Elvis - Pump It Up!

[sunvalleylaw]

Just one of my all time favorites. EC looks so young. The song is just great for when I am feeling lazy or need to get off my butt!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpprOGsLWUo

 

[sunvalleylaw]

These guys rock a little too. I have a soft spot for that knees knocking in front of the mic approach.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym4OgU5UrF8&feature=related

 

[aeolian]

EC is one of my all-time favorites.

The hobby band I'm does a mini-medley with Pump It Up as one of the songs. This is recorded off one of our practice sessions back in April:

http://home.comcast.net/~kitn13/music/pumpitup4-5.mp3

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Cool!

 

[jpfeifer]

Pump it up is one of the coolest Elvis Costello songs. He had a great band. Just listen to that bass line in that tune. They were really great. I wish I could have seen them back in their heyday.

-- Jim

 

[Geraint Jones]

I don`t know if you get any programs shown on BBC4 in the States but there was a night dedicated to the Stiff record label on a few weeks back {'If it ain`t Stiff it ain`t worth a f### ' I think it was called , like the T shirt my mum would`nt let me wear } . It just showed what a brilliantly eclectic mix of artists they had back then , you could start a thread on each of them from Nick Lowe , Dr Feelgood , Ian Dury , Madness , The Pogues , Elvis Costello even Tracy Ullman .
This is one of my all time faves

 

[tjcurtin1]

I was sure that he was going to break his ankles... I bet he couldn't do that now

 

[sunvalleylaw]

For Friday, I am going to pump up this thread. I have been thinking about 1981-82, my first year in college and what I was listening to. It was a year that my taste radically shifted. I had moved from a blue collar longshore/port/pulp mill town to the University of Washington campus in Seattle, and MTV had fired up. Here are a few that caught my ear that year.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hDhut69dh0
These guys caught my ear before The Stray Cats did.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5W2Vr6HU7s


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1CLZdrFkYQ&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zLD6U1TtbQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2BqLlVHlWA&feature=fvw
These guys were a huge influence for years. I particularly like the early years and albums. "Under a Blood Red Sky" remains an all time favorite album of mine.

The very early 80's music was quite a bit different than the music a few years later, much of which I also enjoyed. In the next year or so, this little Dublin group became much more popular, the Clash reached a much larger audience, and REM began shifting college alternative into a different sound, plus a lot more. But 80 through about 82 was different. In my eyes and ears anyway.