Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Out: Cole Porter (great songwriter totally out of place on this list as it now stands)
In: Paddy McAloon

Paddy McAloon
Gillian Welch
Tom Waits
Roddy Frame
John Prine
Suzanne Vega
Carole King
Paul Westerberg
Burt Bacharach
Richard Thompson

Out: A Bridge... In: The Big Lebowski The Big Lebowski- Coen Brothers Brazil - Terry Gilliam Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick House Of Games - David Mamet Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock Der Himmel Über Berlin - Wim Wenders The 400 Blows - François Truffaut The Lost Weekend--Billy Wilder Simon of The De...

Out: Evil Dead II In: Raging Bull Raging Bill--Scorcese Rules of the Game- Jean Renoir Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick House Of Games - David Mamet Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock Der Himmel Über Berlin - Wim Wenders The 400 Blows - François Truffaut Pather Panchali- Satyajit Ray Simon of The Desert - ...

Out: michael stipe- maybe on a ladder, but not on a tower
In: Smokey Robinson -soul pop deity

Cole Porter
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ray Davies
Kurt Cobain
Todd Snider
John Prine
Stephen Foster
Elizabeth Cotten
Smokey Robinson
Ani DiFranco

Out: Being JM--cute idea; well executed; does not belong with this group In: Pather Panchali- Satyajit Ray (would have put in the whole trilogy but that's 3)-- The Tower needs the non-Simpsons Apu. Rules of the Game- Jean Renoir Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick The Se...

Out: The Last Waltz (documentary?) In: Rules of the Game This has now become the "Tower of Old Movies" Rules of the Game- Jean Renoir Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick The Searchers- John Ford Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock A Streetcar Named Desire - Elia Kazan T...

Out: Dog Day Afternoon In: The Searchers Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick The Searchers- John Ford Stairway to Heaven - Michael Powell A Streetcar Named Desire - Elia Kazan Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese The 400 Blows - François Truffaut Only Angels Have Wings - Howard ...

Out: To Kill a Mockingbird In: Some Like it Hot--Billy Wilder Seven Samurai - dir. Akira Kurosawa Get Shorty - Barry Sonnenfeld Hud - Martin Ritt Amarcord - Federico Fellini Some Like it Hot- Billy Wilder Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese The 400 Blows - François Truffaut Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody ...

Noise Radio (and WHAR), there is one other sonnet (not by Donne) which I've always found unusual among Will's sonnets: Sonnet 145 Those lips that Love's own hand did make, breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate', to me that languish'd for her sake: but when she saw my woeful state, straight in h...

Never really listened to these guys before, but happenned upon this cd at my local Towers, and put on the headphones. Listened to the first half and was overwhelmed by a wall of sound which sounded like Spector going punk. This is truly a rowdy rhythm record. I couldn't tell what the heck they were ...

The New York Times obituary included the following paragraph: Trough four decades, public response to Ms. Sontag remained irreconcilably divided. She was described, variously, as explosive, anticlimactic, original, derivative, naïve, sophisticated, approachable, aloof, condescending, populist, purit...

I know it's gravity that drags down my balloon
She stays in orbit way after midnight

"Call Me Mellow"
Tears for Fears

I guess Roland's feeling the years. His balloon stayed up long enough, however, to write the insanely catchy chorus to this song, which I highly recommend.

1. Heart Shaped Bruise
2. Bedlam
3. Country Darkness
4. The Scarlet Tide
5. Either Side of the Same Town
6. Needle Time
7. The Name of This Thing is Not Love

Sorry to break the pattern here, but I usually skip over the rest.

Ditto, Mr. A. My 11 yearl old daughter dragged me to this, and I laughed until it hurt. A very sweet and hilarious movie.

I too recommend Peter Case, and can happily note yet more EC connections. His first album, which I think is his best, (called Peter Case) was produced by T-Bone Burnett and in it he has a rendition of "A Pair of Brown Eyes", the Shane McGowan song from the EC-produced "Rum Sodomy and ...

BWAP, we call them "native americans" over here. In all fairness, our British founding fathers were the first to conceive of the idea to dispose of them, an idea which at the time seemed eminently reasonable to our European forefathers. Pinning blame on "americans" for that one i...

Tim(e): Random acts of violence have been common in american society for as long as it has existed. In the early 20th century, random shootings were common events. At the turn of the century, poor immigrants in the Five Points section of NYC created the most notorious and violent patch of city anywh...

Bamboo Needle's reaction is reasonable and sane, but, sadly, EC's behavior over the last few years leads me to conclude that he is happy as a pig in shit that he has been nominated for all these categories, and will make every effort to be there at the ceremony to have his mug photographed in all it...

Predicting Grammy behavior is always fun, so here's my guess as to our hero's chances. Vocal performance is a tough one: EC getting an award for doing a Cole Porter song, and against this competition? the Josh guy gets the old fuddy duddy voters; Mayer gets the young ones; Prince gets the cool ones;...

TOOM is indeed a great record, and Not Dark Yet is my favorite track, but a couple of weeks ago I got to see Bobby Z live on a beautiful summer night by the banks of the Hudson River (actually in a minor league baseball stadium in Fishkill, NY, but that just doesn't have the same ring) and he played...

One of the many great things about After Hours is that it has become almost a period piece reflecting the amazing changes that have taken place in downtown NY. In the early 80s when the movie appeared, parts of SOHO and Tribeca were still desolate haunts by night and were populated (sparsely) by the...

Miss BA, if you were watching in another country would they not be telling you about the cancer struggles of mothers of their athletes? Or is it your view that only american broadcasters find this kind of stuff newsworthy? I doubt that the strategy is an american invention or that its use is limited...

What makes IB stand out for someone like me, who actually ran to the store and got a vinyl copy which I then wore out throgh repeated listenings, is something that may now be difficult to understand in light of EC's progression as an artist over the last two decades. In 1982, IB sounded like nothing...

El Vez: When you say that PS Hoffman is the "it" actor of his generation, are you just commenting on his acting chops? If so, I could agree, but overall I find him too one dimensional, not to say downright creepy. He even managed to let the creepiness in to the wonderful world of The Big L...

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