History Music / MyAimIsTrue

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Less Than Zero," from ''The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made'' by Dave Marsh:
-->“A couple are making out on the couch at the home of one of their parents (it isn't clear which, only that they have no place of their own to go, and are worried that the old folks will arrive home too soon.) The lights are off but the TV is on. On the tube, an interviewer is talking with Oswald Mosley, leader of Britain's fascist movement in the thirties, and Mosley's sister. Mosley is enjoying something of a revival, and he has been brought to the screen to further falsify history- his own, the world's, perhaps even the singer's. But the singer is only dimly aware that Mosley's being on TV helps explain his own unemployment and lack of housing, partially because he's too wrapped up in his lovemaking, partially because creating unawareness is Mosley's purpose. (And those cries of 'Hey red!' in the chorus- who's shouting them, and to what end?) This isn't something I made up. This is what Elvis Costello is singing about."

'''Tracklist'''

# (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" (2:47)

The album was listed at nr. #168 in Magazine/RollingStone's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time]].

''My Aim Is True'' is the debut album from Music/ElvisCostello, released in 1977. The album consisted mainly of songs that he had written while with his former band, Flip City, and brought to his audition at Stiff Records, along with some newly composed material. His backing band for the album was the Bay Area's Clover, essentially Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews without Huey Lewis.

-->''They've got a million variations every service with a smile''\\
''Jenny puts on some coffee and then she comes back with a smile''\\
''She says, "I hear that South America is coming into style."''

** Bret Easton Ellis' debut novel ''Literature/LessThanZero'' was TitledAfterTheSong.
** Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Christine}}'' has a different car-related song lyric as the epigraph for each title. One he uses is the "traded in their baby for a Chevrolet" line from "Less Than Zero".

'''''My Aim Is True''''' is the debut album from Music/ElvisCostello, released in 1977. The album consisted mainly of songs that he had written while with his former band, Flip City, and brought to his audition at Stiff Records, along with some newly composed material. His backing band for the album was the Bay Area's Clover, essentially Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews without Huey Lewis.

* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Male sexual inadequacy, [[MostWritersAreMale for various reasons]], has never been a big topic in rock music, but it's all over this album. Special case in point, the second verse of "Mystery Dance":
-->''Well I remember when the lights went out''\\
''And I was trying to make it look like it was never in doubt''\\
''She thought that I knew and I thought that she knew''\\
''So both of us were willing but we didn't know how to do it.''

* AlbumTitleDrop: "Allison":
-->''Allison, I know this world is killing you''\\
''Allison, '''my aim is true'''.''

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: The chorus to "Allison" seems to translate to "I know the world will break your heart, but I'll be more forthright about it than the rest."

* GenreRoulette: Costello shows stylistic versatility already. "No Dancing" has a Music/PhilSpector sound and is in fact one of many rock songs to use the slow, echoey drumbeat from the Ronettes' "Be My Baby". "I'm Not Angry" is punky hard rock. "Allison" is country-influenced. "Mystery Dance" is a rockabilly number that takes its cue from [[Music/ElvisPresley the other Elvis]]' "Jailhouse Rock".

* OneWomanSong: "Allison"

!!Don't you think that I know that troping on water won't make me a miracle man?:
* AlbumTitleDrop: From "Allison", natch:

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: From "Miracle Man":

* PoliceBrutality: From "Watching the Detectives":

!! Bonus Track (from the original American release and all CD version):

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh ,I used to be disgusted/And now I try to be amused..."'']]

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** Theatre/{{Romeo and Juliet}} appear in the first verse of "Mystery Dance">

''She says, "I hear that south america is coming into style."''

-->''Jenny puts on some coffee and then she comes back with a smile''\\

-->''They've got a million variations every service with a smile\\

''She says, "i hear that south america is coming into style."''