Elvis Costello - Riot Act (song & lyrics)

Album: Girls Girls Girls (1989) Permissions: Universal Music Group (Please pardon the typos) Girls Girls Girls is a collection of songs by British singer/songwriter Elvis Costello from the period 1977-1986. Costello chose and ordered the tracks on the album himself, & accompanied them with extensive liner notes. "Riot Act": From the wiped-out sound of this track you'd never guess that these dark thoughts were written on a beautiful beach at dawn. Produced by Nick Lowe. ------------------------- A bit of the liner notes on the making of the album "GET HAPPY" (www.elviscostello.com) This would all come to an end in April of 1979 at Columbus, Ohio, where a ridiculous drunken argument would culminate in me speaking the exact opposite of my true beliefs in an attempt to provoke a fight that inevitably arrived. That I was speaking in some absurd, exaggerated, supposedly ironic humour, in which everything is expressed in the reverse of that which one knows to be true, is no excuse. There was nothing sparkling or glorious about this wordplay, just the seed of madness. It was the product of crazed indulgence. The racial nature of these alleged remarks - I say "alleged" because I have about as much true memory of what actually transpired as any of the other drunken combatants - created a fairly major scandal. Our records were pulled from the few radio play-lists where they were featured, our shows picketed by the very anti-racist organisation for which we had appeared six months ...

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