Blood and Chocolate Survivor - Round 1
Blood and Chocolate Survivor - Round 1
Blood and Chocolate Survivor - Round 1
Hello everyone and welcome to another album of Album Survivor. The album we are doing is Blood and Chocolate. This is the eleventh studio album from Elvis Costello and the ninth with The Attractions. This album saw Elvis abandon the americana from King of America and delve back into rock music. This album received positive reviews and is most known for the six minute long side A closer, I Want You, a song from the perspective of an obsessive ex who can't stand to see their lover with someone else. This song received more attention after singer-songwriter Fiona Apple's breathtaking cover of it.
I really like this album, and I am excited to see what you think of it.
VOTE A SONG OUT HERE
https://strawpoll.com/1pzdusc65
SONGS IN
SIDE ONE
Uncomplicated
I Hope You're Happy Now
Tokyo Storm Warning
Home is Anywhere You Hang Your Head
I Want You
SIDE TWO
Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind?
Blue Chair
Battered Old Bird
Crimes of Paris
Poor Napoleon
Next Time 'Round
Hello everyone and welcome to another album of Album Survivor. The album we are doing is Blood and Chocolate. This is the eleventh studio album from Elvis Costello and the ninth with The Attractions. This album saw Elvis abandon the americana from King of America and delve back into rock music. This album received positive reviews and is most known for the six minute long side A closer, I Want You, a song from the perspective of an obsessive ex who can't stand to see their lover with someone else. This song received more attention after singer-songwriter Fiona Apple's breathtaking cover of it.
I really like this album, and I am excited to see what you think of it.
VOTE A SONG OUT HERE
https://strawpoll.com/1pzdusc65
SONGS IN
SIDE ONE
Uncomplicated
I Hope You're Happy Now
Tokyo Storm Warning
Home is Anywhere You Hang Your Head
I Want You
SIDE TWO
Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind?
Blue Chair
Battered Old Bird
Crimes of Paris
Poor Napoleon
Next Time 'Round
"Can't you see? My band is up there."
Re: Blood and Chocolate Survivor - Round 1
Whoa, I've been dreading this one!!!
This always vies for top place for me, with TYM, Trust, Get Happy!! and Brutal Youth.
I kinda think it tends to be in the top slot for me more than any other, so it might even be safe to say it's my favourite album of all.
At least the first evictee is an easy one!
This always vies for top place for me, with TYM, Trust, Get Happy!! and Brutal Youth.
I kinda think it tends to be in the top slot for me more than any other, so it might even be safe to say it's my favourite album of all.
At least the first evictee is an easy one!
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Re: Blood and Chocolate Survivor - Round 1
Though i no longer vote, i still peruse it. Funny thinking which you might be referring to here. The real draw of our guy, i think, is that the one you mean here is probably MUCH BELOVED by me and many others. So I'll take a guess...you can't possibly think HONEY or TOKYO are the first evicted??? Lmk. Best regards, bennyNeil. wrote:
At least the first evictee is an easy one!
Re: Blood and Chocolate Survivor - Round 1
I'll tell you when the first result is in!
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Re: Blood and Chocolate Survivor - Round 1
I'm predicting Neil'a choice is Battered Old Bird because .........bronxapostle wrote:Though i no longer vote, i still peruse it. Funny thinking which you might be referring to here. The real draw of our guy, i think, is that the one you mean here is probably MUCH BELOVED by me and many others. So I'll take a guess...you can't possibly think HONEY or TOKYO are the first evicted??? Lmk. Best regards, bennyNeil. wrote:
At least the first evictee is an easy one!
wait for it ......
it's such a turkey (an early Christmas and Thanksgiving present to all my friends )
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Re: Blood and Chocolate Survivor - Round 1
sulky lad wrote:I'm predicting Neil'a choice is Battered Old Bird because .........bronxapostle wrote:Though i no longer vote, i still peruse it. Funny thinking which you might be referring to here. The real draw of our guy, i think, is that the one you mean here is probably MUCH BELOVED by me and many others. So I'll take a guess...you can't possibly think HONEY or TOKYO are the first evicted??? Lmk. Best regards, bennyNeil. wrote:
At least the first evictee is an easy one!
wait for it ......
it's such a turkey (an early Christmas and Thanksgiving present to all my friends )
any one who votes BOB out this early, OBVIOUSLY never saw it LIVE with the great BEATLES/BRUCE THOMAS modulation bridge.
WHOA OH OH OH OH OH OH OH WHOA OH
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Re: Blood and Chocolate Survivor - Round 1
bronxapostle wrote:sulky lad wrote:I'm predicting Neil'a choice is Battered Old Bird because .........bronxapostle wrote:
Though i no longer vote, i still peruse it. Funny thinking which you might be referring to here. The real draw of our guy, i think, is that the one you mean here is probably MUCH BELOVED by me and many others. So I'll take a guess...you can't possibly think HONEY or TOKYO are the first evicted??? Lmk. Best regards, benny
wait for it ......
it's such a turkey (an early Christmas and Thanksgiving present to all my friends )
any one who votes BOB out this early, OBVIOUSLY never saw it LIVE with the great BEATLES/BRUCE THOMAS modulation bridge.
WHOA OH OH OH OH OH OH OH WHOA OH
Rest assured, BA, I DIDN'T vote it out first but I'm worried one of my faves might be first past the post !
Re: Blood and Chocolate Survivor - Round 1
What Beatles song did Bruce quote in the middle eight, Bronx Apostle?bronxapostle wrote:any one who votes BOB out this early, OBVIOUSLY never saw it LIVE with the great BEATLES/BRUCE THOMAS modulation bridge.
WHOA OH OH OH OH OH OH OH WHOA OH
Sulky, surely you jest about Battered Old Bird being a turkey?!
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Re: Blood and Chocolate Survivor - Round 1
Forgive my poor wording....maybe i should have said BEATLEY/psychedelia/Bruce "to the bridge" run.Neil. wrote:What Beatles song did Bruce quote in the middle eight, Bronx Apostle?bronxapostle wrote:any one who votes BOB out this early, OBVIOUSLY never saw it LIVE with the great BEATLES/BRUCE THOMAS modulation bridge.
WHOA OH OH OH OH OH OH OH WHOA OH
Sulky, surely you jest about Battered Old Bird being a turkey?!
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Re: Blood and Chocolate Survivor - Round 1
Sorry, I was only trying to turn a goujon into a roast !Neil. wrote:What Beatles song did Bruce quote in the middle eight, Bronx Apostle?bronxapostle wrote:any one who votes BOB out this early, OBVIOUSLY never saw it LIVE with the great BEATLES/BRUCE THOMAS modulation bridge.
WHOA OH OH OH OH OH OH OH WHOA OH
Sulky, surely you jest about Battered Old Bird being a turkey?!
I love the song but found it a little disappointing live - one of the rare occasions where the Attractions failed to interpret a studio performance into something more - it lurched badly during the bridge without the studio trickery which made it successful on the album.
And I only ever listen to it on my white vinyl German LP!
Crimes Of Paris is my first one out partly because of Cait's presence!