Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Costello lawyers are probably Prince lawyers fans too ... :? I am not enough of Prince fan to get the joke. Please enlighten me. :) Sorry, it was in the national news, so I thought it might be known: Prince ('s lawyers) sued 11 fan-sites around the world for 1 million dollar each because they provi...

Costello lawyers are probably Prince lawyers fans too ...

I'm glad. there must be better ways of being Elvis Costello than an ironic vaudeville show joke that had its punchline 2 decades ago. And that wasn't ironic anymore ...

Well, I have since returned to albums like Blood And Chocolate, Spike, Get Happy, and enjoyed them so much more! When the albums were filled to the brim with melody, clever arrangements etc. etc. Back in the day when Elvis Costello was still striving to make superior pop music. This album is merely ...

I can't get excited about this.

Even the actual album doesn't get played by me anymore. Struggled through about 5 or 6 spins. Behind the sparkling production lies some of the laziest songwriting in Costello's career.

Dada wrote:

buzz wrote:It is indeed the photo from the front of the TYM deluxe booklet.

Thanks for the confirmation.

Here's a fragment of the contact sheet:

Haha, third row, second down: that would have been a nice geeky one!

that sounds pretty crappy my PRINCE friend! :evil: gee, glad i planned on sticking with my 1989 version all along anyway. poor cover reproduction would leave me feeling it to be a "bootleg" which i KNOW it is not. but.....HEY! speaking of these pressings: i paid the nearly $50 for the BRU...

Got the Spike LP yesterday - nice to heavy the glossy cover and the semi-heavy-weight vinyl (which pays excellently). My only gripe is that the printing of the cover looks a bit fuzzy, especially on the lettering. Looks like a lower resolution blown up ...

I REALLY enjoyed this.

Thanks for all the hard work

Maybe it *still* has to grow on me, but 'River In Reverse' is low in my rankings of EC albums. It's one of those where he seems to have lost his identity. It could have been anyone singing an playing those songs. It's sounding like a well-crafted studio-musicians album to me. Elvis Costello's 'and t...

About 5 years ago I recorded a funky backing track. It was so good it needed a song. Unfortunately I wasn't very inspired that day to write any meaningful words. I was too much in a hurry too, so I grabbed the lyricss of a song that just happened to be lying there. And improvised half rapped, half s...

It's a splendid album that put him back on the right track!
(and pulled me back in, after I'd gone off the fan-rails with Painted From Memory)

I really don't understand why so many people have a grudge against it? Because it had a vaguely modern sounding production? No, not really.

The vinyl sounds great on my system. I kept thinking I was hearing new bits etc. that I didn't hear before. To be fair, however, I then played the Rhino reissue on cd and they were there also , I'd just forgot them. There is still , however, the tactile engagement that the vinyl edition requires. Y...

I've always been more of an 'audience member' here, I'm afraid.

Still, enjoying the ride, and I admire the knowledge and generosity of the regulars here

So Like Candy - Couldn't Call it ... - Playboy To A Man Listening to that 'trio', is when the initial flame of Costello love sparked up for me. I know the former gets a lot of respect, whereas the latter .. doesn't. But to my ears they are equally powerful statements of two sides of the polygon that...

DAY 14: OUT OF OUR IDIOT http://connorratliff.tumblr.com/post/58906554301/day-fourteen-out-of-our-idiot-it-had-been-seven I believe that in spite of all the issues and re-issues over the last decades, this album is still the only place to find the fast and furious version of 'Little Goody Two Shoes...

It's just arrived (from Amazon), and it's BEAUTIFUL!

It's got a lush, glossy cover - feels rich. Two thick slabs of shining vinyl. Gatefold, and all the lyrics inside. (Back in the day I spent weeks if not months trying to figure out what those were! )

Very fine piece of work!

In a reverse universe, these lines from Happiness is a warm gun always strike me as Costellian: She's well acquainted with the touch of a velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors on his hobnail boots Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy ...

'National Ransom' is a musical self-reference - also known as rehashing or, at the worst, plagiarism. 'Glass Onion' is a textual self-reference, which if you get it raises a smile. But it's carried by a killer song (check out those bass and drums + some excellent singing). Very different kettles of ...

Soundcloud just shut down my account with them, and banned me.

Apparently it's illegal to cover Elvis Costello.

And No Coffee Table wrote:This probably won't last, but the super deluxe set is at this moment available for $64.09 on Amazon.

It didn't last
It's back to its old superexpensive self again

Also on Amazon in the UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brutal-Youth-Gatefold-Sleeve-Vinyl/dp/B00D3ZJVMM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1375185526&sr=8-2&keywords=Brutal+Youth Looks good and I've per-ordered it! (another 3 weeks to wait, it seems). Also found some (brief) discussion of it on this exce...

Who on earth is this vinyljunk?

Just some guy in Belgium who sticks CDs onto vinyl? Looks rather dodgy to me.
Apparently you can save on shipping costs when you go and collect the item?

I might miss-remember it, but isn't there harpsichord on 'Harpie's Bizarre'? (Come to think of it, it might just be the title that played tricks on my memory :) ) I don't think The Beatles 'In My Life' has got harpsichord - that's a sped-up piano in the solo. Tori Amos's album 'Boys For Pele' uses ...

I might miss-remember it, but isn't there harpsichord on 'Harpie's Bizarre'? (Come to think of it, it might just be the title that played tricks on my memory :) ) I don't think The Beatles 'In My Life' has got harpsichord - that's a sped-up piano in the solo. Tori Amos's album 'Boys For Pele' uses a...