Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Can't wait to hear how he sounds with the Sugarcanes, now that they've been a touring unit for over a year.

Maybe he's finally getting around to recording Friend of the Devil with Jim Lauderdale.

Well, on the whole, I believe pop music isn't as good as it was in the period roughly 65 - 75. That's the peak, and it's been up and down since then, never quite reaching the same height. The 80s was easily the nadir. Interesting. See, for me, it's the late 1970s and (very) early 1980s (OK, that's ...

If we're allowed to include live versions/demos then the 2007-07-25 Lucerne version of ICSUFFD definitely goes into my list, as does the Letterman version of Pads, Paws and Claws and Club Date version of Mystery Dance.

Love the album - manic energy, brilliant speed-freak writing, it's got it all. Except for good production. I don't understand how all the praise for this, perhaps EC's most impressive single-album burst of pop songcraft, just overlooks the fact that most of these songs sound as though they're being...

I could be happy the rest of my life...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goD5pdd4AmU

TX_Fan wrote:This is probably more than just "Relatively" Insignificant...but a friend's sister-in-law saw EC on a plane to Vancouver. She was on the way to the olympics

Well, that's.... slightly creepy.

It's times like this that living in Australian sucks.

Any reason why they left Jim Lauderdale out of the Sugarcanes lineup? Interesting. Jim was the first person to mention Sugarcane activity in '10 , in a interview last Sept. His site lists only one show of his own in April, followed by Merlefest dates - http://jimlauderdale.com/index.htm?id=17553 Di...

Any reason why they left Jim Lauderdale out of the Sugarcanes lineup?

From the first Bruce Springsteen episode: She's The One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQABSZxjkBE American Skin (41 Shots): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WalZfJJyUsI I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwiNHX5Qc80 Wild Billy's Circus Story: http://www.youtube.com/wa...

He's Elvis Costello. He's meant to be skinny. I think gaunt is overstating it a bit.

Found some awesome YouTube clips of EC at MerleFest in '07. Killer stuff, a gig I really wish I'd been at. Precursor to the SP&S stuff, particularly in the incredible vocal blend between him and Jim Lauderdale. Friend of the Devil c45BVv5tINI Complicated Shadows 4h_4zpQgLkU High Timberline c45BV...

What makes your generation different, and this is the point that i've been thinking about, is that you get to look back 40 years or so, in the case of the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who, just to name a few, and the music you are listening to is the same, in broad style, as the one you and your contemp...

Don't know for sure, but I'd highly doubt it, considering his first single came out in March '77.

I've come up with the perfect solution to all this NBC Late Night debacle - Leno gets taken off completely, Conan O'Brien becomes the new showrunner and head writer on The Simpsons, and we end up with

THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH ELVIS COSTELLO

Jeremy, I do not think you ever escape the context issue-you still listen within your own context Yes, sorry - poor choice of words. What I was getting at is that I can listen to EC's albums without having to think about the accompanying periphery that comes with being a current pop star. When I go...

Jeremy-- I totally get what you're saying--]I'm another one, like you and Pophead, who haven't heard the records in the correct order or in the year they were issued. It really does seem to change my experience with them. For the better I think. People often say to me 'Don't you wish you were a kid...

oily slick wrote:Elvis now employs Don King as his sartorial advisor.

A belated welcome. Envious of your exploration of earlier EC[or to paraphrase a title "Listening in Reverse"]. Once again would echo Pophead in the thought that your opinion of Imperial Bedroom and other 80's albums might change. I had wanted to put "Everyday I Write The Book" o...

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What I wouldn't give for one of those babies. Hate to think what they'd cost.

Is it just me, or has his wardrobe not caught up with his weight loss? That suit and hat look like they were meant for a man of more excessive girth than the trim fellow currently occupying them.

Thanks for the welcome! And I hope I do. I take no pleasure in my dislike of EC's 80s output, I'd love for it to suddenly click one day - which is always a possibility. Oliver's Army did nothing for me for ages - I couldn't work out why it was considered such a classic. Then one day *BAM* - 'This is...

Fascinating look over everyone's lists. As someone who came to Mr Costello as a 17 year old (just under three years ago) and whose only 'new' EC records have been Momofuku and Secret, Profane and Sugarcane, I've approached all the records fresh. Except for 'Pump It Up' and 'Alison', every EC song is...

Very interesting. I don't think we share a single title across our lists.