#clowntime

[thegoodmorningman]

Clowns: always funny every time. You love to laugh at them.

[toadlett]

New sticker design

[mangor]

.. Clowns and tentacles...

[the-myrda-weapon]

Nobody talks about how brave you have to be when clowning. Every day I don my wig and paint and red nose and have to face rejection and the Void, both of OFMD news and within myself. It's tough. I’m not the same person I was before.

[mothmandibles]

Ring for a pride request! gay clown =-)

[mothpile]

aw peopledont like him i thought he was a little cute =-(

[kajaono]

Probably three eps back to back and the rest weekly.

THREE EPISODES BACK TO BACK?! (X)

[clownseternity]

its clowntime!!!!

[batteredshoes]

Elvis Costello | Clowntime Is Over

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[sixbucks]

While everybody`s hiding under covers

Who`s making lover`s lane safe again for lovers?

Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Clowntime Is Over

[thegoodmorningman]

Don't be a "FOOL", have a Good Morning!!!

[mangor]

Private Pennywise never fit in. (near Hooge, Belgium, on October 1917 )

[the-myrda-weapon]

Heavy is the head that bears the clown

[scary-ivy]

Part 2, with the remaining vinyl! In which a mystery is solved

My Aim Is True doesn't have anything special about it, it's just cool to be able to see the tiny "ELVISISKING" text clearly for once

The back of Imperial Bedroom, featuring this strange little "bed bug" glyph. Sad Barney Bubbles doesn't appear to be credited on the sleeve anywhere on these vinyls. I'm basically just sharing a collection of his art with this series.

Something I found very cool is that the sleeve of Imperial Bedroom includes the lyrics...as one crowed run-on sentence. Fixes the problem of people not being able to understand what the hell Declan is saying half the time while still being stylish.

Trust, with some normal notes. But something on the back cover stood out to me.

Another funny set of band credits, this time almost in the style of a movie. Elvis is credited as "Looking Italian". I had seen fans commenting "still looking Italian" on his videos and such for ages and never knew where that came from or what it meant. I guess it's a reference to this silly album credit, unless the in-jokes goes back even further than that. Mystery solved!

Lovely pink-and-blue version of Almost Blue

"yes Elvis, okay Elvis, no, I never said you'd gone commerical <- Hawaiian <- Big country" I feel like before social media these poor DJs had to use the album notes to get all their Elvis Costello hot takes out there. Prime Kitch, but really country....

King of America with very faded song recommendations

Finally Taking Liberties, which is the most interesting for several reasons

Another cool printed record sleeve, and something very weird going on with the cover. It appears as though someone cut up one copy of the sleeve and taped it over this one in order to make a little "slot" in it. Why? Can anyone who knows more about vinyl/radio station history explain this?

I love this glowing promotional copy on the back, from the days when you had to hype something up on the box to sell it. I don't know if I consider Clowntime Is Over to be "gutty low-down blues", but I appreciate Stranger In the House getting a shout-out. Something about "still in his early 20s, his potential and versatility are practically unlimited" hits funny now. They were so right, and yet the journey was so tumultuous.

"Elvis looks healthier than I've ever seen him" almost made me laugh. The label decends into jokes, thought unfortunately the sticker itself prevents us from seeing "his mother's sox".

That's it for the Elvis Costello/ Elvis Costello and the Attractions vinyls at the radio station. I discovered today that they also have a large collection of Elvis Costello CDs, which I might share later, thought I'm slightly less interested in those. There's just something about vinyl, y'know?

I found my radio station's collection of old Elvis Costello and the Attractions records and I'm going to share pictures of them because there's so many cool details

First up, Goodbye Cruel World

The radio station uses these stickers to highlight recommend songs, but the DJs love to put in funny little comments as well. Usually these stickers are written on right when the album came out, so they provide a snapshot into what contemporary listeners though of the records. Apparently the DJs of the time liked Goodbye Cruel World, but what does (Don't Ya Wish He Really Meant It?) mean?

Having only seen this album cover at really low resolutions on streaming, I was surprised to discover who those indistinct figures were

Really cool art on the back of Goodbye Cruel World, once again we never get to see this stuff with streaming :/ love the blatant political message of "nuclear ban now"

Lots of weird little in-jokes in the credits to this one. Maurice Worm is one of Steve Nieve's aliases.

Really interesting radio promo copy of Spike featuring an hour-long interview, I have to check if it's been uploaded online before. It also promises "This Town (The Bastard Mix)", which might be the censored version of This Town where "bastard" was replaced with "sweetheart" that I was looking for online but couldn't find. Or maybe it's the other way around?

Recommend songs off Punch the Clock. I'm surprised because none of these are what I would consider the "big hits" of the album.

The back of Punch the Clock. I'm noticing the other Attractions often wind up on the back of these records.

Probably my favorite detail out of everything is the title of "The Invisible Man" being written to look like it's becoming invisible (It's not just faded like Boxing Day above it).

Very green Veronica single. I believe it's just the same version of Veronica on both sides. These weird radio promo vinyls are the ones I'm most excited about because they so rarely see the light of day after their release...I just realized since Paul McCartney was involved with this one I can play it on the Beatles show!

Get Happy!! without the iconic worn-out ring on the cover? I guess the vinyl can just get worn out on it's own...I believe the 7/25/83 might be the date the vinyl was acquired, or perhaps the date it was supposed to be deemed "old" and thrown out (can you imagine?)

The back features this nice art of the Attractions

The song order of side one and side two is reversed from how the album is presented in streaming. Is this an error, or have I been listening to it in the wrong order this whole time??? Also the song is apparently supposed to be called "5ive Gears in Reverse".

Really cute letter from Nick Lowe promising that the audio quality has not been compromised for the length of the album. It's so fascinating to learn about these types of technical limitations that no longer exist. Like if it released today it would just go to streaming and then probably get a double vinyl release to wring more money out of collectors.

The American "paint-splatter" Armed Forces album cover features the Elephant cover on the back. I already knew this but it was still cool to see.

This Years Model! This record features one of the alternate cover photos (probably my favorite one), and it is a genuine demo record complete with a label from Columbia.

They put the runtimes and little recommendation check boxes for the sake of the DJs, but it looks like every song got checked and stared multiple times (except for Little Triggers :/)

Glowing reviews...it's so exciting to imagine being a young DJ in 1978 hearing This Years Model for the first time and correctly calling it a masterpiece.

"Martial more consistent throughout than My Aim Is True" lol.

I can't really read the cursive, but I it's interesting how they called Pump It Up a mixture of old styles (immediately picking up on the Dylan ripoff), and I wonder what the scribbled over parts say?

The back cover, which I'm seeing now for the first time. Love that 70s bedroom.

The Only Flame In Town single has this really striking artwork of a illustrated woman in a real scene. It's dated 12/4/84.

Pump It Up version? I'll have to listen to it. Also glad someone else loves this version of Baby It's You.

Nothing interesting here I just think it's funny they decided The Only Flame In Town deserves to be on a greatest hits compilation.

A collection of Almost Blue era songs, including a note from Elvis.

That's all I was able to photograph this week, but there's still about 5 Elvis Costello /the Attractions records I haven't looked at yet, I will update this next week!

[mothmandibles]

figure out the replacement word for “bugs” in this sentence and you get a prize