Elvis Costelllo: Pomp, Pout, Period

And here is our first steal from Direct Current. You can stream a new song played on the Priarie Home Companion. It’s called “Jimmy Standing In The rain” and god is it bad. A sorta low key thirties piece of piss poor tedium about some bloke with turberculosis eyes (ugh -jeez, what a fucking cliché, though he does rhyme it with” in and out of focus” which is pretty smart). The sax is sub-Chet Baker and the trombone not up to much.

I hope it is NOT OFF his October 5 release American Ransom.

Oh and there is a best of the Universal records years called Pomp And Pout -of course there were no best during that dreadful period.

Here is the link for “Jimmy Standing In The Rain”
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