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Elvis Costello & The Attractions
New Lace Sleeves
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The fourth album by Elvis Costello, his third with the Attractions, Get Happy!! is notable for being a dramatic break in tone from Costello’s previous “trilogy” of commercially successful albums, and for being heavily influenced by R&B and soul music. The cover art was intentionally designed to have a “retro” feel, to look like the cover of an old LP with ring wear on both front and back.
The title may be a reference to gospel music, where “getting happy” is synonymous with receiving the Holy Spirit (a meaning that Costello himself hints at in the liner notes to the 2003 edition of the album). The title may also refer to the Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler song of the same name.
In 1989, it was rated #11 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.
Read on...Song lines: ♪ You look so pretty in your new lace sleeves ... The teacher never told you anything but white lies ... But you never see the lies and you believe ♫
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