Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Amazon US now says the CD will be out on August 7. Yay.

Has the CD actually been released yet in the US? Amazon says it has been rescheduled to July 22. I preordered mine from Amazon as soon as it came available at the non-import price, and they're telling me July 22. Which I only found out when I checked my order after not receiving it on July 1, as or...

Took a while, but... https://everybodysdummy.blogspot.com/2022/04/elvis-costello-36-boy-named-if.html Nice review. By this...' The Boy Named If is basically the rock album Elvis Costello didn’t make for the better part of fifteen years' I assume we're taking Momofuku to be his last 'rock album'. Fo...

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I can't wait for the 10,000-word extrapolation of "Sunday's Best".

Maybe he'll just record all the songs in Spanish?

I'm not going to argue with the top 5 as a group, but the rest is throwing darts.

Great show, beautiful theater. Yet I'm mystified as to why Elvis took so many guitar solos, while Charlie Sexton got maybe two.

It's great that he's saving money on graphic design by painting his own covers, but still...

He didn't sue Escape Club for "Wild Wild West", so of course he'd let this go.

sweetest punch wrote:The Super Deluxe Edition is available for pre-order in the retail:

Wait, what? How is this different from the expensive vinyl-only thing that came out a couple months ago?

As threatened. Insight welcome.

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My CD came today at last ...was that 'breaking news' ?..... Mine arrived yesterday, and thanks to the heads up I've been handling it gingerly so as not to tear the cover. The review should be up next week, and I still like it more than Look Now. The Helsinki mouth songs work a little better in this...

Amazon informed me on Thursday that my CD would arrive on Tuesday, then told me Tuesday it would arrive in 2-3 weeks. Nobody I spoke with there had any clue what was going on. At any rate, I did Spotify it once, and I liked it, more than I liked Look Now. Hopefully my review will be up in a week or ...

And still cheaper than the Super Deluxe Armed Forces.

Were this a three-, four-, or five-CD set under $100, I'd pony up the cash immediately. Vinyl may sound better, but at these prices they're just too expensive to play, if that makes sense.

Is he really the hardest working singer in lockdown? I mean, Steve Nieve streamed nearly daily from March, though he doesn't sing. I've been streaming nearly daily since March too, and I "sing", but nobody cares.

What a wonderful exchange. I still have the "God's Comic" edition, and I thumb through it from time to time. He's not the only fan who's written a book from a personal standpoint, only to seemingly lose interest in the topic as the decades roll by. Ron Schaumburg's "Growing Up With Th...

Still begs the question as to why the hell Charlie Watts hasn't been knighted yet.

Satisfaction + Superstition = New Lace Sleeves. Brilliant.

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I find it very interesting -- for lack of a better word -- that Look Now has gotten such high praise all over the place. I found it satisfactory at best, and only that much better than the McCartney album, which I found hollow but also got universal praise. Am I the only one here who doesn't think L...

Also, the official copyrighted lyric is "The baby is dead, my lady said". Maybe that's it?

Here's my take. (Spoiler alert: not a masterpiece, but better than Egypt Station, which is also not a masterpiece.) Have at it.

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There is a fine line between fun and torturing fans. Or maybe torturing fans is part of the fun? I've long suspected that EC is conflicted by how much he needs us, compounded by his resentment of our fanatical dedication. He's already said that he makes all his money from touring, so why not, I don...