FINAL POST!! Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
It’s graduation week. Four years of sharing album-of-the-week are over. It’s important to wrap this up with a special album. I’ve decided to go with one of the best debut albums ever, by one of my favorite musicians, for whom I have the utmost respect. With this last album, I want to affirm that this effort was to support my daughter’s personal and professional interests in music (my aim was true). Also, I wanted the graduation album to welcome her to the grown-up world of working for a living (”Welcome To The Working Week”). And finally, since I’ve tied politics to so many of these albums, it feels appropriate - as President Trump continues to bring the country and perhaps the world to ruin (this week, by backing out of the Paris Climate Accord) - to close this project with the track, “Waiting For The End Of The World.”
1 "Welcome to the Working Week"
2 "Miracle Man"
3 "No Dancing"
4 "Blame It on Cain"
5 "Alison"
6 "Sneaky Feelings"
7 "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes"
8 "Less Than Zero"
9 "Mystery Dance"
10 "Pay It Back"
11 "I'm Not Angry"
12 "Waiting for the End of the World"
Last week, T Bone Burnett’s name was one of those in the collaboration, and I mentioned his Academy Award winning work on the “Cold Mountain” soundtrack. Well, Elvis Costello collaborated with T Bone to write the track “Scarlett Tide” for that soundtrack. The collaborations Elvis has been a part of are numerous and, I’m sure, will go on and on. He has made so much music in genres outside his punk-pop, new-wave origins that it defies categorization. I recommend a Wikipedia search to keep track of it all. Of late, what I have been most impressed with from Elvis is the musically collaborative TV show he did called “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...” I only saw a few episodes, but they were brilliant. Check it out if you're so inclined. It’s all available on DVD or BluRay.
In closing, I’d like to thank everyone who read my foolish posts (with especially large portions of thanks to those of you who occasionally corrected me) and everyone who listened along with us. As a postscript, here is the entire list of 194 albums we listened to over this four-year project, and the date we started listening. We started a little late, so we did two albums per week through the first summer session to try to catch up on the total count. With occasional exceptions, the albums were pre-1999 (the year my daughter was born). We followed some themes here and there, but mostly we just rocked out!
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac 10/20/2013
Deja Vu - Crosby Stills Nash & Young 10/27/2013
Best of the Doobies - The Doobie Brothers 11/3/2013
Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 - The Eagles 11/10/2013
Greatest Hits 1974-1978 - Steve Miller Band 11/17/2013
American Beauty - Grateful Dead 11/24/2013
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground 12/1/2013
Loaded - The Velvet Underground 12/8/2013
The Monkees - The Monkees 12/15/2013
Jackson 5 Christmas Album - Jackson 5 12/22/2013
The #1's - Elvis Presley 12/29/2013
Legend from the Master Tapes - Buddy Holly 1/5/2014
The #1's - Diana Ross & The Supremes 1/12/2014
Singles 1969-1981 - The Carpenters 1/19/2014
16 Greatest Hits - The Mamas & Papas 1/26/2014
Greatest Hits - The Byrds 2/2/2014
Greatest Hits - Bob Dylan 2/9/2014
Greatest Hits - Simon & Garfunkel 2/16/2014
Greatest Hits - James Taylor 2/23/2014
Greatest Hits - Linda Ronstadt 3/2/2014
Greatest Hits - Janis Joplin 3/9/2014
Greatest Hits - The Doors 3/16/2014
Smash Hits - Jimi Hendrix 3/23/2014
Greatest Hits - Queen 3/30/2014
Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers 4/6/2014
Mania - The Ramones 4/13/2014
Lennon Legend: The Very Best Of John Lennon - John Lennon 4/20/2014
The Hits - Johnny Cash 4/27/2014
A Quiet Normal Life: The Best Of Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon 5/4/2014
Gold - ABBA 5/11/2014
Greatest Hits - Cat Stevens 5/18/2014
The Best Of - Steely Dan 5/25/2014
Greatest Hits - Bruce Springsteen 6/1/2014
Greatest Hits - Elton John 6/8/2014
Endless Summer - The Beach Boys 6/15/2014
Hot Rocks - The Rolling Stones 6/22/2014
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin 6/29/2014
Rubber Soul - The Beatles 7/6/2014
Revolver - The Beatles 7/6/2014
Who's Next - The Who 7/13/2014
The Who By Numbers - The Who 7/13/2014
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd 7/20/2014
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 7/20/2014
One For The Road - The Kinks 7/27/2014
Pretenders - Pretenders 8/3/2014
Learning To Crawl - Pretenders 8/3/2014
Nevermind The Bollocks - The Sex Pistols 8/10/2014
Sound Affects - The Jam 8/17/2014
London Calling - The Clash 8/24/2014
Changesonebowie - David Bowie 8/31/2014
Ghost In The Machine - The Police 9/7/2014
I Just Can't Stop It - The English Beat 9/14/2014
Absolutely - Madness 9/21/2014
Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs 9/28/2014
Hits - Joni Mitchell 10/5/2014
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones 10/12/2014
Eyes Open - Snow Patrol 10/19/2014
The Best Of Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading 10/26/2014
Upstairs At Eric's - Yaz 11/2/2014
Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins 11/9/2014
Life's Too Good - The Sugarcubes 11/16/2014
The B-52's - The B-52's 11/23/2014
Out Of Time - R.E.M. 11/30/2014
In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs 12/7/2014
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet 12/14/2014
Joy: A Holiday Collection - Jewel 12/21/2014
Fumbling Toward Ecstacy - Sarah McLachlan 12/28/2014
Reading, Writing And Arithmetic - The Sundays 1/4/2015
Meat Is Murder - The Smiths 1/11/2015
Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt 1/18/2015
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette 1/25/2015
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers 2/1/2015
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins 2/8/2015
Ten - Pearl Jam 2/15/2015
Nevermind - Nirvana 2/22/2015
Live Through This - Hole 3/1/2015
Exile In Guyville - Liz Phair 3/8/2015
After - Lady Lamb the Beekeeper 3/15/2015
Garbage - Garbage 3/22/2015
Eight Arms To Hold You - Veruca Salt 3/29/2015
Rid Of Me - PJ Harvey 4/5/2015
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got - Sinead O'Connor 4/12/2015
Moondance - Van Morrison 4/19/2015
Joshua Tree - U2 4/26/2015
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys 5/3/2015
The Fine Art Of Surfacing - The Boomtown Rats 5/10/2015
To The Faithfully Departed - The Cranberries 5/17/2015
Sunshine On Leith - The Proclaimers 5/24/2015
Barricades and Brickwalls - Kasey Chambers 5/31/2015
Mars Needs Guitars - Hoodoo Gurus 6/7/2015
Kick - INXS 6/14/2015
Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit - Courtney Barnett 6/21/2015
The Iron Man - Pete Townshend 6/28/2015
The Wall - Pink Floyd 7/5/2015
Hair - Original Broadway Musical 7/12/2015
Quadrophenia - The Who 7/19/2015
American Idiot - Green Day 7/26/2015
Jesus Christ Superstar - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 8/2/2015
Grease - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 8/9/2015
Rocky Horror Picture Show - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 8/16/2015
Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa 8/23/2015
Graceland - Paul Simon 8/30/2015
So - Peter Gabriel 9/6/2015
Speaking In Tongues - Talking Heads 9/13/2015
The Cars - The Cars 9/20/2015
Boston Boston9/27/2015
Bachelor #2 or The Last Remains Of The Dodo - Aimee Mann 10/4/2015
Become What You Are - The Juliana Hatfield Three 10/11/2015
Verve Jazz Masters 51 - Blossom Dearie 10/18/2015
Come On Feel The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads 10/25/2015
Dizzy Up The Girl - Goo Goo Dolls 11/1/2015
Tiny Days - Scruffy The Cat 11/8/2015
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches - Happy Mondays 11/15/2015
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 11/22/2015
Electric Honey - Luscious Jackson 11/29/2015
Becoming X - Sneaker Pimps 12/6/2015
Let Go - Avril Lavigne 12/13/2015
Personal Christmas Collection - Doris Day 12/20/2015
The Grey Album - DJ Dangermouse 12/27/2015
St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley 1/3/2016
El Camino - The Black Keys 1/10/2016
The Good, The Bad, & The Queen - The Good, The Bad, & The Queen 1/17/2016
Little Broken Hearts - Norah Jones 1/24/2016
Avalanche - Thea Gilmore 1/31/2016
Born In The UK - Badly Drawn Boy 2/7/2016
Echo and the Bunnymen - Echo and the Bunnymen 2/14/2016
Central Reservation - Beth Orton 2/21/2016
Love Songs: Best of the Verve Song Books - Ella Fitzgerald 2/28/2016
The Sensual World - Kate Bush 3/6/2016
Arular - M.I.A. 3/13/2016
No Angel - Dido 3/20/2016
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem 3/27/2016
White Blood Cells - The White Stripes 4/3/2016
Motown 40 Forever - Various Artists 4/10/2016
Running On Empty - Jackson Browne 4/17/2016
Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution 4/24/2016
Raw Power - Iggy & The Stooges 5/1/2016
461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton 5/8/2016
Nick Of Time - Bonnie Raitt 5/15/2016
Damn The Torpedoes - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 5/22/2016
Low Budget - The Kinks 5/29/2016
Making Movies - Dire Straits 6/5/2016
Look Sharp - Joe Jackson 6/12/2016
Live Killers - Queen 6/19/2016
Living In Clip - Ani DiFranco 6/26/2016
Live At Luther College - Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds 7/3/2016
Carnegie Hall Live 1938 - Benny Goodman 7/10/2016
Bring On The Night - Sting 7/17/2016
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball - Various Artists 7/24/2016
Disraeli Gears - Cream 7/31/2016
Vol. 1 - Traveling Wilburys 8/7/2016
Down By The Old Mainstream - Golden Smog 8/14/2016
Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk 8/21/2016
Underachievers, Please Try Harder - Camera Obscura 8/28/2016
Horses - Patti Smith 9/4/2016
Under The Pink - Tori Amos 9/11/2016
Gordon - Barenaked Ladies 9/18/2016
#1 Record - Big Star 9/25/2016
Hello Starling - Josh Ritter 10/2/2016
Doolittle - Pixies 10/9/2016
Last Splash - The Breeders 10/16/2016
Star - Belly 10/23/2016
The Bends - Radiohead 10/30/2016
Medusa - Annie Lennox 11/6/2016
XO - Elliott Smith 11/13/2016
Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets 11/20/2016
violent femmes - violent femmes 11/27/2016
Tidal - Fiona Apple 12/4/2016
Concrete Blonde - Concrete Blonde 12/11/2016
We Three Kings - The Roches 12/18/2016
Holiday Songs and Lullabies - Shawn Colvin 12/25/2016
Marquee Moon - Television 1/1/2017
English Settlement - XTC 1/8/2017
Pelican West - Haircut One Hundred 1/15/2017
Weezer - Weezer 1/22/2017
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel 1/29/2017
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams 2/5/2017
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls 2/12/2017
The Very Best Of Aretha Franklin - Aretha Franklin 2/19/2017
All For You - Diana Krall 2/26/2017
Collective Soul - Collective Soul 3/5/2017
The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies 3/12/2017
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement 3/19/2017
Tuesday Night Music Club - Sheryl Crow 3/26/2017
The Darklands - The Jesus and Mary Chain 4/2/2017
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman 4/9/2017
You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr. 4/16/2017
Sea Change - Beck 4/23/2017
Auf der Maur - Melissa Auf der Maur 4/30/2017
The Ballad of the Broken Seas - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan 5/7/2017
Contraband - Velvet Revolver 5/14/2017
Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg and Wilco 5/21/2017
Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 5/28/2017
My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello 6/4/2017
You read all the way to the end! Thank you very much for your attention to my father/daughter project. Much love to you, and keep on listening.....
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