Elvis Costello Fan Forum

I think you could make thousands of mixes showing the "other" side of Elvis but I particularly love your selection and especially the last 3 songs showing Elvis' extraordinary range of styles. I've always loved "The Butcher's Boy" and could never understand why it didn't get a wi...

Received this email this morning - shame really. Hello, We regret to inform you that the previously postponed Elvis Costello & The Imposters show planned to take place at Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff on 16th March 2020 has been cancelled. Refunds will be issued automatically back to the accou...

Miclewis wrote:As iconic as Alison is, I’m rooting for Red Shoes.

Both wrong, bound to be Waiting For The End Of The World - oh no, that's just a Covid prediction

Perspective is important. If you came upon MAIT late having heard other albums then it’ll appear pale and understated. However having bought it on the day of release it played non- stop in our student house. Yes TYM is better and the Attractions improve everything but this is where it all started. ...

I'm afraid I'm with Neil on this one, my second Elvis purchase after "This Year's Model" and it felt so tame after the 1978 musical pyrotechnics. I'm also convinced that an early purchase of a bootleg El Mocambo also coloured my opinion of MAIT because every song from that album was blown ...

This is just awful. Sneaky Feelings, No Dancing and I’m not Angry would all be in my top six. I’m not Angry is particularly great in the way he is so obviously very bloody angry. Like me now. I love "I'm Not Angry" too - the way he played it at then end of "The Last Foxtrot" was...

The KBFH tape runs as per the wiki setlist except that I Can't Stand Up, The Beat and He'll Have To Go were never broadcast and are apparently unavailable anywhere. the BBC broadcast included Chelsea, Mystery Dance and PLU in their version but no-one seems to have the original recording except for t...

oh, so, detectives is just an add, not a substitute, yes? unlike n.a. model with radioradio instead of...nightrally? I think the original U.K release did so well as an import that when Elvis was signed by Columbia after the arrest in Park lane, London, Columbia issued their version with the (by the...

Today (Thursday, May 21) is Ascension Day (40 days after Easter) on the Catholic calendar. "40 days passed by . . . but we'll all be together, come Ascension Day." Leave it to former Altar Boy Elvis to dip back into his upbringing to mine it as an allegory for a personalized hymn about po...

jardine wrote:don't ask me. i still thing that it's only love and i've just seen a face should be on rubber soul

Don't tell me you've got the butcher's apron sleeve as well?

Are we agreed that Detectives should be included in this? It certainly alters the feeling of the album compared to the “original” Stiff issue in August 1977 !

Interesting to see that Elvis’ name now comes first in the list of contributing artists. Amazing what a Grammy will do for you - and I’m not complaining about him being respected as is his due !

Just to say the 40 year retrospective ground to a sorry halt last night when the combined recording of the KBFH and BBC broadcasts were ( rightly so, I guess) banned from being torrented. Seems a real shame this couldn't have been released as a complete concert a la Holywood High reissue in Elvis' ...

Just to say the 40 year retrospective ground to a sorry halt last night when the combined recording of the KBFH and BBC broadcasts were ( rightly so, I guess) banned from being torrented. Seems a real shame this couldn't have been released as a complete concert a la Holywood High reissue in Elvis' r...

I played the album yesterday. I think side A should be the current B - i.e. I think 'I Cant Stand Up For Falling Down' should open the album. Why? Because in the current configuration, when you play on CD or Spotify, High Fidelity (end of side 1) runs straight into 'I Can't Stand Up' (start of side...

Did mine in the wee hours when mental health can be at its lowest - I've always found it a good and dangerous time for thinking so this tiny gesture from me is for all the folk for whom the darkness only brings fear and despair and to thank the truly talented people like Steve and Elvis for giving o...

Thanks, Kosi! I'm so pleased, because it's my favourite song on the album. It's such a brilliant song and arrangement - the places it goes. We are 'somewhere back in some secluded spot' cos Steve's organ part takes us there, accompanied by beautiful bass. And that guitar twang after the hilarious l...

Harry Worth wrote:Like every round a tortuous choice for the final.
Really enjoyed this kosi, thanks for running it.

Likewise -many thanks.
I was too tied up with another EC project ( ) but I couldn't let this particular 40 year anniversary pass by without putting in my two penn'orth!

Ahhhh..... thanks sulky! AWESOME 5 PACK....i, like you, saw the first 3. But, never saw that medley!! Was that duo 5/Tender played like that??? Cool.... 8) 8) 8) Sorry BA, that was just me foxing around pretending so I could squeeze five into four . Love For Tender is an amazing way to start an alb...

i can't even pick only four... i can't even pick only four... Me neither - it’s like picking your favourite VG one liner :shock: I'll accept these replies ONLY if you have not been participating in this elimination thing. Me too found it very hard to narrow to 4 songs...especially as BEATEN TO THE ...

Once again , proof of how "out" democracy can be ! :evil: :shock: How can anyone believe King Horse is a better song than Riot Act - priceless for Bruce's amazing bass fade out and "don't put your heart out on your sleeve, when you remarks are off the cuff" and the desperate way ...

jardine wrote:i can't even pick only four...

Me neither - it’s like picking your favourite VG one liner

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sweetest punch wrote:Tomorrow a special with EC with songs about numbers.

Can we start a GoFundMe page to buy EC a good microphone and camera?

Well if anyone should now about these things ....................................!!!

I was just preparing the evening meal and topped and tailed some carrots when Mrs. Sulky came in and picked up the ends and sang "Thank you for the carrots, I threw them at the chicken " - she'd taken them for our rescue bantam and spontaneously come out with a line from The Juliet Letters...

Sorry Neil, isn't it about Elvis seeing Bruce get out of a a limo in Nashville - it's definitely musically the half blood prince of "Time Is Tight" by Booker T though. Anyway out you go "Temptation" - I'm always saying that to Mrs. Sulky