Inspired by Mat Pereira's post about Elvis Costello on the archived board
http://archive.onetouchfootball.com/...=000282#000006
Although clearly an important artist, I find it hard to find any empathy or connection in the voice, and this is ultimately due to a lack of either range and/or warmth. Something is being held back, as if to be truly vulnerable (not to fake vulnerability but truly mean it) is too much to ask.
That might also be true of New Wave singers generally, so when you hear something that truly does not hold back or cloak pain in irony, it's a real shock (see Sweet Gene Vincent)
From other eras, I think Dylan, Jagger and Morrissey have that issue, although some of Morrissey's early emotional songs, like Well I Wonder, are more moving than I think Costello could have done with the track.
http://archive.onetouchfootball.com/...=000282#000006
Although clearly an important artist, I find it hard to find any empathy or connection in the voice, and this is ultimately due to a lack of either range and/or warmth. Something is being held back, as if to be truly vulnerable (not to fake vulnerability but truly mean it) is too much to ask.
That might also be true of New Wave singers generally, so when you hear something that truly does not hold back or cloak pain in irony, it's a real shock (see Sweet Gene Vincent)
From other eras, I think Dylan, Jagger and Morrissey have that issue, although some of Morrissey's early emotional songs, like Well I Wonder, are more moving than I think Costello could have done with the track.
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