Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Just found a copy at my Best buy. YAY! True Love Waits is good but not as great as I'd hoped in my mind, but the new demos are really nice. It's funny, in college 10 years ago, I got into EC on my own- friends didn't dig him so much. And all the stuff I'd initially read had made it seem like most fa...

First ones to pop into my head: Cat Power - her covers album has an amazing (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction tha ignores the chorus and turns the verses into a tense bluesy quiet desperation. As many times as I'd heard Satisfaction, somehow I never paid attn to the verse lyrics before, and it's like he...

I'm A Ghost - ted Leo / Pharmacists

I am so excited about this my head may explode. Not that I've bought Il Sogno (I felt a bit burned still by the Anne Sophie Van Otter thing) but him & Steve with orchestra, in my hometown! Wow. I find it hard to believe Houston will be the only city he does this in, right?

Everybody Thinks I'm A Rain Cloud (When I'm Not Looking) - GBV

Color Of My Blade - GBV

One of my top 5 songs ever:

I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - Ramones

Window Of My World - GBV

Bunco Man - GBV

Long Distance Man - Guided By Voices

One of my favorite Costello covers:

Get Yourself Another Fool

All I know of Go4 is Love Like Anthrax, and it's intersting and OK, but does it get better? I feel like if I buy it, it'll be like those first 3 Wire albums (not musically, but in my music discovery experience). A few good songs, but a you-had-to-be-there for it to matter.

Oh lord.

I try and not look, but I can't. I'm like a kid peeking at his xmas gifts. Still, the beauty of that is when they pull something out of their hat that you never expected. I hadn't seen Good Year For The Roses or New Lace Sleeves on setlists before the Houston shows so that was amazing. Of course, I ...

Get It On - Kingdom Clone

let me roll it - macca

The Who Sell Out was pretty clever. Wouldn't have thought the term "selling out" dated back that far! Part of why I like Guided By Voices are their strange word lays, like I Am The Walrus mix & match stuff. Bee Thousand, Mag Earwhig, Half Smiles Of The Decomposed... Olivia Tremor Contr...

Little Red Rooster - John Lee Hooker

Little Red Riding Hood - Sam The Sham, a TWO hit wonder!

I Just Wasn't Made For These Times - Beach Boys

Head ON - Jesus & Mary Chain

All Is Full Of Love - Bjork

After that big post concert buzz, I usually have another band coming up I'm looking forward to seeing. before this year, GBV always came around once a year, so I was always OK. But now that they're no more, and after EC, I have no shows upcoming (yet). I may have to go see some no names to work it o...

How's My Drinking - GBV

Fire On Babylon - Sinead O Connor