Elvis Costello Fan Forum

I once read an interview with EC explaining that it was about a dream he had.

I've also heard that the new album will be "the Deliveryman." I thought an earlier rumor of the album title to be much funnier: I heard it was going to be called "South."

It was a strange show, different from any other EC show I've been to. Definitely not for the casual fan. Many of the arrangements sounded familiar. WTD was the same arrangement that he did with the Ray Nathanson horns last year at the Beacon. How You Got Killed Before sounded pretty similar to the o...

To the extent the words have a distinct meaning, and I am not sure they do, it could be a reference to AIDS.

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Here's a 45 second clip of EC singing Let's Misbehave. I don't know if it is the same clip posted elsewhere..

If it is another ATUB, should it be an EC and the Attractions album

Claire, you could probably say the same thing for GCW. Well written songs, but the recorded results are not so good. When EC was touring with the Brods, I dusted off my TJL to give it a listen. I hoped that after having loved PFM and North, my ear would have "matured" to like TJL. There ar...

In the worst EC album thread, I listed KV as one of my least favorite albums. On reason for that is his un-listenable cover of the Kinks masterpiece "Days." I think that EC's cover falls so short of the original (to be fair, I am skeptical that the original can be improved upon), it is his...

In the "worst album" thread, I said that I should, but haven't, burned a CD with the best songs from MLAR and Spike. OK, EC fans, you have an 80 minute CD-R -- plan my CD.

It is interesting that putting aside that everyone has different tastes (I happen to love PTC, did when it came out and still do, for example), different people have different ways to measure "worst." Some people measure whether the album achieved what EC wanted. If that's the case, then I...

Juliet Letters or Kojak Variety.

The beginning of Man Out of Time seems to be a good one.

How about Girl's Talk? I like his version better than Dave Edmunds'. Does that count?

Personally, I abhor those obnoxious ring tones. But I just bought a new phone that supports download-able ring tones. Does anyone know if there are any available EC ring tones that I can download. I plan to use it as a defense against a person in my immediate vicinty having a particularly obnoxious ...

I purchased tix to the 13th and 15th shows through the Lincoln Center website when tix first went on sale (for multiple ticket purchases). I received first row center for both shows. I was pleasantly surprised. I purchased tix through the EC website for last fall's Imposters show at the Beacon and t...

It would also depend on the person you are trying to influence. I tried to do just that for a friend of mine. In my case, it was a friend who only likes "the old stuff" (i.e., MAIT, TYM, and AF). I wanted to introduce him to songs he wouldn't otherwise have heard, but would like. This pret...

The best first line may be THE first line: "Now that your picture's in the paper being RHYTHMICALLY ADMIRED and you can have anyone you have ever desired, all you have to tell me now is why, why,why?" I'm surprised no one picked: "Bad lovers face-to-face in the morning, shy apologies ...