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Title: Boring and whiney: what's the big deal?
Review: I had heard so many raves about this album, in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and everywhere else. I thought it might be an interesting merging of Costello's balladeer phase and Bachrach's progression into something at least marginally different than he had done in the past. BUT: I really find this to be so boringly derivative that I can hardly make it through the whole album. What are people entranced by here? I really would like to know what I'm missing!
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