Posted on 11/17/2015 1:13:00 PM PST by Cecily
Elvis Costello composed “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes†on a train traveling from London to Liverpool in 1976, before he became a recording artist. Sketched out in the final 10 minutes of the three-hour journey, “Red Shoes†is a surrealist tale about an imagined jilting and the appearance of earthbound angels offering the singer immortality—in exchange for his footwear. Months later, Mr. Costello recorded “Red Shoes†for his first album, “My Aim Is True,†which was released in 1977.
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And the Mrs. is pretty accomplished as well.
Oh, I used to be disgusted / And now I try to be amused
I never heard of it. And five seconds
of it on Youtube is enough to be glad I missed out.
Describes me to a "T" these days.
Dang. Now I need to go rooting around my cassette tape collection. I used to have this on cassette.
From Wiki....
My Aim Is True is the debut album by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello.
The album was recorded at Pathway Studios in Holloway, London Borough of Islington, over the course of 1976 during late-night studio sessions, in a total of approximately twenty-four hours. It was the first of five consecutive Costello albums produced by Nick Lowe and cost £2000.[9] The backing band was made up of members of Clover. They were uncredited on the original release due to contractual difficulties; some early publicity for the album identified the backing band as “The Shamrocks”.
In 1977 Rolling Stone magazine named the album one of the best of the year.[10] In 2003, the TV network VH1 named My Aim Is True the 80th greatest album of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 168 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[11] In 2004, it was ranked 37 of the top 100 albums of the 1970s by Pitchfork which reported the album to be “held by many as the most impressive debut in pop music history.”[12] In 2007, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[13]
One of the greatest moments in SNL history was when Elvis stopped in the middle of a song to play “Radio, Radio” an attack on the radio industry which SNL told him not to play.
Seems like a similar thing happened to a different Elvis, but he told them to “lay off my blue suede shoes!”
Me too (CD in my case). I haven’t listened to the whole album in a long time.
Say what you will about Costello, but this remains one of my favorite albums of all time.
She said, "Drop dead" then left with another guy
Thanks for posting this. Ordered his book within a minute of knowing that it existed!
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