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Limited special offer.2009 reissue of his dark & challenging 1991 album.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Mighty Like A Rose is a much better album than many reviewers would have you believe. For me this is a continuation on some of themes he started on Spike, although it's a very different to that album. Essentially Costello is starting to become more experimental with this album and is starting to draw on some of his classical interests, which he explores further on GBH and Jakes Progress soundtracks. It remains very much a pop album despite this just with differeent textures.
It includes some great songs, namely Couldn't Call It unexpected, After The Fall and How to be dumb, which I believe hold up against other classic Costello tracks. You also get the wonderful Other Side of Summer and a couple of collaborations with McCartney.
Essentially a good addition to his catalogue
It includes some great songs, namely Couldn't Call It unexpected, After The Fall and How to be dumb, which I believe hold up against other classic Costello tracks. You also get the wonderful Other Side of Summer and a couple of collaborations with McCartney.
Essentially a good addition to his catalogue
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Dating from the time that Costello was being influenced by many different musical styles, this album contains a real mix of references from the Beach Boys ('The Other Side of Summer') through Paul McCartney ('So Like Candy') to the Celtic-sounding strains of 'Broken'. Whether such diversity on one album is easily digestible is debatable, and it could be argued that, in Mighty Like A Rose,Costello had lost his focus. However, the album is well worth a listen. There are some worthy individual tracks, in fact this album contains something for everyone. For the true Costello fan, the musical breadth offered will mark an important point in the artist's career. Maybe not Costello at his best, but certainly an interesting collaction.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I felt compelled to write a review for this album for one reason - Elvis's output has been hit-and-miss over the years, with some exceptional highs set against the inevitable indigestible hiccough (if you pardon the mixed metaphor). Released close to each other, he brought us two comparable yet quite different albums - Spike, and Mighty Like A Rose. I'd like to be perhaps a lone voice saying that MLAR was far superior.
From the aggressive and energetic - and hugely enjoyable - pop-rock of The Other Side of Summer and How To Be Dumb (a public attack on his former Attractions bass player Bruce Thomas) to the delicate, dark beauty of Broken, this is certainly an album of varying styles, but they hold together well, and the tunes generally play out far better than on the earlier album Spike. Costello's infamous occasional habit of producing unlistenable melodies to accompany convoluted lyrics is nowhere to be heard here, and where he does venture into less mainstream sounds (for instance, in Couldn't Call It Unexpected Nr 2), the near-seamless production allows him to blend this with the rest of the songs without any jarring at all.
Georgie And Her Rival sounds as though it actually belongs on the album Spike, telling us two things - first, that the production here is so coherent that such judgements can be made; and second, that the two albums are indeed to be judged next to each other.
In all, this is excellent stuff: pointed, angry enough yet poignant enough to please any die-hard fan, and brilliantly tuneful.
Mighty Like A Rose works on many levels, and is worth many hearings.
From the aggressive and energetic - and hugely enjoyable - pop-rock of The Other Side of Summer and How To Be Dumb (a public attack on his former Attractions bass player Bruce Thomas) to the delicate, dark beauty of Broken, this is certainly an album of varying styles, but they hold together well, and the tunes generally play out far better than on the earlier album Spike. Costello's infamous occasional habit of producing unlistenable melodies to accompany convoluted lyrics is nowhere to be heard here, and where he does venture into less mainstream sounds (for instance, in Couldn't Call It Unexpected Nr 2), the near-seamless production allows him to blend this with the rest of the songs without any jarring at all.
Georgie And Her Rival sounds as though it actually belongs on the album Spike, telling us two things - first, that the production here is so coherent that such judgements can be made; and second, that the two albums are indeed to be judged next to each other.
In all, this is excellent stuff: pointed, angry enough yet poignant enough to please any die-hard fan, and brilliantly tuneful.
Mighty Like A Rose works on many levels, and is worth many hearings.
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