Favourite Costello tune

[NMH]

What is your favourite Elvis Costello tune?

 

[WATFORD O]

A FEW ARE OK BUT MOSTLY HE IS OVERRATED.

NMH in lack of taste shocker!

 

[WATFORD O]

and whoever voted for 'good year for the roses' needs f***ing hanging.............

 

[Trufflehound]

Shipbuilding

 

[Icy Gull]

A very well known song he wrote for someone else that I only found out last week was a Costello penned song, and I can't remember what it was. Gonna bug me all day now trying to think of it

 

[Superphil]

Radio Radio

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Watching the Detectives...its so cute

 

[Pevenseagull]

as I'm in a shitty mood today

'I Want You' or 'Pills and Soap'

from that list "What's So Funny (bout peace love and understanding)" - although given his reputation as a songwriter it's worth noting that Nick Lowe wrote it

 

[Grendel]

Shipbuilding

I second that.

 

[perth seagull]

I'm one of the silent majority (so far in this thread), Oliver's Army.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

New Amsterdam.

 

[33057 Seagull]

I was about to post that Shipbuilding wasn't written by Costello but by Robert Wyatt; but on looking it up it was after all.

Interestingly other than Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) notably in 'The Final Cut' as far as I remember Shipbuilding was the only anti Falklands War composition.

Funny that Pink Floyd, who were hated by the punk movement & that particularly Roger Waters was more left wing & politically right on than, perhaps with the exception of the Clash, the rest of the punk movement.

 

[The Auditor]

Cant stand up for the falling down.....

 

[Storer68]

Cant stand up for the falling down.....

ditto.

shoukld be played at Withdean to remind the stewards...........

 

[cheeseroll]

Hi fidelity.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Oliver's Army is their Citizens Kane isn't it. This years model is a great album and I also love Chelsea. The PC brigade would ban Oliver's army now wouldn't they

"London is full of Arabs
We could be in Palestine "

Shocking

 

[On the Left Wing]

The Other Side of Summer

 

[sully]

I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down is the only Costello record I own.

I like most of his stuff, though, and saw a great concert of his at the Top Rank many moons ago.


Bizarrely, on a skiing holiday in a sleepy little village in Switzerland (Champoussin) a few years ago (c.7), the cafe attached to the hotel we stayed in played Costello albums all day long. Every day!

 

[cheeseroll]

Oliver's Army is their Citizens Kane isn't it. This years model is a great album and I also love Chelsea. The PC brigade would ban Oliver's army now wouldn't they

"London is full of Arabs
We could be in Palestine "

Shocking

You have to read that line in the context of the song which is about mercinary recruitment, and this being one of the lines that could be used to attract a young recruit.

A bit vague i know but at the time we all knew that Costello was heavily involved in Rock against Racism.