Elvis Costello Fan Forum

The songs are good, of course; Wendy James is not so.

I didn't know about this appearance until just now, but I have seen the listing in a couple of places.

Show begins at 11:35 EST (check your local listings), but he'll likely perform at 12:25 am or so.

I take some of these polls so seriously at times, and some choices are simply too hard to make, as Sophie discovered. How can one possibly choose between Revolver and Abbey Road ? Between King of America and Get Happy!! (This is purely rhetorical: I'm not expecting to launch a new discussion on thes...

Finally? Isn't The Family Man that atrocious movie with Nicolas Cage and Mrs. David Duchovny? That's the one. I didn't buy the movie, so its atrociousness (or lack of same) isn't the issue. EC's "You Stole My Bell" is far from atrocious, and it's the reason I finally acquired the soundtra...

I waited a long time to post in this thread, because for me it is absolutely impossible to choose. I do know my choice would not be Let It Be . Some days I'd say Revolver is the best with no hesitation, but on other days it would have to be Sgt. Pepper or Abbey Road . When asked the Desert Island qu...

The Move, Movements (a 3-disc set)
The Family Man OST (finally!)
Au Pairs, Sense and Sensuality
Gang of Four, Shrinkwrapped

There doesn't seem to be a U.S. release yet, so I bit the bullet and ordered the Japanese edition, which has two bonus tracks. I hope it arrives soon. Cale is one of my long-time favourites, and the 5 Tracks EP that came out a few months ago was excellent. This was Uncut's Album of the Month, by the...

The Waifs, Sink or Swim . I saw these Aussies open for Dylan and liked them. Good songs, pretty well played and sung, and Vicki Simpson plays a great harmonica. The album's pretty fair, and I think I'll probably pick up their newest one if I find it at an attractive price. I also bought the Paul Wel...

Talking Heads, without a doubt.

They made great records, and they also came to play.

I haven't bought tickets yet, but King Crimson next month is quite likely.

The only other definite (already booked) is David Byrne with Caetano Veloso at Carnegie Hall in April.

Has anyone heard the Undertones' reunion album (sans Feargal) Get What You Need? What did you think?

And the same questions regarding Graham Parker's Blue Highway. . . .

I thought "Concert for George" was well worth seeing. Jeff Lynne's rendition of "The Inner Light" was superb, with Ravi Shankar's daughter playing the sitar. Clapton's version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was also good; in fact, Clapton was in good form throughout....

I generally drink ice water, coffee or juice (Tropicana Pure Tropics orange-strawberry-banana is the favourite at the moment), but when I do go for carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages it's generally:

1. Dr. Brown's black cherry
2. Seagram's ginger ale
3. Sprite
4. whatever happened to Grapette?

Be sure to post your reactions to Fuse, which was the first Joe Henry album I bought. I think this may require its own thread, but tonight (10/10) he's on the Leno show.

LTZ, why is this still a sticky?

(not in any particular order)

The Who
The Yardbirds
Manfred Mann
The Zombies
The Dave Clark Five

Tightrope The Bedroom Window McCabe & Mrs. Miller On order and expected soon: Time Bandits (since the Criterion deluxe edition is going out of print, I got a bargain price on it) The Cure, Trilogy - This is an interesting idea for a concert and DVD. They performed, over two consecutive nights la...

Chances are, it was bent - and not in a beneficial direction.

Sit on my face And tell me that you love me I'll sit on your face And tell you I love you too I love to hear you oralize When I'm between your thighs You blow me away Sit on my face And let my lips embrace you I'll sit in your face And then I'll love you truly Life can be fine If we'll both sixty-n...

I was actually slightly disturbed that he lost the job just over that one comment. (I'm not sure I would even call it 'borderline' racist, just typical rightwing liberal-baiting, accusing everyone to his left of reverse racism. However, I'm not a sports fan, so I might be missing some important und...

Okay, Bowie fans, what's the deal with the Reality bonus disc? Before I plunk down the bucks, is it worth the couple of extra dollars I'll have to spend?

I hate to see anyone fall under the thrall of addictive drugs, but since so many do, better this evil blowhard than someone who isn't an opinion-maker loudly espousing standards of personal conduct he can't live up to himself. I don't know that it's true, of course, but let's assume for a moment tha...

Some directors have brief moments of greatness, sometimes by chance, sometimes by having the greatness sucked out of them by the very process of filmmaking. Like Coppolla they spend many years wallowing in mediocrity after their fleeting genuis: Jonathan Demme (Melvin & Howard, Something Wild, ...

C'mon Madge, fess up (in the Colonies that means "confess"), because you're not fooling anybody.

John Malkovich - his work in the 90s included Queens Logic, Of Mice and Men, In the Line of Fire, Con Air and of course his most daring performance, Being John Malkovich. He's one of the very best.