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The best three songs are "Nobody"

ELVIS COSTELLO - This Years Model LP twee a compressed expression of vastAnyone can whine. But as a seemingly infinite stream of clich obsessed singer songwriters using misery as a thinly veiled ploy to get laid has proven, very few people can do it well. Drawing inspiration from banal personal miseries and girlfriend tragedies may indeed turn songwriting into some kind of a cleansing experience, but nobody wants to be sprayed in the face with someone else's emotional Lysol. And being preached to? That's nearly as bad.