Joe Jackson Night And Day

摘要

In the post-punk period of the late '70s, singer songwriters as we had come to know them had disappeared almost without trace. Instead of the introspective, guitar-strumming troubadour baring the contents of his or her soul, music fans were faced with a new type of character. Elvis Costello, for example, adopted the persona of the misanthropic, knock-kneed, bespectacled geek, making up for his shortcomings with a facility with words and an acid tongue. Sex had perennially been the engine that drove rock 'n' roll, but Costello came across as the guy who never got the girl - and if he did, he wouldn't be much good as a lover.