Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Then again, I'd be happy with a CD of nursery rhymes a la EC.

"I haven't really written in a couple of years now," he confides. "I don't have much interest or burning need, if you will, to record."

So then what the hell is on those secret CD-Rs he supposedly burned and hid? Covers? TV jingles? Nursery rhymes?

BMG Music Service is now carrying The First 10 Years. Any chance they ended up in one of those?

I haven't A-B'd them, but my Disc 1 sounds as good as I remember either the Ryko or Rhinos sounding.

Got my copy last night at Best Buy ($27.99, even though it's not listed on their Web site). Haven't had a chance to listen to it, but I pored over the packaging. The booklet has lyrics to every song, including the alternate takes. However, there are no liner notes, no essay -- just the track list, l...

How would Elvis have physically done this though? I'm hoping he's full of crap. If his rabid fan base (translated: all of us on this board) had bought the 10 Years set and discovered the hidden CD-Rs, it would have given him another excuse to air his contempt for us diehards. I've spent most of the...

"I recorded some new melodies for some of my older songs, and for a gag I recorded them on just a cassette player... I put them on a CDR, and I put 10 of the CDRs in 10 copies of the best of record that we released in April, and hid 'em in the shops in America, just to see whether anybody boug...

I agree. I thought the worst thing Bruce said about EC was that he didn't like flying.

We'd already heard the Archives were being pushed back (again) but now we know one reason why:

http://www.neilyoung.com/news/index.html

Other NY sites are reporting that one of the tracks is "Ordinary People", which dates from the Bluenotes years.

Do you mean that the wiki version (for instance this page) doesn't provide the information you seek?

"Is there any chance..."

Now that's what I call humility! Steve knows how to spread the word all right.

Forgot to mention -- the wife and I did take the train to Bath for an afternoon. Almost as nice as the city was simply watching the green fields roll past the windows. We definitely want to do that again.

My wife and I went to London for our honeymoon (8+ years ago) and we'd love to go back. Not much advice for you except this: -- Take the tube whenever you can. If you think it's close enough to walk, it isn't. -- Madame Tussaud's may be cheesy, but it's a lot of fun. However, don't believe the hype ...

Unfair. Choosing one over the other is like choosing your favorite child. I'm going to have to think about this.

Well sir, I went through the archives (back to the first entry) and it's clear you've been through a lot. You've moved most of the way across the country, and you've been on the rollercoaster of romance, to say the least. I'm assuming you're staying on top of your bills and trying to get through eac...

God save the Foyles...they always manage to come through. I would have been very surprised if they had found new "outtakes" instead of the four we know, but at least we're getting those live B-sides in context. Of course, had the Shore Fire folks done their research (with a simple visit to...

I'm curious whether "No Action", "Living in Paradise", "Radio Sweetheart" and "Stranger in the House" (all listed as "outtakes") are true outtakes or the same ones on the Rhino reissue (and in the case of the last two, the ones we've known all these ...

Hadn't seen this in the archives, so I thought I'd post it. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/nov96/elviscostello.html CALLING ELVIS Jon Jacobs: Recording Elvis Costello And The Attractions Published in SOS November 1996 Richard Buskin talks to top engineer Jon Jacobs and learns about hi...

That's quite a performance. Thanks for sharing!

I have to say that so far the only two tracks on Memory that are doing anything for me are "Dance Tonight" and "Ever Present Past." I'm hoping it'll grow on me more. Actually I'm not too thrilled about those two. I do like the little mini-suite in the second half, and the three ...

Otis Westinghouse wrote:The Beatles get their own pedestal and should cost more as a result? Give me a break!

Well, they built the pedestal. And if that's what the market will bear, then that's how it goes. But their sales do increase when the CDs are discounted by EMI, which happens a couple of times a year.

For anyone's information, here's an iTunes playlist I knocked up last week to put me in a Macca mood for the new album...There's more I've overlooked, but these are all "corkers". And I'd give a thumbs-aloft for Back To The Egg too, a forgotten gem. I'd agree with all those. And most of t...

I'll reappraise it at some point, but the other thing that pisses me off about it and The Beatles is that their CDs are always over-priced in the shops. They have endless low price offers on Dylan and the rest of them, and yet the Beatles are supposedly eternally top dollar. The main reason is beca...

There is truly gold buried in those hills. I might go ahead an post a list of favorites myself.

Oh, indeed. There's nothing like Sgt. Pepper. But after 30 years, Revolver's still the one I throw on first.