Elvis Costello 60th Birthday Podcast

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Elvis Costello 60th Birthday Podcast

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Hey guys.

In celebration of Elvis's 60th birthday, I made a two-and-a-half hour podcast featuring over thirty songs as well as commentary from various podcasters and writers who are Elvis fans (including Costello biographer Graeme Thomson and a few members of this forum).

If you'd like to check it out, here's the link: http://jorgefarah.com/2014/08/25/everyi ... ravaganza/

So if you're looking for something to listen to...

Happy birthday Elvis!
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Good on you. Thank you for sharing. What I have listened to so far has been balanced and well presented. Nice choice to let the songs speak, for the most part, for themselves. Well done.
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Thank you! It was fun to put together.
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Here's the song list. (Not including the song snippets that play in the background during the commentary.)

the song snippets that play in the background.

"Welcome to the Working Week" (My Aim is True, 1977)

"Big Boys (Alternate Version)" (Armed Forces outtake, 1979)

"Girls Talk" (Get Happy outtake, 1980)

"It's Time" (All This Useless Beauty, 1996)

"I Hope You're Happy Now" (Blood and Chocolate, 1986)

"Impatience" (North outtake, 2003)

"No Hiding Place" (Momofuku, 2008)

"From a Whisper to a Scream" (Trust, 1981)

"Put Your Big Toe in the Milk of Human Kindness" (from Rob Wasserman's album Trios, 1994)

"Life Shrinks" (written for the film The War of the Buttons, 1994)

"Human Hands" (Imperial Bedroom, 1982)

"Couldn't Call it Unexpected no. 4" (Mighty Like a Rose, 1991)

"There's a Story in Your Voice" (live @ Hi Tone, Club Date, 2004)

"Stations of the Cross" (with The Roots & John Mclaughlin- live @ Fallon, 2010)

"American Without Tears" (King of America, 1986)

"Every Day I Write the Book" (With The Sugarcanes. live @AOL Sessions, 2010)

"I Lost You" (National Ransom, 2010)

"Sulky Girl" (Brutal Youth, 1994)

"Radio Sweetheart / Jackie Wilson Said" (live from Toronto, CA 1999)

"I Hope" (Bobby Charles cover. National Ransom outtake, 2010)

"It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones cover. Recorded for HBO's Boardwalk Empire soundtrack, 2013)

"God Only Knows" (With The Brodsky Quartet. Beach Boys cover. Live @ New York Town Hall, 1993)

"My Dark Life" (recorded for Songs in the Key of X: Music From and Inspired By the X-Files, 1996)

"Beyond Belief (Give & Take Remix)" (1982. Remix by Connor Ratliff, 2008)

"Green Shirt (Extended Version)" (1978. Extended remix by Colin Fairley, 1985)

"Suffering Face" (Home demo, 1985)

"This Year's Girl" (Live @ Rockpalast, 1978)

"All I Have to Do is Dream" (With Stephen Colbert. Everly Brothers cover. Live @ Colbert Report. 2010)

"Tears at the Birthday Party" (Painted From Memory, 1998)

"Hora Decubitus" (With Metropole Orkest. Charles Mingus cover. My Flame Burns Blue, 2006)
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Many thanks for compiling & posting link - a very enjoyable listen. 'Put Your Big Toe...' & 'My Dark Life' re-discovered!
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Damn, I was on holiday and celebrating my wife's birthday that day with a special playlist for the car, and totally forgot it was Elv's 60th! I did include After The Fall on the playlist mind, one that goes straight back to our early days together in Spain. Plus we were camping (in Sweden, yay!), so it was especially apposite, even if we were actually doing it for real in the countryside.

Belated warm 60th thoughts to Elv. he shares my wife's birthday (plus Sean Connery and Martin Amis), and he's 10 years less a month older than I.

Nice playlist there too!
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the_platypus wrote:Hey guys.

In celebration of Elvis's 60th birthday, I made a two-and-a-half hour podcast featuring over thirty songs as well as commentary from various podcasters and writers who are Elvis fans (including Costello biographer Graeme Thomson and a few members of this forum).

If you'd like to check it out, here's the link: http://jorgefarah.com/2014/08/25/everyi ... ravaganza/

So if you're looking for something to listen to...

Happy birthday Elvis!

Great job ! I just finished listening to it , over several days..............a chunk here and a chunk there. There were some interesting inclusions on it , and not knowing what was coming next made it quite addictive. I'm sure all Elv fans would pick different songs, each to their own, but it was still very good and well worth the listen. Nice one !
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this looks amazing---thank you so much for doing it...

I have a 3 hour ride ahead of me later this week and would love to listen to this all the way---how can i download to my ipod?

Thanks much!!!
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Open iTunes, go to the FILE menu, select ADD TO LIBRARY, select your mp3 file in the dialog box, and click on Open.
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Hey Jorge---enjoyed the podcast very much; interesting and varied song selection.

Thanks for doing it

@Mojo---thanks for the tip on downloading
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