Elvis Costello Fan Forum

sulky lad wrote:

jardine wrote:

sweetest punch wrote: please tell me this is a joke, a fake. please!

Couldn't agree more, SP!

Eh? I don't get what your issue is, fellas. The intention is to parody 1950s comics/cheap novels, so surely they've more than succeeded in their aim?

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Thanks Doc and Spooky Girlfriend!!

This one kind of floats past - it feels like a mood, rather than a melody - a very down, depressed mood. It's like 'We're All Cowards Now' in that regard. One of Elvis's strengths for me has been his gift for really catchy melodies, but I think he's aiming for something different in these songs.

Anyone know if this is the son of Elvis? Probably not - I presume he was in his 40s in 2012 when this clip was uploaded: https://youtu.be/Rb7yD-dQw_Y - and this guy looks to be in his 20s.

Lyric video: https://youtu.be/gDpRYOx7hEk

The previous ones have always been released on a Friday.

sweetest punch wrote:No. 31 - Hora Decubitus

“Life is a beautiful thing”

From “My Flame Burns Blue”

Jardine, this one's for you!

Sulky, happy to give the falsetto a whirl, though it'll probably clear the pub.

jardine wrote:zoloft -- just a thought

Oh no, Jardine! It's possible Elvis has slipped this one in just for you.

This sounds great, apart from there's something about the lyrics and pitch that make them hard to make out.

Does anyone else expect Elvis suddenly to burst out:

"Because I'm baaad
I'm bad
Ya know it
Because I'm baaad
I'm bad
Ya know it "

Shamon.

Hi MOOT - yes, I know this clip well. I find it a bit laid back, not a tight performance, and Elvis looks bored singing it. Still, always great to see the young Attractions. We were all thin once!

I now LOVE this song! On first listen his voice struck me as ragged. But now that I'm used to the song, I don't even notice it, and think it all sounds great. It's such a great, old-fashioned melody and the playing from everyone and the production are fantastic. How about that piano sound? How about...

P.S. To add to the list of singers who seem to have titanium vocal chords, I would add Mick Jagger!

Agreed Elvis's voice is showing signs of age now, but there's nothing anyone can do about that - it happens to everyone (apart from Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey - not saying that cos they come from The Land of Song, it just seems that their voices refuse to lose their power). I think this song is en...

Sheep to the, did you say Next Time Round is your fave from this album?

Well it is a great song. And I'm glad 'I Want You' didn't win. I don't hate 'I Want You' - it's an entirely successful song at what Elvis was trying to do - it's amazing. But I just can't bear to listen to such a negative, sinister song very often. At least 'I Hope You're Happy Now' has humour in th...

Now it can be told - I would have been happy for any of these to have been top: Blue Chair Next Time Round Crimes of Paris They are just so incredibly melodic, poppy and joyous, undercut by the dark lyrics. I heart them. The verses pull you in, the choruses are INCREDIBLE and the middle eights are o...

I went to the mansion to buy me a stanchion, I'm hoping it fits with the scansion!

YES Re the lovely dreamy bass playing at the end, Sulky!

verbal gymnastics wrote:These are kinda moving away from Do you have a favourite EC concert? - note the singular use of the word concert

Chuckle!

Also LOVE:

'You tore him out and screwed him up, like a bad page in a naughty picture book.'

Love the imagery, and also how Elvis dares to break the scansion and pulls it off with success, making it an even better song!

It had to go eventually, but it's such a brilliant, brilliant song. I always see this as Elvis's view of his songwriting persona - taking the mickey out of his twisted love songs. But is anyone listening any more, he wonders: "The world has wiped its mouth since then - or maybe it was yawning.&...

rightbrain wrote:Masterpiece?

Masterpiece.

One I have yet to vote out - as with all but one track on the album, I love this song! And the one I don't love (Honey Are You...) I still like an awful lot. Anyway, everyone else has saved me the pain of giving this bird the chop. I will continue to vote out the one that still won't disappear! Gro...

One I have yet to vote out - as with all but one track on the album, I love this song! And the one I don't love (Honey Are You...) I still like an awful lot. Anyway, everyone else has saved me the pain of giving this bird the chop. I will continue to vote out the one that still won't disappear!

A great album opener, definitely. Love it, and I haven't voted it out yet. I'll never forget being a die hard teenage Elvis fan in '86 after King of America had come out, and seeing this taster for his next album on The Old Grey Whistle Test. (Uncomplicated is second in this setlist). https://youtu....

It is a fantastic song. Some of the lyrics are astoundingly pictorial. The 'Disney abbatoir' can only be Mickey Mouse, Donald and Pluto chopped into bits. Waaaaaaaht? The black sand stuck beneath her feet in a warm Sorrento sunrise is so beautifully scanned. 'They say gold paint on the palace gates ...