Well, since this one got the greenlight, reckon I'll post the clip I stumbled across in this thread then:

Costello w/Nick Lowe, Chris Difford & Glenn Tilbrook doing "Pretty Flamingo"

May toss out some more links if I come across anything else interesting and/or semi-obscure...

Should have put the performance from the Larry Sanders Show.

Link to it (new window)

/Hey now!

That original link was awesome. "Now I'm dead."

I just sent that to my friend who is dying from cancer and taking a cruise in the meantime.

Was that wrong of me?

~ Pinky ~

Hey, it's an Elvis thread. Must post.

Taking this moment to say that "Goodbye Cruel World" ...

...really is the only bad album he ever recorded.

Here's another good one: a particularly biting version of "I Want You" -- love his guitar tone here; the little hands of concrete get quite a workout.

Also originally on Blood And Chocolate: "I Hope You're Happy Now"

An old favorite of mine (okay, aren't they all?): "Man Out Of Time" -- really love Steve Nieve's piano work here. And as good a bass player as Davey Faragher is, Bruce Thomas is still the man in my book.

Anyway, enjoy (or don't, you lousy rotten party pooper!). Won't say I'll not be back with more later... can't seem to stop myself when I get on a roll.

54? Soon it will be whats so funny about depends, prunes, and not understanding.

My own favorite Declan McManus song (new window)

His family names of McManus & Costello both originate from the
west of Ireland (County Roscommon, to be precise) so he could well
be a cousin of mine....

Elvis Costello is good,
but he is no Scatman Crothers.

DjangoStonereaver: My own favorite Declan McManus song (new window)


Nick Lowe wrote that one, though.

"Goodbye Cruel World" underrated. Excellent album.

DrBenway: DjangoStonereaver: My own favorite Declan McManus song (new window)

Nick Lowe wrote that one, though.

I did not know that. His performance of it, however, is definitive
to my mind.

OK, then, how about:

Yes, he cowrote this with Paul McCartney. Who cares? (new window)

WARNING: The above video contains graphic footage of Linda McCartney Singing

craigdamage:

Scatman Crothers is good,
but he is no Gorgoroth.

DrBenway:

Mighty fine links you're posting there. I'm a fan of Mr. McManus. And a fan of Difford, Tilbrook, & Nick Lowe, so "Pretty Flamingo" was a treat.

He's not that well known for it, but Glenn Tilbrook is a pretty fine guitar player:

Acoustic "Voodoo Chile" vid (new window)

And a helluva nice guy, too.

GibbyTheMole:

Mighty fine links you're posting there. I'm a fan of Mr. McManus. And a fan of Difford, Tilbrook, & Nick Lowe, so "Pretty Flamingo" was a treat.

He's not that well known for it, but Glenn Tilbrook is a pretty fine guitar player:

Acoustic "Voodoo Chile" vid (new window)

And a helluva nice guy, too.


That was awesome! Last thing I would've pictured him doing -- not sure I've ever seen anyone play that on an acoustic guitar before. Only thing missing was him playing with his teeth. And a New Orleans friend did some work with him for awhile just a few years ago and confirmed your "helluva nice guy" appraisal. I'll have to fwd that link along to him, he'll get a kick out of it I'm sure.

May still have another link or three up my sleeve...

My contribution to the thread.

vstring: "Goodbye Cruel World" underrated. Excellent album.

You have to be trolling, because while no one loves Elvis moer than I, that album was giant piece of shiat.

Deportee's Club works only as a solo acoustic number, (the Rykodisc version contains this), and there isn't really a noteworthy track on the whole farking thing.

Hebalo:

vstring: "Goodbye Cruel World" underrated. Excellent album.

You have to be trolling, because while no one loves Elvis moer than I, that album was giant piece of shiat.

Deportee's Club works only as a solo acoustic number, (the Rykodisc version contains this), and there isn't really a noteworthy track on the whole farking thing.


Don't know if I'd go quite that far, but yeah, the best stuff is easily among the extras. I know "The Comedians" more from Roy Orbison's version; don't think I've ever heard Elvis's cover of "Withered and Died" but I'd very much like to. I could swear I've seen a clip of him doing "Sleepless Nights" with Emmylou Harris before, but I can't seem to find one anywhere. Not one of his better songs IMO, but this clip of "The Only Flame In Town" from that album is an interesting curiosity for this: Elvis without his spectacles!

Here's a good two-for-the-price-of-one deal -- Elvis and Lucinda Williams (another favorite) playing together on each other's songs:

Indoor Fireworks
Changed The Locks

Pretty good version of "Lipstick Vogue" from May '78 gig in Boston with scary close-ups of zombie Elvis in the middle -- video is a bit wobbly at the start, but gets corrected quickly enough. The second time I saw him live was about 3 weeks after this was shot.

French television with Lou Reed in '96, performing Lou's "Set The Twilight Reeling"

Elvis and the Attractions performing the Jimmy Cliff chestnut "Many Rivers To Cross"

There is no other musician or artist of any kind who can bring out the emotions in me that EC does. I am in complete awe of his mind. His lyrics and music can make me laugh, both out loud and cynically, literally weep with pain and heartache, and think about ideas I would've never had. He's my tonic, my sabbath, my poet, my vent.

Happy birthday, Dec'. I'll always be your shabby doll.

I know my Stalker's License will be approved soon. I did really well on the written.

Watch yer back, Krall.

DrBenway: Hebalo:

vstring: "Goodbye Cruel World" underrated. Excellent album.

You have to be trolling, because while no one loves Elvis moer than I, that album was giant piece of shiat.

Deportee's Club works only as a solo acoustic number, (the Rykodisc version contains this), and there isn't really a noteworthy track on the whole farking thing.


Don't know if I'd go quite that far, but yeah, the best stuff is easily among the extras.

The production buries GCW more than the songwriting (Which is sub-par for him but not as awful as the production) but Love Field is a pretty nice li'l number, too.

This clip rocks.