First posted in February of 2023. Elvis Costello, King of America album cover Stripping away much of the excess that cluttered Punch the Clock and Goodbye Cruel World, Elvis Costello returned to his folk-rock and pub rock roots with King of America, creating one of his most affecting and personal records. Costello literally took on…
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dVerse — Poetics — just the baubles, please!
You all know the wild grief that besets us when we remember times of happiness. – Ernst Junger, On the Marble Cliffs, John Lehmann, 1947 If, if only we could choose them, severed threads cauterized, polished and shining like coins rolling end over end in sunlight, when it’s always what we call it — where…
Light of Day #5 — Interview/Music Elvis Costello and Sting
Another one of those randomly happened across things that brought joy to me. The whole video is more than 30 minutes, but even watching the first 10 minutes will do it. Now that I know this series exists, I need to try to get both seasons. Cmon library, please open (when the time is right,…
Coloring Club Plus — 4/28/19
Elvis Costello’s This Year’s Model is a 2-CD set, a total of 25 songs. That’s a lot of music. Pump It Up is one of those eminently danceable tunes that you can work up a sweat on. This Year’s Model is Elvis Costello’s second album and his first with the Attractions, released in 1978. This…
Coloring Club Plus — 3/2/19
Per wiki: Elvis Costello’s “Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album” (2015) collection is a companion to Elvis Costello’s memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink and includes two previously unreleased tracks: I Can’t Turn It Off and April 5th. It’s a 2-disc set, each disc almost 80 minutes of music. Amazing how much music included…
Coloring Club Plus — 2/24/19
drawing by Andrew Chalfen Am again listening to Elvis Costello’s, “Get Happy!!”, (1980). Tonight I listened to the 20 track, “non-bonus” disc. Choice that jumped out was “Secondary Modern”. I tried to get information on the song and learned that, per wiki, that, “A secondary modern school is a type of secondary school that existed…
Coloring Club Plus — 2/23/19
drawings from Andrew Chalfen Listening while coloring was Elvis Costello’s, “Get Happy!!”, (1980) at least one disc of the 2-disc set. The disc I listened to has 30 – yes, 30! – tracks on it. The other disc in the set has another 20 tracks. Mind-boggling! It was difficult choosing one, but I settled on…
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