Comments on: Popdose Flashback: Elvis Costello, “Spike”

By: ShalimarBojangles

ShalimarBojangles — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:53:43 +0000

“Last Boat Leaving” is one of my all-time favorite EC tracks. Sublimely beautiful and sad.

By: ShalimarBojangles

ShalimarBojangles — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:53:43 +0000

“Last Boat Leaving” is one of my all-time favorite EC tracks. Sublimely beautiful and sad.

By: ShalimarBojangles

ShalimarBojangles — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:53:43 +0000

“Last Boat Leaving” is one of my all-time favorite EC tracks. Sublimely beautiful and sad.

By: side3

side3 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:21:13 +0000

I love “This Town”…EC plus McCartney on bass and Roger McGuinn on 12 String Rick= classic.

By: BobCashill

BobCashill — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:10:38 +0000

After a difficult shoot on “Coming to America” (1988), Eddie Murphy famously said that John Landis would have a better chance of working with “Twilight Zone” unfortunate Vic Morrow than him again. “Cop 3″ (1994) was directed by…John Landis. Go figure.

(Medak, director of “The Ruling Class” and “The Changeling,” also directed “Romeo is Bleeding”…and “Species II.”)

And I love “Spike,” which I listened to constantly when I lived in Hong Kong. It helped me through those long hours of editing reports about Taiwanese capacitors, my not-so-glamorous job back then.

By: el bandito

el bandito — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:20:05 +0000

“Baby Play Around” is a classic. I love this album!

By: Old_Davy

Old_Davy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:55:32 +0000

After the first three brilliant albums, I kind of lost interest in EC until Spike was released. What a return to form! Easily the best album after those first three.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:53:26 +0000

I had a similar experience with this album. I was 'familiar' with EC, but this was the first one I really digested and knew every note of. 20 years later, I'm as hardcore a fan as possible. Going to see him in June with a bluegrass backing band!

By: JonCummings

JonCummings — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:50:24 +0000

Whoops, wrong movie–there were no Spans in “Let Him Have It,” though my point remains. The Kemp brothers were in “The Krays,” which was directed by Peter Medak, who also helmed “Let Him Have It” — and, later, “Beverly Hills Cop 3″!!!! But I digress…

By: JonCummings

JonCummings — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:07:12 +0000

It was the constant tempo and mood shifts that kept me riveted through much of “Spike” (though the second half tails off dramatically, in my opinion). “Let Him Dangle” is one of my fave Elvis tracks, accomplishing more in four minutes than that movie with the Spandau Ballet boys did in two hours. And I found “Tramp the Dirt Down” eye-opening, having rarely heard a spitting of specific vitriol quite like it.