29. Elvis Costello & The Attractions

 

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This post punk singer/songwriter is arguably the third best songwriter to ever come out of Liverpool.

 

ALL MUSIC GUIDE BIOGRAPHY

 

Key Studio Album: Imperial Bedroom (1982)

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(But My Aim Is True (1977); This Year's Model (1978); Armed Forces (1979) & Get Happy (1980) run it very close IMHO)

 

Key Compiliation: The Very Best Of Elvis Costello (2CD) (2001)

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Career Defining Song:

Oliver's Army (1979 UK#2)

Some Other Key Songs:

 

Watching The Detectives (1977 UK#15)

 

Get On Your Boots Pump It Up (1978 UK#24)

 

Shipbuilding (recorded 1982) (1984 live)

 

Veronica (1989 UK#31 USA#19)

 

Were any of you fans of Declan MacManus prolific work especially in the late 1970s & early 1980s or not?

I liked Elvis from the first time I heard Watching the Detectives and Red shoes. Very distinctive voice. Olivers army was a great song as was Pump it up and accidents will happen. Didn't always like his later slow stuff as much.

like brian, his early material was good, unique, but he seemed to go all 'country' then i lost any interest.

 

i guess my fav oc track would be olivers army, possibly his most commercial track.