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There are a few changes I'd make to some reviews if I could, it's just a bit annoying that you can't edit posts in this forum. Otherwise I've done my bit when it comes to hyping the bloke. Good luck with finishing your Van Morrison thread too. I must remember to give Astral Weeks a good listen soon - I'll let you know what I think of it in your thread. |
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Anyway, I am looking forward to finishing my Van thread soon too. 36 albums takes forever when you've committed to such lengthy reviews. It's a pleasure, but they literally take at least 3 hours each. |
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So mods can edit posts here then? I wouldn't even think about pestering one of them about it, but there are a ton of video and picture links that need replacing, not to mention all these typos I keep spotting too. Oh well. |
Get Happy has always been my favorite Costello album. There something magical about the low-fi production, the Attraction's stripped down garage band sound and the paranoid themes of the songs.
When Trust and Imperial Bedroom came out I played them to death like no other Costello albums, I loved them so much. Both are near perfect pop albums, in the Beatles sense of the word "pop." |
Get Happy's a keeper. I just think the hybrid of new wave and blue-eyed soul makes for such an interesting sound, particularly with tunes like Possession, Secondary Modern and High Fidelity. There's even a tiny bit of reggae and ska on there too, so it's a reasonably diverse-sounding album. It's not quite among his absolute best (those'd be Spike, Trust and Imperial Bedroom), as there is a tiny bit of filler on there in my opinion.
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The Bootleg Corner #4 http://www.letunic.com/rw_common/the...ges/cdi400.jpg Right, I'm bored and I don't particularly feel like going to sleep, so I'm bringing this section back. Basically, after a good round of spring cleaning, I found a few more old bootlegs like this one. This one being a quintessential live, superb quality soundboard recording of Elvis Costello and the Attractions on the 5 Live Stiffs Tour of (I believe so anyway) 1978. This was basically the guys touring with their Stiff Records labelmates, among them Ian Dury and the Blockheads and the Damned (which is why you see covers of Neat Neat Neat and Roadette Song on the setlist). One of my personal favourites this - help yourself (again, click the picture for the link). Elvis Costello & the Attractions - 5 Live Stiffs Tour, 1978 http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/i.../3137-2169.jpg 01. Love Comes In Spurts 02. No Action 03. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes 04. Blame It On Cain 05. The Beat 06. Dr. Luthers Assistant 07. This Year's Girl 08. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea 09. Less Than Zero 10. Whole Wide World 11. Roadette Song 12. Neat Neat Neat 13. Little Triggers 14. Radio Radio 15. You Belong To Me 16. Miracle Man Depending on whether I have the time/energy, I'll upload at least a couple more over the next few days or so. |
The Bootleg Corner #5 http://www.letunic.com/rw_common/the...ges/cdi400.jpg OK, after all this time here's bootleg number five. This one's from the promotional tour for Costello's wishy-washy Punch the Clock album of 1983, featuring the Attractions augmented with the TKO Horns and the Afrodiziak backing singers in an attempt to bring the glossy, chirpy, early-80s pop vibes over to the stage. Sound awful? Actually, it isn't. The horn section really does do the setlist a lot of good, giving them a punchy, brassy kind of swing and therefore a new edge to them. That said, for this tour the TKO Horns and Afrodiziak would only play at the beginnings and ends of shows, leaving the middle of the setlist for Costello and the Attractions to do their work. Also, a lot of the songs from Punch the Clock are very much improved on through live performance. So, that's tracks 1-5 and 11-15 which feature the TKO Horns and Afrodiziak and, of course, tracks 6-10 with the Attractions unaccompanied. Tracks 16 and 17 were recorded elsewhere and were basically thrown into the tracklisting here at the bootlegger's whim to make up space. Again, click the picture for the link (and no, it's not the CD cover, just the most relevant picture - using a scanner takes up far too much time that I'd otherwise spend sitting on my arse)... Riot Act - 17/10/83 http://images.wolfgangsvault.com/ima...C830924-HB.jpg 1. Let Them All Talk 2. Possession 3. Watch Your Step 4. The Greatest Thing 5. Man Out Of Time 6. Shabby Doll 7. From Head To Toe 8. Charm School 9. Oliver's Army 10. Shipbuilding 11. The World and His Wife 12. Alison 13. Clowntime Is Over 14. Everyday I Write the Book 15. TKO (Boxing Day) 16. Psycho [1/6/81] 17. Backstabbers/King Horse [7/9/83] Personnel Elvis Costello: vocals, guitar Steve Nieve: keyboards Bruce Thomas: bass Pete Thomas: drums Jim Paterson: trombone Jeff Blythe: alto sax Paul Speare: tenor sax Dave Plews: trumpet Caron Wheeler: backing vocals Claudia Fontaine: backing vocals |
I've been meaning to get some albums of Costello since I've seen his cameo appearance on 200 cigarettes ... he seemed like a cool guy ... great thread
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I'm yet to see 200 Cigarettes myself. Wanted to for a while though.
There's an index with samplers for each album I've reviewed over on page 10 so, by all means, help yourself :) |
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