“As its title suggests, When I Was Cruel hearkens back to those bitter days when Elvis Costello was as vicious as the punks with whom he was first lumped. You know the man is back on track on "Alibi," when he conjures a sentiment that sums up the central conflict of nearly all his greatest […]”
“Ahhh, if I only had a Latin Grammy for every time some hot air-bloated rock pundit wrote that Bob Dylan's "still got it," that Bruce Springsteen's late-90s social posturing is any more convincing than his Reagan-era material, that the small army of background singers and synthesizers required to create Brian Wilson's *Imagination* really sound any fresher than, say, "Kokomo." For the last seven or”
