Elvis Costello Fan Forum

I just ordered from Music Direct, too. It appears that they have it in stock, so yippee! Now I just need to figure out how to cancel my order with Elusive Disc...

Here's to hoping that the music on the new album has absolutely NOTHING to do with peaches, noodles or luck! 8) Bad news... the tracklisting has been altered: 01. Noodle Hiding Peach 02. American Noodle Time 03. Turpentine Peaches 04. Harry Luck 05. Noodles and Peaches 06. Peaches and Luck 07. Stel...

migdd wrote:It's called poor diction. It's the curse of many a great rock and roll singer.

Just ask Mick Jagger...!

sweetest punch wrote: No, it's The Scarlet Tide, but she sings the line "Bring The Boys Back Home" twice.

Yeah I know, I was hoping that the absurdity of Joan Baez performing Pink Floyd's 'Bring The Boys Back Home' would be obviously interpreted as the (bad) joke it was...

Has this song been re-titled? http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080325/LIFE/803250311/-1/ENTERTAIN Darling as she was, some of her best moments were seriously political; many of her songs were anti-war protests that gave the Z all the ambiance of a '60s peace rally. She pl...

Who Shot Sam? wrote:If this is part of a cunning plan to get people listening to vinyl again I'm all for it.

Hey, it's getting me to buy a record player... I've been meaning to start collecting vinyl -- might as well start now!

I pre-ordered from elusivedisc.com. Is that a fairly reputable site? I've ordered vinyl from them before. Never had any problems. It's also possible that the songs are spread over two 45 RPM LPs. Excellent, thanks. Now I just need to get a record player...! :lol: I think I might go with an MP3 reco...

I pre-ordered from elusivedisc.com. Is that a fairly reputable site? I might go into AKA Records in Philly and just get it there; chances are they get new vinyl anyway. Wow... I must say that I'm feeling pretty excited about all this! Though I'm surprised there's no 'Down Among The Wine & Spirit...

That's just like Elvis, saying that he'll never record again and then surprise us with a new studio album :) So it seems to be an album of originals. Based entirely on what he's performed live in the past year or so, what can we expect to be on this new album? 'American Gangster Time' and 'Down Amon...

Mikeh wrote:It's the number of people who bought Il Sogno, followed by the number of people who have managed to listen to it all the way through.

Does the "30:10" also count the second disc of "My Flame Burns Blue"? If so, I'm one of the 30, but not one of the 10...

I wonder if this means Elvis will reform the Attractions for a few charity shows to perform the entirety of This Year's Model and any extra songs from the period...

Hm. Well, this isn't entirely surprising, and the presence of a live show is pretty exciting. In fact, I received "Live at El Mocambo" from Amazon today, and I was thinking to myself, "Man, it would suck if Elvis released This Year's Model as a deluxe edition this year, and the El Moc...

Isn't this the show where Bruce Thomas tried to catch a flying bottle and he ended up with a large white boxing glove on his hand? (As can be seen in the Chelsea and Pump It Up videos.)

The quality's good for a 70 year old recording...

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Great song, great performance. His voice is sounding excellent. All this nonsense about not recording and all these new songs! Clearly there will be recordings.

Indeed. Let's count the amount of times that Elvis has threatened to quit the music industry, only to come bouncing back with a new album.

Might as well pick which toe I prefer. (I don't have kids yet, and I certainly won't have as many as Elvis released records in the 1980s!) Top 3 are KOA, IB, and GH, but then that leaves out Trust, and BAC. Geez... I'll pick KOA because of the memories it holds, and how I waited until I had collecte...

I couldn't tell you how many times I've listened to ATUB since I bought it four years ago. One night, I listened to 'It's Time' 25 times in a row.

p.s. BlueChair, love your avatar. Mitch Cohen is a sadly underrated genius.

I saw this today as I was buying a few new albums (Neil Young, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, and Mark Knopfler). Looked interesting, though I don't think I'll be buying any of the stuff just yet... Maybe soon.

Phew! While I understand your decision, Connor, I have to agree with everyone else and say that the site has been an amazing thing to trawl through and read – it was one of the first EC sites that I ever stumbled upon. I just think it'd be a shame for your writings to be lost to the public forever...

It's so odd seeing Elvis wearing anything but a suit... and also, he looked really strange without his glasses on in that one shot!

Didn't mean to spark such a debate :oops: Yeah, KOA is my favorite EC album, and like Spooky said, it's like a novel. Not every chapter is brilliant, but as a whole, it's amazing. 'Jack Of All Parades' holds a lot of truth and memories for me, so it's my favorite on the album, but I didn't expect ev...

verbal gymnastics wrote:And a great track at that.

Probably the best on KOA, and that's saying something, considering all the songs on KOA are excellent.

johnfoyle wrote:

...I just noticed there was a pint in that picture. Never mind how long I was looking at it...

wardo68 wrote:I went to visit the site the other day, and there was an elaborate placeholder message quoting someone who'd witnessed a nuclear detonation in the '40s. So I'm confused too.

Yeah, it's still there... and it says "Conor Ratcliff, 9/13/07" below it, too.

So one of my favorite EC sites is Bright Blue Times. Earlier today, I went to check out the site, and it said that the page could not be found. Puzzled, I went to http://www.astheygo.com , and was a little concerned with what I saw. Does anyone know what's happened?