Elvis Costello Fan Forum

"too many teardrops"--yep, 96 tears. plus an echo of Nixon's "four more years" which always looked to me like a Nazi salute with the thumb tucked in and the four fingers splayed. And yet another appearance of the hangman--let him dangle, bullets for the newborn, you hung the moon...

Amazing. Even though I was never a HUGE fan, I'm still feeling the darkness.

perhaps a new band called "The Fakebooks"!! (w. special guest david schramm??? love his guitar playing on ylt's fakebook--those spare, trebly, sparkling embellishments--almost like burnishes-- that few lead guitar players do anymore)

my sincere thanks as well. seven weeks, eh? in retrospect, I still feel extremely ambivalent about all this...great cd, great band, great new adventures and reworkings of older material, me incorrectly expecting/hoping that this would be a seam that could be tapped deeper and deeper, and, in the end...

"when this thing of wonder and beauty came on the radio. . ." Yep. February 3, 1967, Roy Clark's basement, not yet 17, the fading in and out of some American station, not believing what we were hearing, and then, the radio crackling even more, Strawberry Fields the next night. I remember w...

i don't find this at all with recordings, however...

i sure like this much more than the re-do of veronica, which i think rambles and unravels a bit too much. does anyone else find that e.c.'s voice often sounds flat on many of these recordings? not sure if it is just a recording issue or if my ear is betraying me, but i'm finding it quite noticeable....

thnks for the vid. i don't like this version much. seems to have taken something compact and exact and simply unraveled parts of it without really strong re-composing.

Some peanuts in celebration. When I was 16 in 1966, Dylan was 26 and Revolver was brand new. Now I'm very confused!

i mentioned this in another thread, but i would love to hear k.d.lang cover this album, all of it. i think that the strength and oddness of these songs would help challenge that bit voice of hers. her latestsongs are very bland and tuneless. i'm interested in what folks think of e.c's vocals on Nort...

I'm really with you on North and this sort of song in e.c.'s work. Even a great deal of Painted from Memory fits here, along, as you mentioned, with "you hung the moon" and Jimmie (and maybe even Voice in the Dark). I keep thinking, writing this, of "in the wee small hours of the morn...

i still think that the whole thing is a really sad and unfortunate idea, and it seems especially unnecessary and sad after his latest n.r. ventures which i thought, mistakenly, meant something new was emerging. ah well, spin on!! but even if he comes to calgary (which I doubt), i won't go see this. ...

ok, so how much is elvis getting from this? i don't expect they could use his image without some sort of, well, at least permission of not commission.

Frankly, I find that this is sounding stupider all the time. Perhaps the spinner could tweet their friends and put suggestions on their wall and take a poll to see who wants to decide what others don't want to hear!! THEN they could open an envelope and if it is the same song that they chose, they c...

"Am I forgetting an instance since then where he really tried to do something crazy in the way he made a record? "

but for its waitism, N.R. #2 is a bit odd...and, frankly, playing live with a band in a studio w. no auto tone etc., etc., is also a bit odd these days...

for those of us tired, out of date and inept, does anyone know if there are plans to "officially" release this??

the wheel and a go-go cage?

#@#&%!

thanks to all concerned for all the vids. i just watched oliver's army and loved it, but there was a creepy feeling involved as well. I'm finding in retrospect that I put more stake into National Ransom than i had even imagined, so seeing this felt a bit like a oldies show, like resignation and defe...

except the first time, he hadn't done it twenty plus years before.

one that doesn't hearken back to a twenty year old idea that wasn't such a really big deal in the first place? one that doesn't seem like retreat?

maybe not nostalgia or desperation. maybe just more timid that i've come to expect...no, maybe that isn't it either. there just seems to be something amiss about this, though...slightly disappointing, but i'm not sure what i was expecting. I guess, after what i found to be quite a venturous cd full ...

in fact, isn't this the first time he has done such a blatant "repetition" like this? other than, of course, touring with the same band. there may be lots of others i've forgotten or repressed. But this one really seems like reviving an old trick and seems sort of too "obvious" a...

i want k.d. lang to cover all of North.

but i'd love to hear tony bennett cover some pfm songs.

does this seem like desperation? or reviving something that still had some life in it? or wanting to win something back? or just for fun and to hell with it? i mean, the spinning thing was fine, but not THAT interesting, was it? i mean, at the time perhaps a cool novelty, etc., but going back to it ...

ok, forays. i found that himself dipped in a really interesting way into his past with the sugarcanes. beyond belief, everyday i write the book, to name two, really became new creations that were already familiar. beyond belief is just that in that acoustic version that is floating around. plus, of ...