BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW said:
Charlie Jefferson said:
Hi BBB,
I'll get back to you on other artists as varied as Albarn. If I can think of any that is but for starters, Elvis Costello springs to mind.
I know what you're saying with the Costello nomination, but I haven't heard enough of him to either agree or disagree, but my gut tells me that his output is neither as varied, or tuneful.
🙂
I'll leave "tuneful" to one side for now. As for varied, I'll throw the following into the ring:
The original run of four new-wave albums, the Beatles-y concept album (Imperial Bedroom), the one with Presley's session band (King Of America), the string quartet album (The Juliette Letters), an opera, a swing jazz LP, an album with Alain Toussiant, the recent one with The Roots, a torch song LP on Deutsche Gramaphon and above all the demented beast that is Blood & Chocolate. Maybe it's simply that I'm more of a Costello fan.
This thread will become something of a deleted scene/paragraph from High Fidelity. Long live music. And debate. And ranting.