Elvis Costello Fan Forum

2000+ CDs, I guess. Since I got Broadband I'm "trying out" 2 to 3 albums per day. I also plan on buying a huge extenal hard drive and swapping MP3/AAC libraries with some pals. Gotta love music. On a not wholly unrelated note, I seem to have bought more DVDs than CDs so far this year. DrJ

.....Now I`ll go walk Dun Laoghaire pier , have a coffee in Cafe Moka ...which is where I was on Wednesday, with an It's A Bagel bagel! Stop following me!!! Them Music City stores are odd: Huge, open till midnight and they never seem paricularly busy. I have to admit, I wasn't going to get the albu...

I dunno about Radiohead, but Tricky samples P&S on his Nearly God album, I think.

DrJ

So close! It's like that movie... where two people keep almost meeting, whatever that movie's called... it's like that.

DrJ

Black Books is fantastic. Bought the series one DVD last week and the three of them (Moran/Bailey/Greig) do a great commentary throughout. The recent episode with Simon Pegg was very funny.

DrJ

I was in Liverpool yesterday and the Virgin Megastore had a new 5 cd/dvds for £30 sale on which included the 2 disc EC reissues of MAIT, TYM, GH!!, IB, PTC...

Cheap.

DrJ

Being unable to agree on his best album is a sign of quality. Also see: EC, The Beatles etc.

DrJ

Why's everyone down on Cobblestone Runway? I loved the production, although I can understand why people skip Dragonfly on Main Street. These Days, Former Glory, Up The Road, Heart's Desire are all perfect.

The worst Ron Album is Whereabouts, it seems to lack purpose.

DrJ

Out on April 6th in the US, and mid-May in UK/Ireland:


I have to admit, I didn't see it coming...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 94-1482257

DrJ

Yeah, fair enough. However "Foolproof" always reminds me of Wings' "My Love" for some reason.

DrJ

AlmostBlue wrote:Steve told us that on the way to Portland Elvis was driving alone in his car with his guitar and powerbook on his knee, composing new songs.

Uhh, isn't that dangerous..?

DrJ

Well I did use exclaimation marks. Y'know I'm much more ironic in real life.

DrJ

BTW, can we assume that the people in favour of editing are refusing to get the 2-cd reissues? There's no such thing as too much Elvis!!! Either of them!!! I think the essence of the question is "If Elvis' records were a bit shorter, would more of the general rabble get turned on to his stuff?&...

20% Amnesia, Lovable, and Rocking Horse are some of Elvis's best and most popular songs. Most popular? What planet are you from? :D Well, these would be three favourites of mine, so perhaps wehitandrun and me could annex a planet on behalf of these songs. This is part of the fun of being an EC fan:...

I told on one of the old boards of the time in Dublin in 1991 when EC was playing with the Rude 5 and Cait was trying to throw a chair at a guy in the front of the audience and EC was trying to play and stop her. He is still banned from the venue apparently.

DrJ

You could always "try" them for "free" off the internet. Arrest Me Now!!! There are four Wilco albums: A.M. is least essential, Being There is a double and has tons of personality and great music but is a little unwieldly, Summerteeth is the easy to take album of great songs, it'...

Well, at least Sting didn't get it, but who wants to predict that we'll see a Sting/EC co-write nominated within 5 years?

EC is still a winner of sorts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3417875.stm

DrJ

Short note: It's my favoutite EC record. I was goona start a BY thread next week coz BY is 10 years old this Friday.

Listening to bits of it tonight, it's really great. End of story.

DrJ

(Wow, my 300th post, hmmm)

It appeared that Sting was playing a Hurdy-Gurdy.

http://www.hurdygurdy.com/

And EC was on the Oscars, who'd have thunk it?

DrJ

Good choice. Wilco. I'll give you Wilco.

DrJ

Wha are the best band in the world today? Who are still touring and putting out records? Radiohead, I guess. U2, everybody loves U2. Errr, ummm, then Fountains of Wayne, it's obvious!

DrJ

I have a ticket for April, the Dublin venue's been bumped up in size, it's still sold out though.

Saw the Fountains of Wayne last night, which was simply great. Best band in the world.

DrJ

I saw the Bremner, Brid and Fortune thing purely accidentally. For starters I had no idea who he was impersonating, so thanks for clearing that up. They had changed the words completely but same "IDWTGTC" pay off line. What was even odder was that the sketch parodied the "IDWTGTC"...

I saw Randy Newman last Saturday (brag, brag) and once again he was great. I think out of all the great work he's done, people tend to forget that he co-wrote the Three Amigos movie. What a guy. Did anyone see the Randy Newman spoof on Family Guy? http://fguniverse0.tripod.com/lyrics.htm#randy http:...

Pedant's Corner: He was yet to have a big hit with Good Year for the Roses, and there was still a bunch TOTP appearances he put in after ICSUFFD... http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/totpperf/search.pl?attribute=artist&name=elvis+costello&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&type=totp2&offset=0&m...