Elvis Costello Fan Forum

PD-that record has begun to haunt me- I am currently listening to the new Arcade Fire "Reflector". There is simply too much to absorb as it it is two packed discs of material. This one is going to require quite a few listens. I suppose I will lose all credibility hereabouts in confessing ...

From the Apatow interview: There’s a scheme that Chuck Lorre has come up with to turn Painted from Memory into a musical. He’s a great fan of the record, and he and Steven Sater, who wrote Spring Awakening, have conceived a story which winds through a number of the songs from Painted from Memory. W...

I always enjoyed "New York" in particular and listen now and again, with much enjoyment, to the hokey VU compliation album I have. (Yes, I really should do the decent thing and buy proper Velvet Undergound albums). A distinctive musical and lyrical voice; and one whose utter intolerance f...

BBC write-up http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03gq719 Fri 8 Nov 2013 21:00 BBC Four Sat 9 Nov 2013 01:10 BBC Four Elvis Costello: Mystery Dance Elvis Costello is one of the uncontested geniuses of the rock world. 33 albums and dozens of hit songs have established him as one of the most versatile an...

I always enjoyed "New York" in particular and listen now and again, with much enjoyment, to the hokey VU compliation album I have. (Yes, I really should do the decent thing and buy proper Velvet Undergound albums). A distinctive musical and lyrical voice; and one whose utter intolerance fo...

I don't have any of their earlier work and have only been vaguely aware of them until now; I'd pegged them as the sort of sweet-sounding folkies that I generally stay away from (preferring my folk music to be of the down-and-dirty Harry Smith Anthology type). But the new record, which I bought yeste...

Anyone know anything about this erotically-charged pair of Canadian folk rockers?

http://whitehorsemusic.ca/music/

Holy crow, she can really sing!

krm wrote:some versions (I dont have the picdisc version):

To me, the middle one - Costello hunkering low behind the camera and looking out with a feverish pornographer's intensity - is by far the best of the bunch. He looks too gentlemanly in the others, and insufficiently perverse.

It's a surprisingly complex lyric...I don't have Jack's gift for lyrical/poetic interepretation, but the pronouns seem decidedly shifty here, in patented Elvis fashion. It seems to me pretty clear that the entire lyric could be spoken by God Himself (the "he" referring to his son); or, mor...

He's baaaAAAAaaack.

Is this fellow bipolar, or what? One interview, he's sweetness and light. The next, his ripping his hardcore fans Funny stuff.

This one from Jason Isbell on his latest album "Southeastern" has left me in constant awe: Live Oak "There's a man who walks beside me He is who I used to be And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me And I wonder who she's pinin' for on nights I'm not around Could it be t...

News came this morning of the 2013 Nobel for Literature being awarded to Alice Munro. Most deserving. As I spent last night in the presence of a contemporary master of the short story and a reading from his Collected Vol. II, who may well someday merit the same prize, I am most pleased she was reco...

Interesting discussion...although I am blown away by any criticism of Episode of Blonde (blaring, tiresome verses????....really?). The only think I can add to this debate is that the album lacks melody, which for me is what EC has always done best. Maybe, like ET, I am not that much into funk but t...

Verbal, I would say that if this exact album had been made by some unknown, it would be hailed as an explosive creative supernova by a breathtaking new talent. There's a jadedness to the lukewarm response in certain circles - it's as though the sampling has distracted them from just listening to the...

I find folks around here a bit too negative about the "rewrites." We're not talking here about a pointless, adds-nothing re-performance along the lines of "Complicated Shadows" on SP & S. We're talking about fundamental reconstructions of the songs - generally to their benefi...

"Gravity" by Alphonso Cuaron in 3d last night with my wife: There is a poem by Robert Frost which could easily serve as an epigraph for this film. Desert Places Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,...

I am baffled by lukewarm responses from the hardcore fans. This remains, to my ears, a dazzling record that returns EC to the pop sensibilities that marked the great years of 'Trust,' IB, etc.. (Of course it does this in a unique fashion; it's not about "going home again" in any literal se...

The obvious next single is "Come the Meantimes." Fast, funky, catchy and distinctive. It's a no-brainer in my book. 8) I'm quickly coming around to this idea! Amazing track! Though as someone else said - Sugar Won't Work is pretty amazing, too - and of a radio-friendly length! I'm no radi...

The obvious next single is "Come the Meantimes." Fast, funky, catchy and distinctive. It's a no-brainer in my book.

Regrettable that a fair chunk of reviewers feel required to praise this album via a contrast with his supposedly "inferior" recent work :roll: - especially given that this record follows one that most of his actual listeners consider to be among his most inspired. I've never had much time ...

Many great moments on here. But, Otis, I still find "Tripwire" to be its the most moving moment (although "Puppet" is obviously very strong too, a close second - but I think it's helped along a bit by the author's backstory, which is arguably inadmissible in terms of assessing th...

"A Serious Man" was a fine film with one of the most unsettling opening sequences I can remember. :!: Nice to have one's memory jogged. As for the Coppola, thanks for the recommendation, Jack. The whole celebrity/consumerist matrix within our culture is pathological to a dire extent, and a...

Beautiful post, Jack! It's interesting how the mind (and heart) work. I might think differently if I'd held off for the deluxe edition and its booklet, but I've never tended to frame music in terms of analogies with poetry (and heck, this may be a reason why I feel no big need to get the booklet to ...

Great interview. And all I can say that if EC and The Roots went on to make 10 more records I'd be one happy camper, based on this effort. 8) The idea that "there's nowhere do go but down" is idiocy, especially with a collaboration as fruitful as this one. (Imagine if they'd said that abou...

John wrote:At last I have had an email saying Cd despatched. Looking forward to having the nice quality and the words to fully appreciate the album.

You won't be disappointed. This record is the gift that keeps on giving.