Eggs, what's your fave Elvis Costello song?

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

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[Eggs Mayonnaise]

"I wanna bite the hand that feeds me, I wanna bite that hand so badly, I wanna make them wish they'd never, chained me!"

He wasn't too happy with the record company or the plight of American radio back in '77...

 

[jack]

Well you know that afternoon before the show he was arrested for setting up his amp and guitar outside of Columbia records (I think it was them) and playing all his songs as an audition. They wouldn't let him in the building,so he set up on the street and started belting out "Alison" and "Red Shoes" and was arrested for about an hour. The record company bailed him out, he went on TV that night, and they signed him to a three record deal that Monday. All in all a nice intro for Declan

 

[Archibald Nixon]

Holy shit. Talk about Sophie's Choice! And there's only about 300 to choose from.

Wow. Trouble is, my buzz is wearing off from my night out, but I can at least list the songs that always make my list reflexively, for one reason or another:

"Clowntime Is Over" from Get Happy!!
"Riot Act" from Get Happy!!
"Oliver's Army" from Armed Forces
"No Action" from This Year's Model
"Lipstick Vogue" from This Year's Model
"Blame It On Cain" from My Aim Is True
"Watching the Detectives" from My Aim Is True
"New Lace Sleeves" from Trust
"Clubland" from Trust
"You'll Never Be A Man" from Trust
"Kid About It" from Imperial Bedroom
"Almost Blue" from Imperial Bedroom
"Man Out of Time" from Imperial Bedroom
"Shabby Doll" from Imperial Bedroom
"Shipbuilding" from Punch the Clock
"Brilliant Mistake" from King of America
"Jack of All Parades" from King of America
"Sleep of the Just" from King of America
"Uncomplicated" from Blood & Chocolate
"I Hope You're Happy Now" from Blood & Chocolate
"Battered Old Bird" from Blood & Chocolate
"This Town..." from Spike
"Veronica" from Spike
"Baby Plays Around" from Spike
"God's Comic" from Spike
"Any King's Shilling" from Spike
"So Like Candy" from Mighty Like a Rose
"Dear Sweet Filthy World" from The Juliet Letters
"Romeo's Seance" from The Juliet Letters
"The First to Leave" from The Juliet Letters
"Clown Strike" from Brutal Youth
"Still to Soon to Know" from Brutal Youth
"London's Brilliant Parade" from Brutal Youth
"Rocking Horse Road" from Brutal Youth
"All the Rage" from Brutal Youth
"Favourite Hour" from Brutal Youth
"The Other End Of The Telescope" from All This Useless Beauty
"Poor Fractured Atlas" from All This Useless Beauty
"You Bowed Down" from All This Useless Beauty
"Toledo" from Painted From Memory
"I Still Have That Other Girl" from Painted From Memory
"What's Her Name Today" from Painted From Memory
"God Give Me Strength" from Painted From Memory
"Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution)" from When I Was Cruel
"When I Was Cruel #2" from When I Was Cruel
"Episode of Blonde" from When I Was Cruel
"When Did I Stop Dreaming?" from North
"The Delivery Man" from The Delivery Man
"Monkey to Man" from The Delivery Man

Nowhere does this list include "Imagination is a Powerful Deceiver", from the deluxe, 2-cd version ofMy Aim Is True, and I was about to declare it null and void until I saw that you'd included "Blame it on Cain".

All is therefore well. Carry on.

 

[Archibald Nixon]

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[Donovan]

I forgot the Radio, radio thing from SNL. I loved that song...

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

In honor of his birthday, and in case we get another Bush in the White House:

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At least Thatcher died without a corral of genetic replacements...

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

This was a pretty good drunk thread, if I may say so myself!

 

[CaptainWacky]

I thought Tisi had come back for a second there.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I still play Scrabble on my phone with her.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I thought that was Curious, or do you just have a big "women who don't post in the MF anymore" scarbble tournament going on and is MissManners in it too?

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I have the mysterious power to play Scrabble/Words With Friends with everyone in the world, and then make them forget the did.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Use lots of Mine Field themed words like "wacky" and "ducks" and "suicide soon".

 

[headvoid]

Lol, I HAVE AN ALBUM THAT EGGS DOESN"T HAVE!

(It's a UK only vinyl collection of B Sides)

I'm so cool every time I go to work in the east end of London they all go WOOOAH WHO IS THE DUUUDDDE?

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Yup! It's basically the UK version of Taking Liberties here is the US. Released between Get Happy!!! and Trust.

All the tracks have been spread out over bonus discs of his earlier albums in the Rykodisc and Rhino reissues.

I swear I thnk I have bought his entire early catalog 4 times over.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

BUT I DID BUY THIS UK COMPILATION ALBUM. BECAUSE THERE NEVER WAS AN EQUIVALENT US RELEASE (since it was on Demon Records).

YEAH!

 

[CaptainWacky]

REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS IN FRASIER?

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

AND THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN AND TWO AND A HALF MEN AND THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW AND THE GOODE FAMILY AND 30 ROCK AND THE SIMPSONS AND THAT'S NOT EVEN THE FILMS HE'S DONE OMG

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

AND OMG STEPHEN COLBERT'S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL ZOMG!

 

[CaptainWacky]

Was he really in Frasier? It sounded right so I said it.