What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



I can almost always count on Elvis for a few great songs. No different here with four of them hitting that top
mark, countered with two duds. Close call on the favorite with It's Time winning out. His 17th album overall and
the final one in his contract with Warner, along with the last one where The Attractions have equal billing.
Although Elvis gets writing credits, four of these tracks were released by other artists prior to appearing here.
The Other End Of The Telescope by Til Tuesday, co-written with Aimee Mann, and You Bowed Down released by Roger
McGuinn. Both of those get my love mark. Also the title track and I Want To Vanish recorded by June Tabor, who I
have never heard. The title track also gets that final love mark. A collaboration with Paul McCartney of Shallow
Grave, gets the worst track for me. Sorry Mac and CH. Six singles were released with only It's Time charting, in
the U.K. at #58. The album, not much better, #28 in the U.K. and #53 in the states.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Shallow Grave

Best Track - It's Time

The party's over
Your time is up
You've had your last pointless teardrop
Washed down in that broken coffee cup
This magic moment concludes when that cigarette ends
Did you get what you wanted?
Well I suppose that depends
Well I suppose that depends
If you go, if you go
Where passion is squandered and money is spent
It's time, it's time
It's time, it's time
It's time, it's time, it's time
You must see it's time that you went
You must see it's time that you went

Our brief acquaintance was such a mistake
Now it seems more like a sentence
Or something you always had to fake
This magic moment concludes when they turn out the light
It's not the days when you leave me
But all I fear are the nights
But all I fear are the nights

Chorus

You told the same joke to me too many times
I wish that someone would hit it
Just before you reach
Just before you reach
Just before you reach the punchline

The party's over
Time we broke up
It always seemed like a bad dream
One where I finally woke up
This magic moment concluding our mutual fate
But if you do have to leave me
Who will I have left to hate?
Who will I have left to hate?

Chorus

1) The Other End Of The Telescope ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbKBzjNX1fk
2) Little Atoms **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxlTZpSVA10
3) All This Useless Beauty ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi50yFMZ49E
4) Complicated Shadows **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3n1VzT_yis
5) Why Can't A Man Stand Alone **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poXaa5RDMSI
6) Distorted Angel **
7) Shallow Grave *
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXhV-WaZILM
8) Poor Fractured Atlas **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWv_xc_2uyg
9) Starting To Come To Me **
10) You Bowed Down ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3lO4--sroM
11) It's Time ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0k2B6htwqo
12) I Want To Vanish *
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN1jndqrxUU

3's - 4
2's - 6
1's - 2

Grade - 2.2

so many albums, so little time