Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Elvis is so good covering newer songs, like Fiona Apple's "I Know" or harmonizing on Green Day's " Up When Septamber Ends" ( or even Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful"); I kinda wish he would have an annual or bi-annual album of covers of good songs of the year. He could ...

I can't decide between Imperial Bedroom or Get Happy!!

Imperial Bedroom may be the best album artistically with the Attractions, but the playing is so great on Get Happy!!!

The Attractions proved on Get Happy!! that they were the "Booker T and the MGs of the Eighties"

Some of my favorites So you Want to be a Rock n'Roll Star (by The Bryds) (Goodbye Cruel World tour) I Know (by Fiona Apple) in the recent VH1 special Matter of Time (by Los Lobos) She Loves the Jerk (by John Hiatt) Please (by U2) Live on Irish Music Special My Baby's Gone (with Emmylou Harris) Stick...

Some of my current favs:

"The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" : Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

"Everybody Loves a Winner" : William Bell

"Madison Blues" : Elmore James

"Yes We Can Can" : Allen Toussaint : from [u]Our New Orleans[/u]

I'm not saying it is neccesarily my favorite track on the album, but I'm amazed how much Freedom for the Stallion sounds like an Elvis Costello original. It just sounds so natural for Elvis to cover this great Allen Toussaint song. I think maybe the song may have been influencial to Elvis' writting ...

At first I worried that River in Reverse may not have the longevity of other Elvis albums. But now after many listens, I think it will hold up quite well in the "Elvis Canon" I changed the track order though (and removed International Echo - a song I just can't quite warm up to): 1. On You...