Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Awww, she's sweet. She's got her cool t-shirts all ready. The old contradiction of being so conscientious about being cool... I'm wearing my Weezer t right now, so I'm cool too. I wonder when life has let her down will she ever look back at her blog and get eaten up by the old embarassment cancer. O...

Odd coincidence, I dug out my EC-The Man video last weekend while I was trying to find my Derek&Clive stuff. It's great. I remember buying it in 1989 when I became an EC fan and before I had the records and used it as a road map for buying each album. What makes the compilation even better is th...

Well you see it's like this... That orchestral/violin riff/motif on BSS is a sample from Andrew Loog Oldham's orchestral version of Jagger/Richards' The Last Time. The sample was used without permission and Alan Klein came looking for his money with the end result that Bittersweet Symphony is now cr...

I wasn't particularly overwhelmed by Veronica Guerin, it was a bit 'Auld Mr Brennan...' in places (obscure Irish reference). MacSorely was great though, and the locations were kosher. Really liked PhoneBooth, really want to see Pirates... because Depp based his whole character on Keith Richards, whi...

Oh jeez, I just made the mistake of internetting a bit and realising I could get there and back and to the gig for about 110 youros, including sundries say that's 150yoyos. I promised myself no more holidays till 2004. Oh dear. And I'm on call that weekend, but it's swappable... Mulling it over (and...

I think North is his best cover ever... or since TYM, or KofA. [His best covers have him on them in decent portrait: TYM, Trust, PtheC, KofA etc] It's a great mix of a contemporary look, reflects the mood of the content and I can't see it putting anyone off buying/listening. I like EC's covers - the...

Ummm, so they expect to sell 100,000 in the US. OK, it's their money. (WIWC did just over 200,000). It'll be interesting to see the promotion over the next few weeks...

DrJ

I do believe he would have been singing "Dog Faced Boy" for that trick...

DrJ

It seems to me (having seen Eels a month ago) that MC Honky is E himself. Even at the Dublin show when Eels finished their set, they brought MC Honky out to take a bow, but it's an Andy Kaufman-Tony Clifton thing...

DrJ

Are you people going to buy North when it comes out?

I'm just curious, not sanctimonious...

DrJ

Yeah, The Gouldstone book is pretty lame... but it helped in 1989 (when I was 14) & I was getting into Costello and this was the only book I could find about him. It's pretty dry. But it helped a 14 year old who hadn't heard this music before... I see it's updated as this... http://www.amazon.co...

"Somebody's ordering room service sir..."

"Released the winged monkeys..."

..a Mr Burns moment.

Yeah, better get that track finished. What did EC say about the disc. "That's nice"
"That's terrible"
"What a bunch of loser freaks"
etc...


DrJ

Of course I was there. fjp couldn't go. A friend of mine had booked the seats and on the way to the gig I noticed two things on the ticket: Ron would be Solo and acoustic, which is fine, he's good with that guitar and secondly we appeared to be in the front row. We got there stupidly early and yes, ...

Otis, I love the Buddah of Surburbia record. Don't know why since half of it is instrumentals, but it is well worth having. Black Tie White Noise was the first Bowie album I got when it came out (I first bought Bowie with the CD reissues in 89/90) and when Buddah appeared just a few months later I t...

Haha. I'm destined never to meet a Folye brother. Yeah I was at the Ron show too, I liked the covers, the songs in between did nothing really for me. Afterwards he was selling and signing his CD, so one of my friends bought one and we briefly chatted to the guy. I'll have a listen, coz it's produced...

Just letting you know... more money...

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/latest_news/

http://www.nme.com/news/105753.htm

DrJ

Yeah, they are the weakest link. One review likened them to Benny Hill's Ladybirds. Haha.

DrJ

Well I'm glad it's not just me who's behind schedule. This weekend is a bank holiday here so I'll spend a day working one up with fjp. We may or may not wrap it up in a day. We might get in a real drummer. I'm beginning to worry that the version of Uncomplicated that's in my head might not be readil...

The commentary is great too, which is odd for a concert movie. And David Byrne interviewing himself. Is there any popular music that's smart anymore?

DrJ

Yeah, it's worth it for that payoff. That's the best bit. I think I should see it again and see what it's like a second time...

DrJ

Adaptation just reminds me of killing an afternoon after a very big job interview before finding out I didn't get it. the film itself lost any real, compelling narrative thread after about an hour... as in.....why should I give a shit? Yeah, the first 45 minutes fly by, then you figure that you migh...

Thank you all, that's very kind...

I listened to the GH bonus disc last night and it really is stuffed with goodness and is over 79 minutes long, and there's an extra surprise

Reissues: so far so good...

I'll get back to y'all on the other two...

DrJ

Mr Foyle you are awesome!!! My friends would call me an EC nut, and maybe I am, but I would never take a trip to Coney Island just to try and find the WIWC bees. That's genius. To do that would have never crossed my mind. Did you find them? (the bees)

DrJ

Well, Junk food's a good start... I'm not sure what age you are DD and if that is playing on your mind. What happens if you tell Starbucks that you can't commit to a year? Failing that, surely staying on an extra six months can't harm things, surely most courses will start in the autumn/fall. I have...

Jesus, I'm hopeless. So much for abstinence. Walked an hour from work to town and ended up in HMRipoff after Tower and Golden Discs (quaint Irish chain) didn't have 'em at all. I then debated just buying Get Happy!!! because the cover's been altered to now have a fake sticker saying "50 Great H...