Elvis Costello Fan Forum

He's not releasing the album - the record label is. Yes, but the artist is providing the recordings, which he can always withdraw. It might cost him a lot of money to do so (depending on the nature of his contract), but he should be able to. It's hard to imagine that an artist like ELvis Costello w...

Jeremy Dylan wrote:

Ymaginatif wrote:Costello should eb able to cancel this release.

No.

why not?

Costello should eb able to cancel this release. It would cost him a bit of money, but he's not that poor. I he lets it come out at this enfalted price + tehn complains about it on his site (to save face with his fans?) ... teh well-known phrase 'full-time hypocrite' springs to mind :? Anyway, i wasn...

Wolfgang's charging for this?


In my book, there's a difference between bootlegs and piracy --- and wolfgang belongs to the latter category.

I can supply about 500 Prince versions of that song
But I didn't even know Elvis had a go at it? Where? When?
Love to hear it too.
Then again ... Elvis doing Prince usually sounds ... atrocious

"Taste Of Poison" is a great new wave song!
Always one I wanted to cover if I had a band

Waw- I just heard this: if there's one song that Prince's 'Laydown' is similar to, it's Santogold's 'Creator' <iframe width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DJkWoAhSiZ4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> A most excellent song, I has...

National Ransom sounds pretty bad to me ... Initially I thought it was a dodgy mp3 collection. But then I bought the vinyl .. the same ...; I bought the CD ... the same ... some really sloppy mixing with distorting and clashing sound levels (e.g. the rhythm guitar in the title track is an ugly blob)...

There's now way we can change endlessmind's mind :D 'Pump It Up' is a straight copy of Dylan's 'Subterranean Home-sick Blues' --- do we have to lead the Prince song back to that? I seriously doubt it Prince listens to Elvis Costello music. But you never know ... Elvis covering Prince is cringe-worth...

As a big fan of both artists, I would say: absolutely not. Both songs have semi-shouted, semi-sung verses, but the list of songs that do that is endless! And they both are expressions, in very different ways, of the way these two artists write their songs. Really, I can't get over the idea that you ...

Harry Worth wrote:Imprssed with this, well done!

Thank you for listening!

A well-known song ...



Y plays guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and sings.
He also swings 5 plates and juggles oranges at the same time.
You can't hire him for parties

I thought he wanted to be one of their fingers?

Well, since these appear to be 30th anniversary editions, we should expect Armed Forces (originally 1979) some time this year. No reason to worry yet, I'd say.

Thanks for your reply! It's positive to hear *something* about them. In what way are they better than the iTunes rerecordings? Are the very different from the original? Are they re-composed or just stripped-dwon versions? Do they have any overdubbing. You see, I'm curious. But like a lot of people, ...

Isn't it rather strange that we haven't heard anybody's comment on those 30:10 songs which are finally available on the official website? Could it be a) nobody's registering so nobody's heard them, or b) they're not really all that special - just solo renditions of the kind we've heard Elvis do seve...