Elvis Costello Fan Forum

So, does the 2012 "5Ive Gears in Reverse" have all it's verses intact or is the 'statue of liberty' stll MIA?

Second outing for "The Comedians"-- do we have report on which version he's performing. my guess: original lyrics, but without the tricky time signature of the LP recording.

It's almost certainly unrelated, but I've long been curious about the lyric that was unique to the chorus of Dave Edmund's version of "Girls Talk" ("It's a more or less situation inspired by girls talk"), and later carried over onto Linda Ronstadt's version. Is it an EC lyric, or...

The Electric Fetus' website lists the CD and DVD as new releases today. No mention of any LP (as expected). They must have just not gotten the update about the rescheduled release date.

I received an email from The Electric Fetus with this list of new releases for next week: Upcoming New Releases 1/24 Big Deal LP Celtic Woman DVD Ciara Elvis Costello & The Imposters LP Cloud Nothings LP Joe Cocker Dion Al Di Meola DVD & Blu-ray Doors CD LP DVD & Blu-ray Craig Finn LP Fo...

I'm fuzzy on the details, but wasn't it reported several years ago that EC & Burt were collaborating on new songs for... um, some female artist whose name I've forgotten. John Foyle, do you still have the link? In any case, it doesn't seem like that project came to fruition, so maybe the songs ...

I'm fuzzy on the details, but wasn't it reported several years ago that EC & Burt were collaborating on new songs for... um, some female artist whose name I've forgotten. John Foyle, do you still have the link? In any case, it doesn't seem like that project came to fruition, so maybe the songs a...

It's my theory that the "Oh my baby" intro was once a completely different song (likely unfinished), and got welded to "I Want You" belatedly during the B&C sessions, a la "Cry Baby Cry" and "Take Me Back" (and not entirely dissimilar to the "Strawber...

Found this message in my Amazon cart today: Please note that the price of The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook [Super Deluxe Edition] [1 CD + 1 DVD + 10" Vinyl EP] has increased from $251.49 to $251.54 since you placed it in your Shopping Cart. Items in your cart will always reflect...

While not a rare song by any means, "Shipbuilding" returns to the wheel for the first time since July. http://twitpic.com/6vpr7u/full The death of David Bedford , who arranged the strings for the Punch the Clock recording, was announced yesterday. Coincidence? It's funny. Chet Baker's per...

What I find most frustrating is the idea that the success or failure of this set may be used to gauge the market for future ambitious catalog projects. There are many uber-Deluxe packages that could be created from the Costello catalog. You can easily devise massive and wonderful sets around albums ...

bronxapostle wrote:if i may offer up Craigs tweets as a setlist, unless ANCT would rather. looks like a different opener!!
NATIONAL RANSOM (attractions version)

They bring up Bruce for this one?

Songs like this and King of Confidence are awesome and would make almost anybody's album. However I also can't see how songs of this calibre got left off the album when the mess that is Eisenhower Blues did. But Elvis' justification is that it gave the album a kick amongst the ballads. I think the ...

The league of people who could afford to leave the likes of "Suffering Face" and "King Of Confidence" off of an album is very small indeed. Actually, it's an interesting question: who can compete with Elvis in terms of the amount of top drawer material relegated to b-sides and b...

bil1cat wrote:I was hoping at some point in the Revolver tour he would just do the whole Revolver album as a lark.

Pete would have gone to town on "Tomorrow Never Knows."

bronxapostle wrote:yes, he's done it before: in 1981 if memory serves. along with HIS LATEST FLAME, i guess he was feeling the "other" ELVIS!

Both sides of the original single-- very cool.

That's a great photo of you, Dave. Regardless of how you may have felt, you look like one cool customer, totally at ease in the cage! I assume he didn't ask what song you were hoping to hear. What would have been your request if you'd had the chance? I wonder what I would have said if asked. Maybe ...

That's a great photo of you, Dave. Regardless of how you may have felt, you look like one cool customer, totally at ease in the cage!

I assume he didn't ask what song you were hoping to hear. What would have been your request if you'd had the chance?

That's a good question, Stuart. There has never been an explanation, AFAIK. Originally, it wasn't intended as a commercial release, rather as five separate promos to serve the markets in which each show was originally played. So, redundancy wouldn't have been such a big issue under those circumstanc...

My only disappointment is that EC happened to chose this show not to play "Punishing Kiss", which was a highlight of the other Metropole performances and would have been a useful addition to the discography.

Is the band doing a full version of Purple Rain now? Also is it Your Cheating Heart or is it You win again (or something else for that matter) during Alison? "Purple Rain" was a stand-alone performance that I recall as being more or less complete. In fact, most of the medleys were of what...

So what's the best EC song to play to a youngster as a first experience ? I'd pick a song nowhere near my top 20 but New Lace Sleeves seems like a gentle introduction which contains all the classic Costello elements - though for Leah, probably (Grand) Daddy Can I Turn This ( Cassette over now ) ! :...

Sounds like a plan. My twitter handle, BTW is "truesdelljyoung" and I'll probably tweet the setlist.

Costello, band blow way over the top By Jeff Miers June 26, 2011, 12:00 AM Our own Mark Norris and the Backpeddlers celebrated the release of an awesome new album, “ Songs of Guilt and Revenge,” with a set that highlighted most of that record, and was warmly received by the crowd. Norris, with guit...

This is a wonderful picture of EC. Looks like he just open up the lost ark at the end of Raiders for all the wrong reasons.