Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Elvis Costello - VH-1 Storytellers, VH-1 Storytellers Studio, New York City, 5-29-1996

Here's yet another "VH-1 Storytellers" album. This one features British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello.

In 1996, Costello released "All This Useless Beauty," his seventeenth studio album. It wasn't a big seller, but it was critically well received. It was the last album done with his backing band the Attractions. However, this concert was basically done in a solo acoustic style, as he was only backed by keyboard player Steve Nieve.

Three songs performed here are from the "All This Useless Beauty" album: "Why Can't a Man Stand Alone," "All This Useless Beauty," and "I Want to Vanish."

For these Storytellers albums, I'm assuming that everything is officially unreleased. But for this one, the performance of "Just a Memory" was released. It was included on a various artists compilation of the Storytellers series.

All too often, these episodes started in the middle of the first song. That was the case with this one, "Accidents Will Happen." But in this case, I was able to find another version from the same year to fill in the missing portion.

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 Accidents Will Happen [Edit] (Elvis Costello)
02 Just a Memory (Elvis Costello)
03 talk (Elvis Costello)
04 Why Can't a Man Stand Alone (Elvis Costello)
05 talk (Elvis Costello)
06 Mistress and Maid (Elvis Costello)
07 talk (Elvis Costello)
08 Veronica (Elvis Costello)
09 talk (Elvis Costello)
10 Alison (Elvis Costello)
11 talk (Elvis Costello)
12 Almost Blue (Elvis Costello)
13 talk (Elvis Costello)
14 Watching the Detectives (Elvis Costello)
15 talk (Elvis Costello)
16 All This Useless Beauty (Elvis Costello)
17 talk (Elvis Costello)
18 I Want to Vanish (Elvis Costello)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17157456/ELVSCOSTLLO1996StrytllrsStrytllrsStdoNwYrkC__5-29-1996_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PS5UZf6r

I couldn't find a good photo from this exact concert. So instead the cover photo is from a concert in Switzerland some time in 1996.

5 comments:

  1. Exciting just for "Mistress And Maid", one of the songs he wrote with Paul McCartney. Paul put it on Off The Ground but I don't think I've heard Elvis sing it before.

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  2. Out of curiosity, what happened to the John Mellencamp Storytellers? Was it a casualty?

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    1. Asked and answered. Thanks for reposting the description.

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    2. Yeah, a copyright casualty, just today. But I'll try to have an outside link for that one soon.

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