Elvis Costello/NY, USA 1984

This time, Nick Lowe’s amazing superb audience album “FOREST HILLS 1984″ will be released, but this stage was the opening act for Elvis Costello, and his stage that can be called the actual performance of this day also has excellent sound quality. Audience recordings exist. This is probably because the audience was crowded in the arena position of the tennis stadium unlike the undercard, and the audience recording from the same day does not have as amazing a sound image as the raw sound source, but it is still a very good sound quality. . In particular, the degree to which Costello’s voice was on was surprising, and the quality was so high that it can be assumed that it continued to resonate in the venue with good sound from the undercard of Lowe. However, from the time this sound source appeared, skipping occurred in several songs from the middle of the live performance, including “Everyday I Write The Book”. However, this time we have thoroughly adjusted these issues. Fortunately, the part where the sound was missing in “Everyday I~” is part of the refrain. Therefore, I patched it from another part so that I could hear the sound without interruption. In addition, the pitch was adjusted to be higher than before. This makes listening much easier. The excitement here is enthusiastic, as they achieved late-blooming success in the United States with the big hits of the previous year’s album “PANCH THE CLOCK” and single “Everyday I Write The Book.” The stage where famous songs are performed in quick succession as if to incite this is unique to the era with Attractions. Speaking of 1984, it is also the year of the album “GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD”, but Costello played the recorded songs on stage even before its release. As a result, he became dissatisfied with the production of the song he had recorded, and began experimenting with new arrangements on stage. In fact, “The Only Flame In Town” and “I Wanna Be Loved” have been performed on a different arrangement, and it is a performance that proves his dissatisfaction with the album. On the other hand, “I Hope Your Happy Now” is a song that later saw the light of day in “BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE,” but it was already performed on stage at this point, and it was also performed with a completely different arrangement from the later version. It’s interesting that. And the first encore is a Costello singing corner, where the country standard “I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know” is being performed, which is very valuable. This is a cover that was performed only nine times in 1984, and the fact that one of them was captured in a high-quality audience recording will be a big attraction for enthusiasts. It is an Odins album that suffers from the aforementioned recording flaws, but they have not only adjusted them, but also corrected the sloppy editing of the original sound source and even the sound duplication in “Clubland”. This resulted in a high quality finish. Live at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Queens, NY, USA 18th August 1984 TRULY AMAZING/PERFECT SOUND Disc 1(56:42) 01. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes 02. Lipstick Vogue 03. Watching The Detectives 04. The Only Flame In Town 05. Let Them All Talk 06. Mystery Dance 07. Shabby Doll 08. New Lace Sleeves 09. The Greatest Thing 10. Worthless Thing 11. I Hope You’re Happy Now 12. Temptation 13. I Wanna Be Loved 14. King Horse Disc 2 (55:58) 01. Young Boy Blues 02. Beyond Belief 03. Clubland 04. Inch By Inch 05. The Deportees Club 06. I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know 07. Peace In Our Time 08. The Only Flame In Town 09. Everyday I Write The Book 10. Getting Mighty Crowded 11. Love Field 12. Alison 13. Home Truth 14. Pump It Up (Including Ain’t That A Lot Of Love and Tears, Tears And More Tears) Elvis Costello – guitar, vocals The Attractions Steve Nieve – keyboards Bruce Thomas – bass Pete Thomas – drums Additional Musician Gary Barnacle – saxophone