Elvis Costello's "Peace in Our Time" Options

[The Lurker]

Great song! More relevant than ever! Love it!

[shagrath9]

It is a cool song , I think "Goodbye Cruel World" has some great songs on it , The funny thing in the liner notes where Elvis says "congrats on buying my worlds album ever!" or something like that

[Muso]

A lot of the songs ("Peace" included) are really overwritten and I can't figure out what half of them are about, but there are some really good tracks on this album-- Worthless Thing, Love Fiield, Sour Milk Cow Blues, Home Truth. Irt was probably the worst album he'd made to that point, but he'd never made anything close to a really bad one (yet).

[SeamusOShite]

It was production that made him feel that way.....that's why he went out on the solo tour right after finishing it. (at least that's what he said in interviews at the time)

[JimFoster]

It was production that made him feel that way.....that's why he went out on the solo tour right after finishing it. (at least that's what he said in interviews at the time)

I saw him play at UNH on that solo tour, which was in the spring of 1984 before the album came out. He was oddly frank with the audience about having just finished an album and he was very disappointed in the results. The versions of the GCW songs he played that night were radically different than the album, and it was interesting to get the record that summer and hear what he was talking about. The only song on the record which was better than solo version was "Inch By Inch", I thought the song really benefited from the slinky sax part.

"Peace In Our Time" worked much better solo. In retrospect it's interesting to hear the Reagan-era references now - I mean, a line like "there's already one spaceman in the White House, what you want another one for?" made sense when John Glenn was going for the nomination in '84 but it may baffle future listeners.

I actually have grown to appreciate GCW more over the years than when it first came out. But there's a Yamaha synth all over the album which sounds incredibly dated now (check out "Sour Mile Cow Blues", "The Comedians" and "Deportees Club" and you'll hear what I mean).

[nueva jerk]

I saw him play at UNH on that solo tour, which was in the spring of 1984 before the album came out. He was oddly frank with the audience about having just finished an album and he was very disappointed in the results. The versions of the GCW songs he played that night were radically different than the album, and it was interesting to get the record that summer and hear what he was talking about. The only song on the record which was better than solo version was "Inch By Inch", I thought the song really benefited from the slinky sax part.

"Peace In Our Time" worked much better solo. In retrospect it's interesting to hear the Reagan-era references now - I mean, a line like "there's already one spaceman in the White House, what you want another one for?" made sense when John Glenn was going for the nomination in '84 but it may baffle future listeners.

I actually have grown to appreciate GCW more over the years than when it first came out. But there's a Yamaha synth all over the album which sounds incredibly dated now (check out "Sour Mile Cow Blues", "The Comedians" and "Deportees Club" and you'll hear what I mean).

i don't have anything to add other than that was a really good post.