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Don’t Forget The Songs: Costello, Elbow, Gabriel

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Elvis Costello- No Action
Sometime last year I discovered Elvis Costello’s work and I really do find his 1978 record This Year’s Model to be one of the best things I’ve listened to. There’s so much energy in every single song, Costello still makes fantastic music, but he never carried this much raw and powerful emotions ever again in his music.

Elbow- Mirrorball
I’ve been listening to this very frequently over the past few months, and it might be my favorite song off Elbow’s fantastic The Seldom Seen Kid from 2008. It starts off with just a piano and guitar and things just start to soar once the strings come in. The lyrics are perfect as well. All sorts of very romantic lines fill the “Mirrorball”, and it’s never trite. It’s kind of odd, for someone like me to find this so effective. I normally roll my eyes at overtly romantic songs, but I really love the sentiments of this song.

Peter Gabriel- In Your Eyes
I know this song was already featured here a few months ago, but I’m really liking the new version of “In Your Eyes” from Gabriel’s new album, New Blood. The song was already a very huge production, so why not have the entire track with a orchestra? Unlike Gabriel’s previous album where he sucked the life out of every song he covered, this new version of “In Your Eyes” brings something just as effective as the original to the table.

Don’t Forget The Songs: Peter Gabriel “In Your Eyes”

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I’m not really if “In Your Eyes”, from Peter Gabriel’s 1986 masterpiece, So, should be allowed on this series, since the song is one of the most popular singles ever. And while it’s a verse-bridge-chorus-verse type song, it features one of my favorite bridges of all time, a very subtle moment from the verse that changes the whole song.

Everyone knows the track, and it has been immortalized in many films before (specifically speaking, the Cameron Crowe romantic comedy, Say Anything) There’s something about the song that makes it absolutely timeless. It’s the world influence of “In Your Eyes” that made So one of the great albums in 1986.

At the end, the excellent instrumentation and music included in this song would mean nothing without Peter Gabriel’s brutal and powerful vocal delivery. The music moves with Peter all the way into the track and not the other way. He’s a synonym sincerity and talent. Plus, the words to “In Your Eyes” make it one of the best classic radio love songs of all time.

This week’s Don’t Forget The Songs was written by Jonathan Gil Santillan.