Elvis Costello: Radio Radio Vs. What So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding

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Well?

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 04:48 (twenty-three years ago)

It's far too soon to make a decision on such a momentuous choice. Ask again in 20 years, okay?

― Lord Marmite (Lord Marmite), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 05:00 (twenty-three years ago)

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....uuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

well.

I'd................ have to say Peace love and understanding cos my dorky hippy tightass modwest teacher played it infront of my skool and turned it into this gay hippie song. But it was so funny.

― geoff, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 05:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Ehh...bummer. Tom Millar's teacher friend plays Gorillaz & Merzbow for his kids. I think he teachers like 3rd grade or something. Tom'll clear up the details.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 05:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Radio Radio... coz it has a message...

― Adam A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 06:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I say both kinda have a message, even though one's a "gay hippie song"... I dunno.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 06:03 (twenty-three years ago)

nooo.. I didn't mean it WAS one. Its like one of my favourite songs. just teach turned it into one cos he gave us this long winded speech and stuff and turned it into something that it wasn't at all meant to be.

― geoff, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 06:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh. I get it now. If teacher wanna cover songs, they shouldn't talk about the message, they should just play the song, like my dad does in his bar band. I'm serious. My dad is in a cover band that plays shitty bars in the ohio valley twice a weekend to relieve stress from the boss-type-guy job he works at my grandfathers barium plant. That's why when my mom and brother come to visit on weekends he can't make it, because he's playing the Eagles or the American Legion or something. Oh well, he's getting a dose of me tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day...until Sunday. And he's only getting spoken to via the vocoder I'm getting on Xmas w/ the KorgMS2000!!! BOO-YAh!!

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 06:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah. Right. Peace. Novel message. Real cool. YAAAAWWWWNNN

― Adam A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 06:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Look Adam, you said "a message", not an exciting message. If I wanted an exciting message I'd listen to either "Don't Say Motherfucker Motherfucker" or "I Got Erection" by Turbonegro.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 06:31 (twenty-three years ago)

There's your problem! You're making excuses not to listen to "I Got Erection"!! Go! Listen! Now!

― Adam A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 06:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I am. Well, actually now it's "Midnight NAMBLA". Random play on the CD, you know. I am the Midnight NAMBLA! I am the two inch gambler! The fondler of the nobbler - The Nemesis of the toddler -
I look just like your father but I am - The midnight NAMBLA -!!!

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 06:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Prince of the Rodeo is better than Midnight NAMBLA, you know.

Anyway, I pick neither. Elvis has much better songs than either, you know. Just not the bloody one I was named for. Oliver's Army is probably my favorite. Not sure why, I just like it a lot.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 07:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, I'd say they're on par. Midnight NAMBLA was just the on playing. Now its Age of Pamparius. Random play on the live album.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 08:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Pills & Soap = my favorite E.C. song and my fourth or fifth favorite song by anyone evah

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 08:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Radio Radio - better lyrics/message.
Peace, Love & such .... better tune.

Tune beats lyrics.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"man out of time" and "shipbuilding" are my favorite EC songs ... i guess "shipbuilding" is also a "gay hippy song" 'cause it's protesting the Falklands War (and that commie Robert Wyatt did a cover of it)?

and i think "peace love & understanding" originally was supposed to be a "gay hippy song," seeing as Nick Lowe wrote it back in his "gay hippy" days.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Funny, these are both the closing epics off great, great (U.S. version) albums (albums he's never topped, in my view), but neither song really holds my interest as much as all the songs that come before them. Too obviously anthemic? Or maybe he's just not enough of a wound-up bastard on them--there's too much acknowledgment of the outside world on these tracks (I prefer the seething claustrophobia). Thus, I'll take either of the respective opening tracks instead: "No Action" (my fave EC song) and "Accidents Will Happen."

― s woods, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to go with "What's So Funny...." even though EC didn't write it (Nick Lowe did).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Oliver's Army is probably my favorite.

Maybe because EC stole the piano line from "Dancing Queen"? I know that you like Abba, so maybe that's it.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 December 2002 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't know what the original sounded like but I heard Nick Lowe doing it with an acoustic guitar on NPR pretty recently. Those features (Lowe's voice, acoustic guitar, NPR) definitely brought the song's "gay hippie" essence out.

― Paula G., Friday, 27 December 2002 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

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