I’ve had an Al Green song sitting my ‘drafts’ queue for months now, and I’ve never gotten around to posting it as a Song of the Day until today because, well, I just don’t have anything to say about it.
Originally the song was ‘Here I Am (Come and Take Me)’ but it’s since been pulled down for copyright infringement. I then switched to ‘Call Me,’ the title song from the same album. Call Me is an excellent album, featuring those two soul classics as well as ‘Funny How Time Slips Away,’ ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry’ and a handful of other slow burners.
I interrupt the previously scheduled Elvis Costello appreciation to bring you a week of unrelated songs. I figure I’ll give a break to the non-Costello fans in the audience (what’s wrong with you people?) and come back to him next week.
My first thought coming out of I Love You, Man was premature disgust with the motion picture Academy for snubbing Paul Rudd in next year’s nominations. There’s no doubt in my mind he won’t even be considered a long shot for any acting awards, just as there’s no doubt in my mind that he deserves a boatload of them.
Punch the Clock is the first Elvis Costello album that feels like a step back. As a followup to Imperial Bedroom, this collection of mostly lightweight pop songs was rather anticlimactic. 
So now we come to Imperial Bedroom, the second album in my Costello Holy Trinity and probably my favorite of his records. To paraphrase Ed Wood in Tim Burton’s film: “This is the one they’ll remember him for!”
Meet Me In Montauk 