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by anjabro
Mon May 30, 2005 5:17 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Newcastle set list May 30th
Replies: 6
Views: 6658

Newcastle set list May 30th

King Horse Uncomplicated Clown Strike Radio Radio Country Darkness Needle Time Green Shirt Human Hands There's A Story in your Voice Either Side of the Same Town Chelsea Clubland Good Year for the Roses Our Little Angel Suit of Lights Kinder Murder When I was Cruel #2 Watching the Detectives The Del...
by anjabro
Mon May 30, 2005 5:18 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Newcastle, Monday 30th May
Replies: 4
Views: 4908

woohoo...Elvis day is here again...

:lol:
by anjabro
Sat May 28, 2005 1:56 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Newcastle, Monday 30th May
Replies: 4
Views: 4908

I'll be there...anyone else..?
by anjabro
Tue May 17, 2005 12:09 am
Forum: The Annex
Topic: Headlines we wouldn't have understood 15 years ago
Replies: 8
Views: 6296

One I didn't get was on teletext a while back in the sports headlines...the story was that Newcastle midfielder Stephen Glass was considering a transfer offer from Hibs...the headline... GLASS EYES MOVE I thought it may have been unintentional, until a few weeks later, again on teletext, there was a...
by anjabro
Wed May 11, 2005 12:37 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The True Songs
Replies: 9
Views: 11300

I don't mind songs changing and evolving over time, although I tend to think of the album versions as 'the real ones'... One thing that does irritate me on live recordings (oxymoron..?) is when he's dragging the lyrics behind the melody,then garbling them quickly towards the end of a line, very prev...
by anjabro
Sat May 07, 2005 10:29 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The 'Purity' of TJL
Replies: 2
Views: 4657

Thank You....TJL regains it's purity for me...


(I hadn't thought of that... :roll: )
by anjabro
Sat May 07, 2005 3:13 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The 'Purity' of TJL
Replies: 2
Views: 4657

The 'Purity' of TJL

I've been listening to TJL the last couple of days, and I noticed a bit of backing vocals on Romeo's seance,over 'Romeo is calling you...' As far as I've noticed, that is the only bit of overdubbing on the album, (unless there are any strings overdubbed; I don't think I'm enough of a student of stri...
by anjabro
Thu May 05, 2005 2:15 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Suggestions for TJL reissue
Replies: 54
Views: 44692

The live version of 'God Only Knows' is incredible...don't remember where I got it, or where it was recorded or anything....the final note is astounding, though...
by anjabro
Tue May 03, 2005 6:25 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Elvis Costello A Life In Liner Notes
Replies: 9
Views: 16334

Re: Elvis Costello A Life In Liner Notes

Choice Cut: "[On] the fade of 'I'll Wear It Proudly'... Mitchell [Froom] plays the organ melody that I had sung to him. He would make good use of it, turning a variation of that theme into a hook on his production of the big Crowded House hit, 'Don't Dream It's Over.'" Wow....amazing....I...
by anjabro
Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:40 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: References you didn't get for ages...
Replies: 19
Views: 16477

I think the audience is supposed to hear "Beanstalk" and then get another laugh in the credts. Thanks! Did SLIH even have end credits..? I seem to remember (from watching it on video when I was a kid...) 'The End' coming up over their faces in the boat, and then that's it....Or was it jus...
by anjabro
Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:43 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: References you didn't get for ages...
Replies: 19
Views: 16477

I'd never have guessed where this would go from my opening gambit, but just out of interest, NR.... I watched the extended DVD of SLIH a while ago, and among the cast list, I noticed that the guys' name is not in fact Beanstalk, but Biehnstock, or something like that...(I remember thinking when I wa...
by anjabro
Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:00 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: References you didn't get for ages...
Replies: 19
Views: 16477

The British Navy is referred to as 'The Senior Service'...not sure why, maybe just because they're the oldest of the three services..?

I must say, I never got anything else from 'the fuzzy end of the lollipop' either....but Tony Curtis does wear Elvis glasses on the beach...
by anjabro
Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:04 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: References you didn't get for ages...
Replies: 19
Views: 16477

References you didn't get for ages...

I was just listening to 'Kid About It', which I must have listened to a zillion times in the last twenty years, and I suddenly got the line 'When she said I waited all my life for just a little death', ('Petit Mort' being a french term for orgasm, for anyone as slow as me...) Anyone else got any the...
by anjabro
Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:34 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: HOW he sings things
Replies: 52
Views: 45864

That's one of my favourites too...I actually got a reply, back in the good old days of 'Ask Elvis' on the island board...I believe I asked why it was such a generally ignored part of his back catalogue,as I thought it was one of his best songs....He replied,' thanks for the compliment...I think that...
by anjabro
Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:11 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: She's pulling out the pin
Replies: 0
Views: 2351

She's pulling out the pin

This has gradually become one of my favourites on TDM , but I don't get the line ' This is her wedding day ' I've heard that suicide bombers are promised a harem of 42 virgins or something when they enter the promised land ; Is this the female equivalent of that , that she becomes the bride of Allah...
by anjabro
Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:18 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Just for the fun of it
Replies: 34
Views: 34828

Put your big toe in Allison

Honey are you straight,or can I turn this...
by anjabro
Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:51 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Elvis' obscure Nick Lowe cover
Replies: 9
Views: 10692

Aren't the signs of the zodiac divided into fire/water/air/earth signs..?

I hesitate to be so presumptuous about a song I've never even heard,but could it possibly be...'He put up a statue, THEN burnt down the town..'?
by anjabro
Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:49 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: EC song soundbytes
Replies: 7
Views: 7744

I love the end of 'Riot Act', the final 'you can make me....' just sounds to me like he was meant to continue, but he's too exhausted/emotional to carry on singing..
by anjabro
Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:41 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Elvis & the Attractions on BBC 6 Music
Replies: 5
Views: 6840

Do you think anyone advised him to do the accents, or he just thought it would be a good idea...?
by anjabro
Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:32 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Elvis & the Attractions on BBC 6 Music
Replies: 5
Views: 6840

Loved the faux-cockney accent....
by anjabro
Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:11 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: EC on BBC Radio two with Mark Lamarr and Victoria Wood !
Replies: 13
Views: 11741

Must be a fan. He was right behind me (sitting with Jo Brand and bitching about fellow media folk) at the RFH gig. I know JB is a huge fan...i remember her being on GLR maybe ten years ago, and she was totally rhapsodic about EC (after being asked about her favourite music; not just out of the blue...