There's no comparison for me, Dave Edmunds for the win :) Dave is a man of many talents, most of them unsung, wicked guitar player, producer, arranger, and from a more personal perspective, i love the guy for putting together the band for the Carl Perkins comeback show in the 80's, which is a bit of a holy grail to me.

I still have that LP! Love Dave, Nick Lowe and Rock Pile - such talent in the music industry and Dave is a brilliant guitarist (try him with The Sabre Dance). Elvis is one of my faves too but I give this one to Dave. Elvis did write it but Dave's arrangement was great. Bit embarrassing that you didn't know this!

EC wrote the song and gave it to Dave Edmunds first. He later released it as a single B-side to "I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down." Background

I respectfully suggest when doing songs you're unfamiliar with for comparisons, you check out the details of the song. As @David Ellis points out, this was written by Elvis Costello, not Dave Edmunds. Always interesting to hear this kind of reaction (cover vs original) though, so hope you do more of them. As far as Dave goes, he's always been rockabilly influenced.

@dottieparker7274

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm. Interesting. When I think of Dave Edmunds, rockabilly doesn't come to mind.

@thewkovacs316

Жыл бұрын

@@dottieparker7274 are you kidding? dave is all about rockabilly

@dottieparker7274

Жыл бұрын

@@thewkovacs316 No I'm not kidding 🤣. He did a rockabilly inspired few songs in the same spirit as Nick Lowe did a couple disco inspired songs. Their whole aim was to have a good time with all the different genres, I'd have thought that was pretty clear, even to someone who'd never heard of them.

@thewkovacs316

Жыл бұрын

@@dottieparker7274 most of dave's major hits are rockabilly inspired. it is also true that nick, dave and declan were very influenced by country music.

@dottieparker7274

Жыл бұрын

@@thewkovacs316 Whatever rocks your boat. I retired from the music business ten years ago, takin' it easy.

Dave Edmunds sound was actually very contemporary at the time his version was released. The Rockabilly revival was just taking off and a lot of songwriters were looking back at the pop music of the pre-Beatles era. Definitely DE for the win this time. Along with Nick Lowe he was a considerable and influential figure in the UK music scene at this time, maintaining a pop career alongside writing and production work.

@colrhodes377

Жыл бұрын

What happened to Mr Edmunds?

@delorangeade

Жыл бұрын

@@colrhodes377 It's a good question because he sort of fell off the radar after quite an intense period in the spotlight. It seems like he just lost interest in the industry and preferred a quiet life. Very talented.

@davidellis5141

Жыл бұрын

@@delorangeade He responds on occasion to KZread members who talk about him. Thanking them.

@delorangeade

Жыл бұрын

@@davidellis5141 It's very cool when musicians take the time to do that.

@davidellis5141

Жыл бұрын

@@delorangeade Stephen Fellows from The Comsat Angels responded to one of my comments . I met him when he managed the band Gomez & we talked about The Comsats for a few minutes. Really nice person he is.

Can't believe you never heard this song of Dave Edmunds. Overhere in The Netherlands it was a big hit. I absolutely love it, it's very uplifting. I like the voice of Elvis in general. Never heard this cover of Elvis before, so that was nice, but I don't need to hear it again. Dave wins for me by a landslide. Edit: I never knew it was an Elvis Costello original! Learning something new every day.

I believe Linda Ronstadt has a version of this song also on her mad love album

Nice one! I don't think I'd ever heard Costello's original before either! 😀 And I was quite surprised when my 17-year-old Son shared the Dave Edmunds one with me only a couple of months ago! Turned out he'd heard it on the radio when hanging out with his granddad and liked it straight away, too! 😊

@andyf2837

Жыл бұрын

Been on Grand Theft Auto radio sations year ago

This one is kinda strange .. Elvis Costello wrote this song & Dave Edmunds did an excellent cover. The next year Elvis released his version as a B-Side & it was the version you played that eventually became a " Bonus " track on The Get Happy CD 💿 reissue in 1994. Its easy to think of it as a Dave Edmunds song .. but it's not. Both versions are awesome 👌

@mightyV444

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I'd always believed it was originally a Dave Edmunds song, too! Just like '(What's So Funny About) Peace, Love And Understanding' was composed by Nick Lowe when he and Dave were both in Brinsley Schwarz. I'd always thought that was a Costello original, though! 😄 Thank you for the info, David! 🙂

@hanierfamily

Жыл бұрын

Damnit! Did we miss a complete version of the Elvis one?!

@davidellis5141

Жыл бұрын

@@hanierfamily The only version he ever released was the one you played. Dave Edmunds based his version on a cassette tape that Elvis gave him & that has never seen the light of day. 👍

@steveheck4348

Жыл бұрын

@@mightyV444 Dave produced Brinsley Schwarz.

@mightyV444

Жыл бұрын

@@steveheck4348 - Yeah, I must've confused them with Rockpile, sorry! 😅

Couple of basics. As noted above, song is written by Elvis and he first recorded the song in 1980, not 14 years later. It helps if adding value to spend a few moments in background research. As for the song? Timeless.

"Girls Talk" has an interesting history. Elvis Costello played it for Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds (all friends) back in early 1979. They loved it but Costello was so busy writing his first few classic albums as well as touring, he couldn't find time to record it. Rockpile did as Edmund's band on his album "Repeat When Necessary ". Then in late '79, both Linda Ronstadt and Costello recorded it, though EC's arrangement is quite different than Rockpile or Ronstadt. Elvis actually recorded a few versions of the song, claiming never to find the right arrangement for it. Several bands and singers have recorded it over the decades. I enjoy them all. Wonderful song with great Costello lyrics.

Can I just point out that one of my favourite pop song lines appears in this song "You may not be an old-fashioned girl, but you're gonna get dated" Has a brilliant duality that is double layered. You may not be old-fashioned NOW, but your style/attitude/outlook is going to get old. You might not be an old-fashioned girl, you may think you're very modern, but you are still going to be dated/courted/wooed by me. Each version of the sentence flips its focus halfway through. Each interpretation works and is (I am pretty sure) intentional. Lines like this do not come up very often in pop or rock music, but when they do ...

@williamcurtin5692

Жыл бұрын

Narrowly beating out lipstick and powder.

I discovered this song when Linda Ronstadt covered it in 1980, so I went back and checked out the earlier versions. Elvis's wins for me, by a landslide.

The Dave Edmunds version has always been on my favourite playlists, superb! If you want to check out another Dave Edmunds comparision try 'Queen Of Hearts' with the other version by Juice Newton which reached #2 in the USA! 😎

@t-mar9275

Жыл бұрын

Dave was the master of cover versions, with many being arguably to the original. In the case of Queen of Hearts, Dave had the original but it was so good that Juice's version isn't much more than a copy. It should have been a much bigger hit for Dave in the USA. I think the only reason that it was so big for Newton was because it was the follow-up for Angel In The Morning. Personally, my favourite cover of Dave's is Singing the Blues, which was originally sung by Marty Robbins but was a huge for Guy Mitchell. Of course, Dave's first solo hit, I Hear You Knocking, was a cover of an old Smiley Lewis blues record. I could go on and on. Just about anything that Dave did is worth a comparison to the original, though it's understandable to restrict them to his more popular records.

@williamcurtin5692

Жыл бұрын

And by all means check out the Rockpalast live clip of Rockpile. Bremner and Willams are fabulous, and Dave and Nick hold up their ends nicely. Some of the best drumming you will ever see.

1970 DAVE EDMUNDS SPRUNG ON THE SCENE WITH A BIG HIT CALLED I HEAR YOU KNOCKING, HIS MUCH FASTER ON WAS I KNEW THE BRIDE WHEN SHE USED TO ROCK AND ROLL

@hanierfamily

Жыл бұрын

We know both of those songs but I (Cynthia) don't think we know his version of those songs.

@petermizon4344

Жыл бұрын

Both good to listen to , amongst the millions of others lol

Dave Edmunds very underrated guitarist. Sabre Dance 🎸🎶 - Love Sculpture. or a live version of Sabre Dance by Dave Edmunds in Sevilla Spain

Love the Dave Edmunds version by far . The most recent cover version of Girls Talk that i am aware of is by Tegan and Sarah back in May of this year.

Love these comparisons. A great unique feature 👌

Love both Edmunds and Costello, but oddly, I would say that Linda Ronstadt's version is the superior to both

@l.salisbury1253

Жыл бұрын

That was the first version I heard...

Was grease out ,about same time Dave Edmunds

Corrections: The Elvis Costello version was recorded in OCT 1979, not 1994, as you state. The recording of this track was released in January 1980 as the B-side to the single “I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down.” Elvis didn’t “cover” the song, as it was Elvis Costello who wrote the song originally. He gave an early demo of it to Dave Edmunds, who immediately worked it up and released it and made it a hit single of his own. Later in 1980, Lynda Ronstadt recorded it as a single too, clearly arranged like the Dave Edmunds cover.

I forgot this was an Elvis Costello song. All I have to say is that me and my sister and some of our goofy friends were on an Australian TV show called Countdown, and we took turns shouting out ''girls talk'' and squealing parts of the lyrics while Mr Edmunds mimed his way through the song. We did the same thing to Nick Lowe, who mimed to Cruel To Be Kind on the same show. Both artists seemed amused and perhaps a little perplexed by our little effort. That's my Lowe/Edmunds story.

@mightyV444

Жыл бұрын

I've somehow returned to this video tonight (or this morning, rather - it's nearly 3am 😅). Anyway, I *looove* the 'squealy' Countdown versions of those two songs! 😄 It's just not the same without you all singing along 😄

@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83

Жыл бұрын

@@mightyV444 Hi Mighty V, I have to admit that I've also been hearing the screamy Countdown version in my head this week. ''Girls Talk'' was playing on my car radio this week, and I began hearing Gillian and her friends doing their squeal-singing. To be clear, I only did a couple of yells before deciding to leave the showing off to Gillian and her little friends. I think they had been scolded at one too many times, and decided to ''rebel''. We probably had too many Slurpees and Fanta in our system, and kids need to burn off energy - especially when they were in that studio. If anybody wishes to preserve ''Girls Talk'' in their minds, don't watch Dave Edmunds doing the song on Countdown Australia.

@mightyV444

Жыл бұрын

@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 - Of course I disagree, and I reckon both 'Girls Talk' and 'Cruel To Be Kind' are rather boring without Gillian and her friends' noise in it 😄 Quite funny: I'd found one of those two songs in its Countdown version also on a different channel a while ago, and the uploader hadn't actually been aware of the sing-along until it was being pointed out in the comments, so he posted a pinned comment and said something like, "What the heck!? Sorry everyone, I wasn't aware of that b*tch in the audience singing along!" 😅 But I can't find that particular video anymore now.

@thewkovacs316

Жыл бұрын

that was you? i just saw that vid here on youtube you girls are famous

@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83

Жыл бұрын

@@thewkovacs316 I did a couple of yelps and came to my senses. My little sister (posts on here as LiveItUp) and her friends took the liberties on that day. I'd like to think we have far better claims to fame than that particular moment.

I saw Rockpile,(Dave Edmunds,Nick Lowe) at Liverpool university and Elvis Costello was a surprise support act.

Dave Edmunds for the vocals, Elvis C. for the music gets my vote. Always felt Elvis C. had a sort of split-second doppler effect going on with his singing.

So glad you picked up on the Buddy Holly vibe. Just what I thought. Also with the sharp, punchy lyrics. I think BH himself would've loved it.

It was a short version because it was a contender for Get Happy where everything had to be well under 3 minutes.

Elvis Costello didn't cover it, he wrote it!

Nick Lowe wrote What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding and Elvis had a hit with it

I love both versions - how you can go wrong with either? I have both versions on vinyl - huge fan of this and love the Rockabilly style. I believe both versions are produced by Nick Lowe. BTW, there is another version by Linda Ronstadt on her album Mad Love. The Elvis recording was released in 1980, not 1994.

I bought the Elvis Costello one on the 2 Tone label. It was the B Side of I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down which was released in 1980. 😎 The 2 Tone pressing of this is quite rare because it was withdrawn due to legal action from WEA & replaced by The Specials Too Much Too Young Live EP.

@sirslice7531

Жыл бұрын

And of course, EC produced The Specials first LP so there's a lot of connection there.

@skavillecity

Жыл бұрын

@@sirslice7531 Yes.

You should try Nick Lowe - I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass - great track

Dave's version has the magnificent Terry Williams on drums, so clearly is the winner!

Dave Edmunds - Here Comes The Weekend.

Elvis Costello's version was recorded in 1979 and released as a single in March 1980 not 1990. Costello wrote the song and Costello gave an early version of the song to Edmunds, who reworked the song and released it on his album Repeat When Necessary in 1978. I prefer Costello's version.

NOTE: Elvis Costello and the Attractions released their version in 1980. Elvis also wrote the song.

@hanierfamily

Жыл бұрын

I think the track we found was from 94. We may have to go find the one from 80.

@sirslice7531

5 ай бұрын

Dave Edmund/Rockpile

Hard to choose but Dave Edmunds is the single i bought so that's my choice.

Never knew for years that it was an Elvis Costello song but once I did, it's so obvious. Much like The Corrs' version of Phil Lynott's solo song Old Town.

I betcha Nick Lowe was playing bass on this with Dave as I've seen them do it together live and I know they did music together during Dave Edmunds & Rockpile days but not a lot due to contractual issues

@paulmorris8762

5 ай бұрын

you got that right Nick was playing bass - I like both versions but Dave's vocals are better than Elvis'

Wales for the win this go round. As you could tell, Dave Edmunds was heavily influenced by Rock 'n Roll & Rockabilly. Worthwhile delving into the Dave Edmunds/Nick Lowe Rockpile catalogue.

I was very cutting-edge when Dave's cover came out. Pub rock, the rockabilly revival, two tone ska, even punk all rebelling against the bombastic arena rock and over-produced disco of the time by getting back to basic instrumentation, catchy beats and lyrics and minimal pretense.

I like these comparison videos. These are two versions I can't choose between. I love them both Oh, I just realised you listened to a horrible reworking by Elvis Costello. HIS original version was released within a year of the Dave Edmunds version and is FAR better than the one you listened to.

This is a great comparison. I prefer Dave Edmunds. I like both .

linda ronstadt also covered it.

edmonds version is rockabilly elvis wrote the song....and gave it to dave to record elvis then put his version as the b-side to his cover of the sam and dave song...i cant stand up for falling down his version was recorded in 80, not 94 and like many tunes that came out during that era from the uk, it has a bit of a reggae beat

I grew up knowing and loving Edmunds version, although I was aware that this was written by Costello. This might actually be the first time I've heard Costello's version. I like it too, but if had to choose it would be Edmunds. Big fan of E.C. in general though, especially those first 8 or so albums.

I love both, but prefer Dave Edmunds, although if Elvis did a dub mix, I might change my mind.

Do yourselves a favour and listen to Dave Edmunds' Sabre Dance if you haven't heard it already. The studio version is excellent but a live version will give you an insight in to the talented guitar playing of Mr. E.

Brought the Edmunds version on 7" clear vinyl & still sounds good now (can't be sure if I'd heard the Elvis version before)

@hanierfamily

Жыл бұрын

Elvis wrote it but never actually used it in 79. Instead, he let Dave Edmunds use it. Elvis' cover was done in 94.

@normandavidtidiman9918

Жыл бұрын

@@hanierfamily Yeah,hearing it here I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard EC’s inferior version 😉

@steveheck4348

Жыл бұрын

@@hanierfamily No it was done much earlier. Around the same time as Dave's. It was on the Taking Liberties Album of B sides and other odds ends released in 1979.

Dave is a brillant and underrated guitarist. His work with Love Scupture some years before showed this. Incidentally, co-guitairst Billy Bremner played the guitar break on this. Better than the Costello version I think.

Dave Edmund's version was a big hit in Australia and the one I'm most familiar with.

@Robbo766

Жыл бұрын

couldn't get away from the song (Edmund's version) in 1979. Radio, at least in Sydney, played it non-stop.

@rhonda_hart4982

Жыл бұрын

@@Robbo766 I think I was about 11/12 when Girls Talk was a hit. Another song I really loved was ''Stay With Me Til Dawn'' by Judie something? Be nice if the posters on this video reacted to that song.

@hanierfamily

Жыл бұрын

We did that song. Please take a look. Enjoy!

Thus should be a 3 way battle, Nick Lowe v, Dave Edmonds v Elvis Costello.

You must try ed Sheeran v birdy with the song The A Team totally different I prefer birdys version.

Actually looks like it was written by Elvis Costello, but first recorded (or released) by Dave Edmunds.

elvis has this one hands down!

@PaulsPlace1977

Жыл бұрын

😂 don’t be silly!, Elvis may be a lot of things, but he isn’t even in the same league as Dave Edmunds as a vocalist, never in a million years

@sherbert500

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulsPlace1977 in your opinion!

OK heres a comparison for you, UK subs doing down on the farm and guns n roses doing the cover of it!

Elvis’ was the whole version.

I promise I'm not being snarky, but I honestly thought this was a parody. I actually laughed out loud 😅

Elvis wrote this song and gave to Dave Edmonds in a drunkin stuper. (Elvis' words not mine. Lol)

Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You (vs) The Reels - This Guy's In Love nzoz1982 The Sports - Who Listens To The Radio (1978) Antipodes (vs) The Sports - Who Listens To The Radio V2 (1979) Antipodes _Simply typing The Sports - Who Listens To The Radio Antipodes will bring up both versions_ _Same song but a year apart and approached different_

@rhonda_hart4982

Жыл бұрын

great suggestion. I liked the first one more than that other version.

@OnceWasRStrathfield

Жыл бұрын

@@rhonda_hart4982 same!

@OnceWasRStrathfield

Жыл бұрын

@@brockbranch838 lol, yes.. it was that ''mysterious'' video that people sworn had existed and was once on TV. Nick Seymour from Crowded House in the first minute of the video, jumping in the background. It was ''lost media''.

@OnceWasRStrathfield

Жыл бұрын

@@brockbranch838 Nick Seymour is in the 2nd video. From my understanding, the 2nd version had gotten limited exposure on Australian television because the original version of ''Who Listens'' was already a hit in Australia the previous year. The video for the 2nd version of ''Who Listens'' was only played on Australian television in conjunction with the 2nd version of ''Who Listens'' becoming a US Top 40 hit. The video for the 2nd version of ''Who Listens'' did get international distribution, and got played on European TV, as well as, an American TV program called Video Concert Hall. VCH would eventually evolve into MTV. Europe and Australia were the largest markets for music videos. Australia had about a dozen music video shows on Television in the late 70's (Countdown, Sound Unlimited, Nightmoves, Studio One, VideoDisc, Flashez, Music Express).... It seemed counter-intuitive to repeatedly play the video for the 2nd version of ''Who Listens To The Radio'', seeing as the first version was already a hit, and the 2nd version was only a hit in the US. Consequently, the video for the 2nd version of ''Who Listens To The Radio'' got buried in the passage of time. It took a British TV show called Get It Together to unearth the video for the 2nd verison of ''Who Listens''. I believe the broadcast tapes of ''Who Listens'' (V2) are deep in the MTV vaults. There are lost music videos of Midnight Oil, Ausralian Crawl, Mental As Anything, Boys Next Door/The Birthday Party... The Ears ''Leap for Lunch'' video had been unearthed after 30 years of buried deep in the archives. I believe the band themselves forgot that they even made it. Another weird video that had emerged was the original music video for The Church's Unguarded Moment. Singer, Steve Kilbey, hated the original video and forbade it to be distributed. It's the only Church video that had original drummer, Nick Ward. The video reared its ugly head after a few decades and Steve Kilbey is not happy about it. He thought it had been destroyed.

@Robbo766

Жыл бұрын

I think they should try both versions of that Sports song, and compare Herb Alpert and The Reels ''this guys in love'', though I was never a fan of either version of the Bacharach song.

elvis wrote this song and it was a b side on his release

No comparison. This song requires Dave Edmunds animal attack, not Elvis Costello's delicate brush strokes.

It was written by Elvis. It was HIS song.

It’s Elvis’ song!!!!!!

Elvis Costello wrote it ..

Please get your facts right. This song was written by Declan McManus (Elvis Costello), NOT Dave Edmunds. Edmunds had the first release, and perhaps the most popular version, but did not write the song. That said, they are very different styles - Edmunds more pop and Elvis...well, Elvis. Not very comparable.

@newyorkeranew

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. It’s worth getting the fundamentals correct. Publisher correction in order.

@thewkovacs316

Жыл бұрын

edmunds version...rockabilly elvis version....smooth punk

if you want to do a comparison vid...do nick lowe vs elvis' versions of what's so funny about peace love and understanding

But Elvis Costello wrote it

Bubblegum!?

Oh Please, Linda Ronstadt's cover blows them both away. Of course 52% of the success is due to Costello's music and lyrics.

DE is a technically better vocalist but comparisons are pointless. Lyrically and musically this song is just stereotypical of early Elvis Costello - I'd've thought anyone could have guessed it was one of his compositions (GVcalcar)

Prefer Daves

Written by....... ?

@stephenkanski5034

11 ай бұрын

Elvis Costello.

These people ain’t got a clue of what they’re talking about, Dave does a much better job with this song than Elvis does. Also Dave should be in the rock and Roll Hall of Fame so should Elvis if he isn’t in it as well because the R&R hall of fame is a freakin joke.

You may not be an old fashioned girl but you're gonna get dated.... pur costello

Elvis for the win. Besides you have your facts wrong, it was not covered by Elvis, it was written by Elvis and Dave Edmunds recorded it first.