Elvis Costello - anyone ?

[tetraplan]

Not a massive fan, but 'shipbuilding' is a classic song. Top lyric too;
[beautiful lyrics snipped]

A Wyatt-Costello collaboration. Pure bliss.

Groet, Erik

[Meffy]

Who?

Assuming you aren't kidding... :-) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were an important American comedy team of the mid-20th century. I suppose they're best (or worst) remembered nowadays for their "Who's on First?" doubletalk routine. That gets tired after, oh, say eight thousand repetitions. But they were in a lot of comedy movies and stuff too.

Meffy

[MickGael]

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

I was a fan the minute I saw him, thin, edgy, awkward and pissed, on Saturday Night Live back in 1977.

A genius.

However, I also love Graham Parker and the Rumour. Though the uninitiated may think he is an Elvis sound-alike, he actually beat beat Elvis to vinyl by one year.

"Howlin' Wind," "Heat Treatment," and "Squeezing Out Sparks" are as good as anything Elvis ever did.

Any Elvis fans that don't know those records must check them out.

[Branst]

I love Elvis Costello. I've got every one of his albums from My Aim Is True to The Delivery Man. He's one of my favorite artists of all time.

[Studiodad]

Our band used to cover a couple 13-14 Elvis tunes back in the early 80's. From "Welcome to the Working Week" to "the Greatest Thing" to "From a Whisper to a Scream" to "Moods for Moderns". Most people sat there and yelled for Skynyrd and Motley Crue. Oh well, we thought we were cool.

Imperial Bedroom is a top five album for me. Steve Nieve played his ass off on that one.

Later we covered a bunch of Squeeze tunes and kind of found a niche at college bars

[Emerald Tablet]

squeeze
oh tempted by the fruit of another is a nice song
ah bit to poppy for me but the singer is very good

[opiadream]

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"

I've always gotta do a sing along with that one
f**king brilliant lyrics
specially the KKK being stranded at the bar

[Philly]

I loved his King of America period best.

I saw him live with Steve Nieve earlier this year - It was an amazing gig.

Elvis is King!

[tetraplan]

Who?

Assuming you aren't kidding... Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were an important American comedy team of the mid-20th century. I suppose they're best (or worst) remembered nowadays for their "Who's on First?" doubletalk routine. That gets tired after, oh, say eight thousand repetitions. But they were in a lot of comedy movies and stuff too.

Meffy

//assumed we haven't reached iteration #8000 yet (1):
Yeah but my question really was: who's on second base?

Groet, Erik

(1) although it's likely we have reached iteration #8.000.000. And it needs to be played fast, as A&C demonstrated. I don't think an online forum is fast enough for this routine.

[Meffy]

Yeah but my question really was: who's on second base?

As I Suspected. A wise guy, eh? Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

Meffy

[vurt]

anyone with such vehemence(?) for thatcher is ok in my book

[tetraplan]

//hijack: the contents of this posting has little if anything to do with Costello, Elvis or otherwise.

Yeah but my question really was: who's on second base?

As I Suspected. A wise guy, eh? Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

Meffy

Hey, I'm a victim of circumstance.

Groet, Erik