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- Tue Oct 30, 2018 6:12 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Look Now , October 2018
- Replies: 482
- Views: 5475084
Re: Look Now: new album announced!
I thought *I* was the Invisible Man. But I suppose we didn't see each other before. Anyway, the album is growing. It doesn't exactly work like a McCartney album, which is relatively simpler(*) and straightforward. Now many of the melodies are stuck in my head. (*) although you can find articulated s...
- Mon Oct 29, 2018 4:48 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: 'He's Given Me Things'
- Replies: 24
- Views: 43841
Re: 'He's Given Me Things'
There is a school of thought that sometimes if you ask Elvis to sing a song at a gig you are going to he will perform it. I asked for Shot with his own gun before one of the palladium shows and he performed it. Myself and VG looked at each other from across the hall in 'wow maybe he does read it' &...
- Sat Oct 27, 2018 5:57 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: 'He's Given Me Things'
- Replies: 24
- Views: 43841
Re: 'He's Given Me Things'
Thanks for helping me understanding the lyrics, Deportee. Looks like I didn't understand what was going on at all. I was rather hating the song, I find it heavy and anguishing - lacking a strong melody, sounding more like an exhausting litany. But it's a very intense and admirable piece of songwriti...
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 6:59 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Banal fanboy list no 475: Elvis songs that sound a bit like other Elvis songs
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26915
Re: Banal fanboy list no 475: Elvis songs that sound a bit like other Elvis songs
"Stripping Paper" reminds me of "Nothing Clings Like Ivy". Maybe I'm crazy! I'm hearing that too. And another one that was tormenting me, from the last album, now I've understood what is echoing to my ears: the hook of Mr and Mrs Hush ---> the hook of Deep Dark Truthful Mirror.
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 5:15 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Banal fanboy list no 475: Elvis songs that sound a bit like other Elvis songs
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26915
Re: Banal fanboy list no 475: Elvis songs that sound a bit like other Elvis songs
Coincidentally I was thinking about this subject just a few hours ago: The Sharpest Thorn always reminds me of Any King's Shilling. A song like International Echo more than something else by Elvis reminds me something by Bob Dylan, like Neighborhood Bully. Also, I've always perceived a connection be...
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 5:13 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Look Now , October 2018
- Replies: 482
- Views: 5475084
Re: Look Now: new album announced!
Unluckily I'm not liking the album at all, except for Under Lime, Unwanted Number, Suspect My Tears and not much else.
Lots of boring piano ballads that feel like whining, pale, uninspired leftovers from Painted From Memory (which I liked).
Lots of boring piano ballads that feel like whining, pale, uninspired leftovers from Painted From Memory (which I liked).
- Mon Sep 25, 2017 7:48 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: UNFAITHFUL MUSIC & DISAPPEARING INK - Oct. 2015
- Replies: 528
- Views: 644926
Re: UNFAITHFUL MUSIC & DISAPPEARING INK - Oct. 2015
One year later prompt answer: English.myaimistrue91 wrote:Italian or English one?InvisibleMan wrote:30? I spent 40€ for the signed one in Padova.
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 10:58 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: UNFAITHFUL MUSIC & DISAPPEARING INK - Oct. 2015
- Replies: 528
- Views: 644926
Re: UNFAITHFUL MUSIC & DISAPPEARING INK - Oct. 2015
30? I spent 40€ for the signed one in Padova.
- Sun May 29, 2016 7:02 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis (solo) plays Milan May 24 2016
- Replies: 15
- Views: 20107
Re: Elvis (solo) plays Milan May 24 2016
And somebody then added:
Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49 25 mag
@mc_bullhorn A friend once saw a poster for Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello concert at the RAH, and said, Makes two blokes who can't sing.
They must all be deaf.
Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49 25 mag
@mc_bullhorn A friend once saw a poster for Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello concert at the RAH, and said, Makes two blokes who can't sing.
They must all be deaf.
- Sun May 29, 2016 6:58 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis (solo) plays Florence May 27th 2016
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15611
Re: Elvis (solo) plays Florence May 27th 2016
He surely did part of it in italian at the end/second half of the nineties, in Rome, during the Primo Maggio/Labour Day festival, before an audience of half a million.
By the way, that site now reports that the opening song was Hurry Down Doomsday.
By the way, that site now reports that the opening song was Hurry Down Doomsday.
- Sun May 29, 2016 6:45 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis (solo) plays Bologna May 28th 2016
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15716
Re: Elvis (solo) plays Bologna May 28th 2016
Some of those songs I would have liked to hear in Padova.
While my ouverture of preference would have been Hurry Down Doomsday or Lipstick Vogue.
After The Fall, another obscure choice from Mighty Like A Rose, as Invasion Hit Parade some evenings ago.
While my ouverture of preference would have been Hurry Down Doomsday or Lipstick Vogue.
After The Fall, another obscure choice from Mighty Like A Rose, as Invasion Hit Parade some evenings ago.
- Thu May 26, 2016 3:48 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis (solo) plays Padova May 25th 2016
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19195
Re: Elvis (solo) plays Padova May 25th 2016
Me. And my uncle. I'm holding you personally responsible to post a setlist! :lol: Ok, I went there equipped with notepad and pen, and I awkwardly scribbled in the dark. Thank you - you've made a lot of people very happy and your place in history is now assured. :D :wink: Thank you : finally my life...
- Wed May 25, 2016 6:50 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis (solo) plays Padova May 25th 2016
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19195
Re: Elvis (solo) plays Padova May 25th 2016
Ok, I went there equipped with notepad and pen, and I awkwardly scribbled in the dark. Green Shirt Mystery Dance I Can't Turn It Off Red Shoes Ascension Day Stella Hurt Church Underground Clubland Come The Meantimes Shipbuilding - on piano A Face in the Crowd - on piano Walkin' My Baby Back Home - s...
- Tue May 24, 2016 4:31 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis (solo) plays Turin May 23 2016
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19691
- Tue May 24, 2016 4:21 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis (solo) plays Turin May 23 2016
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19691
Re: Elvis (solo) plays Turin May 23 2016
Of course not, but his italian dates seem far from sold out. For example, at this link you can buy the tickets for tonight's Milan show, and if you click the " Acquista tramite scelta in pianta " sign, you'll see a map of the still available seats edit: Bologna and Brescia, in smaller venu...
- Fri May 20, 2016 9:12 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis (solo) plays Padova May 25th 2016
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19195
Re: Elvis (solo) plays Padova May 25th 2016
Me. And my uncle.
- Wed May 18, 2016 6:34 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Ever been 5 consecutive cancellations before???
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17466
Re: Ever been 5 consecutive cancellations before???
I hope he will be fine in time for the May 25th gig in Padua. It would be the third time that I miss one of his shows, in fact I still have to see him live.
[Lost gigs, for various reasons: Correggio in 1994, and Verona around 2006].
[Lost gigs, for various reasons: Correggio in 1994, and Verona around 2006].
- Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:40 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Relatively Insignificant EC Stuff. . .
- Replies: 1637
- Views: 2696192
Re: Relatively Insignificant EC Stuff. . .
" I came bearing a newly recorded version of an early song of mine called “Crawling to the U.S.A.,” which I had produced on our day off in Sydney and which in itself was based on a science-fiction film about a Chinese invasion via a tunnel under the ocean. " [from Unfaithful Music etc.] ht...
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 2:33 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis in Italy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13336
Re: Elvis in Italy
I'll be at the Padua show.
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 1:29 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello writes “Turn The World Down” for new Zucchero album, April 2016
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9072
Re: Elvis involved in new Zucchero album, April 2016 ?
Yes, Elvis wrote lyrics for one of the songs, as in Miss Ann, or whatever their previous collaboration was.
The title Turn The World Down sounds very Costello.
The title Turn The World Down sounds very Costello.
- Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:39 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: 2014 Wednesday Oct 29th LONDON, ENGLAND, Royal Albert Hall
- Replies: 80
- Views: 67739
Re: 2014 Wednesday Oct 29th LONDON, ENGLAND, Royal Albert Ha
Elvis, the only performer that posts a negative review on his own official website.
- Sat May 31, 2014 5:44 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Recently viewed films
- Replies: 1602
- Views: 2054015
Re: Recently viewed films
Maps To The Stars [Cronenberg, 2014] - crappy "we people are so disgusting, especially in Hollywood" auteur movie, with lots of farts from Julianne Moore, and scatological observations from everybody.
- Sat May 31, 2014 5:34 pm
- Forum: Tin Pan Alley
- Topic: An overwhelmingly clever song.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 48550
- Tue May 06, 2014 5:09 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis plays Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 2 2014
- Replies: 20
- Views: 19948
Re: Elvis plays Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 2 2014
And No Coffee Table wrote: It was disappointing that Costello messed up the timing on both; what should have been a stirring finish fell a little flat.
- Mon May 05, 2014 2:21 pm
- Forum: Tin Pan Alley
- Topic: An overwhelmingly clever song.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 48550