I love Elvis Costello's two stray tracks compilations- "Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers" and "Out Of Our Idiot"- so much, I decided to continue with my own collection covering what came after the two aforementioned collections.
Jumping off an artist's bus way too early is an oft-discussed topic on these pages. Sometimes I'm quite frankly flabbergasted by how early some of you bailed on artists. But such is life.
From McCartney and Mick & Keith to Bowie, Todd Rundgren and Costello, I've loved more of their later material than their earlier "classic" material. And while this 16 track mix is by no means a perfect representation of Elvis Costello's last 35-40 years, it does play very well...at least to my ears.
Maybe a few tracks will send you back to some of the albums you only thought you didn't like. Believe me, there is life after "Trust."
TRACKLIST:
Poisoned Letter
Someone Else's Heart w/The Roots
What Do I Do Now?
The Ugly Things
Mistress & Maid (Demo)
Crimes Of Paris (Electric Version)
The Only Flame In Town (Demo)
Just About Glad (Bonaparte Rooms Version)
Ship Of Fools
Running Out Of Fools
Sticks & Stones
All These Things
What Do You Want The Girl To Do w/Allen Toussaint (Live Toronto)
Innocent When You Dream
All The Rage (Demo)
American Tune
14 comments:
Brilliant idea and great choices. Loved those stray comps back in the day. Felt like I'd stumbled into some secret initiates-only stash. Thanks. --Muzak McMusics
Perhaps it's me being sub-genius but it seems the link is dead.
Rick, I always check before and after I publish. The link is fine. Just checked again. Could be your browser, which is usually the issue.
Nice collection. Thanks for sharing.
I'm guilty of largely giving up on Costello , Bowie and others. I think the reasons are numerous and complicated; not simply rejection of their music.
1: Old age. I have too much music and not enough time and energy to listen to it all (or room to store it)
2: format changes. Vinyl, cassettes, CDs I navigated successfully. Recording my own CDs was the height of convenience/technological sci-fi.
Then it started getting complicated. I just felt too old to keep up any longer. My brain and my equipment both wore out at the same time.
I admire you, Sal, for keeping your flame burning. I will DL the Costello comp and figure out a way to listen to it. Thank you.
Great collection. I am on board with hanging in there with classic artists. I find we are generally not forgiving as artists age and sound different from their classic years. Peter Wolf has had an excellent later-stage career.
a couple things here I don't have. Thanks!
Elvis fanatic here, but I do admit to falling off his albums after (sorry to say!!!) Spike. From then on, I related to him here, but not there, etc.
So I appreciate this. I know it's my loss to not keep up with him as fully as I should - even though I still went to see him live many times after '89 and hope to see him this year too.
Good selection. Glad to his cover of What Do I Do Now there, I always loved the Sleeper original and it's novelist's eye for detail (Wener later became a novelist) which raised it miles above the usual Britpop fare. At the time I was glad to see EC give it the nod of approval.
But surely, to be proudly, bloody pedantic, if it's supposed to be a series with 10 Bloody Mary's & Idiot, there's a couple of pre-87 tunes which shouldn't really be there? I'd nominate Coal Train Robberies (Do CD extra tracks count the same as B Sides?) and That Day Is Done?
I justify the pre-87 tunes this way. They were unknown to us until the late 90's/early 2000's, and it's what I felt like hearing. ;)
Excellent follow up, thank you.
Thanks a million. It was a browser issue.
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing. Can you tell me where What Do You Want the Girl to Do duet is from? Thx
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