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From the Album
1. Accidents Will Happen
2. Senior Service
3. Olivers Army
4. Big Boys
5. Green Shirt
6. Party Girl
7. Goon Squad
8. Busy Bodies
9. Sundays Best
10. Moods For Moderns
11. Chemistry Class
12. Two Little Hitlers
From the Single (Whats So Funny Bout) Peace Love And Understanding
From the Album 1. No Action 2. This Years Girl 3. The Beat 4. Pump It Up 5. Little Triggers 6. You Belong To Me 7. Hand In Hand 8. (I Dont Want To Go To) Chelsea 9. Lip Service 10. Living In Paradise 11. Lipstick Vogue 12. Night Rally
From the Album 1. Welcome To The Working Week 2. Miracle Man 3. No Dancing 4. Blame It On Cain 5. Alison 6. Sneaky Feelings 7. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes 8. Less Than Zero 9. Mystery Dance 10. Pay It Back 11. Im Not Angry 12. Waiting For The End Of The World
Other Songs 13 Steps Lead Down 15 Petals 20% Amnesia 45 5ive Gears In Reverse ... This Town ... A Good Year for the Roses A Slow Drag With Josephine A Town Called Big Nothing A Town Called Big Nothing (Really Big Nothing) A Voice In The Dark Abandoned Masquerade Adieu Paris (L'Envie Des Etoiles) After The Fall AGAIN Alibi All Grown Up All The Rage All These Strangers All These Things All This Useless Beauty All You Need Is Love Almost Blue Almost Ideal Eyes American Gangster Time American Without Tears ...And In Every Home Any Kings Shilling Anyone Who Had a Heart Ascension Day At Last B Movie Baby Its You Baby Plays Around Babys Got A Brand New Hairdo Babys in Black Back On My Feet Bama Lama Bama Loo Basement Kiss Battered Old Bird Beaten To The Punch Beautiful Bedlam Beyond Belief Big Light Big Light [Live; Bonus Track] Big Sister Big Sisters Clothes Big Tears Black And White World Black Sails In The Sunset Black & White World Black & White World [Bonus Track] Blue Chair Boy With A Problem Bright Blue Times Brilliant Disguise Brilliant Mistake Broken Broken Promise Land Brown To Blue Bullets For The New-Born King Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter But Not for Me Button My Lip Byline Call on Me Can You Be True? Certain Girl [DVD; Live] Changing Partners Charm School Cheap Reward Chelsea Chewing Gum Church Underground Cinco Minutos Con Vos Clean Money Clown Strike Clowntime Is Over Clubland Coal Train Robberies Coal-Train Robberies Colour Of The Blues Come Away Death Come The Meantimes Complicated Shadows Couldnt Call It Unexpected No. 4 Couldnt You Keep That To Yourself Country Darkness Crawling To The U.S.A. Crimes Of Paris Cry Cry Cry Daddy Can I Turn This? Damnations Cellar Darling You Know I Wouldnt Lie Days Dead Letter Dear Sweet Filthy World Deep Dark Truthful Mirror Deep Dead Blue Deliver Us Delivery Man Deportee Different Finger Dirty Rotten Shame Dishonor the Stars Dissolve Distorted Angel Do Right Woman, Do Right Man Dont Be Careless Love Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood Dont Look Back Dont Look Now Down Among the Wines and Spirits Dr. Luthers Assistant Dr. Watson I Presume Drum and Bone Drum & Bone ...Dust Dust 2... Dust 2 ... Eisenhower Blues Either Side Of The Same Town Element Within Her Element Within Her [Bonus Track; Demo Version] Elvis Costello Episode Of Blonde Everybodys Crying Mercy Everyday I Write The Book Expert Rites Fake Tin Star Fallen Favourite Hour Fire Suite 1 Fire Suite 3 Fire Suite Reprise First to Leave [DVD] Fish N Chip Paper Five Small Words Flutter and Wow Flutter & Wow For Other Eyes For The Stars Forgive Her Anything Fortune Teller [DVD; Live] Freedom For The Stallion From A Whisper To A Scream From Head To Toe Georgie And Her Rival Get Yourself Another Fool Getting Mighty Crowded Ghost Train Gigi Girls Talk Glitter Gulch Gloomy Sunday Go Away God Give Me Strength Gods Comic Good Year For The Roses Green Song Harpies Bizarre Harry Worth Heart Shaped Bruise Heart-Shaped Bruise Heathen Town Hell Have to Go Hes Given Me Things Hes Got You Hetty O'Hara Confidential Hey Clockface/How Can You Face Me? Hidden Charms Hidden Shame High Fidelity Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head Home Truth Honey Are You Straight Or Are You Blind? Honey Hush Hoover Factory Hora Decubitus How Deep Is The Red How Much I Lied How To Be Dumb Human Hands Human Touch Hurry Down Doomsday Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over) I Almost Had A Weakness I Can't Say Her Name I Cant Stand Up For Falling Down I Do (Zula's Song) (I Dont Wanna) Go To Chelsea I Dreamed Of My Old Lover I Dreamed Of My Old Lover Last Night I Felt the Chill I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came I Hear a Melody I Hope I Hope Youre Happy Now I Just Dont Know What To Do With Myself I Let the Sun Go Down I Lost You I Love the Life I Live (I Live the Life I Love) I Stand Accused I Still Have That Other Girl I Thought Id Write To Juliet I Threw It All Away I Throw My Toys Around I Turn Around I Wanna Be Loved I Want To Vanish I Want You If I Could Believe If You Love Me Ill Never Fall In Love Again Ill Wear It Proudley Ill Wear It Proudly I'm a Mess I'm Coming Home Im In The Mood Again Im Your Toy I'm Your Toy (Hot Burrito No. 1) Imagination Imagination Is A Powerful Deceiver Imagination (Is a Powerful Deceiver) [Bonus Track] Impatience Imperial Bedroom In Another Room In The Darkest Place Inch By Inch Indoor Fireworks Innocent When You Dream Interlude: Couldnt Call It Unexpected No. 2 International Echo Invasion Hit Parade Isabelle In Tears It Tears Me Up Its Time Ive Been Wrong Before Jack Of All Parades Jacksons Monk And Rowe Jimmie Standing In The Rain Joe Porterhouse Judgement Jump Up Just A Curio Just A Memory Just About Glad Kid About It Kinder Murder King Horse King Of Confidence King Of Thieves Kiss Like Your Kiss La Chica de Hoy (This Year's Girl) Last Boat Leaving Last Post Leave My Kitten Alone Lesson In Cruelty Let Him Dangle Let Me Tell You About Her Let Them All Talk Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) Lets Misbehave License to Kill Life Shrinks Little Atoms Little Goody Two Shoes Little Palaces Little Savage Llorar (Big Tears) Londons Brilliant Parade Long Journey Home Lost In The Stars Lovable Love Field Love For Sale Love For Tender Love Went Mad Lovers That Never Were Lovers Walk Luxembourg Magnificent Hurt Man Called Uncle Man Out Of Time Men Called Uncle Mischievous Ghost Miss Macbeth Miss Mary Mistook Me For A Friend Mistress And Maid Monkey To Man Motel Matches Mouth Almighty Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Hush Mr. Crescent Mr. Feathers Mr. Fool Mr. & Mrs. Hush Must You Throw Dirt In My Face My All Time Doll My Brave Face My Dark Life My Flame Burns Blue My Funny Valentine My Little Blue Window My Lovely Jezebel My Mood Swings My Most Beautiful Mistake My New Haunt My Science Fiction Twin My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You My Thief My Three Sons National Ransom Nearer To You Needle Time New Amsterdam New Lace Sleeves Newspaper Pane Next Time Round Night Time No Flag No Hiding Place No Wonder North Nothing Clings Like Ivy O Mistress Mine Oberon And Titania Oberon Humbeld Oh Well On Your Way Down One Bell Ringing Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line Only Flame in Town Only Flame in Town [Alternate Version; Alternate Take] Only Flame in Town [Bonus Track; Demo Version] Only Flame in Town [DVD] Only Flame in Town [Live] Only Flame in Town [Live; Previously Unreleased Track; Bonus Track] Opportunity Our Little Angel Over Time Overture Pads Paws And Claws Painted From Memory Pardon Me Madam My Name Is Eve Party Party Passionate Fight Payday Peace In Our Time Peace Like a River Phonographic Memory Photographs Can Lie Pidgin English Pills And Soap Pills & Soap Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues) [DVD; Live] Playboy To A Man Please Mr. Kennedy Please Stay Point of No Return Poison Moon Poisoned Rose Pony St. Pony Street Poor Fractured Atlas Poor Napoleon Possession Pouring Water On A Drowning Man Prelude Pretty Words Psycho Puck One Puck Two Punishing Kiss Put Away Forbidden Playthings Put Your Big Toe In The Milk Of Human Kindness Radio Is Everything Radio Radio Radio Silence Radio Sweetheart Real Emotional Girl Really Mystified Red Cotton Refuse To Be Saved Remove This Doubt Revolution No. 49 Riot Act Roadette Song Rocking Horse Road Romeos Seance Room With No Number Rope Running Out Of Angels Running Out Of Fools Sad About Girls Satellite Secondary Modern Seconds Of Pleasure Seven Day Weekend Shabby Doll Shadow And Jimmy Shallow Grave Shamed Into Love Shatterproof She She Handed Me A Mirror (She Might Be A) Grenade She Was No Good Shes Pulling Out The Pin Shipbuilding Shoes Without Heels Shot With His Own Gun Sittin And Thinkin Six-Fingered Man Sleep Sleep Of The Just Sleepless Nights Smile So Like Candy So Young Someone Took The Words Away Song With Rose Soul For Hire Sour Milk-Cow Blues Sparkling Day Speak Darkly My Angel Spooky Girlfriend St. Stephens Day Murders Stalin Malone Stamping Ground Stamping Ground [Bonus Track] Starting To Come To Me Stations Of The Cross Stella Hurt Step Inside Love Stick Out Your Tongue Sticks And Stones Still Still Too Soon To Know Strange Stranger In The House Strict Time Stripping Paper Success Such Unlikely Lovers Suffering Face Sugar Wont Work Suit Of Lights Sulky Girl Sulphur To Sugarcane Suspect My Tears Sweet Dreams Sweet Pear Swine Taking My Life In Your Hands Talking In The Dark Tart Tear Off Your Own Head Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution) Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution) [Album Version] Tears At The Birthday Party Tears Before Bedtime Tears Tears And More Tears Temptation That Day Is Done Thats How You Got Killed Before Thats Me Thats Not The Part Of Him That's Not the Part of Him You're Leaving The Big Light The Birds Will Still Be Singing The Boy Named If The Bridge I Burned The Comedians The Conspiracy Of Oberon And Puck The Court The Crooked Line The Dark End of the Street The Death Of Magic Thinking The Delivery Man The Deportees Club The Difference The Element Within Her The Face Of Bottom The Fairy And The Ass The Fall Of The Worlds Own Optimist The Final Mrs. Curtain The First To Leave The Flirting Kind The Great Unknown The Greatest Love The Greatest Thing The Identity Parade The Imposter The Invisible Man The Judgement The King Of The Unknown Sea The Last Confession of Vivian Whip The Letter Home The Long Division The Long Honeymoon The Love You Save (May Be Your Own) The Loved Ones The Man You Love To Hate The Monkey The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love The Night Before Larry Was Stretched The Only Daddy Thatll Walk The Line The Only Flame In Town The Other End The Other End of the Telescope The Other Side Of Summer The Peoples Limousine The Play The River In Reverse The Roadette Song The Scarlet Tide The Sharpest Thorn The Spark Of Love The Spell That You Cast The Stamping Ground The Sweetest Punch The Town Where Time Stood Still The Unfailing Welcome To The Voice The Very Thought Of You The Wedding The Whirlwind The World And His Wife The World Of Broken Hearts There Wont Be Anymore Theres A Story In Your Voice Theyll Never Take Her Love From Me They're Not Laughing at Me Now This House Is Empty Now This Is Hell This Offer Is Unrepeatable This Sad Burlesque This Town Tiny Steps TKO TKO (Boxing Day) Tokyo Storm Warning Toledo Tommys Coming Home Tomorrows (Just Another Day) Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down Too Blue Too Far Gone Tormentress Town Called Big Nothing (Really Big Nothing) Town Called Big Nothing (Really Big Nothing) [Bonus Track] Town Cryer Town Where Time Stood Still Tramp The Dirt Down Trick Out The Truth Tripwire Turning The Town Red Turpentine Twenty-Five Fingers Twenty-Five To Twelve Umcomplicated Uncomplicated Under Lime Unwanted Number Upon A Veil Of Midnight Blue Veronica Viceroys Row Wake Me Up Walk Us UPTOWN Walking On Thin Ice Watch Your Step Watching The Detectives Wave A White Flag We Are All Cowards Now We Oughta Be Ashamed Wednesday Week Weird Nightmare What Do I Do Now? What Is It That I Need That I Don't Already Have? Whats Her Name Today? (Whats So Funny Bout) Peace Love (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understand (Whats So Funny Bout) Peace Love andamp; Understanding Wheels [DVD] When Did I Stop Dreaming? When Green Eyes Turn Blue When I Was Cruel When I Was Cruel No. 2 When It Sings When That I Was And A Little Tiny Boy Where Is The Love White Knuckles Who Do You Think You Are? Whos Gonna Help Brother Get Further? Why? Why Cant A Man Stand Alone? Why Dont You Love Me? Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Use to Do)? Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)? Why Wont Heaven Help Me? Wise Up Ghost Withered And Died Wonder Woman Workers Playtime World and His Wife World and His Wife [Live; Bonus Track] World and His Wife [Solo Version; Bonus Track] World of Broken Hearts [Bonus Track] Worthless Thing Yes We Can Can [DVD; Live] You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin' You Bowed Down You Hung The Moon You Left Me In The Dark You Little Fool You Shouldnt Look At Me That Way You Stole My Bell You Stole My Bell [Previously Unreleased Track] You Tripped At Every Step You Turned To Me You Want Her Too Youll Never Be A Man Your Angel Steps Out Of Heaven Your Mind Is On Vacation / Your Funeral And My Trial Your Mind Is On Vacation / Your Funeral And My Trial Your Mind Is on Vacation/Your Funeral My Trial [Live; Bonus Track] You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go Youve Got to Hide Your Love Away
From the Single (Whats So Funny Bout) Peace Love And Understanding
From the Album 1. No Action 2. This Years Girl 3. The Beat 4. Pump It Up 5. Little Triggers 6. You Belong To Me 7. Hand In Hand 8. (I Dont Want To Go To) Chelsea 9. Lip Service 10. Living In Paradise 11. Lipstick Vogue 12. Night Rally
From the Album 1. Welcome To The Working Week 2. Miracle Man 3. No Dancing 4. Blame It On Cain 5. Alison 6. Sneaky Feelings 7. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes 8. Less Than Zero 9. Mystery Dance 10. Pay It Back 11. Im Not Angry 12. Waiting For The End Of The World
Other Songs 13 Steps Lead Down 15 Petals 20% Amnesia 45 5ive Gears In Reverse ... This Town ... A Good Year for the Roses A Slow Drag With Josephine A Town Called Big Nothing A Town Called Big Nothing (Really Big Nothing) A Voice In The Dark Abandoned Masquerade Adieu Paris (L'Envie Des Etoiles) After The Fall AGAIN Alibi All Grown Up All The Rage All These Strangers All These Things All This Useless Beauty All You Need Is Love Almost Blue Almost Ideal Eyes American Gangster Time American Without Tears ...And In Every Home Any Kings Shilling Anyone Who Had a Heart Ascension Day At Last B Movie Baby Its You Baby Plays Around Babys Got A Brand New Hairdo Babys in Black Back On My Feet Bama Lama Bama Loo Basement Kiss Battered Old Bird Beaten To The Punch Beautiful Bedlam Beyond Belief Big Light Big Light [Live; Bonus Track] Big Sister Big Sisters Clothes Big Tears Black And White World Black Sails In The Sunset Black & White World Black & White World [Bonus Track] Blue Chair Boy With A Problem Bright Blue Times Brilliant Disguise Brilliant Mistake Broken Broken Promise Land Brown To Blue Bullets For The New-Born King Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter But Not for Me Button My Lip Byline Call on Me Can You Be True? Certain Girl [DVD; Live] Changing Partners Charm School Cheap Reward Chelsea Chewing Gum Church Underground Cinco Minutos Con Vos Clean Money Clown Strike Clowntime Is Over Clubland Coal Train Robberies Coal-Train Robberies Colour Of The Blues Come Away Death Come The Meantimes Complicated Shadows Couldnt Call It Unexpected No. 4 Couldnt You Keep That To Yourself Country Darkness Crawling To The U.S.A. Crimes Of Paris Cry Cry Cry Daddy Can I Turn This? Damnations Cellar Darling You Know I Wouldnt Lie Days Dead Letter Dear Sweet Filthy World Deep Dark Truthful Mirror Deep Dead Blue Deliver Us Delivery Man Deportee Different Finger Dirty Rotten Shame Dishonor the Stars Dissolve Distorted Angel Do Right Woman, Do Right Man Dont Be Careless Love Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood Dont Look Back Dont Look Now Down Among the Wines and Spirits Dr. Luthers Assistant Dr. Watson I Presume Drum and Bone Drum & Bone ...Dust Dust 2... Dust 2 ... Eisenhower Blues Either Side Of The Same Town Element Within Her Element Within Her [Bonus Track; Demo Version] Elvis Costello Episode Of Blonde Everybodys Crying Mercy Everyday I Write The Book Expert Rites Fake Tin Star Fallen Favourite Hour Fire Suite 1 Fire Suite 3 Fire Suite Reprise First to Leave [DVD] Fish N Chip Paper Five Small Words Flutter and Wow Flutter & Wow For Other Eyes For The Stars Forgive Her Anything Fortune Teller [DVD; Live] Freedom For The Stallion From A Whisper To A Scream From Head To Toe Georgie And Her Rival Get Yourself Another Fool Getting Mighty Crowded Ghost Train Gigi Girls Talk Glitter Gulch Gloomy Sunday Go Away God Give Me Strength Gods Comic Good Year For The Roses Green Song Harpies Bizarre Harry Worth Heart Shaped Bruise Heart-Shaped Bruise Heathen Town Hell Have to Go Hes Given Me Things Hes Got You Hetty O'Hara Confidential Hey Clockface/How Can You Face Me? Hidden Charms Hidden Shame High Fidelity Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head Home Truth Honey Are You Straight Or Are You Blind? Honey Hush Hoover Factory Hora Decubitus How Deep Is The Red How Much I Lied How To Be Dumb Human Hands Human Touch Hurry Down Doomsday Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over) I Almost Had A Weakness I Can't Say Her Name I Cant Stand Up For Falling Down I Do (Zula's Song) (I Dont Wanna) Go To Chelsea I Dreamed Of My Old Lover I Dreamed Of My Old Lover Last Night I Felt the Chill I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came I Hear a Melody I Hope I Hope Youre Happy Now I Just Dont Know What To Do With Myself I Let the Sun Go Down I Lost You I Love the Life I Live (I Live the Life I Love) I Stand Accused I Still Have That Other Girl I Thought Id Write To Juliet I Threw It All Away I Throw My Toys Around I Turn Around I Wanna Be Loved I Want To Vanish I Want You If I Could Believe If You Love Me Ill Never Fall In Love Again Ill Wear It Proudley Ill Wear It Proudly I'm a Mess I'm Coming Home Im In The Mood Again Im Your Toy I'm Your Toy (Hot Burrito No. 1) Imagination Imagination Is A Powerful Deceiver Imagination (Is a Powerful Deceiver) [Bonus Track] Impatience Imperial Bedroom In Another Room In The Darkest Place Inch By Inch Indoor Fireworks Innocent When You Dream Interlude: Couldnt Call It Unexpected No. 2 International Echo Invasion Hit Parade Isabelle In Tears It Tears Me Up Its Time Ive Been Wrong Before Jack Of All Parades Jacksons Monk And Rowe Jimmie Standing In The Rain Joe Porterhouse Judgement Jump Up Just A Curio Just A Memory Just About Glad Kid About It Kinder Murder King Horse King Of Confidence King Of Thieves Kiss Like Your Kiss La Chica de Hoy (This Year's Girl) Last Boat Leaving Last Post Leave My Kitten Alone Lesson In Cruelty Let Him Dangle Let Me Tell You About Her Let Them All Talk Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) Lets Misbehave License to Kill Life Shrinks Little Atoms Little Goody Two Shoes Little Palaces Little Savage Llorar (Big Tears) Londons Brilliant Parade Long Journey Home Lost In The Stars Lovable Love Field Love For Sale Love For Tender Love Went Mad Lovers That Never Were Lovers Walk Luxembourg Magnificent Hurt Man Called Uncle Man Out Of Time Men Called Uncle Mischievous Ghost Miss Macbeth Miss Mary Mistook Me For A Friend Mistress And Maid Monkey To Man Motel Matches Mouth Almighty Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Hush Mr. Crescent Mr. Feathers Mr. Fool Mr. & Mrs. Hush Must You Throw Dirt In My Face My All Time Doll My Brave Face My Dark Life My Flame Burns Blue My Funny Valentine My Little Blue Window My Lovely Jezebel My Mood Swings My Most Beautiful Mistake My New Haunt My Science Fiction Twin My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You My Thief My Three Sons National Ransom Nearer To You Needle Time New Amsterdam New Lace Sleeves Newspaper Pane Next Time Round Night Time No Flag No Hiding Place No Wonder North Nothing Clings Like Ivy O Mistress Mine Oberon And Titania Oberon Humbeld Oh Well On Your Way Down One Bell Ringing Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line Only Flame in Town Only Flame in Town [Alternate Version; Alternate Take] Only Flame in Town [Bonus Track; Demo Version] Only Flame in Town [DVD] Only Flame in Town [Live] Only Flame in Town [Live; Previously Unreleased Track; Bonus Track] Opportunity Our Little Angel Over Time Overture Pads Paws And Claws Painted From Memory Pardon Me Madam My Name Is Eve Party Party Passionate Fight Payday Peace In Our Time Peace Like a River Phonographic Memory Photographs Can Lie Pidgin English Pills And Soap Pills & Soap Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues) [DVD; Live] Playboy To A Man Please Mr. Kennedy Please Stay Point of No Return Poison Moon Poisoned Rose Pony St. Pony Street Poor Fractured Atlas Poor Napoleon Possession Pouring Water On A Drowning Man Prelude Pretty Words Psycho Puck One Puck Two Punishing Kiss Put Away Forbidden Playthings Put Your Big Toe In The Milk Of Human Kindness Radio Is Everything Radio Radio Radio Silence Radio Sweetheart Real Emotional Girl Really Mystified Red Cotton Refuse To Be Saved Remove This Doubt Revolution No. 49 Riot Act Roadette Song Rocking Horse Road Romeos Seance Room With No Number Rope Running Out Of Angels Running Out Of Fools Sad About Girls Satellite Secondary Modern Seconds Of Pleasure Seven Day Weekend Shabby Doll Shadow And Jimmy Shallow Grave Shamed Into Love Shatterproof She She Handed Me A Mirror (She Might Be A) Grenade She Was No Good Shes Pulling Out The Pin Shipbuilding Shoes Without Heels Shot With His Own Gun Sittin And Thinkin Six-Fingered Man Sleep Sleep Of The Just Sleepless Nights Smile So Like Candy So Young Someone Took The Words Away Song With Rose Soul For Hire Sour Milk-Cow Blues Sparkling Day Speak Darkly My Angel Spooky Girlfriend St. Stephens Day Murders Stalin Malone Stamping Ground Stamping Ground [Bonus Track] Starting To Come To Me Stations Of The Cross Stella Hurt Step Inside Love Stick Out Your Tongue Sticks And Stones Still Still Too Soon To Know Strange Stranger In The House Strict Time Stripping Paper Success Such Unlikely Lovers Suffering Face Sugar Wont Work Suit Of Lights Sulky Girl Sulphur To Sugarcane Suspect My Tears Sweet Dreams Sweet Pear Swine Taking My Life In Your Hands Talking In The Dark Tart Tear Off Your Own Head Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution) Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution) [Album Version] Tears At The Birthday Party Tears Before Bedtime Tears Tears And More Tears Temptation That Day Is Done Thats How You Got Killed Before Thats Me Thats Not The Part Of Him That's Not the Part of Him You're Leaving The Big Light The Birds Will Still Be Singing The Boy Named If The Bridge I Burned The Comedians The Conspiracy Of Oberon And Puck The Court The Crooked Line The Dark End of the Street The Death Of Magic Thinking The Delivery Man The Deportees Club The Difference The Element Within Her The Face Of Bottom The Fairy And The Ass The Fall Of The Worlds Own Optimist The Final Mrs. Curtain The First To Leave The Flirting Kind The Great Unknown The Greatest Love The Greatest Thing The Identity Parade The Imposter The Invisible Man The Judgement The King Of The Unknown Sea The Last Confession of Vivian Whip The Letter Home The Long Division The Long Honeymoon The Love You Save (May Be Your Own) The Loved Ones The Man You Love To Hate The Monkey The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love The Night Before Larry Was Stretched The Only Daddy Thatll Walk The Line The Only Flame In Town The Other End The Other End of the Telescope The Other Side Of Summer The Peoples Limousine The Play The River In Reverse The Roadette Song The Scarlet Tide The Sharpest Thorn The Spark Of Love The Spell That You Cast The Stamping Ground The Sweetest Punch The Town Where Time Stood Still The Unfailing Welcome To The Voice The Very Thought Of You The Wedding The Whirlwind The World And His Wife The World Of Broken Hearts There Wont Be Anymore Theres A Story In Your Voice Theyll Never Take Her Love From Me They're Not Laughing at Me Now This House Is Empty Now This Is Hell This Offer Is Unrepeatable This Sad Burlesque This Town Tiny Steps TKO TKO (Boxing Day) Tokyo Storm Warning Toledo Tommys Coming Home Tomorrows (Just Another Day) Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down Too Blue Too Far Gone Tormentress Town Called Big Nothing (Really Big Nothing) Town Called Big Nothing (Really Big Nothing) [Bonus Track] Town Cryer Town Where Time Stood Still Tramp The Dirt Down Trick Out The Truth Tripwire Turning The Town Red Turpentine Twenty-Five Fingers Twenty-Five To Twelve Umcomplicated Uncomplicated Under Lime Unwanted Number Upon A Veil Of Midnight Blue Veronica Viceroys Row Wake Me Up Walk Us UPTOWN Walking On Thin Ice Watch Your Step Watching The Detectives Wave A White Flag We Are All Cowards Now We Oughta Be Ashamed Wednesday Week Weird Nightmare What Do I Do Now? What Is It That I Need That I Don't Already Have? Whats Her Name Today? (Whats So Funny Bout) Peace Love (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understand (Whats So Funny Bout) Peace Love andamp; Understanding Wheels [DVD] When Did I Stop Dreaming? When Green Eyes Turn Blue When I Was Cruel When I Was Cruel No. 2 When It Sings When That I Was And A Little Tiny Boy Where Is The Love White Knuckles Who Do You Think You Are? Whos Gonna Help Brother Get Further? Why? Why Cant A Man Stand Alone? Why Dont You Love Me? Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Use to Do)? Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)? Why Wont Heaven Help Me? Wise Up Ghost Withered And Died Wonder Woman Workers Playtime World and His Wife World and His Wife [Live; Bonus Track] World and His Wife [Solo Version; Bonus Track] World of Broken Hearts [Bonus Track] Worthless Thing Yes We Can Can [DVD; Live] You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin' You Bowed Down You Hung The Moon You Left Me In The Dark You Little Fool You Shouldnt Look At Me That Way You Stole My Bell You Stole My Bell [Previously Unreleased Track] You Tripped At Every Step You Turned To Me You Want Her Too Youll Never Be A Man Your Angel Steps Out Of Heaven Your Mind Is On Vacation / Your Funeral And My Trial Your Mind Is On Vacation / Your Funeral And My Trial Your Mind Is on Vacation/Your Funeral My Trial [Live; Bonus Track] You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go Youve Got to Hide Your Love Away
Elvis Costello is an English singer-songwriter. He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene
in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk & new wave movement
of the mid-to-late 1970s.
-Wikipedia
Birth Name: Declan Patrick MacManusin the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk & new wave movement
of the mid-to-late 1970s.
Also Known As: D.P. CostelloThe ImposterLittle Hands of ConcreteNapoleon DynamiteHoward Coward
Born: August 25th, 1954 (age 70)
From: Paddington, London, England
Spouse(s): Diana Krall (m. 2003)
Cait O'Riordan (m. 1986-2002)
Mary Burgoyne (m. 1974-1984)
Genre(s): Pub rock, new wave, punk rock, power pop
Instrument(s): Vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums
Occupation(s): Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer
Active From: 1970-present
Associated Acts: The Attractions, The Imposters, Diana Krall, Burt Bacharach, Brodsky Quartet, Nick Lowe, Madness, The Strokes, The Specials, Squeeze, Paul McCartney, The Roots
Did You Know:
• He's been a vegetarian since the early 1980s.
• He's a big football (soccer) fan, supporting Liverpool F.C., and has appeared on Channel 4's Football Italia as a pundit.
• Costello sits on the Advisory Board of the Board of Directors of the Jazz Foundation of America.
Awards:
2003
Costello and The Attractions inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Quotes:
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
I followed The Byrds a lot, and then when they did a country styled record it made me curious to know who these people were that they liked.
I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.
Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.
Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
Women hear rhythm differently than men.
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.