What Song are you listening to?

[soulfinger]

Elgin Towers - Smoove & Turrell

[Low D]

The Specials - B.L.M. (Black Lives Matter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FyOjzU ... dex=3&t=0s

[Frances]

Living in America
James Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58

Like New Orleans
Detroit City
Dallas
Pittsburgh P.A.
New York City
Kansas City
Atlanta
Chicago
and L.A.

[leadshoes]

Mu - Sun Ra & his Astro Infinity Arkestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s53Q9Zf4dFs

[Low D]

(What's so funny about) Peace, Love, and Understanding?
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
https://youtu.be/Ssd3U_zicAI

As I walk through this wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity
I ask myself, "Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?"
And each time I feel like this inside
There's one thing I wanna know

What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?

And as I walk on through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong and who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony, sweet harmony?
'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away
Just makes me wanna cry

What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
So where are the strong and who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony, sweet harmony?
'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away
Just makes me wanna cry

What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?

[Frances]

Elvis Costello

Fuck Declan Patrick MacManus, OBE.


... Costello doesn’t flinch when recounting the potentially career-ending drunken brawl he got into at a Holiday Inn in 1979 with members of Stephen Stills’ band, in which he reportedly called James Brown and Ray Charles enough racial slurs to land him his first nationwide media coverage. Like his hero John Lennon — after his “bigger than Jesus” comment in 1966 — Costello faced the press with a ham-fisted apology. It took years for him to live down the incident, but he still carries the scars. He asks the reader if they think he’s a racist, and lists a litany of defenses — from his poor mental state at the time while on a grueling tour of the States, to his obvious admiration for and his many collaborations over the years with black artists. In the end he sums it up simply: “Never mind excuses, there are no excuses.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc0TKZm3EjQ



... Stills and his party unfortunately fell for the whole routine and became immediately defensive. At which point, Costello upped the tempo and apparently dismissed the entire American nation as "just a bunch of flea-bitten greasers and niggers." This was bound to cause the uproar Costello was looking for, and of course it did. One account of the incident has a member of Stills' crew grabbing Costello by the scruff of the neck and telling him in no uncertain terms to keep his mouth shut, of which there was by now no chance. Costello had gone too far to back down. According to a report in the Random Notes pages of Rolling Stone, Costello now turned his attention to Joe Lala and called him "a greaser spic." Stills is then supposed to have grabbed Costello and given him a good shaking before storming out of the bar, angry and disgusted, with Bruce Thomas yelling "Fuck off, steel nose!" after him — the latter remark being an ill-concealed reference to the surgery Stills was alleged to have undergone to repair his nose after a lengthy addiction to cocaine.
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The argument now centred around music. with Costello badmouthing most American acts he could think of, including Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly. Bramlett accused him of stealing and plundering from America's rich heritage of black music. citing James Brown and Ray Charles specifically. Costello then contemptuously dismissing James Brown as "a jive-ass nigger".

This was insensible on Costello's part, and even in the depths of his staggering drunkenness he should have known that he was pushing it too hard, too far. But he blundered on, the hole he was digging for himself getting deeper and darker with every ill-considered remark.

"All right, you son of a bitch," Bramlett demanded, incensed, "what do you think of Ray Charles?"
"He's nothing but an ignorant, blind nigger." Costello seethed venomously, beyond legitimate defence now, mischief turning to malice, a litany of brutal abuse. Bramlett was appalled, and told him to keep his damned opinions to himself.

"Fuck Ray Charles." Costello allegedly roared, "fuck niggers. and fuck you!"

This was too much for Bramlett.

"Don't put the tongue on Ray Charles," she yelled, taking a swipe at Costello that according to one report dumped him arse-over-shoulder onto the carpet.

Costello would later contend that Bramlett's punch was wild, didn't connect, that he was, in fact, set upon by no less than five of Stills road crew who beat him to the floor, at which point a full-scale brawl broke out. When the warring factions were eventually separated. the Stills party was hustled out of the hotel to their waiting tour bus while Costello stumbled to his room nursing an injured shoulder.




Rain down racial slurs for momentary attention and put it in your book later to make a buck.

He looks like a gigantic garden gnome wearing a tent.


He sure felt comfortable taping his vanity television program in the Apollo Theatre though.
Must not have handed out his special calling card.
That’s some unmitigated nerve right there.

Put him, (an aged) Charles and Brown on stage and who’d the least talented, most boring and derivative one be? His wife sounds like a caterwauling moose.

[Frances]

Seven Spanish Angels
Ray Charles, Willie Nelson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

[DzM]

Song : Sometimes Our Dreams Float Like Anchors
Artist: William Elliott Whitmore

[leadshoes]

(What's so funny about) Peace, Love, and Understanding?

I can't stand Elvis Costello, either, his smugness and ever-constipated croak-singing. And that song is as hokey and phony as his hero John Lennon's godawful "Imagine."

Lennon btw also wrote the sensitive lyrics to the Beatles' unrecognized classic "Run for Your Life":

Well, I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or I won't know where I am

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand, little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end, little girl

Well, you know that I'm a wicked guy
And I was born with a jealous mind
And I can't spend my whole life
Trying just to make you toe the line

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand, little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end, little girl

Let this be a sermon
I mean everything I've said
Baby, I'm determined
And I'd rather see you dead

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand, little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end, little girl

I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or you won't know where I am

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand, little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end, little girl

[Mike from Boston]

Auld Triangle Dropkick Murphys Streaming out of Fenway.

[Low D]

Crazy, I did NOT know that Costello story! I'm not particularly a fan, honestly I've never understood what the dig deal was. He's mostly only ever been on my radar for his boosting (and great producing) of The Specials and The Pogues.

But I've always loved that song AND NEVER KNEW NICK LOWE WROTE IT until just now! Explains why it's my favourite Costello song I guess. Have seen Steve Earle & The Dukes crush it live, I think THAT'S my favourite version.

[Frances]

Crazy, I did NOT know that Costello story! I'm not particularly a fan, honestly I've never understood what the dig deal was.

I love his early work.

Knew he called them the N word. Didn't know who he was arguing with. Nor all the other shit he said.

What a f-ing asshole. Really. So much for Rock Against Racism.

He played a small downtown theater here and I honestly have zero interest in hearing his pretentious bullshit current stuff.

He sure had no problem standing next to a Beatle performing for Barack Obama who sings Ray Charles' songs with respect.

Fuck Elvis Costello. I put him in the category with KKKramer. That is shit you don't say by accident.

[Low D]

Fuck Elvis Costello. I put him in the category with KKKramer. That is shit you don't say by accident.

Thumbs up.

[leadshoes]

Crazy, I did NOT know that Costello story! I'm not particularly a fan, honestly I've never understood what the dig deal was. He's mostly only ever been on my radar for his boosting (and great producing) of The Specials and The Pogues.

But I've always loved that song AND NEVER KNEW NICK LOWE WROTE IT until just now! Explains why it's my favourite Costello song I guess. Have seen Steve Earle & The Dukes crush it live, I think THAT'S my favourite version.

I didn't know Nick Lowe wrote it either. But it figures, since he wrote the annoying "Cruel to be Kind" which also sounds like something Elvis Costello would write and sing.

[leadshoes]

Bouncing Babies - The Teardrop Explodes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AXxVp2pm4o