Drummer reacts to "Pump It Up" by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Wow man... that My Sharona pattern is undefeated. Apparently it was inspired from this song. I see why these used it. What a track man. Thank you to our patron Patrick M for this killer track, man. I already playlisted it LOL
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[@L33Reacts]

What should we do next? Let me know!

[@DrStrangelove3891]

From Elvis Costello? What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?, Oliver's Army, I Want You or Alison would be my picks.

[@mucksmith3569]

@@L33Reacts Watching the Detectives or Oliver’s Army are my two favorites. He’s eclectic and has changed over the years. He’s a true artist and crooner (in his mind). Still I love the early stuff best.

[@ultang]

Watching the detectives, or Lipstick Vogue for the grooves and Pete Thomas's amazing drumming

[@timmclaughlin537]

Radio,Radio/ I cant stand up for falling down/ I dont want to go to Chelsea.

[@MrTrollerboy]

From Costello? Beyond Belief, the album Imperial Bedroom, Armed Forces, Apart from Costello: VdGG - Sleepwalkers, Peter Hammill: In camera

[@mucksmith3569]

Watching the detectives, Oliver’s Army, what’s so funny ‘bout Peace, Love, and Understanding, etc.. so pleased you got to Elvis Costello. This was HS for me. We sat mesmerized around the stereo speakers with friends in awe.

[@L33Reacts]

I believe it! And after this introduction to them, how can I not do more?? This was amazing!

[@jackadesman7143]

The Attractions are one of the greatest backing bands in history of music!!!!

[@markferrett700]

Elvis Costello is an enigma,....great singer/songwriter/producer/director/choreographer.....yet you cannot pin him down to one or the other.......a VERY talented man indeed. The bass line to this will leave you speechless......The Attractions were sublime musicians.

[@JB-Deadskins]

And he is a huge Deadhead. There's a video of him playing a whole show of Jerry Garcia songs

[@ShiverHinge]

And really strong ankles!

[@markferrett700]

@@ShiverHinge 🤣🤣

[@lauraallen55]

Oh, forgot to say, he said he learned to walk on the sides of his feet when he was a kid because he had braces on them for a period of time. That's why he was moving like that with his feet. Thanks Patrick and Lee!

[@GreggOliverBass]

The bass line in this is legendary... to pick THIS line over THESE chords is genius

[@wpollock1]

A good follow up to this is Radio Radio which he famously changed to in an SNL appearance. Radio Radio is a scathing critique of the music industry. Elvis is the poet laureate of rock as his lyrics are usually spot on!

[@davidbeyea9006]

Got him banned from SNL for it too. Legendary performance.

[@alvillanueva2525]

"This Years Model" is a great album. "Lipstick Vogue" off that album is another good one.

[@lauraallen55]

His first two or three albums were so good!

[@Misfit133]

Elvis has plenty of gems. Enjoy your new rabbit hole.

[@williamthelast1]

Elvis Costello wrote thousand songs. He is the pure rock&roll king !!! The attractions are tremendeous !! Saw him twenty times in Paris-France !! Don't get in his music or everything else will disappointing you !!! The real King of Rock&roll !!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@gillwaugh7212]

Ha ha! Wow, twenty times - only seen him six 😀

[@ggwalker55]

Seen him about 7 times. What a change era to era. He was the face of new wave. First concert he came out, plugged in and thrashed through his set , never said a word. Last song he unplugged and stormed offstage. Awesome show. Last show he was soulful, engaging, and warm. Awesome show.

[@roevega9902]

Elvis Costello is my fave. His catalog is overwhelming.

[@hays9008]

I love Elvis Costello you find he is music genius

[@neilwinchester9187]

Elvis Costello is great. He has written many great songs. One of the best of New Wave.

[@MrPboys1]

Was never a massive Elvis Costello fan but this tune is undeniably a stone cold classic banger

[@markwade2530]

One of the best songwriters ever.

[@kbstabs5982]

Always liked Costello. He is still very active and is married to Dianna Krall. Loved his "What’s so funny ‘bout peace, love, and understanding".

[@CousinCreepy]

Beyond Belief = Beyond beautiful!

[@angielofton6372]

Even at my old age, this song is one of maybe two songs that make me get up and dance like I did when it came out.

[@lauraallen55]

I have been hoping someone would request Elvis Costello! I absolutely love him. He was loosely associated with some of those from the London Pub Rock scene. You've done one from Dave Edmunds, and one from the Stranglers. Dave was in a band with Nick Lowe (a new wave pioneer and producer), and both of them also had solo careers. Nick wrote songs for Dave and for Elvis, and Elvis wrote songs for Dave, and well, they all were great lol! Elvis Costello has 33 studio albums. His father wrote jingles. Elvis was banned from SNL for like 10 years for playing the song he wanted instead of the one he was told to play. He is an incredible artist, and particularly, lyricist. Some good ones are Accidents Will Happen, (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding, Watching the Detectives, Chelsea, Mystery Dance, Red Shoes, This Year's Girl, Every Day I Write the Book. I could go on. Look for live versions from Rockpalast. They were always truly live like Midnight Special.

[@tedjung3700]

My favorite Elvis Costello song!

[@owlcu]

This song grooves. I'd recommend "Veronica" next. Elvis is uniquely unusual.

[@bobschenkel7921]

It's a favorite claim of mine, Elvis Costello is a combo of Bob Dylan and Buddy Holly for the New Wave/Punk era. He is a wordsmith and an excellent Guitarist, with tons of energy and attitude. Now I'm ready to go cut the lawn. LOL.

[@L33Reacts]

Go get that grass bob! This song is great lawn music lol

[@airandmist]

Costello is a wonderful deep dive. Welcome to the fan club. His music really matures as the years pass. One of my favorites that doesn't get a lot of YT reaction love is "Brilliant Mistake" from the 1986 album King of America.

[@AP-gb3eh]

Watching The Detectives is fantastic , Just a great band great album

[@lmkeniston216]

Grrreat reaction! His debut album kills-every tune is a gem: Welcome to the Working Week; Miracle Man; Alison; (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes; Less Than Zero; 1I'm Not Angry; Watching the Detectives …He’s still active & always evolving-glad you found him, you won’t be sorry.

[@L33Reacts]

Thank you! And thank you for all the suggestions. I’m definitely doing more now. This was awesome 😎

[@StuartBiliack]

@@L33Reacts My vote is for (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes. Great groove, great lyrics. His real name is Declan McManus, and he is Irish and was a computer jock before he went pro. He has a long and illustrious career, including a couple of great collabs with Paul McCartney.

[@nancysmith38]

Such a rabbit hole with Elvis Costello- new wave, lounge crooner, country, pop, jazzy….. explore more!!!!

[@damonhines8187]

"That poor boy!!" That was the reaction of my buddy's mom when she saw the album cover, thinking he suffered from some debilitating disease from the positioning of his legs. Body of work to die for, married to Diana Krall? Poor man. Loved playing this. ✌🏼😊🎶❤🍁❤️✨️🕊

[@J-DUB-F1]

This was the perfect song that captured that moment when the 70s morphed into the 80s......the point where punk and new wave collided. Costello was such a unique character who had his own vibe. Pete Thomas is still around kicking, and sounds solid as ever!

[@bendancar]

EC is a fantastic artist, and this song is quite unlike most of his catalog. He's a fantastic songwriter. Keep going on the Elvis Costello journey.

[@GGLee315]

Late 70s things changed. I LOVED this!!!

[@36karpatoruski]

Late 70’s revival of Vox Continental style driven 60’s rock and roll. Great, great track!

[@L33Reacts]

Absolutely great! I was grooving the entire time. What a track.

[@capt.k6554]

Oh, how we danced to this one in college parties back in the 80s! Elvis has such a catalog of great songs; give them a listen!

[@willfromyadkinville]

oh hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!! lets go!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he has so many great songs! just choose one and let it go!

[@corawheeler9355]

I haven't heard this song in a long time ... love it ... what a groove

[@rayyoung6594]

Saw them at a concert at Hollywood High School Auditorium WAY back in the beginning. It was awesome!

[@randyhochstein8455]

So many great tunes from Elvis. My suggestion for next song would have to be “The Angels Want To Wear My Red Shoes”. ✌🏼😎🇺🇸

[@tedjung3700]

Elvis Costello's song 'Veronica' co-written with Paul McCartney is well worth a listen!

[@ShiverHinge]

Elvis has not left the building. He IS the building, and a good portion of the whole city for that matter. Catch my drift?

[@memcmac]

One of my favorite songs to dance to back in the day. A workout! 😅

[@namesameasu]

I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea is a must hear

[@RanchHanded]

Saw him live in April. They killed this one.

[@runningsuperska]

What a groovy song. He does a lovely song called Shipbuilding.

[@randygray8921]

I saw EC, 2bucks catch a rising star concert series in the late 70s at the paramount in Portland Oregon. Someone had thrown an M80 on stage about 15 minutes in and the band went crazy and started smashing up their equipment. Elvis stood at the microphone and finished singing the song all alone and said Thank-you good night.

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Fantastic Band!! Legends!

[@DianeGardner-i8d]

I remember when his first album came out - love him

[@dawnschneider187]

I've always loved this song, the groove IS totally infectious! Another awesome reaction Lee.

[@user-fc8lz1cg4x]

My favorite Elvis tune. 😂❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@dynodon9182]

You're getting warmer. Try the Live Hollywood High version of Watching the Detectives.

[@susanhuber7969]

Watching The Detectives is a must!!!!!!

[@Moz1011]

Live Elvis. The great songs list is endless.

[@johncollier9280]

These guys are masters at the pretendin' to play school o' video production. You'd hardly notice because the song 'n dance execution be so catchy now. I love it!

[@yournamehere6002]

Costello has a huge catalogue

[@genegarrett3372]

Mr. MacManus is just a couple months younger than myself. His wife Dianna Krall is a very talented pianist and is prominently featured on McCartney's "Kisses on the Bottom" old standards album. Give it a listen.

[@blanetalk]

Dianna Krall is a very talented SINGER and pianist.

[@lauraallen55]

Pretty sure Elvis Costello is one of the main reasons I love Power Pop and New Wave music so much. :)

[@kevtruth]

My favorite songwriter. He kinda lost me at some point in the 90s, but damn those early albums on Columbia are so good

[@ggwalker55]

His portfolio is enormous, varied and crosses so many genres. Impossible to pin him down. Early new wave, crooner, big orchestra and his last song kind of back to his roots. All with an incredible knack for word play. I tell younger people he's the Eminem of power pop/new wave.

[@dbradx]

Great choice - as others have said already, the Elvis Costello rabbit hole is a deep one, and covers several genres and moods. As a Dylan fan, you should definitely check out The New Basement Tapes, a project Elvis headed to put together a bunch of artists to create music to go with old, unreleased Dylan lyrics that Bob never wrote music for. It's absolutely brilliant stuff, I think you'd love it. Great reaction as always, I was grooving here at my desk with you - cheers from Canada!

[@thruppence-ys9zp]

His father was a club musician and affected some of the same image, big hair, big black glasses

[@ddthor]

KZbin has a vid of Elvis’ dad performing on English TV. It is eerie how much he is like his dad.

[@MikeWalsh-f1g]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Elvis Costello Lee! I suggest Watching The Detectives next 👍

[@submandave1125]

Elvis Costello is a very very deep well. His music is always interesting, often surprising, but his lyrics are prime, bitingly cynical, cryptically poetic, of-handedly deep. Personal favorite is "Beyond Belief," but other greats include "Shipbuilding" and "Every Day I Write the Book.."

[@marcribe6483]

Elvis Costello is a very gifted artist capable of transiting with ease through the many facets of music business and art making. His sense for melody is so noteworthy that Paul McCartney chose Costello as a composer partner to work with to see what they could come up with. Some of the results are found on their separate albums Spike by Elvis Costello and Flowers In The Dirt by Paul McCartney.

[@KennyRansom-l5k]

Memories of Apres Ski Mayhem during Happy Hour from "Back in the Day" 🙂

[@condorenvy]

Love that song!

[@yournamehere6002]

Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney collaborated later on for two different albums, Costello's SPIKE and McCartney's FLOWERS IN THE DIRT.

[@KlausJLinke]

I'm tempted to ask AI how a Beatles cover of "Pump it up" would sound. I hear more Beatles in that song, than Bob Dylan.

[@spongo]

Macca cowrote a couple on Mighty Like a Rose as well

[@yournamehere6002]

@@spongo Yes, SO LIKE CANDY

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

Elvis Costello is my second favorite male solo artist. Only Bowie is ahead of him. He's an amazing songwriter and The Attractions are a killer band. He recorded with them on most of his albums from 1978 to 1996. All the albums they recorded are excellent. Please do the rest of "This Years Model".

[@RayEvans-j1q]

Pump it up is from is from the awesome album- This Years Model! I saw him perform in a gymnasium at my college campus in 1979! Like Joe Jackson, he too toured campus’s trying to sell his music to the youth!

[@Coquinagirl]

Funny footwork! Very (late 70’s) 80’s sounding. It’s interesting to know it inspired My Sharona.

[@padresteve619]

That whole album is 🔥

[@procopiusaugustus6231]

Elvis was a ray of hope shining out of the disco crap in the late ‘70s.

[@Dr3amtime]

Elvis is a master pop song craftsman, and it's usually worth pulling out the lyrics sheets while listening. He's so productive that a lot of excellent material gets lost in the shuffle. (I remember the first couple of his albums of his that I bought each had 20 or so song on them; he'd have special technology used that doubled the number of grooves on the vinyl.) If you don't do any others, you need to check out Alison and Watching the Detectives.

[@lyna4873]

Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney collaborated on a couple of albums and wrote a bunch of songs together. Check out Paul's My Brave Face from Flowers in the Dirt album written with Elvis for McCartney Monday.

[@mr.knowitall6440]

Almost everything on the "This Year's Model" album (1978) is a "must listen", but I think "Lipstick Vogue" will especially appeal to your inner drummer. 🤙😎

[@furrypurry]

The Stone Roses should be everybody's playlist

[@DAVIDFARMER-d9e]

Fantastic artist,you'll love 'Veronica' written with McCartney

[@SophiaPangloss]

The Stiff tours were legendary, they ran a dew years in the late 70s, taking 'this year's signings' round the country, and they would release a 'sampler' album so we choise our faves, Elvis, Wreckless Eric, Jona Lewie, Lene Lovich, Ian Dury, all great names for you to explore... 'specially Ian Dury with his Razzle In His Pocket...

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

This song is from the album "This Years Model". You need to do a full album listen as it's amazing from start to finish. It's his first with back up band "The Attractions" one of the greatewsat back up bands ever. It's not only my favorite Elvis album, but one of my favorite albums of all time.

[@PUNKinDRUBLIC72]

I had to sub you because you're the first E.C. reaction I've seen and I forgot how much I love his music!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@TheCornishCockney]

Watching the Detectives and/or Oliver’s Army has to be next for head-bobbing excellence from EC.

[@justinbrooks7823]

1979 followed him for four gigs in a row. That was a week. Watching the Detectives no. 1 song of my life but also try Lipstick Vogue.

[@montalbans]

Great work all around, but bassist Bruce Thomas is the MVP on this cut.

[@74900kdw]

More Elvis......Watching The Detectives, Alison, The Angels Want To Wear My Red Shoes, Radio Radio...... Almost anything from his first 5 albums won't disappoint.

[@mgonzales56]

In the mid 80's Elvis got together with Paul McCartney and they wrote a few songs together. Also, Elvis is responsible for Paul using his signature Hofner bass, having not used it for years. Elvis was at Paul's house writing, and he asked Paul if he still had his Hofner. Paul pulled it out of a closet, and he's used it ever since. Elvis is great I have been listening to him since 1978.

[@peterbreughel4440]

REM's 'It's the end of the world as we know it' is also a homage to 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'.

[@paulehney4581]

Elvis Costello will get you moving

[@MarkChappell1]

Maybe "Accidents Will Happen", "Everyday I Write The Book", "Allison", "Veronica" and "She" (From the movie Notting Hill).

[@mr.knowitall6440]

Elvis has many styles within his style. I just looked through his first two albums, and there are only a few "skip that one" songs. You can listen to his 1977 and 1978 albums straight through. Almost all of those songs are "must listen", just to hear the breadth of the styles within his unique style. Elvis and a handful of other bands in the late 70's "New Wave" could be considered their own genres. 🤙😎

[@jamessomers8808]

Yes!!!❤

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

Excellent band! :) Hi There, Lee! This was following the punk era with callouts to the clean, smart look of the 1960s UK bands (Hank Marvin and the Shadows - not quite the styles seen here, but iconic early rock) Other bands around that era... um, can't go wrong with _Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick_ from Ian Drury - very different but captivating style But, I think there's something wrong with me. I've gone bought PT's _Deadwing_ album, and I can't stop playing it. Killer driving record too

[@jamespuleo3269]

I was 19 years old. in '77, and the "category game" was ambiguous back then about Punk vs New Wave. EC first hit with "Watching the Detectives" a story-song with a deliberately twisted vibe. (and a "reggae-influence.") He leaned hard into his angry young man persona ~~ His first "love song" didn't come out until like his seventh album !! Who Knew he would turn out to be one of the most prolific and varied songwriters of the century ~~ (I'm a bit surprised it was this long before your first exposure) I recommend Accidents will Happen, Every Day I Write the Book, Goon Squad, & The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes, but there's just SO MUCH ........ By the way, his given name was Declan MacManus. Born in London, raised in Liverpool.

[@yournamehere6002]

Elvis Costello sounds mostly like Graham Parker. His most direct Dylan homage is from BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE, and is called "Tokyo Storm Warning"

[@tomgribbin9531]

Elvis is great. Now do yourself a favor and check out the " Best kept Secret in the West." Graham Parker and the Rumour. Rhythm and Blues,and Rock n 'Roll at its finest. First two albums "Don't Ask Me Questions" and "Heat Treatment" are classics . Pre Elvis, Clash, Joe Jackson. He set the bar.

[@nac.mac.feegle]

Ah, nostalgia. Bought this as soon as it hit the music store, dropped some acid, and listened to this on repeat for an entire night. Man I had indulgent neighbors.

[@burmajones803]

This Year's Model. The whole album rocks as hard as this. Listen to the whole thing. It's good for your health.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Play the whole album every song is at least this good

[@827dusty]

"Allison." It's a great song by Elvis Costello. Also, "Watching the Detectives."

[@todwest]

His first four records are desert island

[@ValoA1Arts]

I loved that! ❤

[@davidteller7681]

Check out "Radio Radio", he got banned from SNL for playing it when not supposed to