Elvis Costello Fan Forum

supplydavid wrote:anyone get an image from the farewell not ok video, I am making a series of cd singles of the releases after grabbing the mp3 from you tube

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From a recent Rolling Stone article about Justin Townes Earle: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/justin-townes-earle-songs-harlem-river-blues-tribute-1112709/ As a budding songwriter, Justin was eager for his father’s approval, which didn’t come easily early in Justin’s career. “Stev...

Cool stuff, as usual. This is interesting:

“The Delivery Man”, a record I had briefly considered calling, “South”.

The sequel to North?

JerseyPride78 wrote:To get a new LP in this vein in 2021 (potentially to be produced by Nick Lowe), be still my heart!!!

Would be sweet

Graham Parker's live double-LP The Parkerilla has an unusual format. He can't stand it, apparently, and it was a 'contractual obligation' LP, but it was actually my introduction to GP and I love it to this day. However, I digress. My point is that it has three live sides, with four songs on each, a...

bronxapostle wrote:VINYL...I GOT THE 1999 TOO. 23 NEW LPS. stay tuned for my YouTube of my 40 YEAR PRINCE vinyl collection, coming soon i hope. Thank you friend!

jmm wrote:Thanks for the YouTube doc (as always!)

Nice to see it's been officially sanctioned.

And No Coffee Table wrote:Interesting "big band" version! I was expecting a trio performance.

It was excellent. Rob Mathes (the musical director) is great with these sorts of big band arrangements.

Print version on the website: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/iggy-pop-elvis-costello-musicians-on-musicians-1091103/ Elvis Costello was less than 24 hours into his first American tour when he met Iggy Pop. It was November 1977, and the former Stooges frontman was playing at the Old Wa...

Cool project, but I'd actually like to hear him sing this in English instead.

sulky lad wrote:What a brilliant and insightful review - loved it !

Fantastic review of the music and historical backdrop.

When EC opened with Night Rally, the night prior to Election Day 2016, I actually felt chills. It was downright scary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWDANh8EDQc
2016-11-07

9. BIG BOYS - from “Armed Forces” 10. SHE’S THE ONE from “Born To Run” by Bruce Springsteen I’m sure the idea of starting “Big Boys” with a single note drone came from too many hours listening to the second side of Bowie’s “Low” or Iggy Pop’s “Mass Production” but as a member of the audience at Bru...

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5. BREAKING GLASS - from “Low” by David Bowie 6. SENIOR SERVICE - from “Armed Forces" The many miles of our first tours of the U.S. had a limited soundtrack, the few cassettes on which we could agree, among them the “Berlin” records by David Bowie and Iggy Pop, I hear a reference to a track fr...

https://www.elviscostello.com/#!/armedforces33andathirdnetwork 1. CLEAN MONEY - from “Sketches For Emotional Fascism” 2. BIG EYES - from “In Color” by Cheap Trick The opening track of our 1979 album was supposed to be, “Clean Money”. It was definitely indebted to The Beatles “Back In The U.S.S.R” a...

Too much time on my hands? I put all those lyrics together into one continuous supersong. It's kind of a fun listen: DktG60AH3IY This is a fun listen. Its rhythm sort of takes me back to when there were TV commercials for music compilations on TV and you would hear small snippets as the titles scro...

Too much time on my hands? I put all those lyrics together into one continuous supersong. It's kind of a fun listen:

Jon Batiste is fantastic. His piano accompanist skills remind me of another guy...

Thanks for posting that WSJ article. Really interesting.

I'd love to stand outside the stage door and hear a live song by our guy before 2020 ends. 8) 8) Srsly here...if it is happening on 53rd Street, please advise. I am not opposed to loitering a few hours in the hope of hearing even a blast of a song. Keep me posted what you hear of his location these...

In later years, the song would also take on a notable change of lyric: In the recorded version the words are “She’s listening in to the Venus Line, she’s picking out names, I hope none of them are mine.” That meaning is clear enough: Whatever mating ritual the TV woman is doing, the singer wants no...

Interesting list. He mentioned the Nicole Atkins album in another interview which I thought was cool. Also nice to see mention of the new Gorillaz album. I could definitely see an EC feature with them.

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fred darden wrote:And what part of the world is CET?

Central European Time (CET) is GMT+2
Rome, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, etc.

Here is the backstory: "Michael and Elvis first met in 2007 at the Molde Festival in Norway, where Costello and the late Allen Toussaint shared a double bill with Steely Dan (with whom Leonhart has played since 1996). The two kept in touch over the years, including joining forces in 2015 for a...