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Elvis and Madness

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Rather wonderful clip of Elvis Costello performing Tomorrow’s Just Another Day live with Madness from 1983. In EC's discography it comes directly between the singles of Man Out Of Time and I Wanna Be Loved, y'know when he wore those 'Brains from Thunderbirds' glasses. Also features a rather starstruck young Suggs and co.


I used to have Madness’s 12” single of the same track with Elvis’s vocal on the flipside - which reminds me that hidden tacks, double CD reissues with demos and collectors booklets, DVD Easter eggs, iTunes only sessions and so on don’t match up to the thrill of coveting a rare-ish piece of vinyl. In the same vein, the live portion of the clip, shot on several 16mm cameras, provides welcome relief from the relentless swooping about / fast cutting style of modern concert footage.

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I'm sure....

.....I heard Elvis sing a version of Our House on the radio,, years ago. Anyone care to confirm. Is it anywhere available?

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Retropath2 | 16 May 2009 - 5:25pm

Don't know about that

but I do know that the song's plangent minor chords turn it into an entirely different beast when it loses the (pleasing) mania of the original. Try it on an acoustic after half a bottle of wine, you might weep. Or is that just me?

PS Paul: "Between Man Out Of Time and I Wanna Be Loved" - wasn't there an entire album, Punch The Clock, between those? (Confused emoticon)

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Gary Parkinson | 16 May 2009 - 6:11pm

Costello covers

Check out his piano accompanied version of Los lobos' matter of time and also his version of I still miss someone. Don't know about Our House but it wouldn't surprise me. Any Costello fans out there help me with a slowed down piano version of Accidents will happen. Doesn't appear on any of the cd's of his that I have and they must number 40 plus.

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Steve Turner | 16 May 2009 - 7:14pm

Do you mean the one...

...that was on the free live single that came with early vinyl versions of Armed Forces?

It's on the bonus disc in the latest 2-disc re-release. You must have that one though, Steve?

If there's another (studio) version, I'd like to know about it too.

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Paul Waring | 17 May 2009 - 8:43am

Yeah its was on

the 'Live at the Hollywood High' EP that came with Armed Forces, now on the reissues. Don't know of a studio version.

He and Steve returned to play it that way on the 1999 tour

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DogFacedBoy | 17 May 2009 - 2:59pm

an echo of "Sunny Afternoon"

in the build up to the chorus?

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Sheev | 17 May 2009 - 8:49am

You can find...

...the EC/Madness version of Tomorrow's Just Another Day here.

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Paolo Meccano | 22 May 2009 - 3:33pm
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