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“The Estate Of Keith Morris/Redferns/Getty Images Elvis Costello ‘s 104-track look back at his debut album, My Aim is True — 49th Anniversary Edition, is easily one of the year’s best reissues, packed with unheard songs and era-spanning live performances.”
“In a recent episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Costello looked back at the making of the album, some of the highlights of the boxed set, and more.”
“What do you remember about writing it?”
“‘Cause prior to that, I’d had one singing partner in Liverpool or played on my own.”
“And “Alison” came from an encounter with a woman who worked at a supermarket?”
“You have all these great songs from before My Aim Is True on a disc from the boxed set called The Blue Print .”
“So I was actually feeling them in that groove, and I think there’s something to that.”
““First Cut’s the Deepest” and “I Don’t Want to Hear It” was a big record at that time.”
“And not a version that I initially was very polite about, but that really wasn’t Linda’s singing.”
“Now I still cannot quite understand what all of it means, except that it felt emotional to say all of these things.”
“I was trying to decide which you had more kinship with, the Ramones or the Muppets, and it’s not an easy answer.”
“I was learning to write songs, not just to be heard in public, but also to be played with other people.”
“I consciously tried to make them sound like they were found in a trunk, sometime in 1927.”
“What happened after this was there was a brief period where the Attractions and I were genuine pop stars for about six months in England alone.”
“I wrote the song, and we must have recorded it very soon after I wrote it because there’s no pre-recording of it.”
“I thought it was a prank.”
“They just sound like somebody learning, and there should be nothing to be embarrassed about that.”
“At one point, your record company brought you to their office and informed you they were going to change your name.”
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“There’s an awful lot on this boxed set, some of it upturning our perceptions of your past.”
“I’m not gonna build my own theater so I can have it go exactly.”
“Perhaps there’s things within yourself that are not entirely admirable.”
“You know, punk really is an American term in musical terms, first from the late ’60s, and then the way it’s used to just denigrate young people.”
“It was completely made up.”
“I mean, it wasn’t really about a style or whether you had a safety pin in your lapel.”