Reception
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Parke Puterbaugh in a 1982 review in Rolling Stone felt that Costello had written "his masterpiece" after spending some years trying out various approaches on previous albums.
Robert Christgau appreciates the songwriting, feeling that some songs "are as great as songwriting ever gets"; though he feels that on the whole the album concentrated too much on the technique of songwriter, and as such the emotion is literate rather than heartfelt - so the finished product is "pretentious".
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