Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Bruce was an old hippy - he couldn't stand the Clash.

pophead2k wrote:AlexV- I'd be willing to bet EC picked his version of Gloomy Sunday off of Billie Holiday- the arrangement and delivery are similar in a lot of ways. Great choice, BTW.

And surely he learned True Love Ways from the Buddy Holly record, not the Everlys....

Apologies if we've done this before, but I thought it would be interesting to look at what people regard as the weakest opening track on any EC album. Let me get the ball rolling: having toyed with 'Pony St.' and 'Only Flame..'. I think I'll have to plump for '....This Town...' Horrible production, ...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005RS5.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg One of the greatest records ever made - The Rainbow gives me goosebumps every time without fail. Mark Hollis has the most amazing voice -he conveys more emotion in one syllable that most singers do in a whole song. "Oh yeah , the...

'Nefertiti' from The Essential MILES DAVIS

The book is also reviewed in this month's Q magazine (which seems to have grown up a little again after its flirtation with the teenies. Dylan, Morrissey, Weller and Kaiser Chiefs are all prominent). WILLIE NELSON: THE OUTLAW Graeme Thompson Virgin £18.99 **** First major biography of the pig-tailed...

The whole of Pad, Paws And Claws, pretty much, sounds like a cat fight.

Sounds like quite a clear and worthy premise for a series of radio shows to me.....

'Satellite' is described in the book Complicated Shadows as:

"an eerily prescient pre-Internet premonition of the way technological advances would be used to fuel a globally interactive pornography industry"

which is true, but I have to say I never got on with the song. A bit draggy.

Well, only 'good' and 'bad' matter as catergorisations, and she is 'baaaaaaad' to the point of terrible......

http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/11/20/bopb.xml Complicated Shadows: the Life and Music of Elvis Costello by Graeme Thomson (Canongate, £8.99) "I'm not an entertainer. I'm not here to entertain people," rapped out a young Elvis Costello - still Declan MacMa...

alexv wrote:Live in SF (my favorite Live record since Marley's, yep that's right)

Are you quite mad? Or do you have a version of the album that doesn't have Brian bloody Kennedy and Shana Morrison crucifying some of his best songs (which Van can't be arsed to sing)? Immediate explanation please!!!

I'm not altogether sure he's even be in my Top 5: Dylan, Bowie, Van would certainly get my vote first...

Nah, ain't a mirror Miss B. A., ain't clear what it is. Oh Dear, that room is a rip off. You don't need a butler on your back for 24 hours/24. It's an embarassment, makes you feel like you should ask for things to make him busy. For the money , I'd get an Armani suit. Mind you, I trust you could fi...

Um, I would question the need for the existence of this thread in general, based as it is upon an utterly pointless hypothesis - but if it must exist, why is it in the Annex?

verena wrote:let's fuck up big time in Memphis

Maybe you're thinking of another Elvis.....

Crunk: a Hungarian cake-like delicacy, typically eaten with hot boiled water while playing chess.

"The best crunk in Budapest is a contradiction in terms, Temuri. Everyone knows you can't get good crunk anymore in the capital".

Jellob

Richard Hawley - anyone like him?

His new single The Ocean is awesome.

Extreme Thomasso: Elvis wrote The People's Limousine. With T-Bone Burnett.

And for God's sake, 'pity' only has one 't'.

I've bought My Aim Is True 20 times. So if I multiply this by each of his albums I have bought 1000 albums. Now if there are 1000 fans like me then that means he's sold 100 million albums. Easy really :lol: Think your sums are a bit off there VG! He would have sold a mere 1 million albums. Anyway y...

thomasso wrote:A: Because I needed to know what all you people were talking about
B: To disturb

I love you man, you're the funniest thing on this board.......












(if only you knew it.....)

thomasso wrote: I dont have the time and patience for celebrities or their lives, not who they are and what they do, I simply don't give a flying f*ck on that one. I'm sick and tired of american celebrities.

Um, so why ask the question in the first place?

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Yeah, but you didn't get to add vocals to Turn My Way.

True, but I'm hardly alone there.

So Corgan is OK cos he shares your taste in music and whines on a New Order song?

By any definition, that is a fairly shoddy criteria for artistic worth.

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Respect to Billy.

Um, I must beg to differ. In my house we prefer to call him a self-important, whining, ridiculous, talent-shy arse. I like New Order too, so what? It doesn't make me a genius.

Goody2Shoes wrote:

Tim O'Brien is an American novelist who writes a lot about the Vietnam War. [/quote]

I've read July, July by O'Brien, which isn't so much about the Vietnam War as written in its shadow. A superior High School reunion tale, he writes simply and well.