Elvis Costello Fan Forum

to tell the truth, i just bought a new one because i found the l.n. cd so harsh to listen to and, well, 'flat' -- no depth of field so to speak (on earphones it was okay, on the $8000 system, brash and loud, and if i turned it down, too quiet...very strange) and i kept reading about technical stuff ...

yep, one and two switched, three and four switched, etc

i've got to admit that as someone raised on 'singles' and flip sides (she's a woman!), that list looks utterly delicious (look now! i'm the sort of sucker this is for I guess??). some old memory trace of two songs back to back. getting very very brief memory rushes of waiting for the 'next' single o...

hmm. l.n. plus bonus cd = 16 therefore could = eight two sided 45s. I get it, though. We don't need this, so hopefully it is either a waste of money and just ignorable or a beautiful thing...thinking of two sides of 45 sleeves with lots more space for himself's art...

"I mean, how can you have an artist who recorded King of America, but King of America doesn't make his Top Five? How do you have an artists who's recorded Mighty Like a Rose, Spike and Look Now, but none of them make his Top Ten? Ridiculous. A timely reminder, on New Year's Eve, of just how ama...

this is waaaaay harder to do that i thought i was going to be (I'm going to hate myself in the morning)


look now
north
painted from memory
get happy

and one more...stay tuned

seems that there are more side projects than non-side. doesn't that make the imposters the side project? just kidding, of course, but e.c. has always been a bit of a strange case...one reason we love him, of course (and are sometimes frustrated or surprised or, etc.).

I remember quite clearly how painful it was back in 2010 for National Ransom to seem to disappear without hardly a trace of recognition and how that disappearance, I'm embarrassed to say, slowly eroded some of my own love of it (it really is time I pulled NR out again). I recall some speculation her...

All these rankings are encouraging, but can someone remind me of how this compares to e.c.'s other releases, say, since 2000? Are these exceptionally good, average, normal, worse??? my uninformed impression is that this better than 'usual'???

What?! No Arlene Francis? No Dorothy Kilgallen? How can this be?!

BTW, what years did it run?

and, in terms of era, maybe a hint of that TV show where Jimmie ended up with blindfolded panelists



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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnXn1KSoc7Y

underlime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ldb1g3o0gs

utter poetry He had great air and the show was flawless. Or maybe I was drunk. beautiful (interesting post as well) his songs certainly are sometimes just bulging with words and ideas and points of view and baits and switches. even something simply like the backstage assistant being warned not to te...

i do understand the characterizations of e.c. re: sinatra, but some of the things you mentioned might just as easily be seen as characteristics of his (that he has got quite good at using) rather than simply failures to be something/someone else. there's lots of a sort of subtlety on looknow, i think.

And the scenes of reminiscence of the old days can include the dance numbers that e.c. keeps saying that producer folks want. . . could even include numbers from 1978/9, pogoing and stage-diving to old e.c. tunes! this is too easy!! so part of the arc could be the ennui of having been young and swea...

Sugar! Yes, absolutely top tier and I agree, 40+ years into a career and having a career equal, if not career best, is just such a lovely thing. Welcome. It is so interesting how a new arrival like this cascades back through the whole forty years, turning some songs into precedents, highlight this a...

don't look now vancouver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkaqRbTRhjs still slightly off somehow...i'm wondering if part of his vibrato gets "picked up" by whoever is recording and . . . oh heck, i don't know! for those of you who frequent concerts, is this noticeable at all? (i don't want ...

Lovely to hear, thanks. Can anyone help me understand why something about his vocals sound, what? Flat on some live recordings? I know it couldn't be that he IS singing flat...must be some sort of acoustic issue with recordings like this one, that the echo/space of the lowish-fidelity sound betrays ...

MOJO wrote:I love the Lupe-o-Tone response.

yep. me too. . ..

. . . but this was odd or i missed something "Even if you knew the true circumstances"

It's interesting in itself how difficult this task is to think of covers. Says something about the uniqueness of e.c.'s talent as a singer and the uniqueness of the songs themselves...his talent as a writer. there are so many ins and outs to many of his songs -- depth, someone mentioned above -- tha...

okay everybody, cut and paste your avatar!

Yes. It is a beautiful thing. And this song (and many others on l.n.) are, well, imagine Sinatra singing "Don't look now." Try to imagine someone else singing "Stripping Paper." Not many have the control and clarity. And then, too, the song itself is so good, and could be deeply ...

google is how i found it. hmmm

Radio Radio: https://youtu.be/SM8WZMkn_w8 took the (very) long way home yesterday so i could hear all of Look Now loud in the car with sunlight and mountains to the west. now, after that, watching this video, I have to say it. I really love this guy and the work he's given us and still gives. Radio...