Helen is looking forward to the new Costello Album, National Ranson. Me? I am pretty certain it is going to be the worst thing he has ever done.
Why?
The one song I’ve ever heard, “Jimmie Standing In The Rain” is beyond awful: a dealy dull dirge of epic proportions.
But a song doesn’t make an album, you say?
Sure, but look at these song titles.
‘National Ransom’
‘Jimmie Standing In The Rain’
‘Stations Of The Cross’
‘A Slow Drag With Josephine’
‘Five Small Words’
‘Church Underground’
‘You Hung The Moon’
‘Bullets For The New-Born King’
‘I Lost You’
‘Dr Watson, I Presume’
‘One Bell Ringing’
‘The Spell That You Cast’
‘That’s Not The Part Of Him You’re Leaving’
‘My Lovely Jezebel’
‘All These Strangers’
“The Spell That You Cast” is eek enough, and “My Lovely Jezebel” beyond pathetic. really? Jezebel? To suggest what i wonder… But they sound like whatever mid album lulls and “All These Strangers” might even be good… NOTHING CAN SAVE “The Moon I Hung” (and why do all the titles feel like that have too many words?) or, ugh, “Dr. Watson, I Presume” or “A Slow Drag With Josephine.” Here’s a suggestion, NEVER PUT THE WORDS SLOW DRAG IN A SONG TITLE UNLESS IT IS ABOUT RACING CARS.
Worst of all: “Stations Of The Cross” and “Bullets For The New-Born King” – Christian rejection, the last refuge of a lapsed Catholic.