Tag Archives: Elvis Costello

Record Store Day 2025 Dangles Bright, Shiny Musical Objects

Posted on April 10, 2025 by postpunkmonk

It’s been such a whirlwind of activity that I only came to realize that Record Store Day was bearing down like a runaway freight train! It is happening in less than 48 hours and as always, we have to look … Continue reading →

Posted in Record Store Day, Want List | Tagged 2025, a-ha, David Bowie, Dead Or Alive, Duran Duran, Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, Lou Reed, Nick Lowe, OMD, PIL, Suede, Talking Heads, The Colourfield, The Cure, The Hate Bombs, The Ramones, The Residents, Thompson Twins, Wall Of Voodoo, Wire | 4 Comments

Looking Back At Music Videos [part 1]

Posted on April 11, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Music Videos were certainly a huge thing 40 years ago. I can recall seeing proto-MTV music video programming in the ’79-’80 window. Syndicated music programs were bubbling up at the end of the 70s as bands were embracing a visual … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, New Romantic, Uncategorized | Tagged Elvis Costello, music video, Ultravox, Vienna | 12 Comments

80s Soundtrack Week: Tuesday – “Party Party” GER CD

Posted on May 18, 2021 by postpunkmonk

Today’s album came from much earlier in the decade and came from a completely different mindset. Instead of US teens living in the “alternative music” scene of the mid-80s, our next soundtrack was from a British holiday comedy about a … Continue reading →

Posted in Bowie, Core Collection, New Romantic, Record Review, Scots Rock, Ska, SOTD | Tagged 1982, A+M Records, Altered Images, Bananarama, Elvis Costello, Midge Ure, New Wave Cover Version, ska, soundtrack | 10 Comments

Battle Of The Mid-80s Horn Sections: Elvis Costello + The Attractions – Punch The Clock

Posted on June 15, 2020 by postpunkmonk

They proliferated like mushrooms in the pomp of mid-80s productions as the Serious Eighties got underway and swept the last vestiges of the Post-Punk experimentation of the late 70s off of the music map. I suppose we can lay the … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Record Review | Tagged 1983, 1995, Elvis Costello, horn section | 12 Comments

Blondie And Elvis Costello + The Imposters Join Forces For Summer Extravaganza

Posted on May 23, 2019 by postpunkmonk

Can you smell it in the air? The imminent aroma of Summer Shed Season coming upon us? The time when rock royalty get their houses in order so that they can play to as wide an audience as possible in … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Tourdates | Tagged 2019, Blondie, Elvis Costello, North American Tour | 19 Comments

First Impressions Often Lie

Posted on October 30, 2018 by postpunkmonk

Today my thoughts have gone to revisit those times when I have been disastrously wrong about something that upon revisiting, I will experience a 180 degree opinion switch on. Since I’ll never be Post-Punk Pope [I have no pull with … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1979, 1980, 2004, Elvis Costello, The Buggles, xtc | 38 Comments

REDUX: The Great B- Sides – Elvis Costello + The Attractions – Just A Memory

Posted on July 30, 2018 by postpunkmonk

July 16, 2014 A big chunk of what makes me the person that I am is that I seventually learned about the ins and outs of record collecting, though it was an arduous trek on my on in the wilderness … Continue reading →