Elvis Costello - anyone ?

[Emerald Tablet]

i`m listening to an old record from Chet Baker & Elvis Costello ...........lovely music
helps me into hibernation

is there anyone at kvr that is sharing my love for Elvis Costello`s music?

[nuffink]

i`m listening to an old record from Chet Baker & Elvis Costello ...........lovely music
helps me into hibernation

is there anyone at kvr that is sharing my love for Elvis Costello`s music?

Me.

[Emerald Tablet]

cool

i bring the wine and salty matured cheese
you bring the walnuts and weed

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i`m listening to an old record from Chet Baker & Elvis Costello ...........lovely music

Almost Blue:
Admiring Chet Baker’s reading of “The Thrill is Gone”, I wanted in my own way to write something similar. Later, when by good fortune he came to record his trumpet solo on “Shipbuilding”, I gave him a copy, not so much to suggest the song to him, but to repay a debt he knew nothing about. I don’t imagine he rushed home to hear it, he didn’t live like that. Still seven years later and I’m in an M.G.M. screening room in New York, watching the last reel of Bruce Weber’s movie biography of Chet “Let’s get lost”. A sequence near the end shows him struggling to be heard above a crowd of drunken film-festival free-loaders. The song is “Almost Blue”, a poignant surprise revealed to me shortly after Chet’s death. Though my version seems tentative by comparison I re-dedicate it to him with belated thanks.

Elvis Costello.

Class.

[Kriminal]

I think he did his best work when he was partnering Abbott

[Emerald Tablet]

do not talk about Tom Waits - Elvis Costello - Lou Reed - Leonard Cohen - Dylan - or any other musician often mentioned by cult lovers and art connoisseurs in general. krim is alergic to that

in krimis eyes theyre gloriously overvaluated

[TristezaOrange]

I loved his collab with Bacharach some years ago.

[opiadream]

only the earlier years
up to somehwere around 'tokyo storm warning'

[Emerald Tablet]

I loved his collab with Bacharach some years ago.

oh yeah !
"i want you" never sounded so good !

[gold]

Me.

Me too.

[clueless]

only the earlier years
up to somehwere around 'tokyo storm warning'

The sky fell over cheap Korean monster-movie scenery
And spilled into the reservoir of the crushed capsule hotel
Between the Disney abattoir and the chemical refinery
And I knew I was in trouble but I thought I was in hell
So you look around the tiny room and you wonder where the hell you are
While the K.K.K. convention are all stranded in the bar
They wear hoods and carry shotguns in the main streets of Montgomery
But they're helpless here as babies 'cause they're only here on holiday

Chorus: What do we care if the world is a joke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss
We'll give it a poke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We're only living this instant

The black sand stuck beneath her feet in a warm Sorrento sunrise
A barefoot girl from Naples or was it a Barcelona hi-rise
Whistles out the tuneless theme song on a hundred cheap suggestions
And a million false seductions and all those eternal questions

Chorus

So they flew the Super-Constellation all the way from Rimini
And feasted them on fish and chips from a newspaper facsimile
Now dead Italian tourists bodies litter up the Broadway
Some people can't be told you know they have to learn the hard way

Holidays are dirt-cheap in the Costa del Malvinas
In the Hotel Argentina they can hardly tell between us
For Teresa is a waitress though she's now known as Juanita
In a tango bar in Stanley or in Puerto Margarita
She's the sweetest and the sauciest
The loveliest and the naughtiest
She's Miss Buenos Aires in a world of lacy lingerie

Chorus

Japanese God-Jesus robots telling teenage fortunes
For all we know and all we care they might as well be Martians
They say gold paint on the palace gates comes from the teeth of pensioners
They're so tired of shooting protest singers
That they hardly mention us
While fountains fill with second-hand perfume
And sodden trading stamps
They'll hang the bullies and the louts that dampen down the day

Chorus

We braved the cold November air and the undertaker's curses
Saying "Take me to the Folies Bergere and please don't spare the hearses"
For he always had a dream of that revolver in your purse
How you loved him 'til you hated him and made him cry for mercy
He said "Don't ever mention my name there or talk of all the nights you cried
We've always been like worlds apart now you're seeing two nightmares collide"

[donkey tugger]

Not a massive fan, but 'shipbuilding' is a classic song. Top lyric too;

Is it worth it?
A new winter coat and shoes for the wife
And a bicycle on the boy's birthday
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
By the women and children
Soon we'll be shipbuilding.......
Well I ask you
The boy said "Dad they're going to take me to task, but I'll be back by Christmas"
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The result of this shipbuilding
With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
A telegram or a picture postcard
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
Once again
It's all we're skilled in
We will be shipbuilding........
With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls.

[bluedad]

remember his work with mccartney?

[tetraplan]

I think he did his best work when he was partnering Abbott

Who?

Groet, Erik

[Meffy]

I like Elvis Costello. Being almost entirely removed from pop culture, I have no idea who is glorified by the publicity machine and tend instead to pick my favorites according to whether I or not I enjoy their music, stage persona, act/show, etc.. :-)

There are advantages to being "out of it."

Meffy