Elvis Costello Fan Forum

It seems like only yesterday that he was making a big thing of turning 45?!

Now that I have a few of these in the Music On Vinyl series (not just E.C.), I must say that while the vinyl quality seems to be fine, the artwork is usually a bit disappointing. It always looks a bit 'blown up': ever so slightly blurred. Particularly the fonts lose their sharpness. Also, the colour...

Yes, I was in the final stages of purchasing these (about £50.00 for the three of them, which is a 'bargain'), when they waked on £25.00 in shipping costs! That's very unusual for them - I usually have free shipping from them, even to the UK ... I sent them an email to ask them what this was all abo...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/charleshardin/Wilco128.jpg?t=1275830851 This pic reminds me: has anyone else ever noticed the optical allusion caused by the positioning of Steve's face that gives him a Cyrano de Bergerac nose? :lol: now that you mention it! yes! And Pete Thomas has the halo ...

Looks like they've got 'All This Useless Beauty' lined up next, later this month:

http://www.musiconvinyl.com/catalog/elv ... 8T7rvldVSU

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/o/ASIN/B00LF0GLV6?tag=adapas-21

the saga continues ...

I gave my copy from '93 a spin this evening - https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10481409_10152199573142957_1455617061364677716_n.jpg The surface noise on this is atrocious. It's a prime example of the tail end of the first vinyl era, really thin, barely a step up from a ...

CWR, is the original LP version also a single disc? It's over an hour long, which is a bit much for vinyl I think ... 'Music On Vinyl' seems to be going through these WB era albums at a slow but steady rate. No guarantees of course, but I hope they get to Kojak Variety in due course ... 'Painted Fro...

Looks like 'Music On Vinyl' is answering our prayers: in a week's time (7 July 2014) 'The Juliet Letters' is coming out on 180gm vinyl! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Juliet-Letters-180-gm-vinyl/dp/B00KBEXZ8E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404206084&sr=8-1&keywords=Juliet+Letters+Vinyl It's going to b...

New to YouTube - 80s-tastic Elvis ! Elvis Costello - Every Day I write The Book. Top Of The Pops 1983 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5GtOd8rSG0&feature=player_embedded Wow that's cheesy as hell. What's with those beautiful people dancing with "The Book"? That was strange. And what in...

However great the end result may sound, it's another excuse for Costello not to write an album. One of the greatest lyricists in the world, and first he rehashes his own old lyrics, and now he's going to play with somebody else's rejects. Am I the only one thinking that we get very watered down vers...

Echoes of Elvis - http://pitchfork.com/news/54167-liam-gallagher-dont-buy-definitely-maybe-reissue/ Liam Gallagher: Don't Buy Definitely Maybe Reissue Hahaha, as stupid remarks go, this one pretty stupid: "HOW CAN YOU REMASTER SOMETHING THATS ALREADY BEING MASTERED" (leaving aside spellin...

verbal gymnastics wrote: Dublin's been added on 16th so let's see if there's a Welsh show.

If he plays in Aberystwyth, I'll go

ASCAP lists 10 newly registered songs written by EC and Burt Bacharach: DON'T LOOK NOW (Work ID: 886324240) EVERYONE'S PLAYING HOUSE (Work ID: 886324275) HE'S GIVEN ME THINGS (Work ID: 886324374) I LOOKED AWAY (Work ID: 886324406) I'VE ALWAYS HAD MEN (Work ID: 886324414) LOOK UP AGAIN (Work ID: 886...

Prince ('s lawyers) sued 11 fan-sites around the world for 1 million dollar each because they provided bootleg material. They all closed at the drop of a hat. A few days ago he stopped the cases (and dropped charges), but it rattled the chains quite a bit. Very quiet now around Prince sites ... Has...

Costello lawyers are probably Prince lawyers fans too ... :? I am not enough of Prince fan to get the joke. Please enlighten me. :) Sorry, it was in the national news, so I thought it might be known: Prince ('s lawyers) sued 11 fan-sites around the world for 1 million dollar each because they provi...

Costello lawyers are probably Prince lawyers fans too ...

I'm glad. there must be better ways of being Elvis Costello than an ironic vaudeville show joke that had its punchline 2 decades ago. And that wasn't ironic anymore ...

Well, I have since returned to albums like Blood And Chocolate, Spike, Get Happy, and enjoyed them so much more! When the albums were filled to the brim with melody, clever arrangements etc. etc. Back in the day when Elvis Costello was still striving to make superior pop music. This album is merely ...

I can't get excited about this.

Even the actual album doesn't get played by me anymore. Struggled through about 5 or 6 spins. Behind the sparkling production lies some of the laziest songwriting in Costello's career.

Dada wrote:

buzz wrote:It is indeed the photo from the front of the TYM deluxe booklet.

Thanks for the confirmation.

Here's a fragment of the contact sheet:

Haha, third row, second down: that would have been a nice geeky one!

that sounds pretty crappy my PRINCE friend! :evil: gee, glad i planned on sticking with my 1989 version all along anyway. poor cover reproduction would leave me feeling it to be a "bootleg" which i KNOW it is not. but.....HEY! speaking of these pressings: i paid the nearly $50 for the BRU...

Got the Spike LP yesterday - nice to heavy the glossy cover and the semi-heavy-weight vinyl (which pays excellently). My only gripe is that the printing of the cover looks a bit fuzzy, especially on the lettering. Looks like a lower resolution blown up ...

I REALLY enjoyed this.

Thanks for all the hard work

Maybe it *still* has to grow on me, but 'River In Reverse' is low in my rankings of EC albums. It's one of those where he seems to have lost his identity. It could have been anyone singing an playing those songs. It's sounding like a well-crafted studio-musicians album to me. Elvis Costello's 'and t...

About 5 years ago I recorded a funky backing track. It was so good it needed a song. Unfortunately I wasn't very inspired that day to write any meaningful words. I was too much in a hurry too, so I grabbed the lyricss of a song that just happened to be lying there. And improvised half rapped, half s...