Nov
23
sweat on the lawn
You're in peril.
Just because I’m on a Serious Elvis Costello Jag, I present to you the sweetest honky tonk demo interpretation, “Cheap Reward,” as sung by Stephen T. Colbert, you’ll ever hear.
(Elvis let Stephen sing ‘cause his voice was out.
Interestingly, Costello, who is on the Colbert Report to promote the first season DVD of his Sundance talk show, got his biggest hike in talk show hosting offers when he guest-hosted the Late Show for a night while Letterman was out with Shingles. Life’s little silver linings of mega-coincidence, eh?)
In case you were wondering why I’m so (tehe) pumped, well.
(via motelmatches)
Newwwww wallpaper. Can you tell that I’m glad to have the King of America back?
Elvis Costello with the Roots - “(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea”
I mean, even sideburns-mustache-perfectly-receding-hairline-to-complement-his-slightly-unbuttoned-shirt-showing-gold-chains aside, this man appears to be positively transformed.
You see Questlove at thirty-five seconds in, watching Costello for the next ten seconds straight? Elvis is commanding again such that the bandleader of The Legendary Roots Crew, a guy who produced an Al Green album, is looking to Elvis for direction. Or maybe he’s just making sure—you know, that he’s doing good enough for the king.
I think Elvis the C has gotten his angry short man thing back.
P.S. ProTip: You might want to pay attention to the way Elvis’s feedback morphs from 1:15-1:20, and how he actually modifies the melody so his last sung note of that line finishes the chord his feedback was arpeggiating and provides a leading tone right into the next chord that the organ tops off at the beginning of the following guitar break. That specific way is called “climaxingly,” which, when translated into music nerd, reads as, “eat your heart out Rivers Cuomo.”
Elvis Costello and the Roots - “High Fidelity”
My god, Elvis Costello is looking better these days. Like, not-since-before-1985 better. Thank the stars.
Consider: Frank Walker (AKA F. Knuckles, Knucklz, Frankie Knuckles, or just Knuckles) is not only bearable, but goddamn near appropriate with his synthetic snaps1. Costello made Knuckles approach propriety, y’all.
1 Sayin’. But, to give him some proper props, that roll right on the end was on. Good playin’, Frankie2.
2Even Biddle is gettin’ low and lettin’ go. I mean, he’s no Bruce Thomas (AKA The Greatest Performing Bassist of All Time), but who is? Only an imposter.
The Kopp-Etchells Effect is thought to be the result of static electricity created by friction as materials of dissimilar material strike against each other, in this case helicopter blades moving through the air and dust, but a precise definition is as of now not known.
AHHHHH!
And by the way, this guy was almost Superman.
I mean, he does the surprised man-of-steel so well.
And, plus, stick some glasses on this guy, and it wouldn’t matter how hard he could bumble in the office.
I’m not a big fan of sky-born foreigner, but what I like even less is diminishing his symbol-ism with augmented or misleading modulations—not because I think he is so simple (though his elements are simple enough to reproduce if you have a positive brain-to-neck ratio) but rather because we should never let the fact that we’ve asked an alien to rule our planet be obscured.
Ladies and gentlemen, Matt Bomer.
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