“Welcome To The Working Week” by Elvis Costello

"Welcome to the Working Week" comes from My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello's 1977 debut, and it's over almost before it starts: a short, sharp, gleefully rough-edged jab at the grind of working life, sneered at a woman who has it easier than the singer does. It was one of a batch of songs Costello knocked out in a few weeks, and he cut it with the American country rock band Clover, with John McFee adding guitar, Sean Hopper organ and piano, John Ciambotti bass and Micky Shine drums. Nick Lowe produced and joined in on the backing vocals.

It first slipped out as the B-side of "Alison", and critics have warmed to it since. Costello later set it against his 1994 song "London's Brilliant Parade" as the far less forgiving of his two portraits of London.

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