Elvis Costello Fan Forum

One Too Many Mornings - Bob Dylan

Train A-Comin' - Steve Earle

Who Shot Sam? wrote:Neil Young's execrable screeching gets on my nerves - so there!

I second that motion. Young's whining, monotonous racket is the single most over-rated catalogue in the pantheon of so-called rock Gods.

The 'Sweetest' Girl - Scritti Politti

It's not from Complicated Shadows, it's from Goerge Gimarc's Punk Diary 1970 - 1979, accompanying an entry about the formation of Rusty with Allan Mayes in Liverpool.

Bungalow Bill - The Beatles

$1000 Wedding - Gram Parsons

Why Do They Leave? - Ryan Adams

Is It Really So Strange? - Smiths

A Girl Called Johnny - Waterboys

I've Been Working - Van Morrison

Well, I disagree less! But while I think that there is broadly something in that thesis re: the last three records, I would say that MT is a much funnier, less bleak record than TOOM (but not as funny as L&T), but it's dark, almost gallows humour, and yes, there is no question that Dylan is one ...

Thesis was on Time Out Of Mind it was getting there, but now it's actually got there. Disagree. I think that TOOM is far superior, mainly because there are some really great melodies on it, something that Modern Times lacks: Spirit On The Water (best song on the album), When The Deal Goes Down, Wor...

Nice try, but that ain't Elvis.....

I Believe - REM

Saturday Sun- Nick Drake

The Last Train To Heaven - The Waterboys

Well, as someone who is planning a wedding - I can at least tell you the ideas I currently have for the father-daughter dance. Now, a disclaimer is that my dad's a *huge* Paul McCartney fan, so I'm only really looking at his stuff. Might not work as well in different contexts. I'm thinking about us...

Is that a 6pm start? My God!

Dyslexic Heart - Paul Westerberg

Child of the Moon - Stones

I don't really rate Little Savage or - sometimes - Boy With A Problem, but I love the rest. The first side in particular is absolutely faultless, IMO. I understand what you say about a certain similarity of tone, but I happen to love that slightly washed up vocal sound! And it's the bond that kind o...

And I wonder who ACTUALLY wrote the riff - Elvis or Steve? You mean who nicked the riff..... I dunno about that. The proto-rap of the vocal melody certainly resembles Subterranean HSB, but the keyboard and guitar riff - that descending, fascistic DANG DANG DANGADANG from B to A through Bflat - is a...

Around The World In A Day - Prince

Lay Down Your Weary Tune - Dylan