Elvis Costello And The Roots - I Want You (MSR Studios) 

I'm not sure why people hate this version. This is so fucking awesome. It's really bluesy and the Roots are a phenomenal backing band for Elvis Costello. This would be a great tour package. Elvis Costello and the Roots.

In my personal opinion, probably the best song ever written AND performed.

When some of you grow up, you'll realize how good this is.

It was SHE undressing... We love you, Elvis Costello. And Diana, too. ❤

The most harrowing love song ever written, and backed up by the 21st Century Booker T. and the MG's. The Roots can play ANYTHING.

This is my most favorite arrangement of this awesome song. Such power and feeling! The King is definitely in the building!

I saw him at the Ryman in Nashville Tn in the late 90s. He was only with Steve Nieve and they were on fire. He started this song and stepped away from the mike taking full advantage of the fantastic acoustics of the venue. He belted this song with such emotion that I burst out crying. Everyone was so quiet and afterwards he received the best ovation. This piece like a lot of his songs has many arrangements and is amazing with each one. I have seen him in concert three times and he was a brilliant performer each time...never disappoints. The Roots are so fantastic and innovative, was happy to see this collaboration.

The pain in his voice, the agony is so very raw and beautiful,mesmerizing and haunting🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💋💋💋💋💋💋

Am I the only one who simply love the keyboard and think they added a good and charming tension in the song?

This is insanely fantastic.

It surprises me that such a primal song can be jazzed up like this without ruining it, but it works.

I saw him perform this live in the late 80s. It was just Elvis with an electric guitar. Every line he sang had a different nuance. It was the most devastating 20 minutes I've ever experienced. And when he finished, honest to god, the audience was so stunned, no one could even clap. So the comments here--Fiona Apple did it better, and this is him ruining a classic song? It's HIS song, for godssakes. And he's a genius.

Brilliant performance of a classic Costello tune. Combining Elvis with The Roots was a stroke of musical, magical genius. I love Elvis and this is his best work in 20 years The Roots are a band that can do everything. Its all just perfect

Absolutely fantastic! This rendition and performance is first class, world class all the way around. I am so glad I finally found it. I've seen EC around 10 times over the years and this is one of his best performances, bar none. And, I have seen him well over 10 ten times.

what a magnificent song...fully in control and such a trait of chords ...mesmerizing

Wow. That was so musically narcotic..the Roots!!!!!!!

Fiona can't hold a candle to the man that wrote this song. Sure she did a great cover. I'll say it again, a cover. When Elvis sings it I turn inside out. It's obvious he lived this song.

Superb, the song, the performance, Super Costello, The band!!!! Outrageous!!!

Elvis Costello is the real King, Great song,

It crescendos into a bunch of guys playing together--beautiful.

The Roots have got to be close to the greatest "backing" band of all time and Elvis is in fine form here! Combined the effect is something like prime Lenny Kravitz.

The very best song of Elvis Costello...very painfull song over his wife who sleeps with another man!

Fucking stunning. Roots totally adds this sexy funky energy to this song. Also the way he sings the intro...

A great songwriter with a great band...

Genius at work.

I love the way he plays his guitar!

Genius. Lord help me!

Roskilde Festival 1995 - 25y Anniversary of the largest music festival in Europe: 5 Sets with Attractions, Imposters, Luca Bloom, Debby Harry & Jazz Passagers and Brodsky Quartet: 5-6h. Nothing compares and i bought every single Album he had recorded up until then within a month. Heard him again in Cirkus bygningen, Copenhagen with the Boradsky Quartet in 1995 - and again in Tivoli garden, Copenhagen in 2004/05 with the Attractions & Emmylou Harris.

Beautiful! I wept at Brooklyn Bowl when they busted this out! Thank you Steve Mandel!

I don’t normally comment but on this occasion- as far as I know this Is not a ‘version’ its his song, he wrote it. Was privileged to see him perform this and much of that album at the Albert Hall London in the mid 80s and it was as spellbinding and chilling there as here, if not more so live. Very few songs written about love snd lust combined that work as well as this, Stu X

To wciąż najlepszy kawałek Elvisa - już od trzydziestu lat.

If you don't know who The Roots are, then you just won't get this collaboration. Elvis-yes! Roots-yes! Nuff respect to all of them....

Goose, goose, goose. Everywhere. So intense!

The atonic guitar is a great finding I never heard before!

What a great band! The synthesizer stuff sounds like something out of The Beatles Strawberry Fields era.

Heard this mesmerizing song from the movie Only You. Hope ya'll can watch it! Love this song immediately !

wow che bella performance!

I thought I loved this song before but the ending is eerily beautiful. Swwooooooon.

Just a complete triumph!

Instantly my favorite version. Lauren Hill on background vocals.

Audible emotion... makes everything worthwhile

The best version ever! Thank you!!

10 min and it doesn't feel long enough. I could listen to them play for an hour with him just saying "I want you" intermittently

Just came a little.....YES, YES, OMG, YEeeesss!!!!

Seen him live for the first time at 15 in 2004 and he played this live been in love with it ever since. My all time fave artist

I never saw this before, wow, this is tight!!

Everything else is a wast of breath......wat een uitspraak!!😉

Frickin' brilliant performance and artist. I did click on this because it might have been The Beatles 'I Want You (She's So Heavy) but this is a gem. God I wish I'd heard this song in1987....and played it to a certain someone...alone. This is my 3rd edit- might stop now regardless of how much this song is spinning me out: too many spelling errors, thank you,Maputo correct. No- seriously I typed in 'auto correct' I mean what the hell is a "Maputo'?

an epic songwriting feat, and it looks like this rad band had fun doing it with E. nice to have an old school, committed ending on it. think he enjoys revisiting, and why not? there's so much to get around on... very much enjoyed access to this, thanks!

Love this Song... Its angry, sad, sarcastic.... That guitar solo... Totally off and chaotic... Just like the feeling of the song... Definitely a song followed by an order of protection...😅😅😅

make no mistake. this is Elvis Costello's song. like any version you wish, but it's still his.

This is one of the few repetitive songs with no chorus that could go on for a long time without being boring.

Love Elvis Costello',s voice

Such a great version…..speechless🫣

fiona apple’s live cover of this>>>>>

So utterly perfect for the beautifully produced film, 'Only You' which is outrageously good!

Damn tight.

He is breathtaking... Greetings from Greece !!! 🌹🌹🌹

This is not just another love song.....no it is a anxiety song because his wife made love to someone els....The pain is hurting my heart! Elvis C. greatest song! ...

It took me a while to get this version, I was still too enamoured with the original, too precious about it. Now I love the chaotic, off-beat tailspin, barely holding sensation this version brings.

I’ll always love you Elvis💗

So much enjoyed also! Whoosh.

Would love seeing his new "Roots" live. The version of this beloved tune has a slight dissonance which makes it even more compelling.

Amazingly deep song!

Incredible.

Fantastic!!!! So intense.

Have always loved this song...probably in my EC top five. But this version with The Roots gives it new life, and far surpasses the original version. Now I want an EC tour with the Roots...

Elvis Costello llega esta sábado a España con un show dúctil en el que se presenta a solas ante el público para contar su historia con la guitarra, el piano y más de 40 años de canciones. El músico inquieto de las gafas de pasta y el sombreo Stetson lo avala una larga y muy respetable trayectoria que arranca en los años 70 junto a su primera banda The Attractions. Con el inicio de siglo XXI estrenó una nueva banda denominada The Imposters, pero en esta gira que lleva por nombre "Detour" se presenta él solo y en la que condensa anécdotas, recuerdos y algunas de sus mejores canciones. Asegura que de este modo puede pasar de la canción más íntima al puro desenfreno. El espectáculo tiene mucho que ver con su reciente libro de memorias "Música infiel y tinta invisible", que acaba de ser editado en nuestro país por Malpaso Ediciones. Declan Patrick MacManus (Londres, 1954) es su verdadero nombre. Un legendario intérprete, compositor, productor y miembro del Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Él defiende la música como vocación y se siente afortunado porque ha podido vivir cómodamente de ello, pero ya no cree en la industria. Desde la publicación de "National Ransom" (2010), su último disco de estudio, su actividad profesional se circunscribe a la música en vivo, por ejemplo con aquella célebre gira del "espectacular cancionero giratorio","The Spectacular Spinning Songbook" en el que una ruleta con temas y rarezas de su amplio repertorio permitía escoger al azar las canciones de cada concierto. De hecho Elvis ahora mismo no tiene contrato discográfico, a pesar de que está escribiendo dos discos al mismo tiempo, muy diferentes entre sí, que de momento no piensa editar aunque sí llevar hasta sus directos. Hoy actuará en la sala Mozart de Zaragoza, el domingo en el Teatro Monumental de Madrid y ya el lunes, en el Kursaal de San Sebastián. Música independiente novedades.

Perfection

LOVE

calante disperato... speciale...

Miss you, Gina

Beatles influence 👌😎

4:11❤

Funny because there are so many bad comments around, I dig it! Superiour performance. Top notch musicians. All other is a matter of taste, but this project is truly special. You like it or not :)

Why y’all gotta hate? This is a different song than the original. And FAs version was different too. Different is just that, not better or worse.

great!　

classic.

Elvis Costello & The Imposters - I Want You (Tim Festival)

I like this update to a classic. Has a more laid-back and smooth lust (an oxymoron) going for it.

Such a masterpiece 🤗

What's going on here? When I heard this the first time and was immediately captivated ... it was all in a lower register.

well goddamn!

I am afraid that I won't no where to start.

This is fantastic! Wow!

The hottest lust song ever written.

Wow...

man, them keys at 6:20

El cambio de modo le resta dramatismo a la canción respecto de la original, que es mas cruda. Pero los genios como usted siempre están explorando. Gracias por esta versión tan jazzera…! Saludos.

Love Costello and love the Roots, but not sure about this. Misses the biting ferocity that makes this song so brilliant.

Okay, I see. This song just needed "The Roots." Wow.

Votre chanson elle est super belle!✌🎗💛🌼

aplause

Lacks the raw passion of earlier performances of this classic - check out other versions on RU-vid

How to top what was a great recording in the first place.

💞 💞 💞 💞 💞 💞 💞

I thought I had seen something before. I thought I had seen people play music. I was so wrong. Looking at all y'all. Elvis & ?

Anyone remember what year he performed in south Florida with Paul Carrick?

AND there are 157 people out there as of February 2018 who have NO idea about what makes music gooood and probably bought Sheena Easton's album back in 1980fuck knows-when thinking they were hip. I bet they wear ugly jumpers at Christmas time and think Scotland's greatest export was The Proclaimers when we all know it's The Blue Nile.