ELVIS COSTELLO "Radio Radio"

Awesome song!!

I don't like when people call Elvis Costello New Wave. When it comes to technicalities, you can make an excellent case. But to me New Wave has a connotation of being nothing but disposable glitter and no substance. In my mind Elvis Costello was punk rock.

He's so charming! And in the punk era he wrote songs with melody and was "artsy", but still concidered cool, and he still is. He's got style and class, love him!

big white dog u don;t kno anything about elvs, clover wat a joke

I totally agree! I think its the curly hair and giant glasses.

IS THAT TOM PETTY AT 1:00?! lol

I can see the resemblence, but no, it's not.

However, the band that backed Costello on the album "My Aim is True" was a studio band name Clover. After that album, Clover picked up a new front man and changed their name to "Huey Lewis and The News."

Clover and the News were totally different bands.

Uh... No.  Bruce Thomas.

He was the very face of pop music's newest and most radical movement to date.

If you played word association and had to answer quickly, "Elvis Costello" would be your immediate response when asked "new wave?"

His cynical attitude, his (at that time) very modern sound, his attire even his body movements were the very personification of music the new wave from 1978 to the early '80s.

Like him or not, he did set the tone.