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- Tue Oct 08, 2013 6:28 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Pete Thomas on new Jake Bugg album
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9916
Re: Pete Thomas on new Jake Bugg album
Nice one - I missed the opening of it. Good that Pete was acknowledged that way. Good combination of age and youth there.
- Tue Oct 08, 2013 5:24 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Pete Thomas on new Jake Bugg album
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9916
Pete Thomas on new Jake Bugg album
http://www.nme.com/news/jake-bugg/72823
Realised this watching Later tonight with Bugg playing an uptempo number, and I thought the ageing codger at the drums was doing a decent job of holding down a tight backbeat when I realised it was none other!
Realised this watching Later tonight with Bugg playing an uptempo number, and I thought the ageing codger at the drums was doing a decent job of holding down a tight backbeat when I realised it was none other!
- Tue Oct 08, 2013 3:06 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 1726915
Re: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
The first side ends with Tripwire, another rewrite, a sort of doo-wop, very-50s ballad kind of feel. I don't get it! In what way is Tripwire a 'rewrite'? Same reaction I had to Rope Leash's comment above. Stick Out Your Tongue is a rewrite, Tripwire is a new song using a small element from Satellit...
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:54 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: What are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 4056
- Views: 4376086
Re: What are you listening to right now?
Excellent, another Must Get. Inv Pole was excited and posted a track earlier. Knew about near blindness, but not near deafness. Poor Paddy! Could really do with some good new songs of his in my head. I remember walking across towards the Junction with you, presumably to see Lloyd C at the J2, where ...
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:49 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Recently viewed films
- Replies: 1602
- Views: 2143260
Re: Recently viewed films
Yeah, I kept well away from it, couldn't face it - don't want to be overly swayed by reviews, but everyone panned it.
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:40 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 1726915
Re: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
Will be interesting to see how views on WUG develop with time. There are a lot of interesting things about it. Seems to me there are three standout tracks among the full Deluxe affair: Walk Us Uptown, Tripwire, The Puppet Has Cut His Strings. The first is rhythmic, funked up (and not in a whiny trud...
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 2:42 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 1726915
Re: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
Fascinating - the 1998 link seems to confirm the 'response' suggestion. Has Costello said anything in the interviews about this or this song's lyrics in any way? There have been references to Las Malvinas, to Shipbuilding, etc., which the use of 'vos' would underline, but the song refers to Montevid...
- Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:31 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 1726915
Re: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
But did you get the Deluxe version?
Hey, it's the return of Jackson Monk! Good to see you round here.
Hey, it's the return of Jackson Monk! Good to see you round here.
- Sun Oct 06, 2013 9:26 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Recently viewed films
- Replies: 1602
- Views: 2143260
Re: Recently viewed films
Will do, though not opening here for a month.
- Sat Oct 05, 2013 5:12 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Recently viewed films
- Replies: 1602
- Views: 2143260
Re: Recently viewed films
I love nothing more than experiencing the sensation that we are mere tiny specs of matter adrift in a vast eternity of nothingness. Can't beat a bit of persepctive. Dying to see this film. Essential to do so in 3D?
- Sat Oct 05, 2013 5:08 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 1726915
Re: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
I don't get the bundle replacement thing given that the only link between the two songs is a tiny intro portion from Satellite that you could blink (or its auditory equivalent) and miss. And they're both soulful, slow 6/8 songs.
- Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:55 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: 'Elvis Costello (Icons of Pop Music)' - book
- Replies: 23
- Views: 26525
Re: 'Elvis Costello (Icons of Pop Music)' - book
Ah, subtle inter-thread referencing. No wonder it was lost on me.
- Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:52 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 1726915
Re: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
Certain amount of going round in circles here with the recent discussion about EC's supposed disenchantment after NR's sales, etc. I really think there's a different perspective here on this side of the Atlantic (or maybe it's just in East Anglia?). My view is he'll always have opportunities to make...
- Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:39 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 1726915
Re: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
Now that I've finally got the damn thing, I find I'm not listening to it much. Hearing it on the hifi didn't thrill me as much as I thought it would. A lot of it falls a little flat. Tripwire is great (not a 'whiney trudge', can't get that awful phrase out of my head). But is much else? Hasn't grabb...
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:46 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis Costello and Thatcherism -A Psycho-Social Exploration
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5609
Re: Elvis Costello and Thatcherism -A Psycho-Social Explorat
He gets knocked down...
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:44 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: 'Elvis Costello (Icons of Pop Music)' - book
- Replies: 23
- Views: 26525
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:42 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 1726915
Re: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
Renaissance man with a bite!sweetest punch wrote:acerbic polymath Elvis Costello
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:18 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 1726915
Re: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
Probably.
Not sure if this review was posted. Tripwire described as a 'whiny trudge through funkless-ness'!
http://www.righttrackwrongspeed.com/rev ... -up-ghost/
Not sure if this review was posted. Tripwire described as a 'whiny trudge through funkless-ness'!
http://www.righttrackwrongspeed.com/rev ... -up-ghost/
- Tue Oct 01, 2013 5:38 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 1726915
Re: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
Personally I think that's a pretty corny line, and enjoy the fact that the one comment following the review takes it to task: "A strangely inept review. I've never seen a writer so gleefully miss the point. Also, "Wise Up the Ghost may live on as ambient music played dimly in the backgroun...
- Tue Oct 01, 2013 5:25 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: Elvis solo at Global Citizen Festival (NY), Sept 28, 2013
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16484
Re: Elvis solo at Global Citizen Festival (NY), Sept 28, 201
Great rendition of Tripwire, can't get enough of this song right now. Enjoyed the over the top guitar too!
- Tue Oct 01, 2013 5:17 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 1726915
Re: New album for 2013: "Wise Up Ghost" (with The Roots!)
Madison Taylor wins the prize for Most Moronic Review, even more than the other one we commented on. Rockabilly? Cacophonic? Moron who doesn't understand the words he/she (?) uses.
- Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:18 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: WISE UP GHOST Deluxe
- Replies: 25
- Views: 29816
Re: WISE UP GHOST Deluxe
Mine finally showed up too. Despite the presence of 'UK' in the vendor's name, it was US supplied, so no glue incidents. Well it's lovely to finally have it and to hear Tripwire et al at home. Was sounding great on the hifi, can't wait to play it loads and get to know it. One odd detail: why is the ...
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:32 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Recently viewed films
- Replies: 1602
- Views: 2143260
Re: Recently viewed films
Is the film's sub-title How My Love of Salinger Drove Me To Kill People?
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 12:29 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: The new Alan Partridge film
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4261
Re: The new Alan Partridge film
Aha! Didn't get to see it - one for the telly. I did want to see What Maisie Knew and missed it, but the really exciting sounding one is the Stephen Frears one that was on in the Venice biennale with Judi Dench, Philomena . About forced adoptions in Ireland. Rave responses: http://www.theguardian.co...
- Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:56 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: A nice timewaster
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9148
Re: A nice timewaster
Damn, just lost 15 mins! That was fun. Slight;y heavy on the Canada, at least for me. Some have a lot of clues, e.g. I was able to get 2km away to a place in Spain. My 13 year old boy will love this!
Ever come across this site? Some fun stuff:
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Ever come across this site? Some fun stuff:
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