Elvis Costello sings Springsteen’s “POINT BLANK”

For some reason, I was never as excited by Elvis Costello’s TV show as I felt I should have been. I guess it was because there was a time when I would have been completely obsessed with it, and by the time he actual got around to having a TV show, my enthusiasm had diminished just a bit. Also, I sort of felt like the program featured a lot of great performances but something about the way it was recorded felt like you were hearing music performed from underneath a layer of shrink wrap or something— it never felt like it had the full punch that almost any other live or studio Costello recording seemed to pack. 

But maybe I just had a sour attitude at the time, because I love the way this just-released outtake from the Bruce Springsteen episode sounds. I think I mainly just love hearing Costello really go for it with a big, epic 6-minute Springsteen cover.