Your Underdog of the Day
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Your Underdog of the Day
There are many songs that don't get too much hype or mention around here, so stick up for your underdogs!
Today for me, it is Charm School.
There are just so many great little sounds weaving in and out throughout this whole song!
The part that's blessing me right now is the sound Elvis' voice makes right as he's completing the line "They say it's hell to finance too, and I just want to romance you."
do-do-do-do-do-do
He doesn't say much about the song in the liner notes at all!
oh, I also like how right after the beautiful instumental break, all of the sounds being made sound like they warp back down for the vocal to start again. Is anyone else feeling this?
Stick up for your song!
Today for me, it is Charm School.
There are just so many great little sounds weaving in and out throughout this whole song!
The part that's blessing me right now is the sound Elvis' voice makes right as he's completing the line "They say it's hell to finance too, and I just want to romance you."
do-do-do-do-do-do
He doesn't say much about the song in the liner notes at all!
oh, I also like how right after the beautiful instumental break, all of the sounds being made sound like they warp back down for the vocal to start again. Is anyone else feeling this?
Stick up for your song!
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I'll Wear It Proudly
In an already underpromoted album, one of the songs that often goes unmentioned. Been listening to this one a lot lately. Didn't realize until recently that Radiohead had done this one also. But just a great song.
"I hate the buttons on your shirt when all I wanna do is tear"
What a feeling!
And I love the lead into this part:
"I'll wear it proudly through the dives and the dancehalls
If you'll wear it proudly through the snakepits and catcalls"
"We are arms and legs wrapped round more than my memory tonight"
Mmmmm, good lyrics.
In an already underpromoted album, one of the songs that often goes unmentioned. Been listening to this one a lot lately. Didn't realize until recently that Radiohead had done this one also. But just a great song.
"I hate the buttons on your shirt when all I wanna do is tear"
What a feeling!
And I love the lead into this part:
"I'll wear it proudly through the dives and the dancehalls
If you'll wear it proudly through the snakepits and catcalls"
"We are arms and legs wrapped round more than my memory tonight"
Mmmmm, good lyrics.
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Go, Spooky, go!!!
I've got to mention another one from KOA - POISONED ROSE!
This track features great playing from jazz greats Earl Palmer and Ray Brown (not to mention Tom Canning on piano!) and some particularly fine lyrical imagery. It's also sung with incredible feeeling (and an early sample of a developing technique later mastered on NORTH).
Also proves that, once upon a time, Elvis was in love with someone before Diane Krall. Obviously, Elvis has been fortunate enough to have more than one great muse in his life.
I've got to mention another one from KOA - POISONED ROSE!
This track features great playing from jazz greats Earl Palmer and Ray Brown (not to mention Tom Canning on piano!) and some particularly fine lyrical imagery. It's also sung with incredible feeeling (and an early sample of a developing technique later mastered on NORTH).
Also proves that, once upon a time, Elvis was in love with someone before Diane Krall. Obviously, Elvis has been fortunate enough to have more than one great muse in his life.
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i can mention a few .....
LTZ: yes! absolutely....i love charm school! .....one of my faves on PTC
.....also been listening to broken (the alt. take)...a song that melts me in these days.....(i used to dismiss this one before).......
...what else.....oh, yeah.....the world of broken hearts......undoubtely!!!!!
LTZ: yes! absolutely....i love charm school! .....one of my faves on PTC
.....also been listening to broken (the alt. take)...a song that melts me in these days.....(i used to dismiss this one before).......
...what else.....oh, yeah.....the world of broken hearts......undoubtely!!!!!
...the promise of indulgence in my confidential voice approached inmortal danger but you´ll never know how close....
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'Worthless Thing' of course the acoustic version is amazing but I even like the record rendition. "If you were ten feet taller and almost handsome, I might pay this king's ransom." Sigh! Great lyrics on the much maligned 'Goodbye Cruel world'. Even if some of the production is down right laughable.
I love 'Everyday I Write the Book' and 'Charm School'. 'I'll Wear It Proudly' is classic.
I love 'Everyday I Write the Book' and 'Charm School'. 'I'll Wear It Proudly' is classic.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
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Inch By Inch......I hope he plays it in concert this weekend! No one ever talks about Inch By Inch....(it's in my top 10 Elvis songs)....another suggestion would be Black Sails in The Sunset........or maybe Heathen Town...."But the only stake you cannot raise, is the one driven through you heart, it's just a heathen town...." jesus that's good stuff.
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I've always felt GCW was mostly considered a failure because of it's execution, not it's content. Inch by Inch, Love Field, Worthless Thing, The Comedians, Home Truth and a couple of others have much more musical and lyrical bite than most of the songs on PTC and other more highly-regarded Elvis albums. This album could've been realy great with the right producer and a little bit more commitment from Elvis and the band. The wrong producers, the bad blood amongst the Attractions and Elvis' impending divorce all seemed to have contributed to a lack of focus in making the album. If only. . .
I've always loved "Radio Sweetheart"
And I've gone on record here about loving "You'll Never Be a Man," -- that piano playing and those wonderfully almost indeciferable lyrics. (Big fun with pronouns!) I guess that qualifies as an underdog.
But another song that Elvis has given short shrift to himself is his very early "Imagination is a Powerful Deceiver" -- what a great classic soul tune, with really evocative lyrics. Kind of intimidating that EC was (I think) 19 when he wrote it.
And, I hate to say it -- okay, I'm ashamed to say it -- but I have a sneaking affection for an EC song that might be the ultimate Costello underdog. Yes, I love "Party, Party, Party"! I guess I'm just a sucker for a decent horn section....
And I've gone on record here about loving "You'll Never Be a Man," -- that piano playing and those wonderfully almost indeciferable lyrics. (Big fun with pronouns!) I guess that qualifies as an underdog.
But another song that Elvis has given short shrift to himself is his very early "Imagination is a Powerful Deceiver" -- what a great classic soul tune, with really evocative lyrics. Kind of intimidating that EC was (I think) 19 when he wrote it.
And, I hate to say it -- okay, I'm ashamed to say it -- but I have a sneaking affection for an EC song that might be the ultimate Costello underdog. Yes, I love "Party, Party, Party"! I guess I'm just a sucker for a decent horn section....
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