Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Here's the Radio, Radio vid:

https://youtu.be/cNrIgASqFZ0

I have to confess I'm not a massive fan of the recent very very gloomy songs on Hey Clockface. This one, the spoken word ones, Newspaper Pane etc. are so, so bleak. Elvis has always had a sour worldview, quite understandably, but often in the past he has couched them in very peppy pop. But these one...

Hang on, someone's also posted 'Let Me Tell You About Her'

https://youtu.be/h1QFx34x0Zs

Someone just uploaded it

https://youtu.be/WTq5_hB4hVY

Elvis going a bit mental in the voiceover for the new documentary!!! LOL!

https://youtu.be/BmD6so5aZ-s

Great to see everyone yesterday - so sorry I couldn't stay till then end as I normally do, pointing out the zillionth brilliant Elvis lyric in a slurry crescendo of fandom! x

You can hear George Purvis talking about his passion for Elvis in the Dangerous Amusements podcast. Definitely not a dilettante!

https://anchor.fm/stu-arrowsmith/episod ... is-e135ma2

Hi all,

I'm going to get there for 1.30pm, as I have to leave by about 4pm. So if anyone can make it that early, cool.

If not, I'll just read a book!

Nx

A rare sighting of Elvis on the BBC news pages:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57650176

Totally agree with the above.

Especially in this time of pisstaking streaming services where artists get peanuts, Elvis can do whatever he wants to try to exploit his talent. No-one is forcing anyone to buy any of it!

You're right, this is looking encouraging! I heard 'Farewell OK' - it was a fun rocker in the style of 'Baby's Got A Brand New Hairdo' (and, as has been noted, a very big tip of the hat to 'Hippy Hippy Shake'), so although it felt a bit of a throwaway in that regard, the actual sound of it was terri...

Thank you, Krm! Holy cow, I have never heard of this version. And here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OixKiRJOpoU There is defo more separation on the all the instruments and the vocal - can hear what everyone's doing much more clearly. The vocal is prob the original, but because it has more...

Thank you, John. But hang on... Mick Jones did the guitar part on Pump It Up???!!!!

Is it compulsory for you to buy any music from a fellow countryman, Neil? :wink: It’s not unusual :lol: I thank you! Sulky *chuckle* - alas, I just looked at it on YouTube. TBH am not a fan of these spoken word things at all! Sorry Tom 'n' Elvis! Verbal: You can leave your hat on... or get your coa...

Sounds like Elvis isn't the only elder statesman doing 'talking' songs these days.

This is from the latest Tom Jones album:

https://youtu.be/khgdwZmWkXc

Apart from Verbal's tablets-of-stone definitive version, I defo agree "Lists? shimshts!", in general. But I have to say MLAR's placing is way out of order! Get aahtah my pub!!! And controversionally, I almost never listen to My Aim Is True, and would rank it bottom 10! It worries me that p...

Cool! Thanks for the description, I'll go and buy it if it's available as a digital item. I don't want the whole CD (if that's what it is)

So has anyone heard 'Maud Gone Wrong'?

Is it any good? Is it the love child of 'Stella Hurt' and 'Isabelle in Tears'?

Hi Trevor - there are some fantastic people here who have the right cataloguing, filing brains - I defo don't know the details of all that but there will be people who will be happy to bear this in mind!

Home made marmalade - nice!

Remember the song 'Tart' from 'When I Was Cruel'?

"Oranges roll in the gutter... and you pick them up..."

Well, d'you reckon this was what Elvis was talking about?

https://twitter.com/crk5/status/1355714 ... 33540?s=20

Nos da and rest in peace, Lillian. Great to see you in your 1960s prime and in your 20-teens, ninetysomething glory x

Does anyone know what Elvis and co. played at this gig?

I don't think it's to do with copyright law necessarily. I think it's accepted that a song is written by a writer, then given to a band to play. There'd be no song without the writer - so consequently there'd be on no bassline, drum part, keyboard solo... However, some bands have made a deal whereby...

Sounds like it was all out in the open as a known loop!