Which ones, and how many is "plenty"? Really the only point i was making is that Trust was assigned a catalog number, putting it into the sequence about 3 years ago. The other EC albums were released. But i don't really know what you mean by "go by" the numbers, it's simply what they intend to release, yes? 273 1 x 33 Isaac Hayes Hot Buttered Soul 274 1 x 33 Cars Cars S/T 275 2 x 33 Dave Alvin Blackjack David 276 2 x 33 Alison Krauss So Long So Wrong 277 1 x 33 John Lennon Imagine 278 1 x 33 Aimee Mann Lost In Space 279 1 x 33 Los Lobos Good Morning Aztlan 280 1 x 33 John Lennon Plastic Ono Band 281 3 x 33 Alison Krauss Live Union Station (3lps) 282 1 x 33 Aimee Mann Bachelor No. 2 283 1 x 33 John Lennon & Yoko Live in Toronto 284 1 x 33 Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love 285 2 x 33 Megadeth Countdown To Extinction 286 1 x 33 Gerry Mulligan meets Scott Hamilton Soft lights & Sweet Music 287 1 x 33 Little Richard Here's Little Richard 288 2 x 33 Madeleine Peyroux Half The Perfect World 289 1 x 33 McCoy Tyner Sahara 290 1 x 33 Coleman Hawkins The Hawk Flies High 291 1 x 33 Marc Cohn Marc Cohn 292 1 x 33 Cowboy Junkies Whites Off Earth Now! 293 1 x 33 John Lennon Mind Games 294 1 x 33 Marshall Crenshaw Marshall Crenshaw 295 1 x 33 Foghat Fool For the City 296 1 x 33 Pixies Surfer Rosa 297 1 x 33 Art Pepper …The Way it Was! 298 1 x 33 Milt Jackson Sextet Invitation 299 1 x 33 Little Feat Little Feat S/T 300 1 x 33 Linda Ronstadt Don't Cry Now 301 1 x 33 Allman Brothers Idlewild South 302 1 x 33 Rush Permanent Waves 303 1 x 33 Santana Santana S/T 304 2 x 33 Roy Orbison All-Time Greatest Hits 305 1 x 33 Santana Abraxas 306 1 x 33 Linda Ronstadt Prisoner In Disguise 307 1 x 33 Little Feat Sailin' Shoes 308 2 x 33 Beck Sea Change (black) Pink - nov 2012 309 1 x 33 Pixies Doolittle 310 1 x 33 Faith No More Angel Dust 311 1 x 33 Pixies Bossanova 312 2 x 33 Frank Sinatra Live in Paris 313 1 x 33 Frank Sinatra Sinatra and Strings 314 1 x 33 Marvin Gaye What's Going On 315 1 x 33 Marvin Gaye Let's Get it On 316 2 x 33 Michael Brecker Pilgrimage 317 1 x 33 Frank Sinatra Nice & Easy 318 2 x 33 Patricia Barber Mythologies 319 1 x 33 Linda Ronstadt Hasten Down The Wind 320 1 x 33 Little Feat Dixie Chicken 321 1 x 33 Linda Ronstadt Simple Dreams 322 2 x 33 Little Feat Waiting for Columbus (live) 323 2 lp Madeleine Peyroux Bare Bones 324 1 x 33 Cars Candy-O 325 1 x 33 Cars Shake it up 326 1 x 33 Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely 327 2 x 33 Patricia Barber The Cole Porter Mix 328 1 x 33 Rickie Lee Jones Pirates 329 1 x 33 Elvis Costello My Aim is True 330 1 x 33 Elvis Costello This Year's Model 331 1 x 33 Elvis Costello Armed Forces 332 2 x 33 Frank Sinatra Sinatra Live at the Sands 333 1 x 33 Frank Sinatra Sinatra's Sinatra 334 1 x 33 Elvis Costello Get Happy! 335 1 x 33 Elvis Costello Almost Blue 336 337 1 x 33 Ray Charles The Genius Sings the Blues 338 1 x 33 Foreigner Foreigner S/T 339 1 x 33 Pretenders Learning to Crawl 340 1 x 33 Elvis Costello Trust
There is one track I have never seen mentioned. It is from the This Year's Model LP record issued in Sweden. It has a sped up version of Watching The Detectives.
D'oh! Should've checked out the catalog number before I opened my big trap. Anyhoo, they assign numbers way ahead of time and sometimes I'm wondering if they're ever gonna release it. Barry Manilow is # 415 and I don't know if it's still on the schedule or not. Same with the Silver Label Series.
Listening right now to the live tracks on disc two of the Tour Edition of Painted From Memory. Very nice indeed. I have been generally leery of EC's vocal mannerisms (excess vibrato, ahem) since the 1990s and I'm no special fan of Bacharach (I know: my bad. Whatever.). But these tracks are lovely and nicely performed! My EC collection is quite excellent through 1999, but I have entirely passed on the 2000-present period. It makes me wonder what the highlights have been of the past 15 years. Post-peak EC is one case (and there are others, of course) where I would give more trust to the SHMF consensus than to allmusic or to pitchfork. Any recommendations along the lines "If you had to recommend one post-1999 Costello release, what would it be..."? TIA, RH
There's 2 different cd singles for "Toledo" from PFM that have 2 live tracks each for a total of four from this tour, all recorded in Perth or Sydney. They are from Elvis's solo portion of the tour <which I attended in Wash DC> with just some guy named Steve Nieve accompanying him on piano. http://www.discogs.com/Elvis-Costello-With-Burt-Bacharach-Toledo/master/272253 They are : Such Unlikely Lovers Baby Plays Around Tears At The Birthday Party Inch By Inch/Fever. I have a Japan cd with that bonus live cd - it's not listed on Discogs for some reason. Very nice indeed. http://www.discogs.com/Elvis-Costello-With-Burt-Bacharach-Painted-From-Memory/master/59906 I just discovered that track 1 from the bonus cd is from the Conan O'Brian show - never knew that.
King of America may be utterly flawless. Or maybe it's just because the last three songs leave me breathless. "Eisenhower Blues", "Poisoned Rose", and "The Big Light" are kind of expendable. Still, I wouldn't want to get rid of them.
Interesting! I really did not like this album back in the day. Costello lost me with 'Goodbye Cruel World' and 'King of America'. That said I have not listened to KoA since the mid 80's. I think he redeemed himself with 'Blood & Chocolate'. Now there is a great album IMO.
Elvis has kind of lost me in the past few years too, but When I Was Cruel is excellent, imo. It seems like every decade or so Elvis puts out a good old "basher"; in 1986 it was Blood & Chocolate, in 1994 it was Brutal Youth, and in 2002 it was When I Was Cruel. He put out another pretty good one in Momofuku (2008). His Hurricane Katrina-inspired collaboration with Allen Toussaint (The River In Reverse) is very good, and the slightly Americana-leaning The Delivery Man has some great tracks on it. After that, I'm afraid, it's been diminishing returns, on a very steep curve. But that's just me -- I know that National Ransom, Sugarcane and Wise Up Ghost all have their ardent defenders. I'm sure I could make a solid hour-long playlist from the three that I'd enjoy, but frankly I'm just not inspired enough to do it.
Interesting. Blood And Chocolate is the one that I didn't like on first listen and haven't really listened to since. "Tokyo Storm Warning" is great, but nothing else on that album captured my attention. I need to listen again.
KoA and Blood & Chocolate were both released the same year. Those are 2 wonderful albums that couldn't be more dissimilar. When was the last time an artist did something like that?
I felt the opposite about the 1986 albums. I liked "KoA" a lot - still do - but never got into "B&C", and that one still leaves me cold. "B&C" seemed like a major disappointment at the time. Even while I liked "KoA", I was excited about a more straightforward "rock album", but "B&C" just didn't do it for me...
Make that plus two. Sean's description is right on the money for me. Ransom & Sugarcane, in particular, bored me to tears.
I love you guys, but I can't believe it's beginning to seem like I'm the only person left who thinks National Ransom might not be just his best post 1999 album, but ranks highly amongst his finest work.
It's EC's yin & yang! The only thing it reminds me of offhand is Dylan's amazing 1965, which saw both Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited. I'm sure there are tons of other examples, though. PS: I'm interpreting this not to mean just albums released in the same year, but also contrasting career triumphs.
So: if I pick up the standard edition When I Was Cruel (love that title...) plus Cruel Smile, will I be set? Or is there a special edition I need to look out for? TIA, RH
There actually is a special 2CD edition of WIWC. But the second disc is just an abbreviated version of Cruel Smile.
This is probably just a compilation meant to be a companion piece to the forthcoming autobiography, but one can hold out hope for some unreleased stuff... http://www.amazon.com/Unfaithful-Mu...id=1440847563&sr=1-12&keywords=elvis+costello
Me too. An advance review mentioned several unreleased songs are mentioned in the book, so it seems reasonable to suspect some unreleased recordings could be included.
I am with ya on National Ransom being a good one or on one I like. Maybe a couple songs too long and maybe a tad all over the place at times as a result of those two to four extra, but there's got to be an lp worth of goodies there! Jimmie Standin In The Rain Church Underground Voice in the Dark All These Strangers Bullets for the Newborn King Josephine and a few others??? I like the title song but not the arrangement so much. I like 5 Small Words though. Or is it 3 .
I'll listen to it again with fresh ears and report back. I just listened to Wise Up Ghost for the first time in forever and liked a few tracks. Problem with these past few albums for me is, after I've given it a "new listen" I never feel pulled to play it again right away, so the songs never really sink in.
The title track has been re-arranged a couple times since then. Including the version heard on the live CD of the Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook disc.
