Elvis Costello & The Imposters new album: The Boy Named If

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by LandHorses, Oct 27, 2021.

  1. Leugi

    Leugi Forum Resident

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    ^I think this describes how many of us feel…

    still, live, Elvis totally brings it so people keep going! He is a very intense performer
     
  2. Stone Turntable

    Stone Turntable Independent Head

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    And I think about him, now and then
    Every time I try and every time I win
    And if I ever have a boy, I'll name him
    Bill or George or Frank or If, anything but Sue!
     
  3. phillyal1

    phillyal1 Forum Resident

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    my exact thought when I saw him a few years ago
     
  4. BricksNBeatles

    BricksNBeatles The driver of an underground train

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    ****! I didn’t know he was playing Brookville yesterday. I would’ve gone
     
  5. Bluepicasso

    Bluepicasso Android Confused

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    Kinda sums up how I feel about Mr. Costello.
     
  6. The Elephant Man

    The Elephant Man Forum Resident

    Elvis may contact you to be producer of his next album.
     
  7. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes Thread Starter

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    Tilles Center
     
  8. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes Thread Starter

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    Mostly agree except I love When I Was Cruel and River In Reverse……….(I’m also an Allan Toussaint fan).
     
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  9. kwadguy

    kwadguy Senior Member

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    Great. Hope he still has my number!
     
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  10. C6H12O6

    C6H12O6 Senior Member

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    River In Reverse is more or less a tribute album to me, partly because a huge chunk of those Toussaint numbers were already definitively done by Lee Dorsey. They're fine here, but I've got those Dorsey albums and play them more, so the only thing I really go back to is like an EP's worth of favorites specifically composed (or at least newly written lyric-wise) for EC's album.
     
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  11. NH147

    NH147 Forum Resident

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    Well, as a few of us feel the same, let’s see what this one brings us.....
     
  12. misterdecibel

    misterdecibel Bulbous Also Tapered

    How do you feel about Willie Nelson then?
     
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  13. onlyconnect

    onlyconnect The prose and the passion

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    Opposite in the UK I would say.

    Tim
     
  14. Dodgytc

    Dodgytc Forum Resident

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    Is there a general release of a 7 inch single for Magnificent Hurt? I have seen a picture of one online but cannot find release or pre-order links.
    Or is this a strictly limited promo item?

    TC
     
  15. mrjinks

    mrjinks Optimistically Challenged

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    For those who like signed things, I see his official UK site up is promoting a couple signed items as “exclusives.”

    I used a vpn to access the site and was able to order one of these for delivery to the US. We’ll see if it actually works! Anyway, thought I’d share that story here…
     
  16. Claudio Dirani

    Claudio Dirani A Fly On Apple's Wall

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    Hi folks? Has anybody by chance "taped" Farewell OK when it was up on youtube?

    thank you
     
  17. PaeffgenBlue

    PaeffgenBlue Forum Resident

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    Here's a new track from the album:

    Paint The Red Rose Blue



    Now I must say that this is the first time in a very, very long time that I've fallen in love with a new song of his instantly.
    So beautiful.
    His choices for the first tracks he releases are a bit puzzling to me: Magnificent Hurt was just like another of his uninspired filler tracks to me, but then he comes up with something gorgeous.

    I really hated No Flag at the time and only recently I found out that I like the Hey Clockface album a lot. So now I know that I should not dismiss an album he makes when I don't like the first preview track.
     
  18. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes Thread Starter

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    Very nice. This was the only new song he premiered on the last tour that I didn’t get to see.
     
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  19. Summer of Malcontent

    Summer of Malcontent Forum Resident

    The fine label Joyful Noise produce flexi discs with exclusive material as bonuses with almost all of their new album releases, and in the teens had monthly releases for subscribers and a fancy box to keep them in at the end of the year. Contributors included lots of significant artists like Deerhoof, Of Montreal, Lou Barlow, Jad Fair, Tortoise, Sufjan Stevens, Built to Spill, Why?, Son Lux, The Melvins, Marnie Stern, Daniel Johnson, Lee Ranaldo, Wye Oak and Thurston Moore.

    So for such an annoying and unreliable medium, flexidiscs have been cool for quite a while now.
     
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  20. Michael Macrone

    Michael Macrone Forum Resident

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    Very nice—and Elvis sings it very effectively. The harmony reminds me at times of "Shabby Doll."
     
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  21. The Panda

    The Panda Forum Mutant

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    Thank God no vibrato like You Shouldn't Look at me That way.
     
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  22. John Hatter

    John Hatter Senior Member

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    EC was on UK television last night. Good performance of Pump it Up and 1 from the new album.
    My daughter who is only vaguely familiar with Pump it Up asked “why is he singing out of time with the beat?”
    He was indeed and I thought it sounded quite odd.
     
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  23. Ryan Lux

    Ryan Lux Senior Member

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    Haven’t paid attention in quite awhile but the new tracks sound great.
     
  24. ARL

    ARL Forum Resident

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    That one sounds very nice - the melody reminds me at times of "All This Useless Beauty" (I think)

    I can't help feeling though that this album will be another one like Look Now where I liked it at first, but then end up leaving it on the shelf in favour of listening to the older stuff that I know. I'm finding this quite a bit these days where new albums from legacy artists that I like are having a hard time dislodging the established classics from my rotation, even though I know that they are decent efforts.
     
  25. Porkpie

    Porkpie Forum Resident

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    I cancelled my preorder as although I liked the new track I heard, do I really need another EC album on vinyl for £30 that I might play half a dozen times max? I liked Look Now but the last abum of his I genuinely loved was When I Was Cruel. I’d preorder that on vinyl in a heartbeat.
     

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