I, finally, bow down to "Get Happy!!"

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Mon May 10, 2004 9:45 pm

Okay, I'll be honest... "Get Happy!!" has been the main album I've been listening to for just over two months now. During that time, I've been arguing against it on here in its little matchups against "Armed Forces". I am here to admit that "Get Happy!!" has over 1,000 plays since the start of April. I listen to it when I shower, I listen to it at school, I listen to it while I type, I listen to it while I walk home.

Get Happy!! has finally overtaken me.

001. Get Happy!!
002. Armed Forces
003. This Year's Model
004. Imperial Bedroom
005. Trust
(006. blood and chocolate
007. mighty like a rose)

Bob And Charlotte · Post by **Bob And Charlotte** » Tue May 11, 2004 12:15 pm

shame on you Mr. wehitandrun. Shame on you

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Tue May 11, 2004 1:55 pm

I've developed a theory, that apparently only applies to us.

"Get Happy!!" is hard to accept at first, when you've got the more accessible "This Year's Model" and "Armed Forces" in heavy rotation. In time, "Get Happy!!" will fight its way into your playtime, and it will surely take over.

Just you wait. "New Amsterdam" and "Opportunity" started it for me, then "King Horse" and "Riot Act"... and pretty soon the whole album.

Bob And Charlotte · Post by **Bob And Charlotte** » Tue May 11, 2004 2:29 pm

let´s see...

Branst · Post by **Branst** » Tue May 11, 2004 6:46 pm

It took quite some time for me to really get into Get Happy too but once it sank in, I couldn't stop listening. It's easily in my Top 3 Costello albums.

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Tue May 11, 2004 7:12 pm

I was beginning to think I was the only person not to love this cd on first listen. Finally, we surface.

ChokingOnMyPrideandPity · Wed May 12, 2004 8:54 am

Has any of you heard the bootleg version of King Horse ( EC and the Attractions are live in Austin)? It starts with Backstabbers and goes into King Horse. It was the Punch The Clock Tour w/ lots of brass. Unbelievably eggzellent!

"between tenderness and brute force"

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Wed May 12, 2004 9:17 am

Yes it's on the Punch the Clock bonus disc, I have that bull show. Really great.

clairequilty · Post by **clairequilty** » Wed May 12, 2004 10:40 pm

The album takes on considerably more signifigance when you realize that the sessions were recorded during Elvis's infamous auditions as "George" in the London, England production of "Beatlemania".

While the producers praised his almost "natural" Liverpudlian accent, they claim he showed disdain for the fab four, with his American "Woody Allensque" eye glasses, as well as an exuberance unbecoming of "The Quiet Beatle".

-- Reuters Dec 1980.

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Thu May 13, 2004 8:14 am

for the record, I meant to call that show the "whole" show, not the "bull" shit.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu May 13, 2004 8:16 am

Wait, did you just mean to type "the bull show," or the "bull shit"?

Freudian slips all over the place, man...

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Thu May 13, 2004 8:17 am

Hah, we posted those at the same time. But yes, "whole" show, I don't know how it happened. It is a great show, as well.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu May 13, 2004 8:32 am

No, I was referring to this post:

wehitandrun wrote:for the record, I meant to call that show the "whole" show, not the "bull" shit.

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Thu May 13, 2004 8:46 am

Oh, yeah.

I meant to say "I have that whole show".