"This Year's Girl" (Elvis Costello & The Attractions)

Elvis Costello's 1978 album This Year's Model is a hard album to cherry pick.  It's one of those rare albums that fires on all cylinders the whole way through.  Even on the "slow" songs, there's a manic urgency that sounds like a Bill Haley & The Comets show on amphetamines, largely in thanks to the production of fellow Brit songwriter/producer Nick Lowe, whose own Jesus of Cool from '78 reads like a playbook of snarky indie rock.
"This Year's Girl" from the album is one of the "slower" songs, rocking along with a syncopated, vaguely mambo beat.  Lyrically, Costello seems as disgusted with rich playboys using their money and influence to snag the latest "it" girls as he does with the glossed-up "it" girls who stare back vapidly from their magazine covers and billboards.   Musically, it features The Attractions' signature sound: Costello's crunchy pub-rock guitar, Steve Nieve's wiry, brittle Vox Continental organ, Pete Thomas's reverb-heavy drums, and Bruce Thomas's nimble bass, which rarely is content to just rest on one note.
Although it was never released as a single from the album, it's as single-worthy as "Radio, Radio" or "Pump It Up."

(Because Universal Music Group has blocked the album version from being posted online, here's a live performance from Passaic, NJ, 1978.)