The Vinyl Countdown # 688

Elvis Costello, Spike (1989)

I was pleased to have arrived at Elvis Costello without any baggage. I don’t even know how I found him – reading about him I guess. I couldn’t have spotted an Elvis Costello song on the radio as a wee kid, and no one in my family was actively listening to him. So actually the first thing I remember identifying as an Elvis Cos…