Right, work sucks and so I have just purchased tickets to catch Elvis Costello perform on October 5, and I’m pretty psyched. Likely that Costello would be performing a bunch of slower-paced ballads (just my guess) but that’s not bad at all. Here are six songs that I hope he’ll get around to performing in between chatters, will update on this after the gig:
“You Trip At Every Step” (Brutal Youth is actually the first Elvis Costello album I’ve ever heard – very good memories of those days – and this is my favorite track off the album)
“Nothing Clings Like Ivy” (From the recent, rather underrated album The Delivery Man, brilliantly parading his way with a nice old bittersweet ballad)
“Poor Fractured Atlas” (Not the best known of his songs, but I got a feeling Elvis would have a soft touch for this number, if only for the line “a woman wouldn’t understand it”; the All These Useless Beauty album also has this song co-written with Aimee Mann which is quite wonderful)
“Alison” (An old favorite, early promise in every sense, off his debut record in 1977 – "It's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl/ And with the way you look I understand that you were not so impressed.")
“Little Triggers” (This Year’s Model is probably my favorite Costello album, and this is the one song that I’m betting he’ll pull out from this album, which got a 10.0 rating from Pitchforkmedia btw)
“The Sweetest Punch” (A song from Elvis’ collaboration with the man Burt Bacharach, incredible melodies and fantastic blissfully-yours lyrics: “You knocked me out, it was the sweetest punch/ The bell goes...”)
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