'10 cds of new Costello recordings hidden in stores' -found!

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Thanks!
Why don't you write about it in your blag?
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A million thanks to all people involved in making these tracks available!

Now, can somebody say if this sounds like demos/rehearsals before recording the "i-Tunes Originals"? Since I live in Sweden, i-Tunes never allowed me to buy that CD, so I haven't heard it yet...

/Ulf
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Those who downloaded the initial version of track 12, which had a second and a half of silence starting at 1:53, may want to replace it with this fixed version, which edits in the missing bit from track 11.
http://www.mediafire.com/?0mmhdm1em5g

But track 12 is pretty much expendable either way, since as far as I can tell it's just track 11 with an earlier fadeout.

I edited the earlier post to include the updated link.
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ulfg wrote:A million thanks to all people involved in making these tracks available!

Now, can somebody say if this sounds like demos/rehearsals before recording the "i-Tunes Originals"? Since I live in Sweden, i-Tunes never allowed me to buy that CD, so I haven't heard it yet...

/Ulf
Ditto from me the thanks. Yes, Ulf, after comparing Little Triggers with the performance on the Best Radio podcast these are either the i-Tunes performances or rehearsals. Now, since there don't seem to be any plans to make them available elsewhere, would some Great American be good enough to either mediafire the actual i_Tunes session or do an old fashioned cdr copy or 2 for us overseas?
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Thanks for these. Elvis gets quite inventive in playing around with these tracks. RIR is done pretty much the way it always has been, the rest get re jigged and emerge redefined. Some lyric changes sound fresh to my ears ; I haven't gone as far as re-listening to live performances to see if they were always there . In Kinder Murder the line 'Left her senseless' becomes 'fucked her senseless' , the crudeness delightfully complementing the song. In 'So Like Candy' 'I admire your taste' becomes 'You got lousy taste' , a not so successful change since it lessens the irony of the line She couldn't say "goodbye", but "I admire your taste".

Right now my favourite is Little Triggers , done with a melancholy that the 1970's studio recording can only hint at.
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Thanks for making these available!
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Way cool. Thanks for sharing. This will hold me over for a little while... Let's hope there is more to come.
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verbal gymnastics wrote:
jmm wrote: It's a nice little set with a song list of:

Alibi
Invasion Hit Parade
Kid About It (take 1)
Kid About It (take 2)
Kinder Murder
Little Triggers
Love Field
Motel Matches (take 1)
Motel Matches (take 2)
River in Reverse
So Like Candy (take 1)
So Like Candy (take 2)
Suit of Lights
Would somebody be so kind as to send me copy of this?

One of the board members said she'd send it to me but she seems to have disappeared.

PM me.

As the song says, "I can't give you anything but my love"...

...although I'm happy to pay for postage etc.

Thanks.
I still haven't received a copy of this.

Those of you who know me will know of my uselessness when it comes to computers and downloading and stuff.

Could someone PLEASE contact me and send me a CD of this.

Thanks.

I was reminded about this from reading this:

http://www.elviscostello.com/web/guest/ ... urce=27665

"Ever since I hid ten copies of "30:10", - solo home recordings of re-written songs - in the jewel boxes of the "Best Of" collection released in the Spring of ‘07 and then waited in vain for one of them to surface, I'd realized that it was time to do things differently…

I don't think many people believed that "30:10" really existed but if anyone reading this has one in their possession, they had better claim their special prize right away because we will be posting the songs on this site very soon and the offer will expire…"

If the worst comes to the worst I'll get it from EC's site! I think Elvis may have been reading our cynical views about this not existing!
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Some of the download links are dead... Could someone pretty please with sugar on top re-post these?

The ones not working for me are:

2-4

and

6-10


Again, can someone please help?

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could someone upload the missing mediafire tracks please
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And No Coffee Table wrote:Thanks to jmm, here they are in FLAC:

01 Alibi:
http://www.mediafire.com/?8e2veeyxzjj

02 Invasion Hit Parade:
http://www.mediafire.com/?81lmx1lm1pd

03 Kid About It (long fade):
http://www.mediafire.com/?8vgwygjgipf

04 Kid About It (short fade):
http://www.mediafire.com/?8mmg2wk9beo

05 Kinder Murder:
http://www.mediafire.com/?5oddtf3dyb0

06 Little Triggers:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fmlnoftbzwj

07 Love Field:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dholsxmpz4k

08 Motel Matches (mix 1):
http://www.mediafire.com/?bmmqmlz9eyz

09 Motel Matches (mix 2):
http://www.mediafire.com/?bd2meymmbcd

10 The River In Reverse:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2caagsw7dzd

11 So Like Candy/You're No Good (mix 1):
http://www.mediafire.com/?2ijayg0c4jh

12 So Like Candy (short mix):
http://www.mediafire.com/?0mmhdm1em5g

13 Suit Of Lights:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fdzw0toxzhd
Okay...I'm officially d~e~s~p~e~r~a~t~e for active download links for the following:

2-4

and

6-10

Can anybody help?!?!?!?!?!?!?!???

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I'd still be no good at posting but could arrange again as I did the 1st time if needed
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jmm wrote:I'd still be no good at posting but could arrange again as I did the 1st time if needed
YES! I'd love some help!!!! Let me know what I gotta do, please. PM? :D
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It seems these discs did actually exist.


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... 275&type=1


Image

July 11 2011

A few years back Elvis Costello released a Best Of album called "The Best of Elvis Costello - the First Ten Years." Not many people knew but Elvis actually recorded acoustic versions of the songs featured on the album on a few CDRs and randomly placed them in CDs for fans to discover in stores. Here's a photo of one!
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Anyone have a clue what Elvis wrote on the disc?

"Thanks for..."?
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planting this notion?
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Planting this notice- is my take coming from one band hand writer reading the scrawl of another.
"....there's a merry song that starts in 'I' and ends in 'You', as many famous pop songs do....'
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Links still down ?
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Is this the "31:10" cd he placed in a record?
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holy shit! it exists! is it the same as what we thought three years ago? the iTunes outtakes? or something completely different? ugh. now i might have to hit up all the record stores in new york and see if there are any copies of "the first ten years" hangin' around.
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verbal gymnastics wrote:Does anybody know anyone who has a copy of the Kojak Variety CD with the extra tracks? That had a Congratulations certificate.

I wonder if this CD has a handwritten message from Elvis. If this CD actually exists of course. :lol:
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The above post was in September 2007!

Have the tracks been posted anywhere? I'd love to know what they are.

By the way, rereading the thread, I never received the iTunes Raw CD I was promised. Can anyone send me a copy. As you can see from the previous page, I ain't too proud to beg!
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of corse I want these, can someone please repost and let me know

Thanks.
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I too would very much appreciate a copy if someone could post them please
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verbal gymnastics wrote:
verbal gymnastics wrote:
jmm wrote: It's a nice little set with a song list of:

Alibi
Invasion Hit Parade
Kid About It (take 1)
Kid About It (take 2)
Kinder Murder
Little Triggers
Love Field
Motel Matches (take 1)
Motel Matches (take 2)
River in Reverse
So Like Candy (take 1)
So Like Candy (take 2)
Suit of Lights
I have a copy of these tracks, I'd be happy to swap for anything i don't have. PM me.
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