"Mystery Dance"- Rockpalast, Cologne
"Mystery Dance" was the first Elvis Costello tune I ever heard that grabbed my attention and had me saying "Woah, who is this guy?" It was on his first album My Aim Is True in 1977. This is a good quality recording I found on YouTube, from a June 1978 show at the Rockpalast in Cologne, Germany. The lyrics are a little off-kilter and ironic; they spoke to me then and still speak to me now. "She thought that I knew, and I thought that she knew. So both of us were willing, but we didn't know how to do it."
Links to the whole show, or a lot of it, are below in five parts:
Part 1 - "Mystery Dance," "Waiting For The End Of The World," "Lip Service"
Part 2 - "Two Little Hitlers," "The Beat," "Night Rally"
Part 3- "This Year's Girl," "No Action," "(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea"
Part 4 - "Lipstick Vogue," "Watching The Detectives"
Part 5 - "Pump It Up," "You Belong To Me"
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