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“Less Than Zero” is the eighth track on Elvis Costello’s debut album My Aim Is True, and the first Costello single that Stiff Records released. In the liner notes to the Rhino edition of the album, Costello writes: :“Less Than Zero” was a song I had written after seeing the despicable Oswald Mosley being interviewed on BBC television. The former leader of the British Union of Fascists seemed unrepentant about his poisonous actions of the 1930s. The song was more of a slandering fantasy than a reasoned argument. The song therefore fits in with a number of anti-fascist protest songs on early Costello albums, which also include “Night Rally” from This Year’s Model and “Goon Squad” from Armed Forces. In this case, a racist and totalitarian movement is seen in terms... Read on...