# Top 6@6 Week #33 Headliner Poll: Post Your 6 Favorite Tracks By Elvis Costello **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071 "2002-12-02T23:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/21 "2002-12-03T17:44:28Z")
(What’s So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding? Allison Veronica Brilliant Mistake I Want You Good Year For the Roses ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/22 "2002-12-03T17:46:59Z")
1. Alison 2. I Want You 3. You Tripped at Every Step 4. This Is Hell 5. Oliver’s Army 6. My Little Blue Window ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/23 "2002-12-03T17:49:58Z")
Hey, has anyone mentioned that it’s hard to pick just six Costello songs yet? 1. Uncomplicated 2. Complicated Shadows 3. Radio, Radio 4. Watching the Detectives 5. I Want You 6. Pump It Up Honorable mention to a dozen or so others. ---
**Author:** ![Tit\_Whistle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tit\_Whistle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tit_Whistle)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/24 "2002-12-03T17:59:03Z")
1. Tramp the Dirt Down 2. I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down 3. Oliver’s Army 4. Radio, Radio 5. Let Him Dangle 6. Pump It Up ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/25 "2002-12-03T18:05:44Z")
1. Alison 2. Peace Love and Understanding 3. Watching the Detectives 4. Accidents Will Happen 5. I Don’t Want to Go to Chelsea 6. The Angels Want to Wear my Red Shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/26 "2002-12-03T18:10:47Z")
1. Veronica 2. Radio, Radio 3. Alison 4. (What’s so funny 'bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding 5. Every Day I Write the Book 6. Toledo (with Burt Bacharach) ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/27 "2002-12-03T19:13:38Z")
1. Veronica 2. Alison 3. The one about the Red Shoes. Is that even him? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/28 "2002-12-03T19:39:34Z")
1. Pump It Up 2. (I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea 3. Everyday I Write the Book 4. Watch Your Step 5. Watching the Detectives 6. (What’s So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love and Understanding ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/29 "2002-12-03T19:43:55Z")
1. Veronica 2. (What’s so Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding? 3. Oliver’s Army 4. Red Shoes 5. Mystery Dance 6. Alison ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/30 "2002-12-03T20:07:31Z")
Ow. I thought the Clash one was hard, but this is ridiculous. **Radio, Radio** **Riot Act** (demo version) **Charm School** **Jack of All Parades** **I Want You** **Jacksons, Monk And Rowe** And these are the ones I had to jettison to get down to six: **(What’s So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?** **Little Atoms** **My Dark Life** I’m deliberately leaving out covers here, or I’d have to decide between **Days** and **Withered and Died** and half of “Almost Blue.” Damn, this is a hard one… ---
**Author:** ![thermalribbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@thermalribbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thermalribbon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/31 "2002-12-03T21:47:07Z")
[list=1] [li]Everyday I Write The Book[/li][li]Watch Your Step[/li][li]High Fidelity[/li][li]Man out of Time[/li][li]Shipbuilding[/li][li]Tonite the Bottle Let Me Down (Elvis Goes Country)[/li][/list=1] Kinda like the Clash, I could easily have come up with a dozen other selections. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/32 "2002-12-03T22:53:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Why you ask? After the ZZ Top poll, sometime this decade, the plan is to compile all the votes from the SDMB & post them in a few threads. Then I’ll burn a several volume CD set & mail ‘em out to the voters who helped keep these threads going. Actually, this is news to me–wow, that’s extremely nice of you. A couple questions: (1) What happens when the #1 vote-getter is a tie? I notice that applies to the recent Alice Cooper poll and, no doubts, others in the past. Will there be a tie-breaker to determine which cut makes the CD? (2) Are you going to organize the CDs in alpha order or in some other way (chronologically, say)? Or is it _way_ too early to be thinking about that? And once again, natch, great job! ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/33 "2002-12-04T01:49:09Z")
1. Indoor Fireworks 2. Seven Day Weekend 3. Brilliant Mistake 4. Watching the Detectives 5. Ship of Fools 6. Let Him Dangle ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/34 "2002-12-04T21:55:33Z")
Tokyo Storm Warning Tramp the Dirt Down Shipbuilding Radio Radio Accidents will Happen ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/35 "2002-12-04T21:56:52Z")
oops that was 5… add Oliver’s Army ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/36 "2002-12-05T00:27:23Z")
Radio Silence Little Triggers Watching the Detectives Shipbuilding My Mood Swings Indoor Fireworks I had a lot of trouble with this, so I tried to span his career. I’m not familiar with his 90’s stuff, so there’s nothing from there, but I think this is a pretty good list nonetheless. This was almost as hard as The Beatles 6@6. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/37 "2002-12-05T03:06:37Z")
Watching the Detectives Allison (Whats so funny about) Peace, Love and Understanding Olivers Army Radio, Radio Mystery Dance Elvis is King ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/38 "2002-12-05T06:34:34Z")
1. Good year for the roses 2. Watching the detectives 3. Allison 4. I don’t want to go to Chelsea 5. Olivers army 6. Broken bicycles/junk \* - with Anne-Sofie von Otter, from the album _For the stars_. ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/39 "2002-12-05T07:21:42Z")
1. Oliver’s Army 2. God’s Comic 3. Radio Radio 4. Green Shirt 5. I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down 6. Love for Tender ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-week-33-headliner-poll-post-your-6-favorite-tracks-by-elvis-costello/140071/40 "2002-12-05T12:21:26Z")
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