Music Head Wrote:from my library (cd)



Imposters, Attractions, whatever, they sound the same to me. Elvis's 21st album, and yes, he does deliver. This is
the latest one I have. A concept album, which I rarely get, a story about the impact on three woman’s lives of a
man with a hidden past. I don't know, I just listen to it. Two standouts in Monkey To Man and There's A Story In
Your Voice with Lucinda Williams helping out. Can't believe there's no clip for that gem. My woman Emmylou Harris
is on 3 tracks here, none are great, and Heart Shaped Bruise is the best. Can barely hear her on two of those tracks.
Nothing bad on this album. Not a great one but certainly a good one. Elvis comes through again. Rocking out or
chilling out, he can do it all. This man could probably be in my top 10 of all time, and my collection is yet to be filled up.
This one made #40 in the US and #73 in the UK.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love

Best Track - There's A Story In Your Voice

Once upon another time
If you had the need
I'd step right in the shoes that you've been walking
'Cos someone put the hurt in you
For every one to see
And you only have to speak to tell your fortune

There's a story in your voice
Both by damage and by choice
It tells of promises and pleasure
And a tale of wine and woe
The uneasy time to come
And the long way 'round we go to get there

Once you told me fairytales
Everybody knows
But I didn't care for their prediction
Now you say you're leaving me
And packing up your clothes
I finally see you were a work of fiction

There's a story in your walk
Then you crumble just like chalk
And I could say that I was sorry
But I wouldn't mean it much
There are pages I can't touch
And something that's been torn out of this chapter

Far away, not far enough
'Cos I can still recall
How it felt when I read that last sentence
Now I go inside some rooms with Gideon in them all
And hide myself from all hope of repentance

There's a story in your eyes
Cheap sunglasses might disguise
But when the bedroom light reveals
All that bravado and that fright
That you cover up in spite
Attempts to strip away this fabrication

There's a story in your voice
Both by damage and by choice
It tells of promises and pleasure
And a tale of wine and woe
The uneasy time to come
And the long way 'round we go to get there

1) Button My Lip **
2) Country Darkness **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZwd7AAM8zU
3) There's A Story In Your Voice ***
4) Either Side Of The Same Town **
live - Elvis Costello - Either Side Of The Same Town - YouTube
5) Bedlam **
live - Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Bedlam (Tim Festival 2005) - YouTube
6) The Delivery Man **
live - The Delivery Man: Elvis Costello on Jools - YouTube
7) Monkey To Man ***
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_EyXPs2_Jk
8) Nothing Clings Like Ivy **
9) The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love **
10) Heart Shaped Bruise **
live - Elvis Costello & Emmylou Harris - Heart Shaped Bruise - YouTube
11) Needle Time **
12) The Judgement **
live - Elvis Costello - The Judgment - YouTube
13) The Scarlet Tide **
live - Elvis Costello Emmylou Harris- The scarlet tide - YouTube

3's - 2
2's - 11
1's - 0

Grade - 2.2

so many albums, so little time

SteveO Wrote:Another artist that really never released a bad album !!!!...very consistent with good records...Get Happy !! and his classic My Aim is True stand out among his other 30 studio albums !

Tiggi Wrote:^ I quite like The Juliet Letters. Very unusual, but not bad...