Stay cool motherfuckers y'all know the rules: The Roots

[VinylGuy]

So this thing is fucking great.

it is...i have to listen to it and leave it alone for some days because its ..too much...info..

[evenslow]

One listen through and Trip Wire just owned me. Love how they can wear a song so lightly without it feeling insubstantial. Looking forward to many more listens.

[VinylGuy]

setlist from last night, i want to hear this version of Pump it up and watching the detective!!


Set list:

"Wake Me Up"
"Refuse to Be Saved"
"Stick Out Your Tongue"
"Watching the Detectives"
"Shabby Doll"
"Sugar Won't Work"
"Tripwire" (with Diane Birch)
"Spooky Girlfriend" (with La Marisoul)
"Cincos Minutos Con Vos" (with La Marisoul)
"Ghost Town" (with La Marisoul)
"(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea"
"Walk Us Uptown"
"I Want You"
"Wise Up Ghost"
"Pump It Up"
"I Found Out"

[Norah]

Why is their only mp3 versions of this available on what and waffles?

[liebzz]

Got this on CD last night (sorry, it's $20 less expensive than the record and I just don't have the money to be forking out), but haven't heard it yet. Can't wait to listen as soon as I get a chance.

[Jorge]

[Kevin Davis]

Every listen to this record reveals new pleasures--deeper layers of meaning and increasingly novel snippets of EC-fan trivia. I was honestly expecting it to be another Costello-meets-x-genre collaboration record--solid and satisfying but ultimately exactly what you'd expect a collision of the two worlds to sound like, kind of like his collaboration record with Allen Toussaint. I couldn't have been more wrong. My feelings on it after owning the CD for a week are basically just an amplification of the initial rave I posted. Everyone should check this out.

[Norah]

Yep, this is really fucking awesome.

[evenslow]

I had the great pleasure of seeing Elvis and the Roots at Jimmy Fallon the other night and it was fucking fantastic. They did a "warm-up" pre-show song for the audience along with the "live show" song and post-show song. The best out of the three was Wise Up Ghost, where they managed to sound like a group that had been jamming out that song for years.

I'm not saying anything new here, but the musicianship of the Roots is so effortless at this point. Even on commercial breaks, they bring it like any other live show. The hero of the night for me was Mark Kelley, who helps hold the whole thing down, especially with the inclusion of strings and a separate horn section.

It's especially great when they get to focus their talents in the direction of someone like Elvis, and different shades come to the fore.

Also, as he was walking out of the studio after the show, I yelled "Yeah Elvis!" and he gave me a nod and a wave. I'd happily bring pom-poms anytime.

[VinylGuy]

I had the great pleasure of seeing Elvis and the Roots at Jimmy Fallon the other night and it was fucking fantastic. They did a "warm-up" pre-show song for the audience along with the "live show" song and post-show song. The best out of the three was Wise Up Ghost, where they managed to sound like a group that had been jamming out that song for years.

I'm not saying anything new here, but the musicianship of the Roots is so effortless at this point. Even on commercial breaks, they bring it like any other live show. The hero of the night for me was Mark Kelley, who helps hold the whole thing down, especially with the inclusion of strings and a separate horn section.

It's especially great when they get to focus their talents in the direction of someone like Elvis, and different shades come to the fore.

Also, as he was walking out of the studio after the show, I yelled "Yeah Elvis!" and he gave me a nod and a wave. I'd happily bring pom-poms anytime.

Sounds awesome man, im glad you experienced that....The Roots are an amazing band.

[i got bugs]

never was a big costello fan, but holy shit this things great

[liebzz]

never was a big costello fan, but holy shit this things great

Agreed. I don't dislike his stuff, just never bothered with it.

This album, I finally heard last night, and it was fantastic. The Roots really are such a fluid great band, and sometimes what they are doing here takes away from Costello some, but I enjoyed just about every song on the album. A good distraction from the Lightning Bolt thread.

[VinylGuy]

never was a big costello fan, but holy shit this things great

Agreed. I don't dislike his stuff, just never bothered with it.

This album, I finally heard last night, and it was fantastic. The Roots really are such a fluid great band, and sometimes what they are doing here takes away from Costello some, but I enjoyed just about every song on the album. A good distraction from the Lightning Bolt thread.

Me too..
I dont quite like the stuff he made in 90s and i just dont care about every release his featured on, but here, he´s ok.
The Roots steal the show ,of course, and his pretty boring in the last song, the most "Costello" one from the whole album.

[evenslow]

never was a big costello fan, but holy shit this things great

Agreed. I don't dislike his stuff, just never bothered with it.

This album, I finally heard last night, and it was fantastic. The Roots really are such a fluid great band, and sometimes what they are doing here takes away from Costello some, but I enjoyed just about every song on the album. A good distraction from the Lightning Bolt thread.

Me too..
I dont quite like the stuff he made in 90s and i just dont care about every release his featured on, but here, he´s ok.
The Roots steal the show ,of course, and his pretty boring in the last song, the most "Costello" one from the whole album.

Have you ever listened to Brutal Youth?

[malice]

never was a big costello fan, but holy shit this things great

Agreed. I don't dislike his stuff, just never bothered with it.

This album, I finally heard last night, and it was fantastic. The Roots really are such a fluid great band, and sometimes what they are doing here takes away from Costello some, but I enjoyed just about every song on the album. A good distraction from the Lightning Bolt thread.

Me too..
I dont quite like the stuff he made in 90s and i just dont care about every release his featured on, but here, he´s ok.
The Roots steal the show ,of course, and his pretty boring in the last song, the most "Costello" one from the whole album.

Have you ever listened to Brutal Youth?

*imperial bedroom
*this year's model
*clubland
*spike

[VinylGuy]

never was a big costello fan, but holy shit this things great

Agreed. I don't dislike his stuff, just never bothered with it.

This album, I finally heard last night, and it was fantastic. The Roots really are such a fluid great band, and sometimes what they are doing here takes away from Costello some, but I enjoyed just about every song on the album. A good distraction from the Lightning Bolt thread.

Me too..
I dont quite like the stuff he made in 90s and i just dont care about every release his featured on, but here, he´s ok.
The Roots steal the show ,of course, and his pretty boring in the last song, the most "Costello" one from the whole album.

Have you ever listened to Brutal Youth?

yeah, its good.

[evenslow]

never was a big costello fan, but holy shit this things great

Agreed. I don't dislike his stuff, just never bothered with it.

This album, I finally heard last night, and it was fantastic. The Roots really are such a fluid great band, and sometimes what they are doing here takes away from Costello some, but I enjoyed just about every song on the album. A good distraction from the Lightning Bolt thread.

Me too..
I dont quite like the stuff he made in 90s and i just dont care about every release his featured on, but here, he´s ok.
The Roots steal the show ,of course, and his pretty boring in the last song, the most "Costello" one from the whole album.

Have you ever listened to Brutal Youth?

yeah, its good.

That and the Bacharach are my two favorites from the 90's.

[VinylGuy]

never was a big costello fan, but holy shit this things great

Agreed. I don't dislike his stuff, just never bothered with it.

This album, I finally heard last night, and it was fantastic. The Roots really are such a fluid great band, and sometimes what they are doing here takes away from Costello some, but I enjoyed just about every song on the album. A good distraction from the Lightning Bolt thread.

Me too..
I dont quite like the stuff he made in 90s and i just dont care about every release his featured on, but here, he´s ok.
The Roots steal the show ,of course, and his pretty boring in the last song, the most "Costello" one from the whole album.

Have you ever listened to Brutal Youth?

yeah, its good.

That and the Bacharach are my two favorites from the 90's.

i did liked the Bacharach one, but after a while it became dull for me. I dont know why...maybe because he seemed to really get into that kind of music, or because he seemed to be everywhere singing the same thing...weird.
Its not an album i go back to.

[Jorge]

"If I Could Believe" is gorgeous. But my money is on the bonus track "The Puppet Has Cut His Strings" for the most "Costello" song, as well as the best in the collection. The whole thing is gold, though.

[VinylGuy]

its pretty boring to me, sounds too much Costello to me. But im guessing its because it dont like him.