Top 6@6 Week #33 Headliner Poll: Post Your 6 Favorite Tracks By Elvis Costello

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(What’s So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding?
Allison
Veronica
Brilliant Mistake
I Want You
Good Year For the Roses

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  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
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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.

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  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
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  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.
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  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)
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  1. Veronica
  2. Alison
  3. The one about the Red Shoes. Is that even him?
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  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
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  1. Veronica
  2. (What’s so Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding?
  3. Oliver’s Army
  4. Red Shoes
  5. Mystery Dance
  6. Alison
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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…

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[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.

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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!

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  1. Indoor Fireworks
  2. Seven Day Weekend
  3. Brilliant Mistake
  4. Watching the Detectives
  5. Ship of Fools
  6. Let Him Dangle
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Tokyo Storm Warning
Tramp the Dirt Down
Shipbuilding
Radio Radio
Accidents will Happen

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oops that was 5… add Oliver’s Army

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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.

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Watching the Detectives
Allison
(Whats so funny about) Peace, Love and Understanding
Olivers Army
Radio, Radio
Mystery Dance

Elvis is King

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  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.
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  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
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Watching the Detectives
Oliver’s Army
Tramp the Dirt Down
Shipbuilding
Allison
Veronica