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329:; we just had a battered upright in an eight-track studio. What you imagine you have to render whether you use a fuzz-tone guitar or a symphony orchestra and everything in between. What learning to write gave me was I did have the choice. Sometimes I still want the fuzz-tone guitar to do that dramatic gesture, sometimes I want a real bass clarinet, not a synthetic sound. 361:
The UK and US singles (released in October and November 1977 respectively) had different B-sides. The UK single was backed by two live tracks from an August 7 performance at the Nashville Club, and these live tracks were credited to Elvis Costello and the Attractions. (This was the first appearance
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arrangement, which he admitted was "a desecration to people who love the tenseness of the original recording", but explained that "the story that's going on, and the musical allusions in the original arrangements, relate very much to the realization of this song as an orchestral piece using the film
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I was in my flat in the suburbs of London before I was a professional musician, and I'd been up for thirty-six hours. I was actually listening to another inductee's record, the Clash's first album. When I first put it on, I thought it was just terrible. Then I played it again and I liked it better.
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for Costello, reaching number 15 and spending a total of eleven weeks in the chart. It also charted in several other countries including Australia, where it reached number 35, and Canada, where it reached number 60. In the United States it reached number 108 on the
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s Mark Deming described the song: "a skeletal minor-key melody that slowly but effectively wound itself into a solid knot of fierce emotional tension, pushing the bitter lyrical atmosphere further into the darkness". Costello described how he wrote the song:
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When we did "Watching the Detectives," it was the first record that Steve Nieve played on. He was 19, straight out of the Royal College, and we'd only just met. I said, "This is about detectives, I want a piano thing that sounds like
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Costello's fourth single overall, "Watching the Detectives" was his first hit single on any national chart, peaking at number 15 in the UK and also charting modestly in Canada and Australia. The song featured on
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album by Elvis Costello & the Impostors in 2002. The studio version was also included on several 'best of' compilations of Costello's work, including
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Costello considers "Watching the Detectives" his favourite song from the first five years of his career. He later performed the song with a
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the same year. Two live versions of "Watching the Detectives" from 1978 were released, one from 6 March on the Canadian promotional album
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By the end, I stayed up all night listening to it on headphones, and I thought it was great. Then I wrote "Watching the Detectives".
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as "a clever but furious burst of cynicism", and they also described the song as "indisputably classic".
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The song, with a lyric about a lover who would rather watch TV, sung over a simple
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box-set in 1996. A live medley of "Watching the Detectives" and "
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The song was not included on the original UK releases of either
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album (January 1979). A later live version was included in the
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music feeling and the swing rhythms of '50s detective shows."
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on a record; the A-side is billed solely to Costello.)
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said that it has "a subtle reggae beat and a sinister
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The Very Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions
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