Green Shirt - Elvis Costello

[AscoliChaChaCha]

Working in the mall at the Proving Ground. You tease. You Flirt.

[711honved]

A rare gem, that will be played in a thousand years!

[mikealx68]

Ace! Always loved this track. I played "Armed Forces" half to death when I was about 10!

[beddy2112]

I have been a fan since My Aim Is true made here to the States. These days the deeper I delve into his entire catalog, the more it is evident that aside from Lennon and McCartney, songwriting does not get any better.

[ColdOasisU2]

Probably Prince took notice of Elvis song writing....this song reminds of some of Prince compositions

[milsp]

Brilliant song, insipid video. Ah, well, can't have everything.

[karnofsky]

Makes me think of Rebekah Brooks, for some reason.

[Lizzzeg]

There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen

That comes into my ass every night

[preluki]

Big song on Austin, TX radio

[MFizz01]

This isn't really a video, but a bunch clips of other videos thrown together. Cheap!

[MrAndersoncouncil]

An unmitigated genius.

[ARIADNEntheMONKFISH]

Elvis Costtelo put his fingerprints in my imagination....30 years on still know this verbatum

[badfishSTP]

Elvis Costello: My all time favorite lyricist.

[preluki]

Big hit on Austin, Tx radio

[willibaldvongluck]

loved this song off "Armed forces."....somewhere in the quisling clinic there's a shorthand typist taking seconds of the minutes..Happy memories of living in a squat in north west London in 1978.

[vkman34]

I think this is about the Greenshirts, the military wing of the Irish National Corporate Party started by General Eoin O'Duffy. Either that, or it's about a paranoid schizophrenic who's partial to green shirts.

[cochranexyz]

Neat old video.

[ffejbboc]

this song really captures the essence of the late 70s / early 80s new wave music for me...with Squeeze and Split Enz and XTC, etc. I Loves me some Elvis Costello!

[kevhead66]

@ffejbboc well said. you got good taste

[keonewstuff]

Can someone please give me a list of all the videos in this? I only recognize a few.

[laurenanderson61]

Agree with all the accolades. A perfect pop song.

[greenshirt1000]

My fave Elvis Costello song...he's awesome. I think Weezer took their lead from him.

[themooddisorders]

@greenshirt1000 Are you going by the glasses? ooooohhhh Buddy Holly Elvis Costello Rivers Cuomo

Rivers is the oddball

[ChrisDayRocks]

i love elvis costello, my music is similar to his, I have it on my channel if you wanna check it out.

[aikicinema]

Always one of my favorite Elvis C tunes. "Somebody's gonna get it." Somebody always does!

[meeshmi526]

what happened to music??? :(

[Nic1973KISS]

Pop brilliance........period. I've loved this song/album since I was 8 years old in 1980.

[Puckhog9]

Your kid wishes you had bought him microsoft shares back in the 70's instead of vinyl

[benlenn]

Oooh reality bites!

[gillsleslie]

Absolutely fan-fucking-tastic.  Words, music, production, engineering. Me aged 20. Tears in my eyes.

[swanstep]

What can one say? Most song-writers would give their left whatever to have written this. Brilliantly tight playing by the Attractions on this album too.

[vinm300]

Exactly , what can you say ?

A young Costello brimming with talent.

Thanks NotoriousHEB for posting this.

[pianoman74]

Haa...I know this from the 80s ... I know now it's from 1979 but it was re-released in 1985...

[maninwhitedress]

Elvis Costello warps minds daily.

[TheVleckChannel]

This particular Best Of video is a favourite memory of my childhood. I loved Elvis Costello back then even without understanding the excellence of his songwriting and the awesome music.

[jimscarlet]

Thanks for this one,it brings back so many great memories.

I remember them using this tune as a backdrop to the advertisment on the television advert for the album.

I sometimes forget just how great the Attractions were.

[KCVROCKS2008]

i love the drum sound on the 'armed forces' cd.

[briarus42]

Get Happy! ArmedForces This years model and most other

Elvis Costello albums were great. Al lthe songs on the album were good not just the covers . kids now think int erms of just singes because of I tunes . There was real value with A lot of albums

[cheryllynnmc]

I teased and I flirted...and somebody got it. It ruined my life. This song is a warning.

[Zenith1987]

Thanks for posting it!

[patroc58]

a classic from armed forces lp...ONE of his best lps

[TheBowserKoopa]

I've been looking for this video for ages - thanks for uploading it.