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Poll: Which Song
Elvis Costello & the Imposters- Unwanted Number
27%
 27%  [6]
Jeff Rosenstock- USA
72%
 72%  [16]
Total Votes : 22

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ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS- UNWANTED NUMBER (Captain: Sandinstar)


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JEFF ROSENSTOCK- USA (Captain: Lebowski Rams)


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An easy vote for Elvis. There were other songs on the Rosenstock album that would have fared better with me.
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USA is not one of my favorite tracks on the album, but it's better than the Elvis Costello song, which sounds very much like the respectable but bland music you'd expect a musician decades past his prime to make.
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Going with USA as well for this one.
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Jeff Rosenstock has never fully clicked with me, but I found his song a lot more interesting than Costello's.
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I prefer Unwanted Number by Elvis Costello & The Imposters.
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I was about to vote for Elvis but then the last minute or so of the Rosenstock track swung it the other way.
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Unwanted Number isn't bad but the chorus sort of grates. A catchy punchy pop song in true costello fashion that at this point is admittedly stale but certainly not embarassing.

USA wouldn't be my choice of a track from that LP either, but I love Jeff Rosentock's energy so that easily gets my vote here.

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baystateoftheart wrote:
USA is not one of my favorite tracks on the album, but it's better than the Elvis Costello song, which sounds very much like the respectable but bland music you'd expect a musician decades past his prime to make.


Yep, kind of feel the same here. Not a fan of either in all honesty, and although it's about 4 minutes too long I preferred Jeff over Declan's effort.
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Yeah the Elvis Costello number has the feeling of an old master who doesn't really have anything left to say, a modestly well-crafted but rather moribund tune, and while USA was one of the more musicadlly conventional tracks off of POST and easily could've been cut in half it still has a lot of feeling and even more charm, so Ill give it the edge here
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