Elvis Costello Fan Forum

BWAP & Noiseradio (and anyone else, really)

You can always cast a write-in vote for those whom I left off the poll.

Men can be jerks. Women can be jerks. The most important thing here is not bashing every member of the tripod society....it's to bash this particular asshole who clearly does not need to breed or be invited to anyone's party.

My vote is cast for Billy Joe Shaver. He started out as a staff writer for Bobby Bare's publishing company, wrote nine of the ten songs on Waylon Jennings' Honky Tonk Heroes masterpiece, released several fine albums of self-penned material and then got REALLY interesting in the 1990's when he paired...

While I am in complete agreement with Bluechair and Rope Leash that Rolling Stone is on crack (from your stash, ARL?), I always liked their Raves section so I thought I'd pull a Love & Theft and start one of my own here. -Los Amigos. This is a fantastic little Mexican diner in Maryville. The foo...

Graham Parker is a staggeringly talented musician with a decidedly non-vanilla songwriting style. For my money, his body of work isn't as consistent as Elvis Costello's and he hasn't really been able to broaden and expand his approach since the 1970's. Howlin' Wind and Squeezing Out Sparks are super...

Jon Stewart was being interviewed the other night and was being asked about Tony Blair and George W. Bush. Stewart commented on how uneasy and unprepared Bush is whenever he is criticized and that all of his U.S. press conferences are absurdly sanitized where Tony Blair has to go before parliament a...

Neil Young. I thought everyone knew that already.

[quote="noiseradio"]Don't tell anyone, but I wrote 'em. quote]

I'm telling Mr. Jagger!

If CMT can have a Top 100 with Toby Keith and Garth Brooks, I can have one without them. 11. Oh Lonesome Me, Neil Young 12. The Pill, Loretta Lynn 13. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain, Willie Nelson 14. Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash 15. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, Kitty Wells 16. There ...

CMT recently unveiled their 100 Greatest Country Songs list. That a Garth Brooks song made it to #6 (or anywhere at all on that list) is exactly why I have to fight such an uphill battle on this subject. So, here's to Oily Slick, Boy With(out) A Problem and Tootsie's in Nashville! 1. When I Stop Dre...

The thing is.....I'm addicted to using the phrase "Rabelaisian" to describe my mundane lifestyle.

Oh, and I'm sabotaging myself this morning by fucking around on the internet rather than shopping at Kroger's for windex, paper towels and toilet paper like my punk ass is supposed to be.

1. Bone Machine, Tom Waits 2. Life'll Kill Ya, Warren Zevon 3. American Recordings, Johnny Cash 4. Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan 5. Summerteeth, Wilco 6. Bad Love, Randy Newman 7. Brutal Youth, Elvis Costello & The Attractions 8. Mule Variations, Tom Waits 9. Sound of Lies, The Jayhawks 10. The Im...

1. Suspicious Minds
2. Love Me Tender
3. Jailhouse Rock
4. Long Black Limousine
5. Any Way You Want Me

Awww shizzle!

1. I'm Not There
2. Not Dark Yet
3. Blind Willie McTell
4. Idiot Wind
5. High Water (For Charlie Patton)

Megadeth- Rust In Peace

KoC- My girlfriend and I are Greg Brown fans. In fact, she was the one who really turned me on to him. We've got Slant 6 Mind, Over & Under, One Night and the excellent Going Driftless tribute album. Great, great stuff.

I'm stealing from So Lacklustre's E.C. tracks thread here. No greatest hits compilations or box sets, except for individual, pre-Beatles artists.....most of their best work is only available on collections. No soundtracks. Other than that, same rules and point structure apply. 1. Hank Williams as Lu...

Perception rules. Always has, always will.

Finally picked up The Juliet Letters last week. Just a badass album! Two recent disappointments, though. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings' Soul Journey feels like a transitional record. It's perfectly fine, but it sounds like they are playing around with things that may take them another album to ...

1. Rules of Travel, Rosanne Cash 2. World Without Tears, Lucinda Williams 3. Rainy Day Music, The Jayhawks 4. You Are Free, Cat Power 5. The Slaughter Rule soundtrack 6. Transfigurations of Vincent, M. Ward ....and we've got Warren Zevon's final album and the latest E.C. to look forward to as well. ...

Gotta go with the frosty beverage.

I think Leonard Cohen said it best when he described hearing Dylan's voice to be like discovering the world of Picasso's art for the first time. It's startling because there is NO prior comparison to it. I truly believe that he is the greatest English-speaking white male vocalist of the twentieth ce...

1. When I Was Cruel no. 2
2. Distorted Angel *
3. Watching The Detectives
4. Two Little Hitlers
5. Beyond Belief
6. Shipbuilding
7. All Grown Up
8. Kinder Murder
9. Alison
10. Let Him Dangle


*Tricky remix

The Body Snatcher is another Robert Wise classic and my vote for Boris Karloff's finest film performance. Fast Times At Ridgemont High is a GREAT movie. Sean Penn shoulda copped a supporting actor nod. The Night of The Hunter.........if only it had made a dime at the box office. We missed a lot of C...

-The Hurting Business, Chuck Prophet
-Life'll Kill Ya, Warren Zevon
- Armed Forces, E.C.
-Used Songs, Tom Waits
-Transfigurations of Vincent, M. Ward
-You Are Free, Cat Power
-World Without Tears, Lucinda Williams
-Dig My Mood, Nick Lowe