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by Hawksmoor
Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:41 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Songs of Bacharach & Costello: collection based on Painted From Memory, March 3, 2023
Replies: 200
Views: 948723

Re: New compilation / package, based on Painted From Memory, 2022

wardo68 wrote:Maybe he'll just record all the songs in Spanish?
'Toledo' in Spanish would be a nice thing. The whole LP, maybe not.
by Hawksmoor
Wed Feb 16, 2022 7:15 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

https://www.hotpress.com/music/punch-the-clock-an-interview-with-elvis-costello-22891710[b] Punch The Clock: An Interview With Elvis Costello[/b] I say my thanks to Costello, and take the chance to thank him for all those great records that I’ve been listening to for years. “Not at all, really good...
by Hawksmoor
Wed Feb 16, 2022 7:09 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Songs of Bacharach & Costello: collection based on Painted From Memory, March 3, 2023
Replies: 200
Views: 948723

Re: New compilation / package, based on Painted From Memory, 2022

"I think we will put a record which presents the original songs, and some sort of version of what could have been added to that, ranging from studio versions to really great vocal and piano demos, not just my voice but some other singers who did them at the time, what we call production demos,...
by Hawksmoor
Tue Feb 15, 2022 12:06 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

This is interesting discussion. I always hear his Scouse roots coming out in this pre-decimalisation pronunciation and on 'there's a tuppenny-ha’penny millionaire, looking for a fourpenny one' from Man out of Time. It is interesting, and I confess that when I was describing the UK pronunciation of ...
by Hawksmoor
Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:24 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

You have it right, Hawks. That was me about the yeah, yeah's. The classic old-school Elvis comment is exactly what I mean about "contrived" on tracks like Mistook Me for a Friend. It feels like he is trying too hard to channel that spirit, and for me, it just doesn't work. It sounds force...
by Hawksmoor
Mon Feb 14, 2022 4:23 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

The "yeah, yeah, yeah," and "dance a little jig" . . . embarrassingly BAD moments in the canon of anything Elvis has ever done. Mistook me for a friend is painful for me to listen to. The album has bright spots, but I would put it equal with Clockface and Don't Look Now. Deliver...
by Hawksmoor
Sun Feb 13, 2022 7:42 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

My experience after a break, too. What a capper to these three awesome Krys-produced albums. For me, it's not just his best record with the Imposters (which is saying something), but his best of the new millennium, period. It all clicks together in such a pleasurable way. I'm starting to lose track...
by Hawksmoor
Fri Feb 04, 2022 2:44 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

https://www.bremeneins.de/musik/album-woche-elvis-costello-a-boy-named-if-100.html A nice piece, and I was struck by this line: 'the liveliest album he's recorded with the Imposters so far. As a well-rehearsed team, the quartet has deliberately designed its latest work to be lively, spirited and po...
by Hawksmoor
Wed Feb 02, 2022 8:31 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Every record ranked…
Replies: 16
Views: 9080

Re: Every record ranked…

krm wrote:ouch! why bother?
So idiots like us will click on it, and that's good for the advertisers on their site :).
by Hawksmoor
Wed Feb 02, 2022 2:17 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Every record ranked…
Replies: 16
Views: 9080

Re: Every record ranked…

[shrugs] It's just another daft list, isn't it? We could do that ourselves, on this forum, once a week, and every time, some of us would sit looking at it and think 'what are you talking about it, you idiot?' The only opinion I would throw in, is that including Il Sogno in lists like this is silly, ...
by Hawksmoor
Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:03 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Songs of Bacharach & Costello: collection based on Painted From Memory, March 3, 2023
Replies: 200
Views: 948723

Re: New compilation / package, based on Painted From Memory, 2022

Elvis said that they recorded only two new songs: http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11656#p7750243 Yes, sorry. When I said 'going by the number of new songs we think have been recorded' I should really have said 'the number of songs we think we know exist'. Combining t...
by Hawksmoor
Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:28 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Songs of Bacharach & Costello: collection based on Painted From Memory, March 3, 2023
Replies: 200
Views: 948723

Re: New compilation / package, based on Painted From Memory, 2022

The format is impossible to know for sure, of course, but going by the number of new songs we think have been recorded, and the way he's talking this project up, I think we can safely say we're not looking at a re-release of PFM with a couple of new tracks tacked on the end. My dream would be a lavi...
by Hawksmoor
Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:12 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Elvis inks exclusive Worldwide Music Publishing Deal With BMG
Replies: 6
Views: 3703

Re: Elvis inks exclusive Worldwide Music Publishing Deal With BMG

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/elvis-costello-inks-exclusive-worldwide-music-publishing-deal-with-bmg11/ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/files/2022/01/L-to-R_Alistair-Norbury-Elvis-Costello-Ian-Ramage-Hartwig-Masuch-c-BMG1-e1643116205545-836x470.jpg Thought bubbles left to right. 1: ...
by Hawksmoor
Sun Jan 23, 2022 2:51 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

Could be the greatest closing track in the history of EC records, topping even Couldn’t Call it Unexpected and The Birds Will Still be Singing. It might be. But I am going to have to throw in ''Sleep of the Just'. Maybe 'Riot Act', although I appreciate there's ambiguity as to whether that is the c...
by Hawksmoor
Sun Jan 23, 2022 2:50 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

Can I just put in a word for “Mr Crescent?” It’s that final verse…with its implication that he is suffering from dementia, and the memory of what should have been his true love (lost long ago to his own untrustworthiness and reputation) floods his bewildered mind (“I wonder where my Honey has gone?...
by Hawksmoor
Sat Jan 22, 2022 4:45 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

Little doubt in my mind that it is an all-time great EC album. There is a richness and a mastery to both composition and performance which rivals anything he’s done. He’s absorbed all the lessons of his sometimes-trying “collaboration” years and has them effortlessly at his fingertips, while remain...
by Hawksmoor
Sat Jan 22, 2022 11:07 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

That’s trying to avoid hyperbole!!!!? It’s an extremely good album and more than we deserve at 67. EC album of the millennium? Fair enough. But better than This Year’s Model, Get Happy!!, Imperial Bedroom and King of America? There are no duds on Boy Named If - all solid 7 to 8/10 tracks. However n...
by Hawksmoor
Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:10 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

Still playing it. Every play reveals something new and laugh-out-loud good. Whether it's some bit of timed phrasing, the way he changes the vocal effect for particular line, a drum-fill here, a keyboard riff there...good God, there's a John Dryden reference in the first line of 'Mr Crescent'. The ly...
by Hawksmoor
Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:26 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Elvis as guitar hero
Replies: 4
Views: 3016

Elvis as guitar hero

I love some of Elvis' guitar "impersonations" sprinkled throughout. Guitar figures in "The Difference" that remind me of Marc Ribot. Short solos at the end of "Mr. Crescent" that sound so much like George Harrison. There are probably more. Elvis has always been a good ...
by Hawksmoor
Thu Jan 20, 2022 12:06 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

sweetest punch wrote:Elvis Costello’s 32nd studio album...
Do we know of any reviews anywhere that don't start with this line? Given the different criteria you could use, and the different ways you could count them, it's quite remarkable that every reviewer has counted to exactly the same total.
by Hawksmoor
Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:20 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

Favourable 7.5 review from Pitchfork: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/elvis-costello-the-imposters-the-boy-named-if/ Well-written, but man, lines like this drive me crazy: "Costello’s monstrous appetite for genre has occasionally led him to believe he has mastered every genre." 'On h...
by Hawksmoor
Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:13 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-boy-named-if-mw0003612195 By Stephen Thomas Erlewine Maybe revisiting This Year's Model for Spanish Model -- an oddly effective reinterpretation of the 1978 classic featuring new vocals sung in Spanish by a variety of Latinx musicians over the original Attractions...
by Hawksmoor
Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:57 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

Hard to believe that this time in 2018 I was cursing that there hadn’t been a bus for five years, and that one had been going in the wrong direction, even though quite a few people got on. And now three turn up almost together. Loved Look Now, although it lacked the rough edges and I got fed up wit...
by Hawksmoor
Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:55 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

I think The Difference will also slip nicely into Clubland. Yes, it's a great track and the listener gets even more rewarded by afterwards having "Clubland", "Watching the detectives" and even echoes of "Sulky Girl" (the bridge that segues into the refrain) stuck in th...
by Hawksmoor
Mon Jan 17, 2022 5:48 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022
Replies: 495
Views: 699125

Re: The Boy Named If, new album by Elvis & The Imposters, January 14, 2022

I have listened through completely 4 or 5 times now. Mostly good. I can't say like others that EVERY track is great, but there are fewer flat spots than some more recent works. The flat spots: Mistook me for a Friend - has some truly cringe moments. The yeah, yeahs at the end for example. And The B...