Amazing performance, but the song has nothing to do with Health and Safety! It is about the Falklands Conflict. Another perspective Robert Wyatt's version, if you have any doubts the song is anti thatcher and political, well if it wasn't Robert Wyatt would not have recorded it!
i love elvis costello this is awesome he went to the same secondrey school as me i stood behind him in a record shop and wanted to tell him how brilliant he was but i felt abit embarrased and did not want to invade his privacy!great voice brilliant junysaerus
Brillant - my family comes from Gloucester MA, Before my time my family depended on the fisihing industry - so many still do depend on it. Loved Elvis Costello before this song but this song feels personal and is so poetic that it's a personal favorite My friends and I drove many miles in the 80s to see Costello play live. Moved South since then but would travel to n recapture that adventure. Again, brillant!!
I love the bass on this live version. So much so that the single version sounds a bit sterile without it. But then this live version just cries out for that trumpet solo.
I think this song is really about 'Heath and safety'. It's about how many men die unnecesarily leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves. Shipbuilding, mining and building are dangerous jobs.
I really enjoy risk taking, For me it's one of the last things we have to difine us as men, but life moves on...
Thank you for posting this. Elvis Costello is one of the finest singer songwriters ever and will be remembered long long after the assholes who have just talked shit about him on here will be
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
i went to see my dying father in Birkenhead, there was a destroyer in Camell Laird's shipyard for the first time in 15 years, the Falklands disgrace was in full swing, my dad died, many men died. Thatcher won her grubby little war, at a very high cost in human life, she got reelected and proceeded to divide British society more deeply than any other leader before or since (at least since Charles 1) And that is what this song is about, Elvis' family is from Birkenhead.
@mtaylor848 well you might be right but it will be good night when that asshole tony tosser and brown the clown go aswell . i am born and brad labour but i have never voted for them sin . tony tosser won . i hate all MPs now they are all lying twats .
Thank you for the posting of this brilliant song and performance. I've seen Elvis in performance a few times but never had the opportunity to see this one live.
Very profound...human expansionalist and protectionist behaviour, always building and striving for 'bigger' and 'better'. Build until the foundations cave in..
This song shows a juxtaposition between those being killed on board ship in the Falklands war and those who unwittingly gain from it. The people gaining are those involved in the shipbuilding industry. Britain's shipbuilding industry, chiefly based in the North East, at that time had no work. Building replacement warships for those destroyed in the war gave the shipbuilding industry a respite. It has nothing to do with the Middle East. It's just a superb song.
Oh, i just love HIS VOICE and THE PERFECTION of the BAND. All i read here is about the Falklands, the Jews or Palestine. Could U silly "political people just shut your mouths when great MUSIC is on BOARD. My goodness !
its about the falklands you thick cunt,and britains inability to get a fleet together to fight a war,because we stopped SHIPBUILDING. As for palestine ,they were there for centuries,its only after the holocaust that the jews created the state of israel on ARAB land.
@robina777 you idiot- the media is in support isreal- the usa funds isreal around $30 mil per year- isreal was only created at the end of ww2 and only cos the usa wanted a puppet state in the east- i.e the palestinians were there first and.. 'they havnt got their own language'... well in that case neither does the usa or australia or most of canada, or south america or most of africa - stop playing the victim- the fact is that isreal is illegally occupying palestine
this was about the falklands war,and our lack of having a navy to address the situation.Thatcher comindered foreign ships to fight it.We had a royal navy,but no merchant navy or british merchant navy crews to fight it.W ha t the fuck has this got to do with isreal
@jzenman you're asking why the Palestinians don't move out of their OWN country? It was the Jews that were given the country after WW2. They were mostly European. So you really should be asking why they don't go back home? I don't need the history channel, dude, I read. And just because there are less Jews on the planet than Muslims does not give them the right to enforce apartheid upon arabs in Israel, to firebomb them, to shoot aid workers from Turkey. Get real. Israel is a facist racist state
Elvis, I regret your decision to cancel your show in my country, Israel. I share your concern for the occupied Palestinians and believe they deserve a better fate. I understand your decision and respect it. I wish a future arises which enables you to make it good to us and come here for more than a single performance.
Thank you for not performing in the murderous rogue state of Israel. The world is now paying attention to the genocide and ethnic cleansing this nation full of fake Jews are committing. Khazar criminals. We will soon be rid of these parasites here in the US.
Long live Rachel Corrie's memory.
Fuck you Israel. The world is waking up to your lies and fraud.
Yeah people are not places. So why don't the Palestinians just move somewhere else? And I have no idea why Palestinians and Arabs hate Israel so much. The Jews were almost exterminated. Don't you get the History Channel? There's only about 13 million left in the world. There's over a billion Muslims. Shut the fuck up and move to another Arab state. Fuck move to Texas there's huge tracks of empty land and no one would care what the hell you're doing there.
@jzenman . We're not moving anywhere. You go back to Khazaria from where you came. You have no moral rights to the Holy Land. The Holy Land is Jewish, Christian and Muslim but definitely not Ashkenazi. What don't you go to Texas? Soon interplanetary travel will allow you to live on Mars. Bon Voyage and fvck off forever
@jzenman then why didnt the jews move to texas, instead of stealing land in the middle east...whats that? oh right yeaaah the USA wanted a puppet state in the middel east rightt
@bill77777776 740BC - Assyria attacks Israel, capturing 10 plus Israeli tribes, leaving most of the tribe of Judah. Hence, the Jews!
131-136 A.D.... Roman Emporer Hadrian reaches his boiling point dealing with Jewish revolts. He decrees that 'in order to punish the Jews', he will wipe out their name. He changes the name of Judea to Syria-Palestine.
These are historically proven facts. I don't know how else to explain it. Who would you say 'owns' this land... the U.S. or the original people?
@spiderkiss Well I have been a professional chauffeur in Vancouver for near 20 years. I got to meet Elvis and Diana many times in that capacity. They are both awesome people and have wonderful families.
Nope. Clive Langer insists that he wrote song for Wyatt to sing but Langer wasn't satisfied with the lyrics so Costello wrote new lyrics and he also insist that he wrote the whole song.
When I was a young man, my father used to take me to this old lounge near our home, order me a 7 up with a cherry in a martini glass and listen to the house band. This song was one that the used to play often, every time I hear it reminds me of my father.
My favourite song of all time, from the album Punch the clock. It changed my life, I was only 14, Thanks Elvis.
I met him in 2002, just before he went on stage at V2002 and asked him to do this track, but apologised and said he couldn't fit in - I was gutted. s\aying that it would have been wasted on that festival crowd who were waiting for some pop act or shit
If anyone can find a version of the album version with Chet Baker please let me know, as great as this and Wyatts versions are, they seem to be missing something, and that something is the haunting trumpet.
Just beautiful, despite the missing horn. I have loved this song from the very first time I heard it. EC has a way of always choosing the very finest material to perform, whether his own or that of others, and then delivering sensitive, well-honed and finely crafted arrangements that add depth, colour and his unique slant every time. And then he goes and marries Diana Krall. What a guy. Great post jzenman, thanks.
It's about the Falklands war period. And the contradiction of the middle class having to send their sons to fight it, and having jobs building the same ships their sons could die on. They should be diving for pearls, instead of survival.
A worthy rendition and hats off to him for this arrangement ,but the trumpet in the original really adds an ethereal element that this version fails to capture.
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Did they not teach you to spell , you poor left wing piece of trash . Elvis Costello has said a lot of bad things about Baroness Thatcher and this is what i take umbrage at . Politics and music don't mix .
Ahh is this what it comes to. I have provided education that would scare you mercury107, as I fear I, a mere grammar school boy, has now finds himself amongst the officer classes with a MA LLB and BSc. But then it was Thatcher who taught me to spell so what can you expect?
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You mean co-ordination , you left wing piece of trash . If i were you (god forbid ) i would keep quiet ,as with every new comment you bring more shame upon yourself with your limited knowledge of the english language .
Coordination is the correct spelling, Einstein. Open up a dictionary and see for yourself. It would have been so fucking easy for to have just typed "coordination" into google, looked at any of the numerous online dictionaries and saved yourself from looking like an absolute dipshit.
If I was you, I'd follow your own advice.
Oh and another tip, calling me left wing with every comment isn't insulting. Thatcher was a fucking awful PM, get over it.
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Touche Aardvarked88.
Glad to see i got a nice reaction or should that be re-action. Don't get too upset or angry it's only the internet.I have the utmost respect for the armed forces.You can have the last word.
If you are talking about Proper grammer Then why do leave a space before you put a full-stop. Have you not learnt mercury107 that they not used like that, you left wing peice of trash. And It is coordination, Muppet!
Idiot comment from mercury107. I'm left wing trash and I have served in HM Forces for 15 years. I was brought up to fight facism where you find it, be it at home or abroard. This song remains a check to my actions, along with many other parts of the the arts. Without tese to check our souls we would blunder in like the thugs the right wing would have us be.
What the hell? Bad grammar and a personality that is even worse to boot. Just enjoy the performance and keep your singular and awful attempt of an insult to yourself. I'm not usually like this but your comments are just not called for- as far as content and grammar.
Brilliant as Costello is, its much harder for a listener to appreciate a world-class bass player. Bruce Thomas really and truly made whole much greater that the sum of the parts in the Attractions. Sure, he spoke out when he felt Elvis was an arrogant jerk; many boss-artists were and are. And the relationship couldnt bear the friction. But Elvis, much as we admire you, and you did have to separate... you will probably never again sound as good as you did with this guy.
Elvis, like many good singer/songwriters, they are made better by a great backing band though seldom does history provide due credit to groups like the Attractions. Elvis' early success owes as much to the group as it does his
Elvis is the man, but the band is just magnificent here too. I love all the atmospheric touches the each instrument adds. Man, how does Steve get that shimmering effect on the keyboards?!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful - It has always been one of my favorites, and it is so nice to see a live version of it. His voice is so sweet, so sad...
well noted flame it has a deep rooted satire at our pathetic attemps to become an imperialistic country.and our embarraseing pocket fag boy nature in following americas act of inflicting their ideas of democracy on the people of this world that dont want it
been following elvis since 77 heard him do this song many times and he has never failed to impress me . gets me every time like tramp the dirt down . be much appreciated if someone has got some live footage . go elv
Amazing performance, but the song has nothing to do with Health and Safety! It is about the Falklands Conflict. Another perspective Robert Wyatt's version, if you have any doubts the song is anti thatcher and political, well if it wasn't Robert Wyatt would not have recorded it!
2ruedas2 2 months ago
i love elvis costello this is awesome he went to the same secondrey school as me i stood behind him in a record shop and wanted to tell him how brilliant he was but i felt abit embarrased and did not want to invade his privacy!great voice brilliant junysaerus
junysaerus 3 months ago 3
Brillant - my family comes from Gloucester MA, Before my time my family depended on the fisihing industry - so many still do depend on it. Loved Elvis Costello before this song but this song feels personal and is so poetic that it's a personal favorite My friends and I drove many miles in the 80s to see Costello play live. Moved South since then but would travel to n recapture that adventure. Again, brillant!!
JuleszzC 5 months ago
I love the bass on this live version. So much so that the single version sounds a bit sterile without it. But then this live version just cries out for that trumpet solo.
I think this song is really about 'Heath and safety'. It's about how many men die unnecesarily leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves. Shipbuilding, mining and building are dangerous jobs.
I really enjoy risk taking, For me it's one of the last things we have to difine us as men, but life moves on...
Emmett006 6 months ago
2011 and we still "shipbuilding" in Afghanistan
pedro19611969 6 months ago 3
I don't dislike this take but I much prefer the album version with the late Chet Baker playing trumpet.
compass61 6 months ago
The great musical genius of my generation. Makes me prouder than punch! The clock-
burleq 6 months ago
The bass in this song. <3
theamazingivysmith 6 months ago
Justin who? Compare THIS 2 that passing media-manufactured, adolescent mediocrity.
3244gorilla 10 months ago
a thing of beauty is a joy forever
psiclick 11 months ago 6
robert wyatt for me
unclerubberbelly 11 months ago
jay leno
bluemonolith88 11 months ago
I admire Costello for his stand on refusing to play in Israel (Santana, Pink Floyd, Faithless too)
mebdoc 11 months ago 6
elvis costello + hostory repeats
ronlaker1 11 months ago
Poor Argentinians. Poor British. The evil that men do.
ArchangelBoab 1 year ago
@ArchangelBoab The evil that men do...mostly in the name of religion. Poor believer.
thailandajarn 10 months ago
@thailandajarn Thank-you for your pity. I guess I need it. Best wishes, AB.
ArchangelBoab 9 months ago
Thank you for posting this. Elvis Costello is one of the finest singer songwriters ever and will be remembered long long after the assholes who have just talked shit about him on here will be
jamiewm3 1 year ago 2
@jamiewm3 Well put.
ArchangelBoab 9 months ago
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musicaparamimos 1 year ago
i went to see my dying father in Birkenhead, there was a destroyer in Camell Laird's shipyard for the first time in 15 years, the Falklands disgrace was in full swing, my dad died, many men died. Thatcher won her grubby little war, at a very high cost in human life, she got reelected and proceeded to divide British society more deeply than any other leader before or since (at least since Charles 1) And that is what this song is about, Elvis' family is from Birkenhead.
2ruedas2 1 year ago 24
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@2ruedas2 Word of God right there.
ArchangelBoab 1 year ago
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@2ruedas2 The whore should have been shot.
canoepug 6 months ago
@2ruedas2 A song that means something and is so so beautiful.
timridley1 2 months ago
Incredible performance.
brandage 1 year ago
I lurves Elvis. I have seen him live many times. He writes catchy, smart, cute, and original songs. Thats good enough for me.
flanntastic7 1 year ago
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it's about the war with argentina back in '82 of course, i prefer robert wyatt's version by a long way, but great lyrics.... :)
3finbarr3 1 year ago
it's about the war with argentina back in '82 of course, i prefer robert wyatt's version by a long way, but great lyrics....
3finbarr3 1 year ago
@mtaylor848 well you might be right but it will be good night when that asshole tony tosser and brown the clown go aswell . i am born and brad labour but i have never voted for them sin . tony tosser won . i hate all MPs now they are all lying twats .
yorkshiretractors 1 year ago
His voice is amazing. Sounds just as great live as it is recorded.
deedee4u1 1 year ago
@deedee4u1 costello sucks , stupid voice , stupid everything
deadsea98 1 year ago
@deadsea98 who gives a fuck, dude...that's your opinion
deedee4u1 1 year ago
@deedee4u1
That wasn't an opinion, it was an asshole. But just the same, everywhere you go there is at least one showing itself to the world.
alifor9 1 year ago
Thank you for the posting of this brilliant song and performance. I've seen Elvis in performance a few times but never had the opportunity to see this one live.
wdrayr 1 year ago
Very profound...human expansionalist and protectionist behaviour, always building and striving for 'bigger' and 'better'. Build until the foundations cave in..
August1977 1 year ago
@August1977 or the falkland war?
alanmccluney 1 year ago
I wish somone would post the album version, with chet bakers beautiful solo.
mikatile 1 year ago 2
I wish somone would post the album version, with chet bakers beautiful solo.
mikatile 1 year ago
This song shows a juxtaposition between those being killed on board ship in the Falklands war and those who unwittingly gain from it. The people gaining are those involved in the shipbuilding industry. Britain's shipbuilding industry, chiefly based in the North East, at that time had no work. Building replacement warships for those destroyed in the war gave the shipbuilding industry a respite. It has nothing to do with the Middle East. It's just a superb song.
navanski 1 year ago 5
@navanski Your right this song was actually about the sad fact that british shipyards would only make a come back when the country was at war
fsr5046 1 year ago 2
just amazing...What I supposed say? It is Elvis Costello...
LLeg18 1 year ago
simply one of the best and most important songs written in the last 40 years
and SO relevant in 2010
paultaylorhinchliffe 1 year ago
Sometimes really Mr Perfect !
MrSKINFLICK 1 year ago
Oh, i just love HIS VOICE and THE PERFECTION of the BAND. All i read here is about the Falklands, the Jews or Palestine. Could U silly "political people just shut your mouths when great MUSIC is on BOARD. My goodness !
MrSKINFLICK 1 year ago
its about the falklands you thick cunt,and britains inability to get a fleet together to fight a war,because we stopped SHIPBUILDING. As for palestine ,they were there for centuries,its only after the holocaust that the jews created the state of israel on ARAB land.
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robina777 1 year ago
Elvis is great as usual, but this version just can't compare to the original with late great Chet Baker's haunting trumpet back up!
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robina777 1 year ago
@robina777 you idiot- the media is in support isreal- the usa funds isreal around $30 mil per year- isreal was only created at the end of ww2 and only cos the usa wanted a puppet state in the east- i.e the palestinians were there first and.. 'they havnt got their own language'... well in that case neither does the usa or australia or most of canada, or south america or most of africa - stop playing the victim- the fact is that isreal is illegally occupying palestine
scroungecan 1 year ago 2
Beautiful anti-war song. Much appreciated at the time when the press and hatcher were so keen to send young men to their deaths.
the Robert Wyatt version is worth a listen as well.
nosnilor 1 year ago 4
this was about the falklands war,and our lack of having a navy to address the situation.Thatcher comindered foreign ships to fight it.We had a royal navy,but no merchant navy or british merchant navy crews to fight it.W ha t the fuck has this got to do with isreal
eatmypies 1 year ago
LOVE LOVE LOVE Elvis! He is perfection!
meggiemeown 1 year ago
@jzenman you're asking why the Palestinians don't move out of their OWN country? It was the Jews that were given the country after WW2. They were mostly European. So you really should be asking why they don't go back home? I don't need the history channel, dude, I read. And just because there are less Jews on the planet than Muslims does not give them the right to enforce apartheid upon arabs in Israel, to firebomb them, to shoot aid workers from Turkey. Get real. Israel is a facist racist state
123treelobehoops123 1 year ago
this guy can't do his own song justice!
twistedspanner 1 year ago
@twistedspanner ---twat
bigkingdong 1 year ago
why are you arguing online? it doesnt achieve anything. just enjoy the music and its message
louis27195 1 year ago
@louis27195 well said !!!
u222daw 1 year ago
Elvis, I regret your decision to cancel your show in my country, Israel. I share your concern for the occupied Palestinians and believe they deserve a better fate. I understand your decision and respect it. I wish a future arises which enables you to make it good to us and come here for more than a single performance.
Nov633 1 year ago
fuck Israel. people are NOT places.
dharmabum06 1 year ago
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Thank you for not performing in the murderous rogue state of Israel. The world is now paying attention to the genocide and ethnic cleansing this nation full of fake Jews are committing. Khazar criminals. We will soon be rid of these parasites here in the US.
Long live Rachel Corrie's memory.
Fuck you Israel. The world is waking up to your lies and fraud.
Scum of the earth.
bill77777776 1 year ago
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@bill77777776
Yeah people are not places. So why don't the Palestinians just move somewhere else? And I have no idea why Palestinians and Arabs hate Israel so much. The Jews were almost exterminated. Don't you get the History Channel? There's only about 13 million left in the world. There's over a billion Muslims. Shut the fuck up and move to another Arab state. Fuck move to Texas there's huge tracks of empty land and no one would care what the hell you're doing there.
jzenman 1 year ago
@jzenman . We're not moving anywhere. You go back to Khazaria from where you came. You have no moral rights to the Holy Land. The Holy Land is Jewish, Christian and Muslim but definitely not Ashkenazi. What don't you go to Texas? Soon interplanetary travel will allow you to live on Mars. Bon Voyage and fvck off forever
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u222daw 1 year ago
@jzenman The Palestinians already moved somewhere else; what they want is to move back.
VvAnarchangelvV 1 year ago
@jzenman then why didnt the jews move to texas, instead of stealing land in the middle east...whats that? oh right yeaaah the USA wanted a puppet state in the middel east rightt
scroungecan 1 year ago
@jzenman I beg to differ.....I live in Tx and I'd just as soon not have this guy/girl here, thx.
This song has nothing to do with the Middle East. How about taking your political platform to a more appropriate venue?
lollypalooly 1 year ago
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@bill77777776 740BC - Assyria attacks Israel, capturing 10 plus Israeli tribes, leaving most of the tribe of Judah. Hence, the Jews!
131-136 A.D.... Roman Emporer Hadrian reaches his boiling point dealing with Jewish revolts. He decrees that 'in order to punish the Jews', he will wipe out their name. He changes the name of Judea to Syria-Palestine.
These are historically proven facts. I don't know how else to explain it. Who would you say 'owns' this land... the U.S. or the original people?
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Funny how life works. I was never an Elvis fan...just wasn't into him I actually know the man personally now. Life is strange.
Trexx1944 1 year ago
Funny how life works. I was never an Elvis fan...just wasn't into him I actually know the man personally now. Life is strange.
Trexx1944 1 year ago
@Trexx1944 How do you know him?
spiderkiss 1 year ago
@spiderkiss Well I have been a professional chauffeur in Vancouver for near 20 years. I got to meet Elvis and Diana many times in that capacity. They are both awesome people and have wonderful families.
Trexx1944 1 year ago
Elvis Rules and all else drools!!!!
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elvis you fucking loser
you don't deserve to perform in israel
fuck you and all you blind world-view
KarnafZone 1 year ago
@KarnafZone
Do you even know what this song is about? Maybe you should listen to the lyrics...
jzenman 1 year ago 17
@KarnafZone
you know karnafzone I wouldn't care if Elvis performed in the so called( state of Israel) he would be the same musician to me.
But he proved that he's more than just a musician, he's an artist standing up for a noble cause.
so you're right he doesn't deserve to perform in Israel, he's too ethical to do it.
halashehri 1 year ago
Get an education and oops read about the falklands war while you at it @KarnafZone
mayfair999a 1 year ago
@KarnafZone Go fuck yourself you stupid ignorant muslim prick.
IamGonePostal 1 year ago
@IamGonePostal Dude, he's Jewish, not Muslim. Hence his anger at Elvis cancelling his show in Israel.
fourganger88 1 year ago
@KarnafZone fuck islam anyway
deadsea98 1 year ago
@deadsea98 is an idiot
kenlaw101 1 year ago
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@kenlaw101 fuck off , you and your fucking costello
deadsea98 1 year ago
Well played Elvis for pulling the plug and choosing not perform in IsraHell.
1udacri5 1 year ago 4
@1udacri5 Trust me living in the Mid-West America is a form of Flabber Hell!!! I'd rather live in a bomb shelter sometimes.
REIworker 1 year ago
Piano has some riffs like David Bowie's sound, and Elton in the early years.... ...superb song this.
fulcrum100 1 year ago
fantastic.
13abbitt 1 year ago
makes me want to cry and so it should
jeskaowen 1 year ago
How we miss Chet baker's silky, creamy, perfect trumpet, though...
andreaprodan 1 year ago
fantastic song, but didn't Robert Wyatt write it?
kateycon 1 year ago
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o1900 1 year ago
@kateycon
Nope. Clive Langer insists that he wrote song for Wyatt to sing but Langer wasn't satisfied with the lyrics so Costello wrote new lyrics and he also insist that he wrote the whole song.
Lokakuunmaa 1 year ago
such a fantastic version..
foreverashcroft 2 years ago
I don't know much about the character of Bruce, but I sure wish the man would pick up playing bass again.
sneha1965 2 years ago 2
I wish I had his voice <_<
AExpression 2 years ago
While being a putz Bruce Thomas can play the shit out of the bass!
blindonion 2 years ago 2
A very fine songwriter, literate from the start.
garylongden 2 years ago
wow its rare to see him without a guitar
nick1137 2 years ago
With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be
diving for Pearls
2fej 2 years ago
he's not much of a looker is he?!
buzztopp 2 years ago
I don't know what your talking about he's a sexy beast, just look at those glasses!
H0ndaC1v1c94 2 years ago 3
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Pandion59 2 years ago
buzztop... do you know who his wife is??
Pandion59 2 years ago
When I was a young man, my father used to take me to this old lounge near our home, order me a 7 up with a cherry in a martini glass and listen to the house band. This song was one that the used to play often, every time I hear it reminds me of my father.
losghost 2 years ago 53
My favourite song of all time, from the album Punch the clock. It changed my life, I was only 14, Thanks Elvis.
I met him in 2002, just before he went on stage at V2002 and asked him to do this track, but apologised and said he couldn't fit in - I was gutted. s\aying that it would have been wasted on that festival crowd who were waiting for some pop act or shit
Foresttaft 2 years ago
My hopes were 2 hear chet baker with him on this song
dcrown7 2 years ago
If anyone can find a version of the album version with Chet Baker please let me know, as great as this and Wyatts versions are, they seem to be missing something, and that something is the haunting trumpet.
baggielee67 2 years ago 3
Yeah,makes ,me think.......
Jynx0 2 years ago
wonderful
hoegsbro 2 years ago
This is jazz and very sharp lyrics he writes. He plays blues, country, jazz
at the same venue. And his sountracks,
so many, but especially "She" in Notting
Hill in the beginning roll credits. He is a genius. He has sat in with so many famous musicians as well, plus he is
married to Diana Krall and they have
twins. I love her music.
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holeypants74 2 years ago
Absolutely Fantastic :´)
metyyra 2 years ago
i remember seeing this live a few years ago, it was amazing. powerful voice.
kokalola 2 years ago
can't we all just get along???? this song is great......B
briantfenton 2 years ago 4
This is a great version of this song truly amazing.
asperdestria 2 years ago 2
Amazing! One of the best songs ever written!
Wadensten 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing this beautiful music!
plattform5163 2 years ago 3
this song always reminds me of my grandfather and uncle, who worked for British Shipyards...
momcatwoo 2 years ago
Just beautiful, despite the missing horn. I have loved this song from the very first time I heard it. EC has a way of always choosing the very finest material to perform, whether his own or that of others, and then delivering sensitive, well-honed and finely crafted arrangements that add depth, colour and his unique slant every time. And then he goes and marries Diana Krall. What a guy. Great post jzenman, thanks.
rob57uk 2 years ago 3
It's about the Falklands war period. And the contradiction of the middle class having to send their sons to fight it, and having jobs building the same ships their sons could die on. They should be diving for pearls, instead of survival.
pinkled 2 years ago 4
Thanks for that insight. A hauntingly beautiful melody and song made even more powerful but a typically poignant EC lyric.
ipykipyk 2 years ago
i thought it was about the Great War and the Toll it took on the working class
whodaman5 2 years ago
Right on.
offroute 2 years ago
Earthly, gritty track written about a north-western shipbuilding town in the early 80's after a CND meet up.
tommy10inch 2 years ago
A worthy rendition and hats off to him for this arrangement ,but the trumpet in the original really adds an ethereal element that this version fails to capture.
atomage1000 2 years ago 3
This is just brilliant. I came to love this song through 'Hue & Cry's' cover version.
TartanBiscuit 2 years ago
Aye - but Hue and Cry are total SHITE!!!
walker44444 2 years ago 2
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you are an arsehole
hilly1690 2 years ago
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and you, my friend, are a puerile cunt.
JanHaarlem 2 years ago
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dickhead
hilly1690 2 years ago
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away and play wi yer dummy ya nob jockey.
JanHaarlem 2 years ago
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nonce
hilly1690 2 years ago
A loyalist with an infant's thesaurus? How unusual!
JanHaarlem 2 years ago
Is it perfect? of course--it's elvis.
selysse 2 years ago 4
I can almost hear , chet Baker .
spottedliver 2 years ago
Missed.....it's not the smae son without him...
wjolly 2 years ago
He sings this song really good love it.
asperdestria 2 years ago
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Simple music for simple minded people.
LOL. LONG LIVE IGNORANT SHEEP...
ruleoforder 3 years ago
simple is good sometimes, i believe its your ignorance that's the issue here...
xsportstv 3 years ago 5
Tomaito tomato...
Whoo gifs a feck.....
NecroticJoe 3 years ago
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hey this guy looks like he and Woody Allen were separated at birth
Arckitekt 3 years ago
Like you and your girlfriend, eh?
friedgreencorrado 3 years ago
You Tosser
MISTRA77 3 years ago
wanker !
Arckitekt 3 years ago
brilliant interpreation...exactly how i saw it...
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago 3
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Did they not teach you to spell , you poor left wing piece of trash . Elvis Costello has said a lot of bad things about Baroness Thatcher and this is what i take umbrage at . Politics and music don't mix .
mercury107 3 years ago
mercury 107......come in...what planet are you on
reidsteve007 3 years ago 2
Ahh is this what it comes to. I have provided education that would scare you mercury107, as I fear I, a mere grammar school boy, has now finds himself amongst the officer classes with a MA LLB and BSc. But then it was Thatcher who taught me to spell so what can you expect?
finnfreya 3 years ago
You're a cunt, shut up.
Aardvarked88 3 years ago
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" has now finds himself " . Excellent grammar , you left wing piece of trash .
mercury107 3 years ago
Replied to the wrong person, excellent hand-eye coordination you uneducated tosser.
Aardvarked88 3 years ago 4
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You mean co-ordination , you left wing piece of trash . If i were you (god forbid ) i would keep quiet ,as with every new comment you bring more shame upon yourself with your limited knowledge of the english language .
mercury107 3 years ago
The irony.
Coordination is the correct spelling, Einstein. Open up a dictionary and see for yourself. It would have been so fucking easy for to have just typed "coordination" into google, looked at any of the numerous online dictionaries and saved yourself from looking like an absolute dipshit.
If I was you, I'd follow your own advice.
Oh and another tip, calling me left wing with every comment isn't insulting. Thatcher was a fucking awful PM, get over it.
Aardvarked88 3 years ago 7
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Touche Aardvarked88.
Glad to see i got a nice reaction or should that be re-action. Don't get too upset or angry it's only the internet.I have the utmost respect for the armed forces.You can have the last word.
Farewell my left wing friend.
mercury107 3 years ago
@Aardvarked88 nice 1 kidda,dont know what isreal and palestine have to do with,your guess is as good as mine ha ha be safe
eatmypies 1 year ago
@Aardvarked88 haha i love that- as if being a lefty is a bad thing- sorry we believe in some kind of social equality eh
scroungecan 1 year ago
If you are talking about Proper grammer Then why do leave a space before you put a full-stop. Have you not learnt mercury107 that they not used like that, you left wing peice of trash. And It is coordination, Muppet!
Lookatmeamsandradee 3 years ago
Idiot comment from mercury107. I'm left wing trash and I have served in HM Forces for 15 years. I was brought up to fight facism where you find it, be it at home or abroard. This song remains a check to my actions, along with many other parts of the the arts. Without tese to check our souls we would blunder in like the thugs the right wing would have us be.
finnfreya 3 years ago 5
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typical left wing trash . can't sing can't write songs . he should have stuck to getting giros like the rest of his scum .
mercury107 3 years ago
What the hell? Bad grammar and a personality that is even worse to boot. Just enjoy the performance and keep your singular and awful attempt of an insult to yourself. I'm not usually like this but your comments are just not called for- as far as content and grammar.
StaySafeTonight 3 years ago 2
I still haven't heard this "performance". I mute the speakers when woody is on.
mercury107 3 years ago
this video reminds me of my videos!!1
omfg lol that's so funny!!! OR
new0056 3 years ago
chumbawamba (under THE PASSION KILLERS)did a brilliant version of this
rebelcounty77 3 years ago
Where's the trumpet?
philipbebb 3 years ago
One hell of a monster of a song!!!!
cantonadenmark 3 years ago 4
Brilliant as Costello is, its much harder for a listener to appreciate a world-class bass player. Bruce Thomas really and truly made whole much greater that the sum of the parts in the Attractions. Sure, he spoke out when he felt Elvis was an arrogant jerk; many boss-artists were and are. And the relationship couldnt bear the friction. But Elvis, much as we admire you, and you did have to separate... you will probably never again sound as good as you did with this guy.
jmm1000 3 years ago
Yes I'm sure Elvis Costello ran out of magic the day he parted with .. um .. what's that hack's name again?
MmeDesgranges 3 years ago
to call bruce thomas a hack, is like calling you a slowpoke.
jmm1000 3 years ago 2
You are so right. Costello's songs have really suffered from the absence of Bruce Thomas, both on record and live. Really a "B" list act now days.
westendrecording 3 years ago
Aahhh Clover. The best backing band in the World :-)
ezekialjazz 3 years ago
Elvis, like many good singer/songwriters, they are made better by a great backing band though seldom does history provide due credit to groups like the Attractions. Elvis' early success owes as much to the group as it does his
songs.
bowiemott 3 years ago 3
Elvis is the man, but the band is just magnificent here too. I love all the atmospheric touches the each instrument adds. Man, how does Steve get that shimmering effect on the keyboards?!
eekabostatic 3 years ago
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful - It has always been one of my favorites, and it is so nice to see a live version of it. His voice is so sweet, so sad...
mnelson2008 3 years ago
well noted flame it has a deep rooted satire at our pathetic attemps to become an imperialistic country.and our embarraseing pocket fag boy nature in following americas act of inflicting their ideas of democracy on the people of this world that dont want it
eatmypies 3 years ago
Great song, my favorite of Elvis's.
snapdragonsgirl 3 years ago
A classic song with so much meaning at the time regarding closure of local dockyards and unemployment - one of my favourites
archyvanlolster0 3 years ago
been following elvis since 77 heard him do this song many times and he has never failed to impress me . gets me every time like tramp the dirt down . be much appreciated if someone has got some live footage . go elv
suepurrrr 3 years ago