Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex has died.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/ap ... e-obituary

verbal gymnastics wrote:You've seen me then!

You're not Ann Widdicombe, are you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTN5KVDYkuI

Here Comes The Night - Them

The comments about WIWC here all make valid points from platypus to Christopher. The album as a whole reminds me in tone of MLAR; claustrophobic, harsh and bitter with the added ingredient of sadness (My Little Blue Window, I believe, deals with his depression.) Both these albums indirectly reflect ...

cwr wrote However, I remember thinking at the time that it was maybe the least impressive use of Steve on any album, and I have to say that the Steve Nieve who has been featured on Costello albums ever since seems like a tamed creature, rarely given the chance to shine or showboat the way he did on...

Not being able to dance is a prerequisite to liking Elvis - witness the first few rows at any EC concert.

[quote="verbal gymnastics"

If I came back as me I'd need quite a few reincarnations before I got things right.[/quote]

But you'd still like Elvis.....

Or there's always the option of inhabiting one half of somebody as Lily Tomlin's character did to Steve Martin in All Of Me.

Surely, you can't come back as somebody who is already here and as you can't know anybody who isn't born yet, you can't choose at all.....or something like that

Am I making any sense???

History, I frequently wonder if that 'strange, wondrous atmosphere' is not a direct result of his amazing writing technique- the ability to build out from the rhythms and embellish around them. I know of no writer of his caliber who has such intoxicating beats in his songs. You are most right when ...

It is a very good album, History. I quite agree, Christopher. At the moment, I just need to listen to it over and over, something I haven't done with any new album lately. It's just so well balanced, lyrically and musically and it has a strange, wonderous atmosphere all of its own. Standouts are Ge...

Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What.

There's a Ghost In My House - R.Dean Taylor

To Be Someone - The Jam

Cheer up, Sulky lad. At least we have YouTube!

Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam

[quote="Christopher Sjoholm -more importantly the album itself is a work of beauty- it is one of those rare occasions where an artist is blessed with the holy trinity- melody, harmony and lyric. It has not left my turntable today and I imagine it will be a permanent fixture in my regular rotati...

I'm not accusing anyone here but....

Who Stole My Monkey? - Boozoo Chavez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6ZogMNsjV8

A rallying cry to all the members of the EC Fan Forum:

Everybody Monkey - Freddy Cannon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITPlIsb0yxU

Part Man, Part Monkey - Bruce Springsteen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45WyRcw4p_g

I always thought Tart was based on the following by Monty Python: I want another slice of rhubarb tart I want another lovely slice I'm not disparaging the blueberry pie But rhubarb tart is oh-so-very nice A rhubarb what? A rhubarb tart A what-barb tart? A rhu-barb tart I want another slice of rhubar...

Monkey And The Engineer - Grateful Dead

Come Monkey With Me - Geno Washington.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj89kNE7nRE

There is a similar cowboy picture on the cover of Randy Newman's Land Of Dreams album although I'm not sure if it is him.

Distorted Angel concerns a young boy (Elvis?) being initiated into his first sexual experience
with a slightly older girl - a sort of doctors and nurses situation and his subsequent feelings of guilt and how it related to his Catholic religious upbringing....I think!