Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Well, seeing as my musical career up to now consists of playing bad harmonica in my early twenties (though not quite as badly as Mr. Dylan, come to think of) and a few attempts to learn keyboards -- (never got past John Brimhall's "Easy Piano" rendition of "Something Stupid" and ...

To Lapinsjolie re: Phantom of the Paradise. Actually, I have this insane crush on Paul Williams. It must be the hair. But seriously, it's just kind of a cool little flick -- the music isn't great but it's just an oddball quasi-guilty pleasure from before Brian de Palma became Mr. Cinema Decadence, a...

Those who remember me will understand that I sort of had to get in on this one. Couple notes to my old pal Lapinsjolis -- forgot that you, too, worship at the shrine of Robert Wise. Re: Wise Blood, book and movie. Saw the movie first. Absolutely great. Read the book later -- actually didn't get into...

Part of the problem is that is most famous actors or even musical stars these days are just too darn perfect looking to play anyone -- except other famous people people, or maybe good looking athletes. (Even actors of earlier generation were relatively pudgy compared to the current group.) Neverthel...

Howdy, Otis. I'd go on but I don't want to seem like I'm trying to steal the spotlight from that other Bobster! (Though someday I'll have to share with you all my vision of history as a battle between good and evil Bobs.

Sad indeed. I never met him, but I have a very loose connection to some of those bands (I used to know the Wondermints -- they even played at the wedding of one friend of mine and Baby Lemonade put on some of the best sets I've seen around town.). And the show was pretty great, and you could tell th...

Well, "Almost Blue" is at least a contender for my all time favorite EC track.....

Shouldn't this thread really be called "Cole When You Least Expect Him?" Anyhow, I actually have a long list of these but by far the weirdest and least expected was hearing three or four EC songs -- and Squeeze's "Pulling Mussels from the Shell" at a Reno, Nevada casino about 18 ...

I think this is EC's most underrated album out of a career filled with criminally underrated albums! In other words I love it -- but I'm an odd bird in that I probably loved Bacharach even before I was old enough to know I loved Bacharach. One of my earliest musical memories is going to a taping of ...

For a second there I thought this was somehow about me! :oops: You know, I just popped in for the first time in months, and there's "my name....oh, well, how quickly they forget.... Anyhow, I had to vote for my fellow Robert, though I in some ways I have more of an emotional connection to Sprin...