Blog: PopMatters

Elvis Costello's sixth live album doesn't offer anything essential, but it's worth a listen. What a long, strange trip it's been for Elvis Costello. He started his career at the dawn of England's punk movement, quickly establishing himself as the most articulate of his generation's so-called Angry Young Men, a willfully anti-establishment figure who looked like the illegitimate love-child of Buddy Holly and Morticia Addams. Between 1977 and 1982, he released six albums of original material that touched on elements of pop, rock, country and soul, each of which...