Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Noise, impressive!

I can't believe how tight the band is. It must be a blast to play with them.

Shallow Grave was my favorite ... ditto what Bluechair said.

It is The Pink Panther Strikes Again. My favorite of all of them. [/i]

TACUBA!!!

and Elvis and Tom Waits

all on a record with Los Lobos.

Shheeee-it.

Just needed to log on and say that.

I can't make the numbers you all do, but here are my top purchases/gets of 2003 records this year:

Cafe Tacuba / Cuatro Caminos
The Bad Plus / These are the Vistas
Dolorean / Not Exotic
White Stripes / Elephant

Am I the only the one who thinks that this is Elvis himself writing?

I would still argue whether Rope's motives in posting the two posts I read were to attack you, Noise. I did read his posts carefully, and even the looney business seemed intended to point up the fact that a person or group confronted with a claimant to know God, from outside that person, is going to...

Inane? This whole board is inane. I thought that was the appeal of it.

The obvious, fairer response would be, if you think a thread is inane or annoying, don't read it, and don't post to it. It's pretty simple. They die their own deaths.

BlueChair et al, This message, in tandem with the apparent deletion of the Wacko Jacko/God thread in the Annex, pisses me off. I would argue vehemently that Rope's response/s to Noise's assertion to know God were very far from the attack that Noise took it as, and I would propose amending your post ...

My latest paranoia on W has to do with the upcoming elections. If he falls behind in the polls, watch the skys for raining death. Mine too. I.e., watch for a plausible warrant for declaring martial law and suspending the election. Because it's obvious that things are already beginning to trend away...

Bluechair, I noticed that too. Charlie asks Donald to help with the script, and the next thing they do is start spying on Meryl Streep's office, and it goes from there. I think that's the whole "meta" aspect of the screenplay/film. Pretty clever. I saw Adaptation twice in two weeks. I also...

I just picked up the (I believe) debut of a NY jazz trio, The Bad Plus, These Are the Vistas. Recommended. Piano, bass, drums.

It should be noted that girls are equally susceptible to PDS.

Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up on Me
Los Lobos - Good Morning Aztlan
EC - Brutal Youth re-release - kinda disappointed in the bonus disk though. I do like the chorus of Life Shrinks.

Duly noted on Tacuba, Noise. As soon as I can.

Laying slabs in the garden? Translation? It sounds vaguely scatological.

Are DrJ and I the only sane people left in this jaded, pathetic world? Yes. DrJ Hey wait, count me in. I've been irritated to see people actually seeming to begrudge a guy being in love and daring to try to write songs about it. I tried several times to post, and could not quite capture what bugged...

Okay that wasn't the pic I intended to send to Spooky, but yeah, those are tiny Dutch shoes. Refrigerator magnets, to be exact.


No Dutch people were harmed in the shooting of that picture.

Holy moley.

"North" is a special track available on the internet? When, where?

I cannot wait until friggin' September to hear this.

Who is planning to be here and when? If there is interest in drinks on Saturday, there are bars in the vicinity of the Red Roof that Craig reserved -- Tim O'Tooles on Ontario and Fairbanks comes to mind, and there must be others. As for Sunday, maybe we should wait til Craig returns and figure out w...

ABBA - Greatest Hits

I bought no singles to speak of, but one time my friend Jeff and I went to the local AM station and asked for any singles they might want to get rid of. I got the theme from the Pink Panther, and something called "Actions Speak Louder than Words" by Chocolate Milk.

1. Let's Dance
2. Let's Dance
3. Let's Dance
4. Let's Dance
5. Let's Dance

Sorry, couldn't resist.

My musical education, thanks to a fairly whacked-out religious upbringing, is full of holes. I know very little of the Beatles, early Dylan, Bowie, the Who, Kinks -- you name, it, my parents probably banned it, or would have if I'd even known it existed. Somehow ABBA slipped through, but that's abou...

tokyo vogue, that is THE question. I'm guardedly optimistic.

My plans have changed and I will be in Chicago that weekend. I would be up for meeting whoever, whenever.

at this very minute, Cafe Tacuba, Re. Thanks again to noiseradio for the recommendation some time back.

Lately, Marc Ribot y los Cubanos Postizos, White Stripes Elephant, Neko Case on a mix from a friend.

According to the press release, it's Peter Erskine.

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that WIWC was an intellectual exercise in rock and roll, but this new one sounds like it has a much more focussed, specific reason for being, and that will bode well for the music, no matter the style.