Elvis Costello Fan Forum

http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001219531 http://www.billboard.com/billboard/photos/artists/burt-bacharach2.gif Bacharach Spends 'Time' With Costello, Dr. Dre By Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. Burt Bacharach gets assistance from Elvis Costello, Rufus Wainwright and Dr. D...

Notice that it only says they talked to EC about contributing, not that he agreed to do so.

MusicTAP.net says the US release date is November 1.

The US release date is the 27th, not the 20th.

An odd aspect of the new DVD is this shot from "You Little Fool": http://www.geocities.com/ned3705/screen6.jpg On the '90s VHS release, you could see logos for Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the areas which are blurred on the new version. I'm not sure if the blurring is entirely new though. I know...

A few screen grabs for anyone who may be interested:

I'm curious... Had anyone seen this video before? I sure hadn't.

EC's remark that they "scrapped the video, particularly after the American record company Columbia decided to release the song as a single" strikes me as slightly ambiguous.

Uncut , Sept. '05 (his bitching on the commentary about loathed ex-bassist Bruce Thomas is a treat) BTW, this bit in Uncut's review is simply false. EC doesn't "bitch" about Bruce in the commentary. I am well aware of EC's various complaints about Bruce elsewhere, but there is no negativi...

Entertainment Weekly's review said it was "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," which is, of course, not an EC original. I don't know if there's any indication that EC's version was her inspiration.

johnfoyle wrote:Elvis included his song with the DDBB on the MLAR re-issue .

Kojak Variety, actually, but I agree with the rest. I can confirm that "That's How You Got Killed Before" was slated for the bonus disc by February 2004.

No no no... it's EC's ode to Julia Roberts, "She."

Rain Pryor covered "God Give Me Strength" a couple of years back.

I have this set. Aside from some minor edits, the EC piece is reprinted entirely from the Almost Blue notes, including the part about June prompting EC to improvise a verse of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" onstage. (I attempted to post about this to the listserv yesterday, but my messages ...

The very end of the song was broadcast live along with the other songs. At the very end of the show, they played the tape of the complete song.

bobster wrote:Don't remember the name of it right now

The New Orleans Album.

I don't know if he did it exactly the same way in Boston, but on The Today Show he initially sang it as: I thought I heard a black bell toll Up in the highest dome Admit you're wrong Just bring the boys back home The second time he sang: I thought I heard a black bell toll Up in the highest dome Adm...

I bought the CD for $8.99 at Tower Records this evening. They had at least a dozen copies, all filed under Marian McPartland's name in the jazz section.

lol we bored him! Do you know where those questions might be? http://web.archive.org/web/20041010063232/http://islandrecords.com/elviscostello/askelvis.las http://web.archive.org/web/20041013150152/http://islandrecords.com/elviscostello/askelvis.las?skip=15&section=1&keyword=&counter=23...

There was a period of a few months in 2002 when it was a good site, with EC answering fan's questions and writing a tour diary, but then he apparently lost interest.

http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?tbrand=edponline&tcategory=news&brand=EDPOnline&category=News&itemid=NOED27+May+2005+14%3a26%3a11%3a877 Elvis Costello statement "I suppose there might have been a handful of people who didn't get the message that it was going to be...

Thanks for the review. I've placed my order.

Did Gary Stewart run over your dog?

Will we ever get to hear the takes of "I Hope Your Happy Now" cut with the Keltner/Scheff/Froom lineup? EC says "We struggled through a few tentative takes, but it was useless." So maybe not, but I think he is holiding it for the next re-re-re-release. Spooky, if you haven't alr...

I used to consider B&C one of EC's weakest albums, but somehow over the years it's become my absolute favorite. Go figure. I love every song on the album. I just love the ones at the bottom of the list a little less than the others. 1. Next Time Round 2. Battered Old Bird 3. Poor Napoleon 4. Blu...

KOA is so strong that it's difficult to place some really good songs near the bottom. 1. Sleep Of The Just 2. American Without Tears 3. Jack Of All Parades 4. Suit Of Lights 5. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 6. Glitter Gulch 7. I'll Wear It Proudly 8. The Big Light 9. Brilliant Mistake 10. Eisenhower...

sweetest punch wrote:When TJL is finally released, the Rhino/Demon reissue programme is finished and EC always spoke of releasing a (4-CD) boxset to mark the end of it.

When and where did he speak of this?