Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Regarding Costello's performance style, I can't find much to process personally. To me he has always come across as often being extremely nervous and self-conscious, yet still a great performer. When he's talking he quite often seems more relaxed. But, yea, I also think he would be the first to ackn...

Listening to the live 1999 When I Was Cruel... http://musicisthefutureofmusic.tumblr.com/post/60337732217 I had no idea that song was born in the back yard of Battered Old Bird and raised by American Without Tears (on the weekends). Again, while your comprehensive analysis of each album inspires me ...

First of all, Mr. FishfingerKing, Connor and I were JUST talking about the line, "...the moody doomed love of the Fish-Finger King", as you posted. I like that. Secondly, Connor: I had never listened to the Steven Kennedy track that EC co-produced and vocal'd (http://harrysmith2012.tumblr....

Chris, thanks so much for that poem. Loved it.

"I certainly don't want to offend anyone in offering critical remarks of this or that work. Different strokes for different folks, yes...to some extent. There's a much wider and brain-crackingly complex discussion to be had about whether relativism really succeeds as an approach to art appreci...

After a closer listen to the words, I see that he's saying, "western leather" not, as I had thought it was, "western valor", thereby I rescind my claim that MY DARK LIFE contains a "family pride" joke ;) Oh, and I was at that Fillmore show (probably because Connor told ...

Day 25: MY DARK LIFE Oh boy, how I love that song. Everything about it works for me. It's been awhile since I've dived into it. And now I wish I could get it digitally so that I could drive around today listening to it. I'd like to think that in the strangely coincidental way that the X-Files unfold...

It's funny how I'm surprised that GGG was released AFTER Spike. I shouldn't be. It makes sense. But it points to how quickly I was gobbling up his previous albums after I discovered him via SPIKE. I guess it took me long enough to work my way back up to 89 so that by the time I purchased GGG it just...

I am very much enjoying these daily write ups and all the additional comments/insights in response to them. Spike was where it all began for me. I was 13, it was late at night and MTV was showing that BBC special. It was either Let Him Dangle or God's Comic that I first heard. I was transfixed. Alon...