In a move that’s pretty much unheard of these days, Costello followed up King of America the same year with another stellar album, Blood & Chocolate.

Where King of America is acoustic and country-influenced, Blood & Chocolate is electric and pure rock-and-roll. It’s opening track, ‘Uncomplicated,’ bursts from the speakers with a wall of shredding guitars as Costello spits out the ominous threat “You think it’s over now but we’ve only just begun.”

Indeed.

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