Elvis Costello Fan Forum

For anyone's information, here's an iTunes playlist I knocked up last week to put me in a Macca mood for the new album: That Would Be Something Every Night Tomorrow Friends to Go You Want Her Too Too Many People Dear Boy The Back Seat Of My Car Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey English Tea Fine Line From ...

I really didn't want to say anything on this thread until someone posts the ad. Is anyone here able to YouTube it? I've been searching daily and none of them (Krall/Legend/EC) have been put up yet. It is not virtuous to say that you'll never change your mind or opinion on something. We all change. B...

Yeah, about 3-4 years ago, Fopp took some money off venture capitalists to expand and now they're getting bigger and bigger. They took over the majority of Music Zone stores that went bust in the UK recently and in the course of a week did something crazy like double their number of outlets from 75 ...

Ditto me, picked this up on emusic two days ago (much cheaper). There's something lovely and summery about BT&tMGs.

DrJ

A funky old vinyl shop will always have its charm. Last year, as a reaction to the virtual nature of my record collection (26,000 tracks on a 250Gb drive) I set up a 1980's Sony Hi-Fi with a great turntable and returded to buying albums in vinyl again. Stocking up on favourites from second hand shop...

FOPP on the Tottenham Court Road in London were selling this for £3 yesterday. They had many, many, many copies for sale, however it's still £20 on their website. They also have many out of date versions of the back catalogue for sale: Original MLAR & TJL, 1993 versions of B&C, etc... Mayb...

Hmmmm, I already have Steely Dan tickets for that night. Hmmmm.

If Universal are going to put EC on digital stores then hopefully we can all buy the new tracks on their own and forget about the album.

Whither the ringtones?

DrJ

The Swarbriggs! Brilliant!

http://www.keithm.utvinternet.ie/videos/I1977.wmv
http://www.keithm.utvinternet.ie/videos/I1975.wmv

Looking more closely at these two images - http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/images/5/54/Rock_And_Roll_Music_album_cover.jpg http://www.elviscostello.info/pic/78/roberta/rb0138.jpg I find myself wondering about the alterations. Besides the flexes 'n stuff on the floor being removed has, perhaps, E...

Dr. J, where art thou? He met us at the EC London show nearly two years ago and he's never spoken to any of us since! Aww, no, London life got busy... and great... It been a while since I checked the board on a daily basis. I got busy with work, I'm doing a Masters at UCL, I got married... so I've ...

Hello all, it's been a while...

Back in Dublin for the holidays, for your enjoyment I give you a morose Christmas tune I did a few years ago...

Enjoy...

DrJ

http://savefile.com/files/2961404

An upcoming Mojo will have a "How to buy..." article on EC soon. Submit your opinions here:

http://ubb.mojo4music.com/showflat.php? ... 65&fpart=1

Can we all make an effort to get Brutal Youth onto the list?

DrJ

Ho-hum. I think the Macca back-catalogue is one of the most misuderstood and unfairly maligned in Pop history. Here's a way of looking at it: Imagine John, Paul, George and Ringo had never been in a band called the Beatles and started as four solo artists in 1970. Which one would manage to create a ...

I'm sure what he means is that they were able to scrap the video when Columbia wanted to release it as a single becease Columbia were prepared to pay for a more professional, expensive video which featured Daryl Hall. OMG!!!! Daryl Hall!!!!!

DrJ

The video that came with "Elvis Costello - The Man" had the WT vid which is just a collection of black & white clips from detectivey/scary films which must have dropped out of copyright and a vid for Green Shirt which was just clips of EC's other vids (to go with the release of Green S...

Announced yesterday from Apple, 1,000 songs, the size of a business card. Nice.

http://www.apple.com/ipodnano



DrJ

Arrived Monday morning, have pretty much watched the whole thing and it's great. The tv appearances are fantastic and it's a pity they stop at 1983, there's so much more they could have used to bulk it up to 1994: The Session from 1988, The Late Show Special from 1989, SNL from 1989 &91, Unplugg...

Can we use this thread to talk about the Egg? Good. The clue is in the packaging, it lists a credit for the alternative vid so it was easy enough to find and it seems to bo the only egg on the disc. What Lemo fails to mention is that it's worth the price of the dvd alone as you get a completely diff...

Hmmm, I went to pre-order this of http://www.play.com yesterday and they seem to be shipping it already, checking my account and yup, they sent it just after I ordered it - here it comes! Cheap too.

DrJ

Well I'm currently without a tv and internet (evcept for now, in the coffeeplace, duh) but if Costello has licenced a track for a commerial then it really is the end and the sky has fallen. I know one should separate the singer from the song but has been losing his cool since he left Cait => Sting &...

http://www.paulmccartney.com has the track with no annoying "AOL First Listen" tag. You need to sign up with an email.

New Macca and Stones songs in the same 24 hours... ambassador, you spoil us etc.

DrJ

I saw Ken give that speech on the news and it all seemed to be spontaneous, no notes, no podium. And it was stirring.

I am fine - I'm in Dublin at the minute. Came out of the dentist this morning to a bunch of "are you ok? I'm ok" text messages. Strange. All of this stuff happened on my doorstep, I had an interview in Russell Sq two days ago and one of the hospitals I work in is the main receiving hospita...

That's quite a story. EC said something on the night about foolishly passing up a chance to work with the band in the 80's and having come back into contact with Rise. As ardent Spike and BYouth fans the versions of Clown Strike, God's Comic and Rocking Horse Road were perfect. Pity You Tripped at E...