Elvis Costello Fan Forum

More Python Madness this weekend: Picked up the "And Now For Something Completely Different" video for E2.99, replaced my copy of "Monty Python Sings" which went missing ages ago and this site went live today... http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sotcaa/python.html ...and it's awesome. BT...

Yeah, I'm guilty of a little of a (a) and a little of (c). Sorry for not PMing you. About a month ago I knocked out a version of Black Sails, spent about two evenings tinkering with it, then became very dissatisfied with it and forgot about it. Today, I fired up the portastudio and was suprised at h...

Sweet Dreams My LA Ex - Rachel Stevens

I'm not joking...

DrJ

You didn't mention the small EC pic beside the review labelled "Elvis Costello: All This Useless Music", well I laughed...

The new Uncut just has one obit after another in it. What I've listened to of the CD is mighty fine tho.

DrJ

I was 14 when I bought King of America. I'm so great.

DrJ

(Actually, I now feel kinda old)

Yes but it's a marathon, not a race. It's about hit catalogue, not hit singles. The fact that you have to exchange Limp Bizkit for what ever other pop act is significant. EC has hung around, the other big sellers haven't. EC has, generally speaking, been releasing albums that tickle the BB200 at abo...

... drum roll... 57! With 21,000 copies sold... I don't think that's bad for, pardon the phrase, an EC genre record on a classical label. Of note At 1: Outkast with 526,000 copies sold. At 2: Dave Matthews with 429,000 copies sold. At 3 Limp Biskit with 325,000 copies sold. http://www.billboard.com/...

I second that. Some of EC's stuff is overlong. ATUB, 12 tracks, superduper. WIWC, 16 tracks (over here anyway) too long. I never subscribed to the cd thing that just because you had 75 minutes, you should fill them. All records should be 40-45 minutes, or shorter.

DrJ

North is overall a more satisfying listen then WIWC. Fact.

DrJ

What about me?

DrJ

I have to punch your ticket! Actually, the current python thing started when I bought "Tragically I Was an Only Twin", a Peter Cook compendium, watched my Pete and dud vids, trawled the net and hit upon a lot of people obsessing about british comedy, then back to python... DrJ http://www.a...

Actually it's Cyril Connolly...

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/C/ConnollyC1.asp

...Python are quite educational...

DrJ

Then there's the other Python Philosophy-related song... Eric the Half a Bee Half a bee, philosophically, Must, ipso facto, half not be. But half the bee has got to be Vis a vis, its entity. D'you see? But can a bee be said to be Or not to be an entire bee When half the bee is not a bee Due to some ...

I've had a huge Monty Python revival in the last month. Broke out the old tv shows on video, devoured the new book/autobiography think, watched an old documentary, poked around some MP boards and generally I've resuscitated an obsession that had been dormant for years. I first saw the Flying Ciircus...

It's funny. I have a gut like that! Super! I don't seem to have a blonde on my arm though. Hmmm.

DrJ

I'll be brief because I'm ill. On a Saturday Night. My mother saw the original article in the paper last week and she was quite keen to go to the viewing today, so I happily complied, then we roped in my dad. Which was cool because they look like a couple who might actually buy the house. So off we ...

The first QI was hilarious, second one was pretty ok, I really wanted to see it tonight coz of Bill Bailey. And Mr.Fry. Fry: Why does Edward Woodward have four Ds in his name? Laurie: Because it's his name? Fry: The Ds function like a kind of structural support mechanism which prevent his name from ...

There's another message board I lurk on and they're always circulation audio and media files. You can download an episode of the goodies, it you like. None of us are that bright, I guess, or just don't have the bandwith.

DrJ

The Matrix Reloaded was utter shite. Saw the trailer for Matrix Revolutions on RI:SE this morning (yeah, I'm the guy watching RI:SE, that Sky News bird on the BBC does my head in) and Revolutions looks worse.

Where did it all go wrong for The Matrix?

DrJ

I bought HTTT in Ireland too and it ripped fine. Maybe a mac thing.

DrJ

Forgot to set the video and on call at work. Couldn't watch it coz the receptionist at work just had to watch Emmerdale.

Just now I couldn't watch QI because everyone had to watch Sex and the City.

Sometime I wish I wasn't so highbrow.

DrJ

Blame Canada!

It's like America Junior! (The Simpsons)

DrJ

Well, well, well... Did you perchance download the North Internet Bonus Track? Hmmm? Did you leave an email address during that little odessey? I would assume it's Microsoft's evil don't-give-a-rats-ass attitude to your privacy. I could be wrong coz I have a mac and although I could download the tra...

... yes but it's only when I stood back from the songs I noticed that they told a story, but the experience is something we can all relate to...

DrJ

Hello Sailor!

DrJ