Elvis Costello -- He Sucks Right???
Sun_Fortune
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I'm packing up the house right now and wifey in training puts on some Elvis Costelloe garbage. He's her favorite and since I usually play music for both of us, I'm not complaining. But this guy SUCKS! I can't find anything redeeming. Lousy singing, sloppy playing, bullshitpiano rock. Am I wrong???Oh god, I hear footsteps.
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Played my track to some non-hip hop guy and he???s like ???you sampled that from Elvis Costello???!!!
One snare, just one snare!
And he spotted it?
And I never liked Elvis Costello.
I'm not a giant fan...but this album most definitely does NOT suck.
He also, in his Punk/Youth glory, denounced performers who continued to perform after they hit their 40's....and now at 50-something he's making records with Burt Bacharach!!
agreed.
and if i recall correctly, there's a little drum break on "(i don't want to go to) chelsea"
"Too snide" and too white....that whole UK "Pub" scene was pretty soul-less and caucasion....He wrote some good songs....and has become more "soulful" in his old age.....but his early stuff is pretty thin methinks.
Though i agree that shit he said about JB and Ray Charles is unforgivable...
certainlyy not a good look, but it seems there's rumours like that about every old rock dude. iggy pop, elvis presley, etc. i find it kinda hard to take seriously, but it's a little
no, it's true. basically he was being a drunken ass and was purposedly trying to wind up Stephen Stills' musicians and roadies, who were doing the cool hippie "the black man's got REAL soul" schtick with him, so he figured the easiest way to piss them off was to say shit like that. if you've ever read an interview with him, you can see that he knows a shitload about black music and is a real fan...
that said, i'm not a fan of music at all, i find his singing voice really really annoying.
It's absolutely true....in fact some years later Costello had the chance to meet Ray Charles but passed because he was embarrassed about his earlier comments.
hahaahahahahahaha
Correction, he is the album producer for this gem.
that sucks. Seems like a pretty obvious joke.
I have no opinion on elvis costello. I couldnt tell you any of his songs either.
I think the comments can be chalked up to the "punk" attitude that was hip at the time.....he obviously regrets them, but some things are unforgivable.
I am the official rock hatter on soulstrut. (I also hat the song Sunny.)
You are right! Back when my Aim Is True hit I kept hearing how great it was, all the critics were going nuts about this guy with a whole new sound and style who really rocked. I couldn't belive how lame and predictable it was when I heard it. His voice is unbearable.
Sadly critics (and even people on soulstrut) continue to hear something beyond his calculated songwriting, bad singing and medicore playing that you and I will never understand.
Dan
personal fave - Get Happy - 30 songs in under 40 minutes all killer NO FILLER
the first 3 records are also all great for different reasons.. the first is the most LIVE , the second features the classic new wave organ led sound and then the third is where he starts to get a bit artier.
after Get Happy its very very spotty if you ask me.
that said Blood And Chocolate is a rowdy late period masterpeace, and Brutal Youth was an incredible return to form and sounds awesome.
the attractions were a great band.. sloppy??? i dont know what you consider slop man... but Pete Thomas is one of the best rock drummers of his era, and Steve Naive is no slouch on the keys.
Elvis was also pure fire with the lyics:
Nice girls / not ones with the defects / cellophane shrinkwrap / so correct
really Elvis looses his appeal for me after he stopped working with Nick Lowe and got into his Jack Of All Trades shtick
then over the last 10 years he's seemed determined to completely sabotage any semblence of a reputation he ever had by doing unlistenable opera, bacharach, jazz and marrying Diana Crap (which would be kinda like Mick Jones marrying Norah Jones) and i've been unable to appreciate the man for awhile now.
that said neither of them have any appeal to people who like hairy nutted MC5 freak out style garage rock.
but fuckit i grew up with that shit and both dudes deserve all the props they get, if only the MASSIVE amounts of quality material they were able to pump out in a very very short period of time.
you have to remember the title of the elvis boset.. 2 & 1/2 years.. that's 3 stuffed to the gills lps, and double that in b-sides / unreleased tracks... dude was in the zone. Then you add on producing the specials, and get happy in under 3 years and i think i can forgive him for falling off afterwards.
i agree, it's pretty "light".
GENIUS LIGHT MUSIC
er... that's what I said.
I just want to make it clear he was not responsible for the music. He was just the record label guy in the studio when it happened.
Dan