Turn up the TV, no one listening will suspect it...


/Elvis is King

+1 Subby

Nice! +1

I thought it was cool how Declan MacManus played Elvis Costello in "Talladega Nights".

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I am completely in love with Elvis Costello. Seeing him this summer with the Police....

I can never remember which one is Elvis and which is Costello... Lost in Alaska was my favorite, though. Who's on first?

I hate his show, I prefer watching "The Detectives"

Is your Elvis dead? Try ours!

I'm sure that'll be a good show, as long as he can STOP
them from talkin when he hears the silly things that they say.

But....Who's on First??

He wants to bite the hand that feeds him.

I would watch, but I'm overwhelmed by indifference and the promise of an early bed.

+1 +1 for subby? Nicely done.

I wonder if he'll build any ships on his show?

But it is only inches on the reel-to-reel



/Seen Elvis more times than I can remember
//Most memorable show was an outdoor show with Nick Lowe, warm summer evening, full moon, great music!

A good name for the show would be "The Quisling Clinic".

Parasitic_Spin: I am completely in love with Elvis Costello. Seeing him this summer with the Police....

Me too. Though I'm not really all that excited about the Police. I can't figure out why he's touring with them. I saw him by himself a the House of Blues last May and it was a much more appropriate environment.

He is the king.

My brother always loved Costello - I never quite got the appeal of the guy, sure he is a good musician, but his fans seem like they all have secret shrines to him built in their basements.

/not trying to knock his fans
//just don't get the obsession with him

p the boiler: My brother always loved Costello - I never quite got the appeal of the guy, sure he is a good musician, but his fans seem like they all have secret shrines to him built in their basements.

/not trying to knock his fans
//just don't get the obsession with him


Holy shiat, that's two threads in a row where I agree with p the boiler (also your comments in the Hester thread I just exited).

I remember seeing Austin Powers 2 in the theater, and everybody was laughing their balls off. Suddenly Elvis Costello starts singing some lame, soft-ass shiat and everybody fell asleep.

/those who weren't sleeping got up to piss or get more nachos
//I went for nachos
///what's with SNL alumni smearing their favorite artists all over their films' soundtracks?
////Sandler has a hard-on for Styx

cubsfan07: Holy shiat, that's two threads in a row where I agree with p the boiler (also your comments in the Hester thread I just exited).


You will be a Sox fan in no time

p the boiler: You will be a Sox fan in no time


I already am.

Yes, I know that's blasphemous and if I were back in Chicago I'm sure I'd be crucified, burned, stabbed, shot and quartered atop the Sears Tower. Can't help it, though. I started as a Cubs fan in the Sandberg/Dawson years and also became a Sox fan in the 90s (Frank Thomas/Carlton Fisk, etc). My parents and friends never really chose a particular side, so I just became a fan of both. I prefer the Cubs, but I never hated the Sox like so many fanatics.

Elvis Costello = boring.

"You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle?
Down in the Bermuda Traingle
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis needs boats."

/Okay, I know that's the wrong Elvis.
//I don't wanna here it
///'Cause I know what I've done
////What's on second?

Sending Elvis Costello fans into an impotent rage by saying you don't understand all the hype about him is fun, but for maximum hissyfit, make sure you add, "Although, I guess that one song he did--'Veronica'--was pretty cool. Did he do anything else good like that?"

/also works with Deadheads and "Touch of Grey"

p the boiler: My brother always loved Costello - I never quite got the appeal of the guy, sure he is a good musician, but his fans seem like they all have secret shrines to him built in their basements.

/not trying to knock his fans
//just don't get the obsession with him

This.

If he has Tom Waits on I will fap to it.

Diving for dear life, when we could be diving for pearls.

/just wanted to throw in some more lyrics for no good reason

Why the devotion? Aside from him being a brilliant lyricist, he has effortlessly gone through a thousand style changes since the mid-seventies. From angry-young-man to straight-up country. His tirades are acidic, and his love songs sincere. And until he did Oldsmobile commercials, hadn't sold out. Oh well. He's still my hero.

/I wish you luck with a capital "F".

testaclese: Why the devotion? Aside from him being a brilliant lyricist, he has effortlessly gone through a thousand style changes since the mid-seventies. From angry-young-man to straight-up country. His tirades are acidic, and his love songs sincere. And until he did Oldsmobile commercials, hadn't sold out. Oh well. He's still my hero.

/I wish you luck with a capital "F".

Wait - are we talking about Elvis or Madonna?

Don' start me talking, I could talk all night....

Elvis Costello is among the best song writers of the last 50 years, I put him up high on a pedestal with Lennon-Mccartney and Brian Wilson and a handful of other men and women. Not everybody likes his voice but damn the man writes a great song, hard to find a true clinker in the entire catalog. I am automatically interested in anything he does.

This makes me happy.

cubsfan07: Suddenly Elvis Costello starts singing some lame, soft-ass shiat

You dare disparage the genius that is Burt Bacharach?!?
Kids today wouldn't know good music if it bit 'em on the ear.

/why yes, I DO want them to get off my lawn, why do you ask?

One more widow one less white attractive and successful african american?

I pray at the alter of Elvis Costello!!! Seriously, I heard him clear his throat once and nearly swooned.

Some performers--Joe Jackson comes to mind--have ventured into other musical waters and have flapped about horribly... but Elvis, with the possible exception of NORTH (a diabetic coma of new-found devotion for his new wife), there is no dark path I wouldn't follow EC down!

Anyone could have seen this coming from the time EC guest-hosted for David Letterman. He certainly has a presence.

All that being said, however... he seems to be an incredibly competitive man/musician/performer. I hope that doesn't get in the way of this haute idea of actual in-depth meaning conversations about music. After all, he DID do a "cover" album of all the music that he'd written for other people ("All This Useless Beauty"), and blew away EVERY other version!

Yes, I pray at the alter of EC!!!!!

becausesammysaidso: a diabetic coma of new-found devotion for his new wife

If any one of us was nailing Diana Krall like he is, I like to think we'd excuse each other for our shiatty albums.

I've been wading through all of this unbelievable junk and wondering if I should've given the world to the monkeys...

Mr. Xhin: His aim is true.

/obscure?

One of my favorite farkisms is the person that gives the nod to one of the most obvious references and then follows it up with, "Obscure?"

My fear with Elvis is that once they start that talking he can talk all night.

Ive got a feeling
Im going to get a lot of grief
Once this seemed so appealing
Now I am beyond belief

Forget TV, we want a feature film version of Glitter Gultch!

Veronica live, nuff said
/got summit in my eye

It would be a better show if Elvis Costello responds to guests with his own lyrics...

And you think you're a guest, you're a tourist at best, peering into the corners of my dark life.

So they came from Ugly Texas and from Nameless Tennessee, from Peculiar Missouri and from places closer to me. All the cream of heartless England, cheered the carnival is over. Then remnants of red army bandsmen played "America The Beautiful"

/I've given you the awful truth
//Now give me my rest.

FirstNationalBastard: I would watch, but I'm overwhelmed by indifference and the promise of an early bed.

THIS

/wears heart on sleeve
//remarks are off the cuff

She said that she was working for the ABC news.
I was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

Got the word up on everyone's lipstick
That you're getting faded
You may not be an old fashioned girl
But you're gonna get get dated

Came home drunk
Talking in circles
The spirit is willing but I don't believe in miracles
I've got a problem but let's go to bed
I can roll over and I can play dead
But here I am in the doghouse instead
I feel like a boy with a problem
I can't believe all you've forgotten
Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me

The UK gets stuff like this and the USA gets "Keeping Up With The Kardashians", and "The Moment Of Truth". Yay. American culture is soooooo awesome.

If you all will excuse me, I'm going to go beat my television with the pointy end of a claw hammer.

becausesammysaidso: . . . NORTH (a diabetic coma of new-found devotion for his new wife) . . .

I LOVE North.