Elvis Costello Fan Forum

To top all of these high positions in all the album of the year's best lists, LOOK NOW is at Nr.1 of the critic's choice in the https://www.rollingstone.de And even among the readers, he' at Nr. 4 Yet not online, but it's in the print version. Quite surprisingly to me, since he has always been a cri...

Song of the Week in Die Presse in Vienna. This article by Thomas Kramar published on 14 October 2018 explains why: (...) "That's how the" limelight ", the limelight, to chalk, under which hopes suffocate. Bad song. MOOT Bad song? Better translation is “angry song”. The German word &q...

I love She but then again I think I am the only 'old romantic' among us :wink: Don't worry sheeptotheslaughter, you're not the only one. I love it too. I love it for what it is. A great romantic love ballad. Perfectly suited to close a great romantic love movie. Which has to be a bit cheesy for tha...

Neil. wrote:What a great review, Taramasalata!

Glad you like it, Neil!

Yes, "Under Lime" is such a fantastic song, it's just terrific! And it's so 100 % Costello, no one else in music could write such a miracle of a song. After 500, maybe even 600 songs of his, how is he able to deliver this, being so much of a Costello song and still not coming even a tinies...

plays in Switzerland as well! Amazing song, very much in the tradition of "Painted from memory" and - especially the atmosphere in the video - "She", he's just such a wonderful songwriter and singer. And always so fully involved in the things he's doing, without any compromises, ...

Interesting, rewarding show. Fully agree. It was a great evening: Musically focused and confident, in great voice, emotionally endearing the way the biographical anecdotes were told and yet entertaining and joyful as a show. I can hardly remember having seen EC in such a heartfelt and simultaneousl...

I' ve been wanting this for quite a while: Give my highest regards to what Erich has accomplished! This is excellent! With German being my mother language, I first thought "What a crazy idea!!!", trying to TRANSFER EC's masses of syllables, wordplays and meanings into another language... a...

Great and amazing stuff you deliver! Don't know whom to give more credit to, Kevin and Jorge for making this excellent choice, or rightbrain, for brightening my understanding of an EC song in a way I've hardly ever experienced. And one proof more for EC's unmatched abilities as a lyricist, just awes...

Account from interviewer who interviewed Elvis in Hamburg: http://muzyka.onet.pl/rock/elvis-costello-w-poszukiwaniu-straconej-muzyki/n1rvdm Translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmuzyka.onet.pl%2Frock%2Fel...

Wow, that's great news!!! And he is playing at the "Volkshaus", finally, after haven played the rather dull (at least for a rock concert) "Kongresshaus" a couple of times... Looking forward to that a lot! And Zurich in summer is especially lovely, at the marvelous lake, great for...

That website says that all the concerts will be broadcast on radio and television. :D Yes, usually the concerts (or at least parts of it) of this annual Baloise session festival are being broadcasted on some Swiss, Italian, French and German TV and radio stations within a few months after the festi...

Sounds like a great concert. Good to see him warming up the Dylan songs for the UK shows... YES, definitely! Among the best gigs of the 14, 15 times that I've seen him since "my first one" in 1989 in an amusement park in the rather small New England town of Berlin CT, then together with t...

Sorry guys to unmistakably destroy your rising curiosity about a new "best of"-collection, but, as German being my mother language, I feel myself competent enough in telling you that this phrase put in quotation marks is nothing but a linguistic expression, meant to label the show as somet...

This record is a triumph. Fully agree with you, the_playtypus What' most annoying to me about WUG is that lukewarm complaining about this fabulous record on this board. I don't get it, EC is once again heading for new land and delivering such wonderful gems as Walk us uptown, Sugar won't work, Trip...

("Spell," "Part of Him," and "Jezebel" are all eminently forgettable; had he only excised this trio, we could say without hesitation that this is, if not his greatest album, easily sharing the summit). The only downside is how it puts other recent efforts in the shade....

I have to say that my only frustration is that he could have sampled some material from When I was Cruel (unless I missed something). Specially "Spooky Girlfriend". I mean, why not let Questlove turn it into the R&B song it was always meant to be? Fully agree with you, Nathasha, I alw...

The Setlist as far as I noticed it: Man out of time Mouth almighty Blue chair American gangster time Everyday I write the book New lace sleeves 45 Radio Radio Stations of the cross All time doll Watching the detectives Bedlam One bell ringing Shipbuilding She Almost blue Green shirt Oliver's army Bu...

verbal gymnastics wrote:But then you'd be singing in the wrong place!

Duesseldorf is everywhere...

or:

"She's an everywhere girl in an everyday mess
who'll pay for the crimes of Duesseldorf"

A very good friend of mine who lives in nearby Cologne is going to see him there for his first time EVER! Hope he plays "Chewing Gum", finally having the possibility to sing this great verse in the city he's quoting: "He's away on a business trip, in Duesseldorf, but she's becoming im...

I'm going of course! Strange but definitely marvellous to get to see him for the 2nd time in 14 months in Switzerland, after the great gig in Zurich last year with the Spinning Songbook this time Lucerne at the KKL, a venue with an excellent acoustics and a fantastic surrounding right on Lake Lucern...

Really great stuff to read, Countdown Kid, it gives me so much pleasure to read, why don't you write along to EVERY song of our hero? The more as you really know what your are writing about, make the right song choices, put it clear-cut, precise yet entertaining and, most important, never being dogm...

Who's going? Me! Guess I'm the only on this board showing up tomorrow night. But the venue (with great acoustics but being rather stiff) seems to be nearly sold out. Last time he played there as part of the "When I was cruel"-tour in the early fall of 2002, he managed to stir up the usual...

Hello Costello-friends. I got drunk and wrote a very disjointed post about this gorgeous song on my blog. you can read it here if you're into that sort of thing: http://jorgefarah.com/2011/12/18/bedhead-melodies-2-elvis-costello-suffering-face/ My reply is a bit late but what was true in the old ye...

Well, I know it's going to sound like sacrilege, but I cannot STAND Tom Waits's singing style. He's a brilliant songwriter, but that put-on drunken hobo act, which is not his natural voice, is incredibly irritating - it's as though a down-and-out character from a musical is making album after album...