Elvis Costello
Paradise Rock Club
Boston, MA
May 20, 1996
WBOS-FM
Set I
01 Show intro (WBOS-FM)
02 Just About Glad
03 Starting To Come To Me
04 (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
05 Little Atoms
06 Temptation
07 You Bowed down
08 Prelude >
09 Why Can't A Man Stand Alone
10 The Long Honeymoon
11 Prelude >
12 Poor Fractured Atlas
13 Just A Memory
14 Prelude >
15 God Give Me Strength
16 God's Comic >
17 Random Thoughts Monologue >
18 God's Comic Reprise
Set II
01 Complicated Shadows
02 The Other End of The Telescope
03 Oliver's Army >
04 Variations On Oliver's Army
05 Prelude >
06 All This Useless Beauty
07 It's Time
Encore #1:
08 An Unwanted Number
09 Passionate Fight
10 My Funny Valentine
11 All The Rage
12 WBOS Post-Encore #1 Banter
Encore #2:
13 Prelude >
14 Distorted Angel
15 Alison / Variations
16 WBOS Post-Encore #2 Banter
Encore #3
17 Shallow Grave >
18 Watching The Detectives (opening cut on master)
19 I Want To Vanish
From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection
Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music
Our pal Sam Eliot's Mustache received this in a CD-r trade some years back. As it contained SHN files, Sam requested I convert the show to FLAC.
I've added a ticket scan and concert reviews from the Boston Globe and the Patriot Ledger.
The original source of the show was once listed on Etreeb.org as: https://etreedb.org/myshows_detail.php?showid=3360341 (which now doesn't seem to return any results...)
That listing had the generation listed as "O," which I guess means a master copy off the air of the original broadcast. If so... it sounds like it.
Whoever chaptered the original broadcast made different choices than I would have made. They split "God's Comic" into three tracks. Yes, the song goes on and on and on (almost ten minutes) and yes, Costello starts yapping in the middle of it, but I would have left it as one big track.
They've also titled some of Costello's musical and lyrical quotes from other songs as "variations" when they're really a Costello song with fragments of other pop hits tacked on the end. I'd call that a medley, not variations on a theme.
I may get around to editing this into a form I prefer, but for now, here it is, as it was originally chaptered. All I did for our pal Sam was convert from SHN files to the more current FLAC files.
The songs (or more properly fragments of songs) in the medleys are:
Oliver's Army (Medley)
"Kid"
"Unchained Melody"
"If You Could Read My Mind"
Alison (Medley)
"Living a Little, Laughing a Little" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed)
"Tracks of My Tears" (William "Smokey" Robinson Jr., Warren Moore, Marvin Tarplin)
"Tears of a Clown" (Stevie Wonder, Hank Cosby, Robinson)
"No More Tearstained Make-Up" (Robinson)
"Clowntime Is Over" (Elvis Costello)
The following tracks were officially released:
"You Bowed Down", "The Long Honeymoon," "Distorted Angel," "Red Shoes," "Little Atoms" and "My Funny Valentine" were first released on Live At The Paradise, Boston (promo) and later on the limited edition Costello & Nieve boxed set of five "EP" CDs released in 1996.
While it's not chaptered to my satisfaction, this sounds FABULOUS and if like Costello and don't have a copy, stop reading this and download it! YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED! ĐR̃äⒻṬëŕṽöï urges Costello fans to check this one out!
I also tossed in an article from the Boston Globe from a few years after this about "age" and radio airplay just because I found it interesting, and to keep Our Beloved Audience reading texts written by human beings!
NO ENSLAVED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES WERE USED IN THE WRITING OF THIS POST.