Elvis Costello Fan Forum

I am he as you are he as you are me and... No, that's not right at all. Sorry, I'm just confused by the onslaught of EC albums. I guess it remains to be seen what will come of this Universal deal. To be sure there's hundred of hours of live tapes. There's pre-MAIT demos we haven't heard. Outtakes fr...

EXCLUSIVE "MANY PHASES" BONUS CONTENT Just Imagine the scene this morning when EC was having breakfast: Elvis: "Diana! My Instant Karma's all lumpy! I hate it when my Instant Karma is lumpy, Mother. Bruce Thomas' Instant Karma was always smooth." Diana: "Well, don't be a je...

In my book, the middle of Mighty Like A Rose's second side is Elvis at his most skippable but apart from that I love them carnally! I only love them semi-carnally. In a way these albums are an extension of what he first attempted on "Imperial Bedroom" - particulary Spike in it's use of th...

NEWS FLASH! It was a bad day for the truth down at Kamp Kostello yesterday. Said Costello: "I thought this was a good time to re-introduce these albums blah blah blah mendacity mendacity bullshit." [/i] Then Sibelius Software tell us that Elvis writes his scores on computer after he told ...

"Party Girl" is not a love song- it is a "road", one night stand song. An "appreciation" song, lol. "The Only Flame In Town" is also NOT a love song. Well... it would be if you were into polygamy. :wink: As for Party Girl - look, EC Love Songs are a bit thin ...

Just one question though - did Elvis see the vintage hats in Soho, London or Soho, New York? :lol: That's a good question! Oh yes it is! :wink: Thanks for the good vibes, Jackson Monk and verbal gymnastics . I'd been wondering what my next "weekly installment" would be, and then Elvis han...

Wow! What should fall into my hands today but the original first draft of a press release announcing a fabulous New Phase in EC's career: SANTA MONICA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- August 02, 2006 -- Ubiquitous Music Enterprises (UMe), a major loss-leading tax deductable entity of Ubiquitous Music Group, ...

I agree with Sweet Pear. And how about:

Party Girl
The Only Flame In Town
Jack Of All Parades

Oh, and that's not a synthesizer on "Human Hands", it's a Mellotron

I can see it now on the BRITs the year 2020 Elvis will be wheeled out along with Morrisey as the last great white dopes. Elvis will 66 then. Hopefully he'll still be writing great songs - the odds are that he quite literally will be the greatest living (and still working) songwriter in the world by...

However, if we see him as Toussaint's mouthpiece (doubtful given the respective temperments of the two men!) then I'm prattling on about nothing, of course. Of course he's not Toussaint's mouthpiece, but he does have the "Allen Toussaint Stamp Of Approval". I think this is all Elvis' hone...

"It was 30 years ago today"? Interesting idea, although it will get a bit overshadowed by the Beatles "It Was 40 years ago today" for Sg. Peppers. Still, it would be a good hook for an enterprising record company to hang an interesting career retrospective on. Elvis as an impregn...

There’s no ideological blanket thrown over everything, that’s why I can afford to sign my press releases to the BBC or something El Presidente or the Pope of Pop, simply because it’s sarcastic. Yes I've still got this copy of NME "somewhere" around the house, as you might have guess...

Then he can move on to the next album: Costellophenia. Ah yes: his epic rock opera about the clash between pub-rockers and punks Well, I couldn't come up with a clever name for his other rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind kid who plays a mean pinball. That is, unless it's really about three de...

My goodness. I prefer the bonus tracks on North.

But really, despite finding TRIR enjoyable I can't go past

The.

Delivery.

Man.

wardo68 wrote:I'd buy it! And then he can reissue it with the 1995 bonus tracks, and then he can reissue it again with the bonus disc from the 2003 Deluxe Edition. It's a no-brainer.

Then he can move on to the next album: Costellophenia.

"What's Next For Elvis?" Exactly! I can reveal here exclusively that it will be an album of cover versions of songs from the Who's album "Who's Next" to be entitled "What's Next" I'd call that a bargain, the best I ever had. PoP Middleage wasteland, only middleage waste...

I wonder how an album of nursery rhymes with the Imposters would sound. :wink: I reckon he could breath new life into "Three Blind Mice", and he could get McCartney on to duet on that old chestnut "Mary Had A Little Lamb" since Macca's already got a track record with that one. O...

Perhaps they could do something similar to what they did with Get Happy and give away a copy of the album with each hat. You could have a limited edition. :lol: But then they might be accused of rigging the sales... of the hats... :lol: They could throw in a fake beard too, just for good measure. A...

I dunno, guys - how do you know what his feelings are? He's said this stuff in interviews. For example: "I don't have that many hits. Though my morbid dread is getting lumbered with that crass track that suddenly becomes popular and you have to play it forever more" and, "But once yo...

so lacklustre wrote:Artistes with more than 100,000 comedy hats are automatically excluded from the charts. That'll be it.

The problem arises when the number of comedy hats exceeds the sales of the current album

Oh Elvis could be more commercial. It doesn't matter if most people don't like him that much. There isn't any artist that is popular with everybody. People thought Randy Newman wasn't commercial until he started writing stuff for movies, now he's raking in megabucks. Elvis doesn't want to have the l...

He's about due for another "popular" album with the Imposters. Popular in this case meaning an album that will actually chart on the US Billboard Hot 100. With any luck it might even crack the Top 50. WIWC - 2002 - #20 TDM - 2004 - #40 ???? - 2006 - #???? Hopefully not #60! I daresay some ...

There's an inverse relationship between the number of Grammies won and the actual quality of a record, surely. I suppose they might have accidentally have given one of those awards to something good once or twice... No problem getting RIR over here but it's not exactly troubling the upper reaches of...

:D I chuckled out loud a few times and was impressed by your nice use of quotation marks. I give it a 9.5. Why, thank you! I majored in quotation marks at the Sorbonne. :lol: Meanwhile, life imitates art. From Elvis and Allen's most recent concert in New Orleans comes this, as first posted by John ...

2004: The "You're Going to Release How Many Albums At The Same Time?" Phase In 2004 Elvis put his 2003 plans to release 6 billion albums into effect by releasing two albums on every day of the year. The most notable day of the year was September 21 when Elvis released "The Delivery M...