Elvis Costello Fan Forum

< ... Today I started with the Hip-O version of 'My Aim Is True'. The Nashville Rooms concert is a tremendous document. (Not to mention the soundcheck.) It's an official live release like no other. They're not quite manically frenzied yet. I really enjoy the more-measured approach as a contrast to ...

Top balcony wrote:"I never thought for a moment, that human life could be so cheap"

Yeah.

Fishfinger king wrote:Excellent. Why isn’t Nick known throughout the country as a true National Treasure?

A supreme injustice.
I really don't get it...

1991 Rude Five, at its best, is really really good.

Ulster Boy wrote:

sulky lad wrote:PM me and I'll send you a copy !!

PM sent I hope, sometimes they seem to get stuck in the Outbox

They stay there until the recipient opens it. Then it moves to "sent".

I don't disagree. I will say, however, that the songs themselves were gracefully liberated from the unfortunate clutches of Goodbye Cruel World in one fell swoop. Having seen three solo shows in April/May '84, I was fairly bemused upon release of the new album. I played along -- it was well above mo...

< ... I think that concert more than any other convinced me that Elvis was more than just a pop star and that his songs, which had withstood all the Attractions could throw at them could then stand naked as solo performances and still sound magnificent ... > Exactly. It seems hard to fathom now, gi...

It's far more your language than mine.
Earlier, anyway.

I trust that you are aware that I was goofin'.
(I don't want to offend anybody.
Everyone is real edgy over here right now...)

< ... the Spring 1984 Solo Acoustic Tour was absolutely spellbinding - hearing all those songs in stripped-down, unvarnished glory for the first time. ... > I have been considering posting something very similar to this. It would be hard to explain the feeling of these shows in today's context, as ...

Man out of Time wrote:Subtitles for The Royle Family? Really?

Y'all talk funny.

Nice.
Thank you.

Greatest songwriter in history.
Worst mimer.

< ... A few very special one offs like Elvis sings Nick and vice versa or with the pres hall jazz band both in SF ... > Yeah -- those two were special events. It felt like a privilege to be in attendance. (It's odd that a recording never surfaced of The Chapel shows. Or maybe they did, and I missed...

Given Nick Lowe's tendencies towards studio recordings these last many years, I would seriously doubt a "rave up" theme.

A Costello album, with a Nick Lowe approach similar to (say) "Dig My Mood", could be a theoretical marvel.

I like how nobody suggested that his kid wear a different outfit.

No collaboration.
In 1980, I wanted my Costello pure Costello.

migdd wrote:"Jack of All Parades"
"Suit of Lights"
"Sleep of the Just"

With all due respect, you're all mistaken -- other than the gentleman that I have now "quoted".

Awww -- that's no fun.
Thank you for the input, however...

< ... May i inquire.... what is the PSYCHO in Glasgow connection please? 14, ever, live performances of Psycho . 5 of them were in Scotland (4 in Glasgow), over the course of 20 years. :?: Yes saw those numbers. Guess it was just some insistent fan(s) calling for it regularly there? Glad i caught i...

bronxapostle wrote:< ... May i inquire.... what is the PSYCHO in Glasgow connection please?

14, ever, live performances of Psycho.

5 of them were in Scotland (4 in Glasgow), over the course of 20 years.

Elmo seems to be going flashy with the wardrobe on this tour. I like it.

Strange. He's playing a Gretsch guitar, which, to my knowledge, he hadn't done often (in concert, anyway). It harkens back to my first Costello concert -- February 1978, Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkeley CA. After a cacophonus display on his Fender Jazzmaster, for the better part of an hour, he came o...