Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Another likely fictional detail is listed for 2002 ... these song titles are alleged to be unreleased songs written for T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello's proposed television show about a girl-band comprised of supermodel superheroes: "Bad Wig", "Clockface", "Why Isn't Ever...

EC and the Attractions did record tracks in Cornwall on that day - but only because they were rehearsing stuff for their live gigs. If you've heard the recordings you'll know that they were not really quite good enough to be released, so for sure EC is having a laugh.

I'm going!

I'm going to the Cactus Festival. I'm going to the North Sea Jazz festival the next day as well.

I know two other people who are also going to see EC at the Cactus Festival. So that makes 4, so far.

The correct answer to the question is "How many songs has Cait written by herself, or with other songwriters?"

Also, curious about the fact that, according to this, Steve sings on these recordings. Anyone know what his voice is like? I can't remember who sang on Mad About the Wrong Boy. Steve did sing on his "Mumu" album. It's mostly harmless. As for as the singing on "Mad About the Wrong Boy...

"Veronica" was co-written by Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney, so you've got two composers to deal with. The rights to Costello's songs from the Spike album (and indeed all his songs throughout his career) are handled by Plangent Visions , the last time I checked: Plangent Visions Music 2...

There are at least five more: "God Give Me Strength" was nominated for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals. "Monkey To Man" was nominated for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. The Delivery Man was nominated for Best Rock Album. "The Scarlet Tide" was n...

Elvis has one Grammy (with Burt Bacharach) for "I Still Have That Other Girl" which was in 1999. As for nominations, there are quite a few. I will list them all because otherwise you may think I am wrong. The years listed indicate the year that the award was presented: 1979 - Best New Arti...

Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs are releasing limited edition vinyl remasters of the first three Elvis Costello albums:

http://70.47.98.201/soundbytes/mofi_summer09.htm

Stony?

It's not a cover version, is it? Something he did live? I'm fairly certain that there are no Elvis Costello penned songs with the word "stony".

Your great talent is in writing literate, witty, Beatles influenced rock and roll songs that work well within your vocal limitations. You should, by the way, take a look a footage of George Jones, Tony Bennett and Smokey Robinson, just to name a few, literally cringing as you sing along with them t...

Here's the promoter's web page for the Elvis Costello Australian tour: http://www.chuggentertainment.com/tour/223 According to Ticketek, who are selling tickets for 3 of the venues, there is a pre-sale starting on July 15th which can only be accessed by Ticketek members. That's for the Sydney, Brisb...

Based on the "what would I reach for first" rule - and then adjusting a bit for SP&S because it's new: 1. Trust 2. Get Happy!! 3. Imperial Bedroom 4. Blood and Chocolate 5. The Juliet Letters 6. King of America 7. Mighty Like A Rose 8. Secret, Profane & Sugarcane 9. This Years Mode...

Watching The Detectives

"Nice girls, not one with a defect"

New word: Kinky

Number three in country charts: http://www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=342351 Elvis Costello has debuted at number three on the chart this week with his country album Secret, Profane Sugarcane. That must be the Australian country chart. Apparently it didn't make the Australian Top 50 tho...

his second highest US album chart placing. I believe it's actually the third. Armed Forces was #10 and Get Happy!! #11. Yes, I forgot about "Get Happy!!". SP&S is still his highest debut though, as both "Armed Forces" and "Get Happy!!" debuted outside of the Top 20...

I quite like it. More importantly, I'm not the only one, as this week's US Billboard Album chart reveals: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?f=The+Billboard+200&pageNumber=Top+11-50&g=Albums That's Elvis' highest ever US Billboard album chart debut (WIWC debuted at #20) ...

This is from a buyer's review on Amazon UK: "Personally I find this album very pleasant. Only thing is that no matter how sexily Diana poses on the cover it doesn't work because the listener knows she is married to that yowling, bearded porker Elvis Costello. Takes away the sexiness a bit. But...

The Onion's AV Club have just published this article about 21 Unjustly Unheralded Sideman In Music:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/caught-i ... urce=pager

Steve Nieve makes the list!

€13.99? I paid €19.99! There was a "special edition" version in a digipack that was €21.99 (no extra tracks so I passed). People in the UK and Australia think CDs are expensive there - but €19.99 equals: $35.32 Australian dollars (new release CDs in Australia typically cost between $20 and...

Just saw this on Ebay... http://cgi.ebay.com/ELVIS-COSTELLO-Secret-Profane-Sugarcane-Cd-IN-HAND_W0QQitemZ110390273756QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_CDs?hash=item19b3c5e6dc&_trksid=p4528.c0.m279&_trkparms=240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A2|294%3A60#ebayphotohosting Yes I saw one on eBay about 2 weeks ago....

Emotional Toothpaste wrote: I miss the old days. I want my packaging back.

The packaging is really good. Very nice booklet on high quality paper - not the usual paper used in CD booklets, but really good paper like in a hardcover book.

Great album. Some of EC's best vocals in a long while.

It's going to be "Album of the Week" on Australia's ABC Radio National, which is a good result.

We might see the "Code" release as part of a "Deluxe" Edition in a few months if the album sells better than expected. Alternately he could just release the album as high quality downloads. Elvis was complaining to Newsweek about low quality downloads - he should lead the way and...