27 :: Or Maybe I Really Love You :: A Slow Drag with "Needle Time"

Today’s slow drag is with “Needle Time,” from “The Delivery Man,” released in 2004. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.

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Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: [email protected]

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

References:

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Needle_Time

 

“Needle Time” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldJnWS2gUBM

 

References:

Elvis Costello Awarded O.B.E. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elvis-costello-obe-queens-honors-services-to-music-845936/

Elvis Costello response to OBE https://www.elviscostello.com/#!/news/298460

Understanding the British Honors System & Knighthood: https://blog.eftours.com/tours/british-honours-system-knighthood

The Musicians’ Union: A History (1893 – 2013): https://www.muhistory.com/hang-the-dj-the-musicians-union-and-the-early-days-of-radio-1/

 

“Some Songs That Must Have Been Overlooked”:

Part one: “Oliver’s Army”

Part two: “Tramp the Dirt Down”

Part three: “Stick out your Tongue”

Part four: “Tokyo Storm Warning”

Part five: “New Lace Sleeves”

Part six: “Shipbuilding”

Ending with “and now a word from our sponsors” “Less Than Zero.”

 

“Cheap Reward” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FK4h3dazfw

“Cheap Reward” Lyric page http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Cheap_Reward

“Better out than in” idiom: https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/45/messages/329.html

"Needle Time" Lyrics:

I wish that I didn't hate you
Least not as much as I do
And squander all my contempt for
A little nothing like you
Liars like you are ten-a-penny
Women would slap you, if you knew any
Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense
These twenty-seven or so years
How you'd think I would have made them some cents
Now they want me fingerprinted like I was smuggling drugs
While the government does deals with the most convenient thugs
Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime
It's Needle Time

It’s needle time

I'm trying not to despise you with a passion that's hard to extinguish
Or maybe I really love you although it's hard to distinguish
I wish I could be more like a saint is
Forgiving those who trespass against us
Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

I started talking nonsense, just like I did to begin with
Around the time I tired of those sour English
Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime
It's Needle Time