Today's slow drag is with "Needle Time," from "The Delivery Man," released in 2004. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

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Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Needle_Time

"Needle Time" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldJnWS2gUBM

References:

Elvis Costello Awarded O.B.E. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elvis-costello-obe-queens-honors-services-to-music-845936/

Elvis Costello response to OBE https://www.elviscostello.com/#!/news/298460

Understanding the British Honors System & Knighthood: https://blog.eftours.com/tours/british-honours-system-knighthood

The Musicians' Union: A History (1893 – 2013): https://www.muhistory.com/hang-the-dj-the-musicians-union-and-the-early-days-of-radio-1/

"Some Songs That Must Have Been Overlooked":

Part one: "Oliver's Army"

Part two: "Tramp the Dirt Down"

Part three: "Stick out your Tongue"

Part four: "Tokyo Storm Warning"

Part five: "New Lace Sleeves"

Part six: "Shipbuilding"

Ending with "and now a word from our sponsors" "Less Than Zero."

"Cheap Reward" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FK4h3dazfw

"Cheap Reward" Lyric page http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Cheap_Reward

"Better out than in" idiom: https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/45/messages/329.html

"Needle Time" Lyrics:

I wish that I didn't hate you Least not as much as I do And squander all my contempt for A little nothing like you Liars like you are ten-a-penny Women would slap you, if you knew any Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense These twenty-seven or so years How you'd think I would have made them some cents Now they want me fingerprinted like I was smuggling drugs While the government does deals with the most convenient thugs Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime It's Needle Time

It's needle time I'm trying not to despise you with a passion that's hard to extinguish Or maybe I really love you although it's hard to distinguish I wish I could be more like a saint is Forgiving those who trespass against us Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime I started talking nonsense, just like I did to begin with Around the time I tired of those sour English Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime It's Needle Time

Today's slow drag is with "You Tripped at Every Step," from "Brutal Youth," released in 1994. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello's birth name.

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Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/You_Tripped_At_Every_Step

"You Tripped at Every Step" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEJEJ66Wyto

"Why Do People Like Sad Songs?": https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hot-thought/201507/why-do-people-sad-songs

Semantic Pointer Architecture: http://compneuro.uwaterloo.ca/research/spa/semantic-pointer-architecture.html

What is the Minor Third? Music Theory #20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO1pBNC8ggw

The descending Minor Third: Meagan Curtis explains the science of sad songs: http://archive.ttbook.org/book/meagen-curtis-science-sad-songs Music and speech (musical interval) Tufts Music Cognition Lab.

Journal Article: The Minor Third Communicates Sadness in Speech, Mirroring It's Use in Music: http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/music-cognition/pdfs/Curtis&Bharucha2010Emotion.pdf

Mud in your eye idiom: https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/23/messages/344.html

"You Tripped at Every Step" Lyrics

Take your tiny feet out of your mother's shoes Or there is going to be a terrible scene It's not just the lipstick drawn on crooked When they find how wicked we are How wicked we have been How I've been tempted How you tripped at every step You tripped at every step You tripped at every step How you tripped at every step There's a merry tune that starts in "I" and ends in "You" Like many famous pop songs do And you would sing along with little tell-tale staggers While balancing on daggers Though they were killing you You looked so deadly As you tripped at every step You tripped at every step You tripped at every step As you tripped at every step And I would run to catch you Anytime you call Only you drank that potion And went out of control There's nothing to stop you So how can you fall Let me take your hand Put down that frying pan Darkness would become me Underneath the table As the fury raged around the house Your despairing, treadless, angry, and unstable You never suspected Just as that cartoon mouse Went undetected So you tripped at every step In another world of gin and cigarettes Those cocktail cabinets put mud in your eye Maybe that is why you find it hard to see me And if you don't believe me Before you start to cry "Don't ever leave me" As you start to lose your grip (As you start losing your grip) You will stumble and you slip (And you will stumble and slip) As you tripped at every step You tripped at every step You tripped at every step As you tripped at every step You tripped at every step You tripped at every step As you tripped at every As you tripped at every You tripped at every step You tripped at every step As you tripped at every As you tripped at every step

Today's slow drag is with "Crimes of Paris," from "Blood and Chocolate," released in 1986. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello's birth name.

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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Crimes_Of_Paris

"Crimes of Paris" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97L6Ukrmrk4

Kurt Vonnegut quote regarding love: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/91604-if-somebody-says-i-love-you-to-me-i-feel

Hunter S. Thompson, the bats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC4nP9LA3T4

Duplicate lyrics, "Suffering Face" Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Suffering_Face

"Suffering Face": https://www.megalyrics.net/elvis-costello/suffering-face

"Freytag's Pyramid": https://blog.reedsy.com/narrative-arc/

"Leave My Kitten Alone" liner notes: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Leave_My_Kitten_Alone

"Leave My Kitten Alone" EC cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVf0HMWmDvE

"Q" Magazine interview, "Kojak Variety" http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/File:1995-06-00_Q_page_28.jpg

"Crimes in Paris" Lyrics:

I thought it was you with your optimist's view of the clock And how it's always another day Just after twelve o'clock's struck Said "Now I only want you so I don't have to promise" But tiny children in grown-up clothes whispered all the Crimes of Paris Chorus: You're not the girl next door or a girl from France Or the cigarette-girl in the sizzle hot-pants All the words of love seem cruel and crass When you're tough and transparent as armored glass You're an everywhere girl in an everyday mess Who'll pay for the Crimes of Paris I heard that you fell for the "Hell or to Hammersmith Blues" In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind, he's irresistible too It's hard to say now if he's only stupid or is smart As he crawled through the door And poured out more of his (weeping) creeping-Jesus heart (Chorus) And it's all here and now She hits him with that paper-weight Eiffel Tower And I tried to hold on to you, but I don't know how And I find it hard to swallow good advice Like going down three times to only come up twice Come up twice She's so convenient, he's always stiff as hair-lacquer It's hard to discover now he's in love with her It was her way of getting her own back

He never did anything she couldn't do on her own You're as good as your word and that's no good to her You'd better leave that kitten alone (Chorus)

Today's slow drag is with "Two Little Hitlers," from "Armed Forces," released in 1979. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Little_Atoms

"Two Little Hitlers" http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Two_Little_Hitlers

"Two Little Hitlers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkyMYl_u2H0

https://singledatingdiva.com/2015/09/02/finding-the-ideal-partner-requires-selective-dating/

Grammy nomination surprise: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/awards/8546756/elvis-costello-grammy-rule-change-nomination

Todd Rundgren cover of "Two Little Hitlers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc6cI_BNlBg

"Taste of Honey" "Boogie Oogie Oogie": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYWkG_DI5OE

"Two Little Hitlers" Lyrics

Why are we racing to be so old? I'm up late pacing the floor I won't be told You have your reservations I'm bought and sold I'll face the music I'll face the facts Even when we walk in polka dots and chequer slacks Bowing and squawking Running after titbits Bobbing and squinting Just like a nitwit Two little Hitlers will fight it out until One little Hitler does the other one's will I will return I will not burn

Down in the basement I need my head examined I need my eyes excited I'd like to join the party But I was not invited You make a member of me I'll be delighted I wouldn't cry for lost souls, you might drown Dirty words for dirty minds Written in a toilet town Dial me a Valentine She's a smooth operator It's all so calculated She's got a calculator She's my soft touch typewriter And I'm the great dictator Two little Hitlers will fight it out until One little Hitler does the other one's will I will return I will not burn A simple game of self-respect You flick a switch and the world goes off Nobody jumps as you expect I would have thought you would have had enough by now You call selective dating For some effective mating I thought I'd let you down, dear But you were just deflating I knew right from the start We'd end up hating Pictures of the merchandise Plastered on the wall We can look so long as we don't have to talk at all You say you'll never know him He's an unnatural man He doesn't want your pleasure He wants as no one can He wants to know the names of All those he's better than Two little Hitlers will fight it out until One little Hitler does the other one's will I will return I will not burn I will return I will not burn (repeats)

Today's slow drag is with "Little Atoms," from "All This Useless Beauty," released in 1996. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello's birth name.

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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Little_Atoms

"Little Atoms" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7OSkO1vG7I

Rolling Stone review of "All This Useless Beauty" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/all-this-useless-beauty-204765/

"All This Useless Beauty" review: https://www.allmusic.com/album/all-this-useless-beauty-mw0000173695

A "conceit": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conceit

Elvis Costello, "Little Atoms," "Larry Sanders": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unpbrKHtSSE

1 Corinthians 13: http://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/1COR+13.html

"Little Atoms" Lyrics

I arose and Marigold lay down with Curious Iris Cherry gave to Victor her prudence and her virus For the sake of purity I can recall the time and place Between Wisdom and Murder she gave up her immaculate face (Chorus:) My poor belated chastity fell foul of grown up games, With false and lovely modesty I can recall the names I'll miss In the particle of me that cares for this I betrayed those little atoms with a kiss Patience has her virtue still but every grace must have its price I through some felicity may spin a tale of constant vice I took my better nature out, drowned it in the babbling stream Took the blossom of my youth and blew it all to smithereens (Repeat Chorus) And if you still don't like my song / then you can just go to hell I don't care if I'm right or wrong / or if my typewriter can spell But I cannot promise you I've said "Goodbye" to childish things There's still some pretty insults left and such sport in threatening (Repeat Chorus) And for the sake of clarity They are "Faith", "Hope", and "Charity" In the particle of me that cares for this I betrayed those little atoms with a kiss

Today's slow drag is with "Waiting for the End of The World," from "My Aim is True," released on July 22, 1977, exactly 26 days before the death of Elvis Presley on August 16, 1977. These events are unrelated yet forever cosmically tied to one another. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello, a man who, on July 22, 1977 was a mere 35 or so days away from his 23rd birthday.

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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Waiting_For_The_End_Of_The_World

"Waiting for the End of the World": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgIR3GU_5sw

To have "agency" https://www.basicknowledge101.com/pdf/Agency%20(philosophy).pdf "The capacity of an entity…to act in any given environment."

"A Bunch of Stiff Records" contractual band name: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/A_Bunch_Of_Stiff_Records

"Waiting for the End of the World" lyrics

The man from the television crawled into the train I wonder who he's gonna stick it in this time Everyone was looking for a little entertainment So they'll probably pull his hands off when they find out his name And then they shut down the power all along the line And we got stuck in the tunnel where no lights shine They got to touching all the girls who were too scared to call out Nobody was saying anything at all We were waiting for the end of the world Waiting for the end of the world Waiting for the end of the world Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're coming 'cause you've really started something Things got back to normal as the train began to roll again We got to the station about twenty minutes later The legendary hitchhiker says that he knows where it's at Now he'd like to go to Spain or somewhere like that With his two-tone Bible and his funny cigarettes, His suntan lotion and his castanets He was waiting for the end of the world Waiting for the end of the world Waiting for the end of the world Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're coming 'cause you've really started something And then the bride, the groom, the congregation and the priest All got onto the train when we were three stations east, yeah Hiding from a scandal in the national press They had been trying to get married since they stole the wedding dress You may see them drowning as you stroll along the beach But don't throw out the lifeline till they're clean out of reach Waiting for the end of the world Waiting for the end of the world Waiting for the end of the world Waiting for the end of the world

Today's slow drag is with "My Mood Swings," found on 2012's "In Motion Pictures," but was first heard briefly at the 1:04:00 mark of "The Big Lebowski," released in 1998.

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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/My_Mood_Swings

"My Mood Swings": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzJo3rS9sOE

"I'll Never Fall in Love Again" Austin Powers 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sbNQoGwXGg

Elvis Costello Grammy nominations and wins: https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/elvis-costello

"God Give Me Strength" live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrcNnIV6FV8

"God Give Me Strength" Kristen Vigard version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJvKN7MS_9w

Burt Bacharach in rehearsal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0moJR_JnE

Cultural Icon Definition, a radical view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VUZUGIWV5Q

Marshmallow pronunciation: American and English: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/marshmallow

"Imperial Bedroom" lyrics: http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/ib/ib_mini_inner_2.jpg

"Barney Bubbles" https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/people/barney-bubbles/

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/03/barney-bubbles-feature

"In Search of Barney Bubbles" (available on BBC Sounds) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b018wh7h

http://www.eyemagazine.com/review/article/what-a-genius

"The Big Lebowski" Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/album/7Hz6IKNVi0Rlqpa2PLdAG2

Letterkenny, "To be fair" compliation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv7jcciKB_s

How Are Ya Now? Podcast https://howareyanowpod.com

"My Mood Swings" Lyrics

She was smitten from the first By a curious fellow She said I love the way you talk And with a flounce she announced it I love the way that you pronounced it Marshmallow Well she liked to sing along To her favourite song From the year that she was born See how mysterious her fate is She had to get born in the eighties So speak to me, just like you should Then we can do those wicked things And if you want, we'll make it good Before my mood swings Well he looked like one of those Who would take off his clothes Like you would peel a tangerine No one's been known to decline this Once he has found out what your sign is So speak to me, just like you should Then we can do those wicked things And it you want, we'll make it good Before my mood swings So speak to me, just like you should Then we can do those wicked things And it you want, we'll make it good Before my mood swings So speak to me, just like you should Then we can do those wicked things And it you want, we'll make it good Before my mood swings

Today's slow drag is with "Living in Paradise," from "This Year's Model" released in 1978. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Living_In_Paradise

"Living in Paradise": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6cA9jniTO8

"Living in Paradise" early version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2uoByQlnK0

Concert Review, "Creative Loafing: Tampa Bay" by Eric Snider https://www.cltampa.com/music/reviews/article/21096905/elvis-costello-gives-hardcore-fans-the-goods-at-st-petes-mahaffey-theater

"Living in Paradise" Lyrics

I don't like those other guys looking at your curves I don't like you walking 'round with physical jerks Everything they say and do is getting on my nerves Soon they will be lucky to be picking up the perks 'Cause when they pull the shutters down and throw up in the dark They'll find that all the dogs outside bite much worse than they bark Here we are living in paradise, living in luxury Oh, the thrill is here but it won't last long You better have your fun before it moves along And you're already looking for another fool like me I call you Betty Felon 'cause you are a pretty villain And I think that I should tell them that you'd make a pretty killing 'Cause meanwhile up in heaven they are waiting at the gate Saying "We always knew you'd make it, didn't think you'd come this late" And now it's much too dangerous to stop what you've begun When everyone in paradise carries a gun Here we are living in paradise, living in luxury Oh, the thrill is here but it won't last long You better have your fun before it moves along And you're already looking for another fool like me Later in the evening when arrangements are made I'll be at the keyhole outside your bedroom door 'Cause I'm the first to know whenever the plans are laid That never go further than floor to floor You think that I don't know the boy that you're touching But I'll be at the video and I will be watching Here we are living in paradise Here we are living in paradise Here we are living in paradise Here we are living in paradise, living in luxury Oh, the thrill is here but it won't last long You better have your fun before it moves along And you're already looking for another fool like me

Today's slow drag is with "Chemistry Class," from "Armed Forces" released in 1979. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Chemistry_Class

"Chemistry Class": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6QABOVXkFk

"I'd Rather Be Thin than Famous": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKhqBejt0NA

"Chemistry Class" Lyrics

She throws back her hair and she shows you her mouth The breath that I waste trying to ruin your life Beauty's on a budget but you take it on the chin 'Cause you have to do your duty taking orders from the kingpin Chorus: You've got a chemistry class, I want a piece of your mind You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine Are you ready for the final solution? Oh Oh They chopped you up in butcher's school Threw you out of the academy of garbage You'll be a joker all your life A student at the comedy college People pleasing people pleasing people like you You've been around so long but you still don't know what to do (Chorus) Sparks are flying from electrical pylons Snakes and ladders running up and down her nylons Ready to experiment, you're ready to be burned If it wasn't for some accidents then some would never ever learn

Today's slow drag is with "Luxembourg," from "Trust" released in 1981. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag

References:

"Luxembourg" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA7XqnHMIwQ

"Seven O'clock" demo: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Seven_O%27Clock

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Luxembourg

YouTube version w/ lyrics: https://youtu.be/heeY3UzX9GU

Serve two masters idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/serve+two+masters

Dog's dinner idiom: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/dog%27s+dinner

It's a dog's life idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/it%27s+a+dog%27s+life

Butter wouldn't melt idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/butter+wouldn%27t+melt+(in+(one%27s)+mouth)

Luxembourg info: https://www.britannica.com/place/Luxembourg/Demographic-trends

Look daggers at idiom: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/look+daggers+at

Send to Coventry slang: https://www.historyrevealed.com/eras/stuarts/why-do-we-say-send-someone-to-coventry/

Mark Twain Didn't Say It: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/mark-twain-didnt-say-thing-about-obituaries/350238/

EC's long hair in "The Other Side of Summer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww0hN-puTdA

"Luxembourg" Lyrics

Dressed up like a dog's dinner Butter wouldn't melt on your paws If this is a dog's life Then you're the cat's clothes They hire out your sons And hire out your daughters The man from abroad says he's already bought her And now you look like a lover but you're only a tourist Chorus: You're either talking or yawning You didn't listen to a thing you heard Don't start your morning moaning or you might wake up in Luxembourg You get up, you get over You're worried about her body She's worryin' about her bodily odour You pull off The pull over You say that you love her when you really loathe her Serves you right, now she wants you to feed her and clothe her (Chorus) They're smiling sweetly while they're looking daggers Kick you where it really matters Send all your friends to Coventry And look for your name in last night's obituaries If you've got the Deutschmarks If you've got the Yen, then You get the shirt off her back and the clock off Big Ben Somebody's soft touch Struck all these bargains In the drinking clubs with the council men Making plans to put lead back in their pencils again