Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Back In Black - AC/DC

King_of_Spain wrote:anyway, jazz is not my favourite style)

Jazz? It bears no resemblance to jazz...

It's just music - some of the best music EC has made in the last decade, incidentally - so really nothing to be frightened of...

Easy Skankin' - Bob Marley

go to page 133 of the new WORD magazine to see the full ad (with no Elvis...)

The Wayward Wind - Frank Ifield

Across The Borderline - Willie Nelson

Lester Burnham wrote:The way I perceived it, it's like he's playing a private joke on Lexus

Oh come on! EC doing ads for cars is the height of hypocrisy, given the things he has said on the subject in the past. How much money does anyone need?

Otis, safe to say Mike Scott is a Bowie fanatic. Check out his MySpace blog here:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... a2ed7d24e2

But then having your bride's ex-lover as your best man is pretty 'out there' too.. Well that fact alone would explain about 1/2 the songs on "My Aim Is True" "You're upstairs with the boyfriend while I'm left here to listen" and so on Precisely. So the autobiographical subject m...

True.

But then having your bride's ex-lover as your best man is pretty 'out there' too. I think the 'Mary theory' is much more convincing than any other.

Though of course EC learned it from the Jesse Winchester version.

If so, it's a disgrace.

I assume it was a question, not a statement - based on the increasingly exorbitant ticket prices for EC shows...

"If there's anything that you want/ If there's anythign that you need." - Possession, ripped off From Me To You.

Otis Westinghouse wrote:So I'm right, thank you!

Think you've just stumbled upon your epitaph there!

Together Alone - Crowded House

Well, no. Gillett wrote that 'All contributors to this forum have agreed [that EC's voice] is NOW unlistenable, no matter how we have liked him at an earlier time." So his comment wasn't a reference to EC singing The Birds Will Still Be Singing in 1996. It was more along the lines of: 'How the ...

Otis Westinghouse wrote:He's talking out of his bum!

Hmmm - presumably you haven't heard EC's contribution to the Joni Mitchell tribute yet, Otis!

Racing In The Street - Springsteen

BlueChair wrote:

Stunning.

Agreed. I like her other stuff, but this is the first album she has made that truly lives up to the hype. A wonderful record.

Oh dear - let's hope it's better than the Dylan fiasco.

Of course. My silly mistake.

OK Bebe

He wrote 'Punishing Kiss' for Altman's Short Cuts.

In God's Country - U2