Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Brilliant! Thanks for the detective work. Any news on the Rhino releases, that you know of?

Hey guys - how do you know this is his new producer? Has there been a release about a new album?

Totally agreed - I've always thought this was one of his best 'slowies', and the best song on GCW. I am gutted he didn't play it at the Royal Festival Hall in London last year, as I'd love to hear it in the stripped-down version. I too hope it's included on the re-issue. Apart from the wonderfully s...

I definitely though 'Oh Christ, what've I bought' when I first listened to this - all the songs melted into one homogenised mass. It took a helluva lot of listens, but now I love the album. The arrangements, vocals and playing are astonishing - it's in the top five with Blood & Choc, This Year's...

Did you see the news? The Scarlet Tide from 'Cold Mountain' has been nominated! What's the song like? Anyone heard it?

Alas, though, either Annie Lennox from 'Rings' or Sting will win.

Hi all - don't worry about the glitch on Chemistry Class - it's meant to be there - it was on the original vinyl version. Basically, on the word, 'accidents', the record needle skips - it's a deliberate joke.

According to John Everingham's site, the new ones will be out on... 2004-02-17 ...which is great news! I just hope it's true, as I won't be able to stand the disappointment if it ain't! And apparently, the lineup will be Almost Blue, Kojak Variety and Goodbye Cruel World - not King Of America! Wonde...

Hi all - soz, this is a bit dull - just hoiking this one up to the top of the page in case anyone hadn't noticed it before.

Anyone acquired this CD lately, and if so, would they be prepared to burn me a copy?

Cheers all!

xx

Elvis has great taste usually, so he should know that the only thing that goes with a faded denim jacket are faded denim jeans, and dark blue denim jackets should only be worn with dark blue denim jeans. You do not wear suit trousers with a denim jacket! And denim jackets must always be tight, not b...

Phew - thanks fellas! Couldn't bear the thought that we wouldn't get the rest of the reissues. Cheers.

Hi guys - it's weird: all I get when I click on these links are... "THERE WERE NO MATCHES FOR" "Sorry, there are no longer any products available by Elvis Costello. " It makes me think Elvis has had another one of his falling-outs, and we won't get any more reissues! Gulp! Can't ...

Does anyone reckon this means the reissues thing has stalled? I can't believe they've sold out of the the stuff already!

But what does it matter who he hangs out with? What's wrong with saying 'So I said to Robert De Niro..?' All that matters is the music he puts out - why do you care who he's mates with? If you were famous and of a certain stature, you'd come into contact with lots of people of the same calibre, and ...

I'd love to get a copy - I could send a blank CD (or CDs) and return postage! Anyone got it? Or is it available to download anywhere that you know of?

Cheers!

Hi all - why can't the guy have celeb mates? Why is it bad? I've never liked this stuff about 'selling out', with any artists - when people don't like their fave artists to become popular, and all that. Anything that ups Elvis's public profile is a good thing I reckon! I think he should shmooze more...

Hi all - they're re-doing the greatest hits again, apparently! With a new cover - 'for legal reasons'... The story's on the Elvis Costello Home Page (John Everingham's) Althought I reckon it's a way to tie in with the DVD release which may be coming up next year - they'll need a greatest hits packag...

Awwww! Does no-one have the chords? I'm dying to bash 'em out, and am too lazy to work 'em out myself - but may have to! The EC Homepage is great for chords normally but doesn't seem to have anything from North yet.

Hi guys - anyone know the chords to any North songs? I'm particularly keen to know the chords for 'Fallen' 'You Turned To Me' and 'In The Mood Again'!

Cheers all xxx

"It was a song with a topical verse, which I'm afraid he then proceeded to sing - something about the moody doomed love of the fishfinger king" We ain't meant to know what it mean - Charlie Sedarka was singing some weird song, of which the author could only work out that it was some vague ...

Jackson - totally agreed about the singing on That Day Is Done and Why Can't A Man Stand Alone. He is actually a great rock singer - one of the unsung vocal heroes in my opinion - and it's great when he dares, and nails it - and in the version of "That Day" at the Linda McCartney tribute, ...

Loved Oliver's Army as a kid in 1979 but didn't take it any further. Then in about 1981 my dad was going to go to see Elvis Costello and The Attractions in Cardiff, and some bloke in work had taped him a selection of the hits up till then. He'd play the tape in the car and I didn't really absorb the...

Hi King Of Spain - Elvis plays all the instruments on Big Sister's Clothes. So you've just paid him a big compliment by thinking it was the great if estranged Bruce Thomas!

Hey guys, the tweezers and handkerchief is just like some insect collector or jeweller/watchmaker picking over their chosen obsession, held in the palm of their hand in a handkerchief, picked up with a tweezers to be examined in minute detail, as the critics do with Elvis's every lyric/statement. OR...

Hey Fellas - it's about the journalists who've given him bad reviews/negative press.

Listen to it in light of this, and it all makes sense!

xxx

It's a great ballad, and a great vocal from Elvis - although I'd dispute the opening line - I think he sings "This love of mine is like a stepping stone".