If ever there was a time to dispatch a "GET HAPPY" message, I reckon this would be it. Not that today is different from any other day or anything. Anyways, in 1980, EC put out this 20-song set, his 4th album and the first real departure from the early sound. It's still here but colored in with R&B, soul and ska for 20 winners, every single one. So Get Happy or Get Horrific but don't pass on checking out this album, especially if you've never heard it.....The Horror!!
Get Happy!!
A monstrously intricate set of miniature epics about political violence and commitment, fascism and fashion, dialectics and ambiguity, Elvis Costello's Armed Forces (1979) was still a gorgeously seductive piece of high-style pop. Now Costello has made a record about that most accessible of pop subjects.
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!! (album review ) | Sputnikmusic
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!! review: After three straight masterpieces, Costello keeps up his batting average and finally moves out of the narrow confines of punk rock for good.
First pressings came with
this black & white poster.
The Horror!!
THE SHEER HORROR!!
