EC related Random Thoughts

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:29 am

Every time I hear I Hope You're Happy Now, I get a black and white picture of Ringo on the Ed Sullivan show.

guidedbyvoices · Post by **guidedbyvoices** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:02 am

haha! Don't get the same image, but that's my favorite Attractions performance, it's just perfect.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:06 am

I always laugh in the video to Everyday I Write The Book when he does the line "Everyday I I write the book - ooh". Elvis nods his head at a slight angle. It just makes me laugh.

wardo68 · Post by **wardo68** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:01 pm

verbal gymnastics wrote:I always laugh in the video to Everyday I Write The Book when he does the line "Everyday I I write the book - ooh".

Is that the part where his hair moves?

nobodygirl · Post by **nobodygirl** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:28 pm

verbal gymnastics wrote:I always laugh in the video to Everyday I Write The Book when he does the line "Everyday I I write the book - ooh". Elvis nods his head at a slight angle. It just makes me laugh.

I laughed when I saw that for the first time because before I ever saw the video, during that line I always pictured him doing that.

it's classic

Extreme Honey · Post by **Extreme Honey** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:33 pm

LOL every time elvis did a gig on the TIM festival he suddenly bent at a 90 degree angle and kinda crouched so that his face was almost parallel to the guitar itself! Everytime I think about him now, I picture elvis with his bright pink glam-rock electric guitar and his face slightly above it doing some MAD riff (as seen in "I want you"). I think he did this technique in Club Date: Memphis. The sheer speed makes it just so funny, I think it should become as much of his trademark as "Pump It Up" or amphetamines...

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:40 am

wardo68 wrote:
verbal gymnastics wrote:I always laugh in the video to Everyday I Write The Book when he does the line "Everyday I I write the book - ooh".
Is that the part where his hair moves?

That's the bit!

Back to the thread, having read one of Spooky's recent posts, I have to also wonder if Elvis ever wears any other footwear these days apart from the spangly boots.

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:13 pm

verbal gymnastics wrote:I always laugh in the video to Everyday I Write The Book when he does the line "Everyday I I write the book - ooh". Elvis nods his head at a slight angle. It just makes me laugh.

Is that when he looks into your eyes?

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:24 am

Good thread mood.

I'd like to hear a rompin' Toussaint piano on That Day Is Done live with great backing vocalists backing EC.

oldhamer · Post by **oldhamer** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:51 pm

I agree with that one. I don't like the random grunts and whoops of the Fairfield Four. Ruins a good song...

My random thought at the mo: when Davey Farragher sings backing vocals for EC, does he actually sing whole words? It always sounds like he's singing half formed syllables that have a passing resemblance to words...

legman open to offers · Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:30 am

Complicated Shadows is a damn good song.

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:32 am

Was the music of Cole Porter recognized in its time for what it was...timeless, unique, and widely appealing? Or did the appeal of his music grow with time. I wonder if an Elvis analogy can be made, as I think his catalog will be 'discovered' only after he has faded and begins wandering the Jersey (not "New") coast in sockless penny loafers and a metal detector. Amazingly, 30 years later, people in my age group refrain from even sampling an EC recording because they consider him a Buddy Holly novelty knock-off, made possible only by the likes of the Johnny Rotten, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. Nevermind how wrong the impression is, and how far from reality it deviates. I just wonder if time will remove that stigma and his music will receive the Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter, George Gerswhin status it deserves.

Or does it?

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:32 am

Deserve's got nothing to do with it.

I doubt his catalogue will ever be 'discovered' by people at large.

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:30 am

Cole Porter was hugely popular while he was still producing that amazing body of work. Proof: a film version of his life (highly sanitized, btw) was produced before he even worked on Kiss Me Kate! Elvis was in 200 Cigarettes though.....

anjabro · Post by **anjabro** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:59 pm

bambooneedle wrote:Deserve's got nothing to do with it.

Oooh, you sounded just like Clint Eastwood there...

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 9:38 am

Having been away for a couple of days, I have had the 2 CD reissue of All This Useless Beauty CD on in the car.

I have been playing Elvis' version of Sleeper's What Do I Do Now? over and over again. I'd love to see him sing this live.

anjabro · Post by **anjabro** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 5:33 pm

verbal gymnastics wrote:
I have been playing Elvis' version of Sleeper's What Do I Do Now? over and over again

Agreed, great song...

First time I heard it, I knew nothing about it, but when he sang the line...

'Was it when I said,
I wanted to have children..'

...I immediately thought, this song was written by (or for) a woman....

Am I a sexist, or does the fact that I was right get me off the hook..?

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:30 pm

anjabro wrote:
verbal gymnastics wrote:
I have been playing Elvis' version of Sleeper's What Do I Do Now? over and over again
Agreed, great song...

First time I heard it, I knew nothing about it, but when he sang the line...

'Was it when I said,
I wanted to have children..'

...I immediately thought, this song was written by (or for) a woman....

Am I a sexist, or does the fact that I was right get me off the hook..?

It's a man's right to have babies if he wants them!

anjabro · Post by **anjabro** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:13 am

King Hoarse wrote:It's a man's right to have babies if he wants them!

Yeah, where's the foetus gonna gestate...you gonna keep it in a box..?

Thanks a lot...I'll always think of that whenever I hear it now...'What do I do now' by Stan/Loretta

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:07 am

Men having babies? That's inconceivable