Favourite Costello Release of 2003

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 11:41 am

Vote for your personal favourite.

Mine is GH.

Confession: I have not played North since I saw EC+ at the RFH.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:12 pm

Trust.
GH.
North.
PTC.

So Lack, your new avatar is causing me to have seizures.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:18 pm

North .......followed by a disc of the Piano Jazz songs.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:23 pm

Good topic SL...but you forgot the CD single boxsets. Were they ever released in region 1?

I voted for Get Happy anyhoo, 50 tracks of Costello goodness, plus a hidden track (is this a first for a Costello CD?).

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:42 pm

Trust
GH

Punch the Clock
North

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:51 pm

Noise...that's a very harsh gap you left in there. You must have a heart of stone!

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:56 pm

So Lack, your new avatar is causing me to have seizures.

Changed it just for you Mood, and made it appropriate for leaving off them boxed sets (I've been trying to pretend that they don't exist as I can't afford them right now).

Verbal Kint · Post by **Verbal Kint** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 1:44 pm

This poll is an incredibe (albeit implicit) accolade to the EC.

Compare musical genre's presented in GH and North. They are diametrically oppossed. Now compare PTC and Trust: they each have a very unigue 'feel' about them. Continue this qualitative ANOVA and a true testament of the artist rises above the poll.

It isn't about growth, or maturity, or experience, or corporate operant conditioning. It is about art for arts sake. GH stands alone, as does North. North stands so distant from Trust, although Trust has some parallels with GH. I cannot be fair about PTC, because it was never a favorite, but it, too, stands apart and represents a very different sound and 'level' of offering from EC.

I appreciate this post because it gives me great grist for the discussion mill re: the timelessness of EC's work. All released or rerelelased in 2003. All very different.

This is the esssence of what continues to attract me to his work.

By the way, my vote was cast for GH. It sounds as fresh today as it did 20 years ago.

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 2:18 pm

ahhhhhh, it is good to have mr average back.

sulkygirl · Post by **sulkygirl** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 4:26 pm

It's the Average Dapper Stapler Dan Man!!

Well, something like that.

We missed you, Verbal Kint!!!

Welcome back.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 7:24 pm

Kint, all this talk of ANOVA's is worrying...we'll be on the statistical significance of Spike next, and checking El Mocambo for normality.

me no likey stats

whtesde · Post by **whtesde** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 8:31 pm

The Punch the Clock reissue rocks me six ways from Sunday.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 9:52 pm

Laughing Crow,

It's not that harsh. It just means that I like the PTC reissue a little more than North, and that I like Trust a little more than GH. But that I like Trust and Get Happy a LOT. Wasn't meant to put the bottom two down so much as elevate the top two.

Did that make any sense?

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 2:13 pm

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I see...

Verbal Kint · Post by **Verbal Kint** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 3:22 pm

"I'm breaking legs and avoiding the facts....

on the up escalator going down all the cracks."

-Graham Parker

Misha · Post by **Misha** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 3:41 pm

Get Happy------50 songs!!!! AND a promo!!!!

PTC

North

Trust

BUT, if I could include the singles boxed sets, they would be between GH and PTC!1

kimmy · Post by **kimmy** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 9:54 pm

My pick is definitely GH. Then would come PTC, then North and Trust neck-in-neck. Although all are great, some just hit you harder than others, I guess.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 6:50 am

Get Happy reissue. I was very pleased with the PTC reissue in that it gave me a quite a renewed appreciation for the album, and because my vinyl copy was beaten up (so was my GH LP incidentally). The Trust reissue and North were also very satisfying. I played North late on new year's night before bed, after leaving it alone for a few weeks, and it sounded better than ever.

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 8:59 am

Trust is probably my all time favorite, but there wasn't a bum pick in the lot of them. I bought North for a few relatives for Christmas and consequently listened to it several times over the holidays. It is holding up very well for me.

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