Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding 

Even more so we need an informed populace, but yeah I guess a song is a good start.

Truly!

@@McCracken216 You can't fix stupid people.

This AM it was on my mind too!

Better times are coming. Especially if we are still watching this

☮️❤️"So where are the strong and who are the trusted?" That line means so much 40 years later. I'm 55 and happy I bought this album when I was 14.

Me too this song was on my mind today, just had to have a listen this evening.

@@mariec.9102 I bought it when I was 18. I still have it and the single it came with. Super Great Record.

No doubt, my man. Vote for freedom or vote for chains. You all decide. Kamala Harris 2024.

​@@herbertrichard614Yes yes yes!!

Vice president Harris 2024

Great idea!!!!

get over yourself

Nick Lowe

...Yes, truly transcendent!!!

The fact that you are typing this today says that you have pulled through all of that BS. To me, that is a great achievement on your part. Costello only did a small part in helping you deal with reality. In 1979, you found out that you were grown up. No more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in your school lunch box. Life was starting to get a little more complicated. We both graduated the same year. So we and others the same age were dealing with the same issues that life throws in your direction. And that was an uncertain future! Nobody without a crystal ball has any idea what it holds. And that is something a young person has to worry about. But first you have to prove to the adults around you that you can handle it. Parents, Teachers, and Bosses, or Managers. It would have been much easier to just put this album on a turntable and let it spin forever, but something tells me you were not cut out to sit and watch a spinning turntable forever. You had to take off the headphones and make a decent living somehow. Now it's time to really enjoy Costello. You've dealt with the BS , and now have the time to watch that turntable spin for a little while.

He has a way with words. I can only imagine you find his lyrics about women mostly hilarious though sometimes sad if not tragic. I discovered Mr. Costello the same year I graduated highschool, 1979.

Love the 70's and 80's and even 90's but forget the millenium.. It all went down hill from there. THis song is so relevant in these times ....

@@giovannaparente917 We all know those years are gone forever. But music? No. There may not be the wave of great music from those decades, but sometimes if you listen closely, you may hear the ripple of a good song here, and there. Listen to what the kids are listening to. Sometimes you find yourself asking who is that? They do the same thing when they hear a song that you listened to years before they came into this world. I had a few co-workers who were into Rap music. They formed a band and invited me to their first concert. I knew it was their passion in life, and once I got over the shock of being frisked before I got into the venue, I actually enjoyed the experience. They opened for The Notorious B.I.G. I got to go to the greenroom after two or three security checks, and it was all Los Angeles back there. Diamond rings and Diamond things all over the place. Rich, and stylish cultured males, and very beautiful females. Friendly, yet very curious about me being there. The point is, I am always fascinated by culture. If it is music, art, tradition, I always remember to be respectful when discovering it. Maybe my co-workers did not succeed in their musical dreams, but they succeeded in opening my eyes to a new and positive experience. You don't have to travel to another country to see, or hear new things. They can be closer then you think.

Yes im searching for this moment

Not to be a stickler, but Nick Lowe wrote the song.

@@kinksfan9781 Be a stickler. I just learned something. Thanks.

You will know them when you see them

Actually, Nick Lowe wrote it.

Nick Lowe wrote the lyrics for this song, and he never gets any credit. such greatness!

whut the fick r u talkin about

@@iansmith8263 what are you talking about more like.

@@nugagim EXACTLY!! You're SO right! I, too, would like to know what that person, ian, is talking about. What is he - completely blind? Is he just incredibly happy as, each day, he sees another, and another and, yet, another victory for fascism, racism, cruelty and oppression, ignorance, divisiveness, and, on top of those, destruction... of nature, beauty, art, kindness, humanity, knowledge, learning, tolerance, friendship, caring, Democracy, reality, scholarship, and, basically, all around decency, or does he see it without actually "seeing it"? Is he, simply, a moron or, rather, is he just a douch bag...a total jerk? I have a few sneaking suspicions... but, hey, what do I know?🤷‍♀️ Well, Number36, I think that, as far as this 'ian' is concerned, we both may be on to something. Fortunately, however - and, for some reason, I think you may agree with me on this one - he just, well, aside from each of us taking a moment to stop to comment on his inanity and what is, clearly, his obvious lack of education and utter absence of even a fraction of intellect, isn't worthy of another second's worth of time..🤷‍♀️ Have a beautiful day, a wonderful wkend and - and I do hope this for ALL of us - a safe, friendly and healthy one, too!! OH!!! BY THE WAY, I FORGOT TO SAY THIS EARLIER, BUT, IN MY OH-SO- HUMBLE OPINION, Nothing... ABSOLUTELY F - ING NOTHING IS FUNNY, AT ALL; NOTHING IS, IN ANY WAY, FUNNY ABOUT PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING, OH, NOTHING IS FUNNY ABOUT PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING. I WISH, MORE THAN ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING AT ALL, MORE THAN ANYTHING FOR WHICH IT IS POSSIBLE TO WISH, FOR MORE - THAT WE ALL COULD JUST, PLEASE, OH PLEASE, HAVE MORE PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING!!! OH! CERTAINLY, THAT IS - ESPECIALLY, RIGHT NOW I WISH OH SO MUCH THAT WE ALL COULD HAVE AND THAT WE ALL COULD GIVE MORE PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING. OH. YEAH. PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING.

Iadcrijca, you are not alone, sweetheart! You are not alone. You have friends, we'd seen if you don't feel it! 🙏💖 Anyway, just ignore that moronic, racist - oops! Lol! I guess that (moronic AND racist, was a bit - well, QUITE a bit - REDUNDANT, wasn't it? My bad! But, hey, those two words always just seem as if they were MADE for each other... don't they? 😆🤣🤣🤣) Anyway, that vile, racist (damn! Another redundancy!! Lol! Oh well, some things just cant be helped right?), ian smith is not only a NAZI loser, but, because he uses what really appears to be a pseudonym, he's also a jerk who likes to behave like what appears, TO HIM, to be a real tough guy, macho, wanna be Nazi - and, yet, isn't even a big enough boy to use his real name!!!! You are lovey, iadcrjca! Don't ever allow bullies, or jerks, like little (meant in more ways than one...ex. height, brain size, i.q., e.t.c., 😉)"ian smith" get you down. ONLY REAL BAD ASSES CAN ALLOW THEMSELVES TOP LOOK AT THE PAIN OF LIVING AND OFF LIFE RIGHT NOW, IN PARTICULAR. PEOPLE WHO TRY TO INSINUATE THAT THOSE WHO ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT THERE IS PAIN, FEAR AND, OFTEN, WORRY OVER WHERE HUMANITY, AND THIS WORLD, IS HEADED ARE STRONG. THOSE WHO LAUGH AT US FOR DOING IT, AND SAY WE'RE WEAK, ARE THE TRUE WEAKLINGS, VEER ASIDE IT TAKES FAR, FAR MORE COURAGE TO FACE OUR EMOTIONS THAN IT DOES TO SUPPRESS THEM! 👍👍💖🌷😊🤗🤗

What an ICON .... so much talent ... I can only hope that my song by Space Boy ... hang on ... someone's at the door ......

look up I Want You, live @ the Tim Festival. Always gets me, that one.

I love the way the rhythm guitar just never lets up.

ABSOLUTELY AGREE, still mesmerized by it, more than 40 years!!

Except that Nick Lowe actually wrote the Song, but Elvis Costello's Cover made the Song Famous.

@@HoldenNY22 - The story I heard that Nick Lowe wrote it with tongue firmly in cheek and Elvis picked it up and found its true spirit.

Hello, how are you doing it's nice meeting you here .

Tamales 🌮🤔

Yes, Mr Lowe himself has often remarked on the curse of its enduring relevance. I 'll never forget sitting in stunned silence with my wife and listening to Nick reprise an acoustic take on this just days after 9/11 on NPR's 'Fresh Air.' Just gutted us.

What is it about?

@@wobblybobengland He really doesn't know lol.

as meaningful as song.... not 'as meaningful of a song...'

@Dominic O'reilly thanks! somehow i forget it was nick lowe, and maybe never sank into detail - it just captured my feeling about the steady stream of you know what coming at me so much in my adult life. unfortunately, humans really are a pretty angry species, some more than others, so i shouldnt get as annoyed with them as i do

@@matthewveal5504 Nick Lowe writes some Great songs. this is one of em.

Try to get the book "England's Dreaming"!

52 here and I was about to write the same thing. MTV introduced me to a lot of bands I would have never given the time of day to back then. Now I'm turning my 10 year old son onto Elvis C.

56 here & totally agree! So many great songs from back then... look up "I Know There's Something Going On" by Freda for a great flashback musical memory from the early 80s. 👍

Video 137 MTV August

Gotta agree. I was 16 at the time now just turned 59 and I thought of it, played it and it kicks ass better than ever!

Right on. Same. America was a lil tougher & united then..on more solid ground 40 yrs ago. now..we have leaders actively dismantling it..erasing the nat'l memory from the current & next gen of ppl..like a tall ship..but no star to steer her by. plus ppl taking swings at the corks to scuttle the whole thing. crazy.

Actually now we are behind the times.

This song was very much *OF* that time, actually 🤔

a friend said that he was the hottest act she ever saw....& @ The Shaboo Inn in the late 70s

Although they could have written this song during the Iliad

It was a cover version four years after the original.

1groovygreg I agree!!!!!!!

Thanks for the information. Always thought Elvis wrote it.

pub rock legends

Doesn't everybody already know that?

WRONG !! Bruce Springsteen wrote the song

Thanks!

Always.

I miss him

fyi there's a pebbles-era bassplayer for kubla khan who deserves credit for the same pumping style, tom engle ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uDv7sCZGrb4.html

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What an ICON .... so much talent ... I can only hope that my song by Space Boy ... hang on ... someone's at the door ......

Don't know why you're stopping at mid 79 before Get Happy and Trust. Talk about tight, powerful and tuneful.

What about Get Happy, Trust and Imperial Bedroom? His first six albums of original material are all masterpieces. Very very seldom, like very seldom does an artist come out the gate and drop such continuously amazing material. Elvis is king.

No love for Get Happy!! ?

that is freakin' awesome!!!! Poets deserve to get paid!!

@Dominic O'reilly is that right? Nick says" yeah I love this song now,best one I ever wrote". Kinda funny with the Greats Paul Mccartney has written 75 or so songs better than Yesterday. Elvis Costello has probably written at least 75 songs better than Alison, and Dylan has at least 75 songs as good or better than Blowin' In The Wind, which they are most known for.

+lets hope that is not for a while yet

+Anna Elizabeth Wade Exactly!!!

The highest of praise Anna!

Anna Elizabeth Wade there’s so much greatness in those words

Strangely, I find this today. I wonder if my comment will add to the 666 it's at now for this video.

I really appreciate the bass line too! The chord changes in this song are SO beautiful, too!

He was called "The boy most likely to" back when EC was "Looking Italian".

One of the best rhythm sections ever...

it's a faster, punker version of nick lowe's '74 powerpop original with brinsley schwartz. both brilliant, full points to lowe for coming up with it

I tremble with both love for, and frustration with our world when I play this iconic and timeless song. It helps me, even at 58, to release some positive anger.

Republicans will Always be part of the problem

ME TOO TWO FIVE DAYS AGO

I feel you brother.

grow a pair

I just stumbled upon this video and had totally forgotten that it was made in Vancouver back when it was just a bump on the map.

Such a positive message delivered so aggressively. It's awesome

Stanley Park. I was there on vacation with my family when I was 14, while this was being recorded.

Not much Peace in these times...

Stimme 100% zu jmm1000. Der Song groovt dahin das ist ein wunderschönes Stück Musik.

as was nick lowe's on the original [brinsley schwartz] and credit tom engle of kubla khan on revoluttion II 5 years before lowe

Hello Kim How are you doing today? Nice meeting you here

Elvis has long had a thing for that part of the world. He lives part time in Vancouver, or used to anyway.

Hello Maria how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family

You're welcome.

What did it say? Is it that toilet paper under the shoe again?

Check his recent version with the Southsea Alternative Choir

@@runrig97 I will Thanks

Pretty sure Nick produced this as well.

You wrote a hymn, here, Nick x

I'm not a musician but I assume you mean those awesome drums. That does define the song. Rolled to that back in the day.

Kevin O’Brien, indeed. Floor Toms are the Tom Tom drums on the floor at the side of a kit drummer.

Had a chance to catch them this summer. Awesome show.

He has some other good music, but nothing that compares to this song. Those drums, the bass line, the rhythm guitar, and the heartfelt lyrics. That beautifully heavy drum intro just starts it off so well. An absolutely complete song.

Fantastic story, what a great connection! And Los Straitjackets (with Nick) are supporting Elvis on his summer tour.

+omfug I'm w/you. Had to turn off the news, and dive into music to clear my head from my spirit getting downhearted sometimes...... The world needs more peace, love and understand. Like your username, cbgb!

+Scott Schleifer honey...that is my real name...

Why apologize? I wish you peace, love and understanding. Nothing funny about it.

i do believe you meant to say that this was your favourite rendition of this song, not your favorite Elvis rendition.

I don't think either are overrated. The critics love both of them. People with good musical taste listen to both of them. People that listen to Maria Carey and Celine Dion, however, are clueless, and have no idea who Van Morrison and Elvis Costello are. That's a good thing. We don't want either sullied by the likes of those people.

Spot on Barry, you should always be prepared to give things a second listen.

@@paulburns1333 if its coldpl*y or r*d h*t chill* pe*pers then i wouldnt even give it a first listen

Thanks MARYANNE I never knew that... so was Mr. Costello WAS like a District Sales Manager for the Elizabeth Arden Company... RIGHT??? He didn’t sell it at Macey’s in MALL 🤔

I’m so happy my parents named me after him

I needed to hear this now. Thank you Elvis! 06/01/2020 USA revolutiin

A great loss to Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics.

But if the music turned out this good, imagine what cosmetics would be by today! :)

naah, thats Elton

Wow. You are really old.

+Beatnikzombie lol! your funny! im old, too. such great lyrics

In 499 years, you'd think you would have learned to use you're.

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waiting for episode 6

Same

Wanted to sing with them, only if i knew the song before...

FACTS: Legion's covers are better than the originals.

I cried, the laugh of Leny... So sad

You will not get music like this in 2020. It’s a shame.

We do, agreed, but it's very unlikely given today's music industry efforts.

It's still here, you just have to look for it (as you most likely did back in 1978 when this song was released); song like this haven't gone away.

@@jeffsmith4110, to repeat myself: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ssd3U_zicAI.html&lc=Ugy1KE7-CXqf2NBt6pt4AaABAg.9D6C7P4a98E9Wcvc9lnNba

You too👍👍

You too. This should be our rallying cry.

July 2020

Hopefully yall safe 2020 is comin to an end

@@keizerlicuanan8642 ☮️👏

clarkewi please tell people to listen to this song during this coronavirus SH*T 🙏🏻

Wrong, gord..anger is a wasted emotion

Sometimes anger will motivate us to fix a wrong, and find a better way. It definitely has it's time and place. Anger without control, is rarely a good thing, though.

anger is a energy

@@chipgaasche4933 anger is a sin...

the song is more about desperation than anger

i do believe the message in the song is relevant every day, equally. Furthermore, i believe that putting the word super before an adjective is unnecessary.

while most fake wrestlers look look dlr

@@rp7356 Because they want to look like REAL rock stars!

@@impalaman9707 exactly what buried credible metal n brought us the cartoon 80's. need any mandrax?

DLR had a sense of humor. he also write some fine music. check: Damn Good Times. Push Comes To Shove.

Is there only pain and hatred and insanity, in Temple.

you and me both

Ditto

Yes. We must fend off the dark forces of Drumpism.