aren't a lot to do with any of that Pitchfork bollocks, but something I resort to when I'm too torn between two ratings to decide on one or the other.