Elvis Costello Fan Forum

You should check the facts on the Velvets, MG: their debut, a far more groundbreaking, influential and interesting record than SP... Since when was that a fact? I'm talking specifically about a type of sound that opened things wide open, and a new type of LP. Femme Fatale steps into that specific s...

Who Shot Sam? wrote: I can see it.

Sadly, so can I now. Thanks a lot.

Here, here! I think I actually DID drink about 40 last night...

Forty is the new forty. Enjoy!

XO

Now there's an important anniversary we can all agree to! Happy big four-oh, Pophead! ***** Otis, Otis, Otis. First of all, as you've never, to my 4+ year recollection, so much as mentioned the Beatles before on this board, your Fab Four Cred is nil. You're not even a fan, really. Secondly, not bein...

Well I can understand that, because they're fantastic singles, but to me that's all(!) the record is. Because I grew up soaked in the Beatles, the only discs I really play at all are those I don't hear piecemeal on the unavoidable Beatles Brunch-type radio show. I know those so well it's usually mor...

As in many matters musical, I'm with Mr. Boom on this one. Revolver is an utterly PERFECT pop record, but Sgt. Pepper is something much bigger than that. It's a trip, in every sense-- as I described above, its contemporary effect was viscerally different from anything else that had come before. It's...

I'm sure it can be looked up! Certainly lots from Trick Of the Tail and Wind And Wuthering, both of which I could then and still sing in my sleep, but I can't recall how or if they delved into Gabriel-era stuff... Maybe Lamb Lies Down? Anyway, the show was at Rockland Community College in Suffern, N...

Ever since Otis got me into Elbow's Leaders of the Free World, I keep returning to both Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme, which I think must be seminal to Elbow. I really can't get over how good those two records are (and though I wouldn't mind a remaster, the fuzziness is partly just early 70s aesthetic t...

Where's my 40th anniversary edition of Pepper , EMI??? Coming soon, DRM-free, to iTunes?? :) I remember listening obsessively to SPLHCB in headphones a year or two after it came out (making me 8-ish), reading the tiny black lyrics through that red sleeve, and feeling it was something illicitly powe...

More pretentiously portentous, really.

The illegal downloaders have no doubt forced this upon them, and it makes me sad. I can't imagine downloaders have anything like the impact that Amazon and Best Buy do on the demise of independent record stores; after all, independent book stores are hardly thriving. Sorry for your loss, however. S...

I was going to waste breath on pointing out that " the war on terror" (as if it's a monolithic enemy) is not nearly the same thing as the current war in Iraq. However in the interest of perspective, and as a late observance of Memorial Day, I''ll instead recommend the two on-the-ground acc...

I wonder if he played "Glad To Be Unhappy". :) That'd be a treat. Hey, it ain't his fault what happens after he dies. I think the Live In Chicago DVD is fantastic, but maybe that's because I never got to see him in person. I have a very intense association with Grace, because during a hosp...

Plus he was on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Now there's quality TV for you.:lol: However, my main association with him will always be: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/513DR1HRSPL._SS500_.jpg He won a Tony for his role as the conniving, whiny, jealous Bud Frump in this 1961 musical. My parents were...

My knowledge of classical is decent, if spotty. One approach might be to get stuff out of the library, and then when you fall in love with a particular piece, you can seek out the definitive recordings. Things one can jump right into: Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 (New World) Mozart: 40th & 41st Sympho...

...you will not need to mention it a third time

Oopsy. Hope you enjoy it, after all that, then!

Now you must promise to read Evelyn Waugh's letters. (Incidentally, HE died sitting on the crapper, on Easter Sunday-- as endings go, a more fitting mix of piety and absurdist pathos could not be conjured.) The volume of letters between him and Nancy Mitford is great, and shorter, but it's out of pr...

US: light on nostalgia...

Fred Mertz
Karen Walker
Red Foreman
GOB Bluth
Gomez Addams
Bobby (King-of-the) Hill

Don't know nearly enough UK ones but here are my two faves:

Sir Humphrey Appleby
Reginald Perrin (hadn't thought of that show in ages, loved it)

This is not a flawless album, but the good parts are so very, very good:

verbal gymnastics wrote:
I am so pleased winter is over although over here you never know what season it is anymore.

Word. Though more light than dark is always something to celebrate.

Coolio. I'll definitely be getting these.

...and on the other side of the seriousness scale we have this, which is a parody PSA for AFSCME, the massive National Union (of which my own is a very small local):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mw49mk_x0

As I've got no one to drink and or sing with, I'll be celebrating(?) St. Patty's Day by watching the special Whitey Bulger edition of America's Most Wanted.

Hey, I wasn't the one who planned the broadcast for March 17th.

Today would've been my Grandma's hundred-and-something-th birthday.

mood swung wrote: I am secretly an 11 year old boy

And that's why we love you.