Zarko

Yeah not huge on NMSWP... And Nocturama was just a bore for me... I only wanted 10 picks per list, so I probably would have chucked Hallelujah on there if I added more.

Dunno why I dislike Breathless...

Bulldog

Each to their own eh.

You're right about Nocturama, it has a couple of really good songs on it but otherwise it's a pretty lame album - somehow manages to be overlong and rushed at the same time.

Zarko

Just think that it falls under the 'nothing special' category... It all feels too similar, which is annoying because we know for a fact that Cave can keep on pulling new ideas/sounds/combination's from anywhere. It's a nice chilled album, but nothing on it that is memorable.

Any particular songs you would swap in/out? I was a little hesitant on 'The Hammer Song' but felt TGS deserved to be recognised despite being a down tempo album overall.

With the more intense list I was a bit 80's heavy, and a bit 00's/late 90's heavy with the chilled list... But thats his natural progression in a lot of ways...

Bulldog

I think you're more or less bang on target with the tracklisting, it's a great intro (and hopefully one a few people round here will put to good use). The only things I would've done would be to have the Witness Song in for the Hammer Song (but then again, they are two terrific songs) and have Brompton Oratory represent the Boatman's Call. Again though, the one you chose is another one his finest, more chilled-out numbers.

But, yeah, great mix. I'd be on it like a fly on a bowl of trifle if I didn't already have it

Zarko

From Boatman's I was close to chucking in Black Hair, but thought the better of it, Brompton was my close to getting the gig though.

But really can't go wrong with The Boatman's, an amazingly consistent album.

Bulldog

It was only a matter of time

A Beginner's Guide To Elvis Costello


Seeing as I hope to bring my thread back from the dead sometime soon, I think I might as well publicize it this way. By the way, the reason there's nothing from My Aim Is True is simply because I forgot to upload a track from it and, frankly, I can't be arsed to delete the playlist I've got online to accommodate it. Anyway...

A Beginner's Guide To Elvis Costello and the Attractions.rar
1. Let Them All Talk
2. Success
3. The Beat
4. Honey, Are You Straight Or Are You Blind?
5. Possession
6. New Lace Sleeves
7. Two Little Hitlers
8. You Little Fool
9. The Other End Of the Telescope
10. Sulky Girl
11. Sour Milk-Cow Blues

^ His better-known stuff.

A Beginner's Guide To Elvis Costello's Other Stuff.rar
1. Either Side Of the Same Town
2. American Gangster Time
3. Someone Took the Words Away
4. Tears, Tears and More Tears [w/ Allen Toussaint]
5. Veronica
6. Tears At the Birthday Party [w/ Burt Bacharach]
7. Harpies Bizarre
8. Dissolve
9. Pouring Water On a Drowning Man
10. Poisoned Rose
11. Romeo's Seance [w/ the Brodsky Quartet]

^ His not-so-better-known stuff.

PartisanRanger

Is there any interest in a Mozart comp? I might be able to put one together.

Thanks a lot for this. I've been wanting to get into Elvis Costello for a while now.