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Watching the Detectives (song)
"Watching the Detectives" is a 1977 single by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello. It was his first single that credited his backing band, the Attractions, and gave him his first UK hit single. The song featured on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at No. 354.
==The song==
The song, with a lyric about a lover who would rather watch TV, sung over a simple reggae beat,〔Larkin, Colin (1998) ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie & New Wave'', Virgin Books, ISBN 0-7535-0231-3, p.101〕 was described by ''Rolling Stone'' as "a clever but furious burst of cynicism", and they also described the song as "indisputably classic".〔"(Watching the Detectives – Elvis Costello )", ''Rolling Stone'', 9 December 2004〕〔Conner, Shawn (1999) "(Elvis Costello Shows Maturity in Vancouver )", ''Rolling Stone'', 2 June 1999〕 ''Allmusics Mark Deming described the song: "a skeletal minor-key melody that slowly but effectively wound itself into a solid knot of fierce emotional tension, pushing the bitter lyrical atmosphere further into the darkness".〔Deming, Mark "(Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives )", ''Allmusic'', Macrovision Corporation〕 Costello described how he wrote the song:
"I was in my flat in the suburbs of London before I was a professional musician, and I'd been up for thirty-six hours. I was actually listening to another inductee's record, the Clash's first album. When I first put it on, I thought it was just terrible. Then I played it again and I liked it better. By the end, I stayed up all night listening to it on headphones, and I thought it was great. Then I wrote "Watching the Detectives"."〔Crandall, Bill (2003) "(Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Elvis Costello )", ''Rolling Stone'', 28 February 2003〕
Costello considers "Watching the Detectives" his favourite song from the first five years of his career.〔Harrington, Richard (2006) "(Elvis Costello's (Really) Big Band )", ''Washington Post'', 14 April 2006〕 He later performed the song with a big band arrangement, which he admitted was "a desecration to people who love the tenseness of the original recording", but explained that "the story that's going on, and the musical allusions in the original arrangements, relate very much to the realization of this song as an orchestral piece using the film music feeling and the swing rhythms of '50s detective shows."〔
The song has also been featured as the theme song in the PBS show, ''History Detectives'' and on the pilot episode of ''Elementary''.
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