Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Its uncanny how many of the same songs we all have. I must have 90% of the non EC songs and all the EC songs mentioned in my itunes library. We're all obviously people of exquisite taste

Mine generated the following 1 No Hiding Place EC 2 Stuck between Stations The Hold Steady 3 Suffering Jukebox Silver Jews 4 Hate It Here Wilco 5 Waving Flags British Sea Power 6 All In Good Time Ron Sexsmith 7 Mr Tough Yo La Tango 8 Down By the River Neil Young 9 Wartime Prayers Paul Simon 10 Tonit...

Mark Lamarr and Jo Brand played a track on Radio 2 yesterday morning. It's the first time i've heard it on the radio anywhere! They are both big Costello fans though.

Come on Leeds !!

1 All the Rage
2 Sleep of the just
3 That Day Is Done
4 Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4
5 Hand in Hand

01.The Sharpest Thorn 02.Ascension Day 03.Freedom for the Stallion 04.The River in Reverse 05.Broken Promise Land 06.All These Things 07.Nearer to You 08.On your way down 09.Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further 10.Tears, Tears & More Tears 11.International Echo 12.Wonder Woman 13.Six-Fingered Man

I'm another disliker of PL&U i dont like the gutteral nature of the singing n i don't think the lyrics fit together as well as in his own songs, I think they are clumsy.In fact when he plays it in concert, that's when i go to the bog.

I wasn't being picky cos i'm not an audiophile type of guy! it was just an observation,as i was tryin to trim some of the duplicates off my ipod and noticed all the versions i chose were the ones from the king of americana boot. Maybe its a case of less is more to my ears!

I'm with you on All Grown Up and also Harpies Bizzarre too both gems from a generally underappreciated album, although i have to confess to not appreciating MLAR myself for ages!

I know its from what may well be the poorest album but Inch by Inch for me is a standout song, its a real clickalong song, its never likely to trouble a compilation cd though.The live version where it runs into Fever, it's a match made in heaven!

I just bought the new reissue King of America (third time for this particular cd!) put it on my ipod and was trying to thin out some of the none essential duplicate songs and i was surprised to find all the versions i thought sonded best were from the King of Americana bootleg. To my ears the sound ...

I recently rebought the MLAR reissue and have found myself listening to it incessantly,far more than when it first came out.id put it in the top five of ECs albums Couldnt call it unexpected is a great track but then so are after the fall, georgie and her rival the other side of summer and the stand...

Just looking on the RIAA site bob dylan has 58 entries for Gold & Platinum records Springsteen has 81 and our boy has a grand total of ....7.if you toted up the total of all records EC has sold it would come nowhere near 100,000,000 may be more like 10,000,000 i would guess but if you divide tha...

You can ge both BY & MLAR bonus issues for £5.99 at the moment on http://www.101cd.com , I agree with the comment about pots and pans percussion and muffled production but there are half a dozen cracking songs on there, my favourite is "All the rage" an absolute stone cold classic. I l...

I have the stiffs live stiffs LP but like you i have no turntable any more. I think the version on the bonus disc of My Aim Is True is the same version that appears on the stiffs live stiffs album.

Im just looking through an old Guiness book of hit singles and running down the list, last night was like a greatest hits night. He did Watching the detectives Chelsea Pump it up Radio Radio (Fantastic version) Olivers Army I cant stand up for falling down High fidelity Clubland Good year for the ro...

I agree with you Otis it is facinating to see how well songs from different periods blend together this is the best tour ive seen

He also did beyond belief,less than zero,cant stand up for fallin down,finished with you really got a hold on me. He did two and a half hours n it was brilliant.Missed me bus n had to pay 25 quid for a taxi but hey it was worth it. He did brilliant mistake too!

He also did beyond belief,less than zero,cant stand up for fallin down,finished with you really got a hold on me. He did two and a half hours n it was brilliant.Missed me bus n had to pay 25 quid for a taxi but hey it was worth it. He did brilliant mistake too!

Yes Monkey man is a toots & the maytals song and it is the same song form the specials first album.

The version of I hope you're happy now on King of Americana would have also have been brilliant on here too.

Well you could take off Glitter Gulch & Eisenhower blues for me and replace em with Shoes without heels & King of confidence any day of the week.this is probably me favourite EC album after TYM though and is hard to rank, id have to do it batchwise Joint 1st sleep of the just brilliant mista...

forgive me if im wrong but isnt Pump it up about drugs?Or was it was written under the influence of speed and booze.

Yup,weve been pretty inconsistent this season.We just dont know how to hang on to a lead at the moment.Best match i've seen this season was West Ham we actually looked like a team!!We can only look forward to next season and hope we can hang on to Hulse & Gray. Do you, like me, think, I dont wan...

this years model 4 me. Just listen to it when you havent heard it for a while then you realise .

I have 498 on mine and i deleted loads of duplicate versions and just saved the version i like the best. I think Neil Young is the person i have second most tracks on with 81!!