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Before Elvis Costello got all highbrow on me (okay, I do love his work with The Fairfield Four and shouldn't he be "Sir Elvis" by now?), he wrote the song Green Shirt. A song that I had forgotten I loved. The lyrics...wait... take these for instance: "cause somewhere in the quisling clinic there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes" are right up there briliance-wise with Lewis Caroll's poem Jabberwocky. What's a "quisling clinic"?
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Initially airing on the US Sundance channel in December, Elvis Costello is currently recording a series of thirteen hour long TV shows with a collaborative music/informal interview format. Distribution to Canada and the UK has also been guaranteed. Titled Spectacle (surely no pun intended), and filmed at the famous Harlem Apollo Theatre, guests will range from Lou Reed to Kris Kristofferson, The Police (if they're still talking to each other) to Smokey Robinson and Bill ...
Original Story: http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/09/elvis-c...
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http://terriblelovesongs.blogspot.com As the 2008 Olympics festivities kick off, there are reports of pollution levels around the Olympic stadium in Beijing potentially reaching five times the levels deemed safe by the World Health Organisation.
Du Shaozhong, deputy director of Beijing’s Environmental Protection Bureau, said: "We made a commitment to ensure air quality for the Olympic Games . . . as for whether we have reached the goal, that will be examined after the e... MORE
Du Shaozhong, deputy director of Beijing’s Environmental Protection Bureau, said: "We made a commitment to ensure air quality for the Olympic Games . . . as for whether we have reached the goal, that will be examined after the e... MORE
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Last week I finally completed a project that began about a month ago - digitizing my Elvis Costello collection, about half or more of which I only owned on vinyl or cassette. This song, Hoover Factory, is a demo from the bootleg 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong. It wisely leads off the 2-disc boot. Punchy, concise, with great chord changes and guitar playing from Elvis (besides the fabulous voice) make up what is probably my favorite Costello boot song (tho I'm no expe... MORE
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Tennesse Titans Cheerleader Kerry. I’ve got some Good news and Bad news for you this week. The Good news is I was Correct on ALL 3 of my LOCKS from last week (NFL Week 7), since the games ‘DIDN’T REMIND ME’ of the previous weeks games from (NFL Week 6). Remember? NFL Week 6 was when I got my BEARS over the Vikings LOCK wrong and my Bonus-Lock! Well, the Bad news is NFL Week 8 ‘DOES REMIND ME’ of NFL Week 6. ‘And each time I feel like this inside. There’s one thing I wa... MORE
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Is sporting a band t-shirt a thing of the past? I hope not. Of all the shirts (collared and collarless) I own, I'd say roughly 75% are music or band related. I have record store t-shirts, the ambiguous "who-is-that-band?" t-shirt, the festival listing 25 different bands t-shirt, the record label t-shirts, and even the spoof t-shirts (ala Less Than Jake's pez dispenser homage to Slayer). We all bought overpriced concert t-shirts with the tour cities listed in alphabetic... MORE
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Elvis Costello - This Year's Model: Deluxe Edition Roxy S. 8 out of 10 The man. The legend. The man behind the legend. It's hard to describe Elvis Costello without sounding like an episode of MTV's "Diary." The self-professed "rock-n-roll Scrabble champion" is known for his biting lyricism and wordplay. This Year's Model was Elvis's second album, and his first backed by the organ-heavy garage-rock combo, the Attractions. In 1978, when this album was first released, C... MORE
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Like so many big-name musicians these days, Elvis Costello will also release his next album in an "alternative" way. Costello's new solo studio album, Momofuku, will be released solely on vinyl with a digital download code included. The album is being released by Lost Highway on April 22nd. No word yet on whether the digital format will be available on its own. April 22nd also marks the day Costello begins his own headlining tour. Starting May 10th, the singer will op... MORE
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This album has been bouncing around in my head, recently. I think I could do a post on every song on the album, since it really caught my ear the summer it was released and really cemented my love for Elvis Costello. But, I'll let the track speak for itself.
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I’m putting this up at jennythek.muxtape.com, (and also there’s a download link in the comments at 30secondsover.blogspot.com if you want to listen to the songs over an over until you’re sick of them. IMO, it will take a while.) Anyway, as usually, it gets a little weird at the end. If you’re squeamish, you might want to stop after Shearwater. Elvis Costello, “American Gangster Time”During the MOG strike, I had a fairly extended last.fm conversation with Cody about th... MORE
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Went to see elvis costello at the Phil in liverpool wedensday night (25th june) with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Featuring Clark Rundell - Conductor Gisela Stille - Soprano Steve Nieve - Piano Chris Laurence - Bass Martin France - Drums Rob Buckland - Saxophone The first part of the gig was a bit of a mixture starting with All This Useless Beauty from 1996. The Girl In The Other Room and Almost Blue. then there was the ... MORE
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So it's their fault!! From mi2n.com Radio stations across the nation are utilizing a remarkable tool when deciding what songs to play; specifically a company called HitPredictor. HitPredictor has become the undisputed #1 brand of predictive music research in the nation, with charts featured in Billboard magazine and Radio and Records. HitPredictor performs online predictive music research with a huge nationwide database of music fans, identifying the "Hit" potential of... MORE
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I remember an interview with Elvis Costello, where he talked about this song. He wrote it on his 45th birthday, and he said it just sorta spilled out of him, all the different contexts of the number. I think it was kind of a mid-life pondering on not being young, and not quite being old. Whatever the inspiration was, it's some of the finest crafted lyrics put to a catchy melody I have ever heard. This is one of my all tim favorites, and a great start to an album as w... MORE
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Sort of proud of this Elvis Costello review where I wrestle with whether the quite good work of one of my all-time heros is quite good enough…It’s up at PopMatters today. Elvis Costello and the ImpostersMomofuku(Lost Highway) Elvis Costello, 30 years on since “Less than Zero”, sounds very much like Elvis Costello, abrasively intelligent, rhythmically unstoppable, harsh and soulful at the same time and, er, able to leap genres in a single bound. “American Gangster Time”... MORE