| "Lipstick Vogue" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Elvis Costello & the Attractions | |
| from the album This Year's Model | |
| Released | 17 March 1978 |
| Recorded | Eden Studios, London |
| Length | 3:42 |
| Songwriter(s) | Elvis Costello |
| Producer(s) | Nick Lowe |
"Lipstick Vogue" is a song by Elvis Costello. It was recorded by him with the Attractions as the penultimate track of his 1978 album This Year's Model . In his album notes for Girls Girls Girls Costello recalled that the song was inspired by "the rhythms of the Metropolitan line (on which it was written) colliding with a song by The Byrds called 'I See You'. I didn't mention this bit to Pete Thomas at the time, so what you hear is all his own work". [1] Allmusic reviewer Tom Maginnis wrote that it "serves as a showcase for the new group's extraordinary energy and impressive skill, while Costello plays the role of the scornful cynic, spitting bitter words of one who has suffered third-degree burns at the hands of love". [2]
Modern Drummer noted the, "killer intro here, a frenzied snare-and-tom combination that slides neatly into tightly coiled double time. That intro pattern returns between verses slightly faster, before a spooky breakdown gives way to a twelve-bar Thomas solo that sounds like a punk drummer interpreting "Sing, Sing, Sing"." [3]
The song also appears on the album Live at the El Mocambo .
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