Elvis Costello Fan Forum

That's what I was thinking, except I didn't post because the lingo wouldn't come to my fingers to describe it...it came out like the DNS thingie takes a day or two to reach everyone's wires.

I'm a geek fraud.

whar wrote:This is a tragedy.

Works fine for me...

http://www.elviscostello.info/index.php

I saw the first couple of minutes of the Dick interview. When he started rambling about how angry he was that Dave never noticed when he wore a suit & tie, I cringed & flipped.

IIRC, Elvis is the only person on that list to have hosted the show as well...I can't recall if Lyle ever did.

Nice op-ed piece by Juan Gonzalez in response to the stupidity:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/sto ... 0516c.html

I can expect to be corrected, I don't have to expect hostility. That's what you choose to bring to it. See?

err - where the fuck exactly did I say every Dylan song had to be bare bones? Its not anything to do with purity - I never said that either - I said production that suits the songs and the artist - and he actually picked Lanois because he was at such a loss as to what to do in the studio at the tim...

Whats wrong with Oh Mercy? Well, you answered yourself. "Modern Production". Or to be more specific Daniel Lanois. The guy is the ultimate egotist in that he makes everyone sound like himself - whether its U2 or The Neville Brothers or Bob Dylan. Does every bloody song have to have an amb...

I tried, really I did. But in looking at my list of 24 eligible albums, it just became silly to even try ranking them. But I will use this post to defend Empire Burlesque and Oh Mercy. I prize these albums alongside anything he's done, especially Oh Mercy. Empire Burlesque is cursed with a dated sou...

I agree though. Who cares about how many records Elvis sells. I'm sure he lives more comfortably than most of us on this forum. It's not an unreasonable question; there's a natural curiosity about how EC's music is selling today, considering his past performance. TDM was marketed as a "mainstr...

Sounds about right, although it seems I'm a bigger fan of Damnation's Cellar and I Thought I'd Write to Juliet than most...

EC - King of Thieves

(It's my birthday, and I am subjecting my co-workers to an all-Elvis playlist on my iPod)

That set is an awful lot like the Atlanta set so I guess it worked for them. I know I loved the hell out of it. I was thinking the same thing about him wearing the suit at Chastain Park, it was in the low 90's there as well. Don't know how he does it, and then after the show he almost always wears ...

I've been to several meet-ups over the years, through the mailing list, but I've been NOMAIL lately due to a complete inability to keep up with all those daily emails.

I should get back on just to see whassup...

I'll be there, solo. A friend of a friend is going, but since our mutual friend isn't going now, we won't be meeting up beforehand.

So, I'll see the show, and then head downtown to get schnookered with my non-EC friends.

Tomorrow I will surely look at my list and give a rousing "WTF?" as this is probably the hardest album to rank of any of them... 1. The Birds Will Still Be Singing 2. Romeo's Seance 3. I Almost Had A Weakness 4. Damnation's Cellar 5. I Thought I'd Write to Juliet 6. Dear Sweet Filthy World...

But Beach Boys songs sound like ass when anyone but them tries to perform it. "Good Vibrations" is a classic, but it doesn't lend itself to endless intepretation like Cole Porter, Gershwin or even the Beatles. You need the original recording to understand what's good about it.

At least they're starting to get better taste in revusical subjects. After Billy Joel, the Beach Boys and Abba, it's about time some artists I can stand were done up. I've tried to imagine what an EC show would be like over the years, and it's never been easy. Between the wordplay, the Britishisms a...

I have it on tape. He ended up being quite charming during the hour, sprinkled with little moments of awkwardness, but he always seemed to be enjoying himself, which is probably how he won people over. I remember it took me a while to even adjust to seeing him in that role, it seemed so surreal at f...

p.s. Also from 1984: The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl Eurythmics - Touch Joe Jackson - Body and Soul Rickie Lee Jones - The Magazine Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense The Smiths - The Smiths (also Hatful of Hollow) Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward The Replacements - Let It Be Run-DMC - Run-DMC Psy...

Don't get me started on the 80s...I'm a huge New Wave head, and no one can convince me that this era didn't produce some incredible music. Anyway... I started buying EC around Punch the Clock, and quickly snapped up GH!! and the rest of the back catalogue. Then I bought albums as they came out, all ...

Cool! I'll be seeing him & Emmylou at Summerstage on the 19th, and then he's on Letterman on my birthday! Go me!

I'm happy with the Monday move. Now I won't have to decide between SFU and Desperate Housewives.

Yup, I'm hooked.

'Mats - Anywhere Is Better Than Here

johnfoyle wrote:Mr. Costello held Ms. Krall's hand as he walked; with the other hand, he held up a copy of a new CD for the cameras.

Well, there's MY new sig...

B&C more often than not ranks as my #1 or #2 all-time EC album. This is a tough one to rank by song, I don't dislike any of them: 1. I Hope You're Happy Now 2. Uncomplicated 3. I Want You 4. Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind 5. Battered Old Bird 6. Blue Chair 7. Home Is Anywhere You Hang ...