Live At The El Mocambo

Elvis Costello and the Attractions, “Live At The El Mocambo” (Rykodisc, 1993; original release Demon, 1978)
Recorded a few months before “This Year’s Model” came out, this is the first Costello I’ve heard that fully bears out his association with punk, and then some. Basic organ-driven ‘60s garage-rock, modernized through post-Roxy Music angularity, is the m. o. here too, but the level of scorched-earth ferocity of these performances is almost on a level with Pink Flag in structure-shattering extremism.
Try 2, 10
7/26/12