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
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
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ReplyDeleteRick, I always check before and after I publish. The link is fine. Just checked again. Could be your browser, which is usually the issue.
DeleteNice collection. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI'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.
ReplyDelete1: 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.
ReplyDeletea couple things here I don't have. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteElvis 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.
ReplyDeleteSo 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.
ReplyDeleteBut 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. ;)
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ReplyDeleteGreat 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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