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Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Goodbye Cruel World (Columbia)

Mitchell Cohen, Creem, September 1984

IT'S ALMOST Elvis Costello and the Distractions this time out. Goodbye Cruel World, LP #10 (here in America, at least), has such a desperate busyness to it that it's tough to get a fix on its strengths.

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