Elvis Costello Fan Forum

"Tokyo Storm Warning" is a favorite of mine, from a top 5 Elvis album. I really like the monotony of the groove and many of the turns of phrase in the lyrics: "Japanese God-Jesus robots, telling teenage fortunes" etc. Blood and Chocolate is an album of never-skips for me.

Some other candidates, IMO: --Party Party --Seven Day Weekend --My Three Sons --Brand New Hairdo It's always interesting to me that Elvis has scorned Party Party for all these years. While not a top-tier song, it has a nice horn chart and is a peppy tune. Doesn't seem to rate the amount of disdain ...

My standard answer to this has always been "Dr Luther's Assistant", just cause it's so draggy. I'll also toss out "Broken". And second or third "Button My Lip", which is a too-long start to an album that I love.

i think the Drifters recorded it early on, but I've always enjoyed this Ry Cooder take on it:
https://youtu.be/5Cci6Jn2t-Y

A great choice this week. I've always thought of this song as the New Wave version of a Roxy Music song like "Mother of Pearl" with it's manic first half and then quiet second half.

Amazon.com have a limited amount of signed copies for sale - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0170KL3C6/ref=s9_simh_gw_p15_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-1&pf_rd_r=1RBN7WYGQSJWC380V8FZ&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2079475242&pf_rd_i=desktop Thanks for the tip on this. Eve...

Stuck at work tonight. Less than 10 blocks away!

So bummed.

And No Coffee Table wrote:
13. Shake Yourself Loose - for T Bone Burnett

Wow! Great song from a great album. Has Elvis covered many T Bone songs before? I can't really recall any.

And for those who care, here's some notes on the songs that merged into each other, instruments played, etc: This Year's Girl Cinco Minutos/High Fidelity The Judgment Harry Worth Sugar Won't Work Imagination Is a Powerful Deceiver Come the Meantimes Worthless Thing King of Confidence Poor Napoleon I...

Just returned from this show. Holy f*ck! Imagination (Is a Powerful Deceiver). King of Confidence. Poor Napoleon. Super-electric My New Haunt. Couldn't Call It Unexpected. All These Strangers. All the songs from the new album really benefited from being heard in their stripped-down state. It gave me...

I'll be there. Hoping for some special treats on the last night of the East Coast swing.

I think it would be a great project for some young upstart band to record these songs as they were intended.

And I liked seeing the Attractions playing Puppet Girl on their reunion tour back in the day.

Their first two albums are really fun, sunny day albums. Looking forward to this one. Although I was hoping that the Marshall Crenshaw song would have been part of the CD.

I heard it on The Spectrum on SiriusXM this afternoon. A pleasant surprise.

sweetest punch wrote:Mayo Performing Arts Center is also sold out: http://www.mayoarts.org/indiv/indiv_Elv ... g4I2rzvvx4

I knew I should have bought those presale seats. Sigh...

1. Crimes of Paris
2. Go Away
3. Kinder Murder
4. Just a Memory
5. The Birds Will Still Be Singing
6. Two Little Hitlers
7. King Horse
8. Stations of the Cross (my new favorite song from National Ransom)
9. Charm School
10. Tears Before Bedtime

And Town Cryer should be a staple in any show.

Yeah, I made the choice to go to the Beacon, figuring I'd have a better chance of seeing some cool special guests in NYC. Ah well. At least I got to see the April Fools Day show!

I was lucky enough to get tickets to the Beacon show on Monday the 23rd. Unfortunately, it turns out I am going to be away on a trip and won't be able to go. Anyone want to swap 2 tickets for the Wellmont on the 18th for my 2 tickets for the Beacon on the 23rd?

Anyone?

Excellent clips. Watched them all. Shame that 'Concert Chick' only went for the greatest hits, though. Much as I love Elvis, the camera is positioned perfectly for a detailed study of the mighty Pete (although on Chelsea he's in total darkness!). Much as when, so many years ago now, I've seen this ...

Wow--rocking good time! Unfortunately I had the guy from the El Mocambo record yelling in my right ear the whole show. Woooooooooo!!!!! Clubland!!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!!!

Sigh...

When did you get your tickets? Mine haven't come yet.

I met him once outside the stage door in Pittsburgh during the Imperial Bedroom tour. A star-struck 20-year-old lad, I asked him what the opening line to "Luxembourg" was. This was in the days before lyric sheets and the Internet, so my friends and I had many conversations about that line ...

Me too! Thanks for the post. Monday the 23rd for me.

Hey, I was at that show too. I had just moved to NYC in July and was fired up for all the music available in the Big Apple--in the preceding month I saw Neil Young and Crazy Horse at the Garden and John Cale and Chris Spedding at the Lone Star Cafe. I bought scalped tickets across the street from th...

I still listen to the Little Village disc quite often. Good stuff. Would love to see them play together. Does anyone have Ry Cooders newer works? I had my click-finger just a hair-trigger away from clicking on the "buy-now" for "I, Flathead" special edition yesterday. "My N...