Elvis Costello Fan Forum

first show gives us 31 songs (you all know ba counts fragments :lol: ) From the June 9 thread In Elvis land, Costello reigns as King Article by: JON BREAM , Star Tribune Updated: June 9, 2014 - 11:57 PM However, “Radio Radio” had new resonance when the singer explained that it was about the radio i...

I think the telltale sign he's enjoying himself is when he keeps on doing his "1 more song?" finger gesture-- and we got a lot of it tonight.

the gentleman is surely spoiling us tonight with this live twitter setlist watch. i hope he is going to MORE shows. thanks friend! Thanks! Only one more show this tour for me, though. But I would be glad to live tweet every show he ever does in the future if we can set up some sort of funding mecha...

I died a little bit inside when I saw he skipped "Suit of Lights."

Oh yeah. In fact, no promises, but I will likely live tweet it. If you want to see the setlist unfold in real time, I'm @truesdelljyoung. In the interest of minimizing the amount of time I spend dinking with my phone, I might be a bit ruthless with shorthand and abbreviations, but it should be enoug...

I'll be going to this one, too.

I'll be there.

quite an "old" setlist. With Everyday I write the book as newest song played. and that one is more than 30 years old. Fair enough. But "Midnight Bus" (not to mention "Payday") certainly qualify as "newer to EC." In fact, unless I'm wrong, I don't think he's e...

Azmuda wrote:Just noticed "Party Girl" listed in the credits.

Also, the name of the (great) band X-Ray Spex is misspelled.

ALSO: it would be funny and frustrating if, like the original Basement Tapes, there end up being a ton of songs that aren't officially released from these sessions! That would be an awesome historical irony. But I'd much prefer if 1 and 2CD sets were released at the same time, with the 2CD set coll...

agreed with all 3 of these last posts! AND maybe this little project WILL finally get us the POSITIVELY 4th STREET owed us from 10-16-1993! 8) 8) 8) Completely agree with P4S is long overdue. Not sure I've ever heard an acoustic version of the song, but pretty sure EC could make it work spectacular...

Thanks! From April 1990, there seem to be more musicians involved than the wiki listing has - I must make inquiries & get names etc. Also - and I won't swear to it - but this seems to have a different vocal than the released recording. http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Mischievous_Gh...

Anyway, the EC/BD-songs that aren't chosen for Lost On The River, may get played on the upcoming solo tour. So, I'm really looking forward to this release and the solo tour. REALLY hoping to hear EC/BD songs on the solo tour. Aside from the "Jack of All Parades" that he opened with on a f...

Love the description of the backing vocals. If you're going to do songs from The Basement Tapes period justice, you NEED loose and raucous backing vocals. See also Dylan & The Band at Isle of Wight.

with 20-50 tracks being discussed here, and artists playing on each others tunes regularly it seems, i would bet there is a very large amount of Elvis upon this release. if 20 get released Gent....i would imagine at least 4-5 tracks feature him upon lead vocals. At the very least, the way I read th...

Elvis worked with T Bone in the last few days in Los Angeles, recording a track for this project. I have that from a credible source who has to remain confidential. Great scoop you had here! Btw, how specific was your source as to how many tracks EC recorded? From this comment, it seems like just o...

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/03/listen-elvis-costello-remixes-johnny-cashs-she-used-to-love-me-a-lot/ In his 40-plus-year career, Elvis Costello has worn plenty of hats musically, indulging in everything from New Wave to punk rock to folk to blues to even a little contemporary classical. Toda...

I had the same question when I heard the news about this set a while ago. Hard to predict, but Elvis is clearly close to T-bone, and not only does he have a commercial profile high enough to potentially enhance the this set's sales projects (but, admittedly, not enough to guarantee a hit), he also h...

I still have my stack, stored in a box. It was a fantastic resource, particularly in the pre-Internet days. It also reminded me that I was nowhere near as fanatical about EC as I could have been. After over a decade (wow) I still hold out hope that Dave Farr will resume and finish his A to Z series...

verbal gymnastics wrote:I've never heard 13 steps lead down solo.

I could be mistaken, but I don't think it was performed live solo before this tour. But there is a solo demo on the Rhino reissue. And it's pretty great.

Wow-- "Can You Hear Me?" is strange and fabulous. A bizarre amalgam of "Radio Silence," "Complicated Shadows," and "American Gangster Time" (seemingly due to the fact that the all share references to "gangsters"-- do I detect a new Spinning Songbook ...

cwr wrote:The USA Brutal Youth tour had Crash Test Dummies.

My primary memory from their set was the unexpectedly large amount of yodeling.

Oddly, it reminds me a bit of "Abandon Words."

Nice find, Dave. Thanks!

Also, this is the first time I've seen a critic fess up to David Lee Roth's famous dismissal of EC as someone critics like because they look like him.

Similarly, Costello's lyrics revisit his own past. "I wanted to incorporate other verses and ideas from old songs as an ongoing dialogue," he explained. "On a number of songs I used that collage method because some of the things that were said in those [old] songs as they were origin...