Entertainment For Lively Minds
Elvis and Madness
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?
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)
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.
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.
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
an echo of "Sunny Afternoon"
in the build up to the chorus?
You can find...
...the EC/Madness version of Tomorrow's Just Another Day here.