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Amazon.com Seeking to exorcise the demons of 1981's ill-fated country album, Almost Blue, Elvis Costello had another go with 1985's exquisite 15-song exploration of American life, King of America. "Little Palaces" and "Indoor Fireworks" feel like you've lived with them all your life. "Our Little Angel" has the aura of a lost Hank Williams classic, but, of course, only Costello could come up with a couplet like "You try to love but you're so contrary / Like a chainsaw running through a dictionary." King of America isn't all slide guitars and domestic discord, though. "Lovable" is as pure a moment of joyful abandon as Costello has ever allowed himself. Six months later, he kicked up an unholy racket with Blood and Chocolate. Costello fans have never seen another year like it. --Peter Paphides
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My favourite album of all time. Hightlights include: Indoor fireworks, I'll wear it proudly, American without tears, and Sleep of the just. A remarkable album, basically the first album I am aware of that is simultaneously a divorce AND remarriage album - all the pain of his divorce is here, but then the love and hope of his new relationship with Cait O'Riordan, and finally, a feeling of resignation and reconciliation with the love who (apparently, from the lyrics) scorned him. This is a landmark album from Elvis Costello, and (apart from the first 4 songs which are a bit boring) much more than just a collection of songs.
