Elvis Costello Fan Forum

only one listen so far, but any of these would enhance national ransom. fabulous. Condemned man!!!! also, last track, i don't wanna go home, the placement of the string bass line is amazing and consistent thorugh out the song. it is as if it is either right on top of the beat or slightly almost late...

small review of a beautiful detail: at the end of Chruch Underground, when he is repeating the title, there is a repeated note trumpet fanfare buried deeply in the mix!!!!!! beautiful beatles-like touch. and otherwise, this is really a great song, almost breathtaking when he gets near the end and it...

from rolling stone 3 1/2 stars of five Will Hermes 2010 11 02 Elvis Costello traffics in so many genres, it must be hard to focus on one. Here, he doesn't. Instead, busy producer T Bone Burnett brings period detail to a set of country, folk, music-hall and rock songs whose unifying conceit is Americ...

check the david letterman show's added video of him performing this. clear view of his left handfor most of the song...

just got both downloads, ransom and ransack. still feels the same as 1977 and even back before that, something new arrives and i used to tuck a new lp under my arm and hurry home and shut the doors. i'm old enough to remember doing this with a hard day's night, and then that anticipation starts, wai...

dm, then a7...still working, think it goes back to dm after a7...

just received email about national ransack, but there was no active link for the download. argh!

love the smokey robinson connection for 5 small words in the sydney review. from head to toe!!!

jealous and happy at the same time! i can't believe how much more detail was audible on the 3 songs downloaded or the colbertnation.com streaming compared to that other, well, you know, unauthentic version. i can just barely hear some sort of spectacular clarinet thing over the last time himself sin...

That great dylan line "What do you mean 'you can't repeat the past'? Of course you can" comes to mind, because repeating the past only happens if one's career is dead. That why I so love your beautiful image of what Costello is doing: "a body of work in dialogue with itself." In ...

sorry, a bit new and haven't quite got the hang of how to find if there is an old thread. can anyone simply tack this new thread to the end of the old one and get it bumped up, so to speak...?--great stuff there by the way

Thought I'd start a thread about a particular song for anyone else interested in talking, song by song, about what they found. Hope others will start separate threads for each song. Hope that is OK. Feel like I'm barging in a bit. Anyway, Jimmie: Kept hearing this Ellington strain in the trumpet dec...

Regarding the link to “great war fiction” and its meditation on “You Hung the Moon,” a few minor points (which i also posted on that website as a comment on that piece): 1. First of all, I think that, as with Ira Gershwin that the writer mentions, this is not “the singer” who is being condescending ...

p.s. is the ransack download email going to be sent on nov. 2??? or, 'cause i'm in canada, on nov. 9 (canadian release date)???? anybody know?

i wrote an email to the ones who send me the info complaining about the inefficiency, and all i got back was a "thanks very much" and a simple reiteration of shipping times, address, etc. as if i complained because i didn't quite understand. duh!

HOWEVER, JUST LOOKED AT THE EMAIL 10-20 BUSINESS DAYS FOR DELIVERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! looks like i'm buying another one! this is really bad. where are these being shipped from that they would, even with snail mail, take up to 20 business days?? this is really unfortunate and unforeseen. if i'd known, i...

yikes!!! might mean that the ransack is soon! hearing great things

what sort of outlet is there, if any, for something more thoughtful and interesting, where elvis could stretch out and think and explore the rich abundance that is going on here, and have the chance to enjoy doing so, like i expect he really would. i was actually hoping for a rolling stone cover of ...

get happy!!! you can trust that this year's model's aim is true but still angry.

ok, come on folks, we can do this!!!

you know, it really is a shame when you think of how carefully and beautifully elvis can speak about music, composition, history, players, writers, that he is asked to spend his time in so many instances answering questions like "is this bluegrass?" if this was a REAL question that actuall...

i hate to even venture this out loud, but i do really believe that elvis is too "something" for a lot of people, including a lot of critics, to understand or to like immediately and quickly and passively. his work always requires something of me, some effort that always, to varying degrees...

i think this is exactly right, that weird qualified praise. seems to be sometimes of a piece with the genre hopping, angry guy, knee (shall we say?) jerks. when i look at things like north, pfm, delivery, just to name three, they really are quite spectacular, beautiful accomplishments, as is nationa...

hung the moon does help with the current in which jimmie, josephine, and voice in the dark run. i find these four have a bit of music-hall-ish-ness that is much more authentic than the old version i remember too well, back when Winchester cathedral, honey pie, and voh-dee-oh-doh mawkishly swung thro...

"Just to get a reaction" seems to be the main motivation of this interview.

just listening to the streaming of the songs on colbert nation. the vocal of you hung the moon, now that i can hear it more clearly, is unbelievable, controlled yet full of deep deep feeling. the song structure etc., could make it almost a North song, but i found that those songs were often sung rat...