Songs

Show all 521 Elvis Costello & The Imposters songs

...And in Every Home (33)
...Dust (34)
(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea (360)
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (121)
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes / Purple Rain / I Want You (1)
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (448)
(What's So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love and Understanding / Substitute (2)
13 Steps Lead Down (11)
15 Petals (43)
45 (87)
5ive Gears in Reverse (8)
A Certain Girl (5)
A Face in the Crowd (85)
A Good Year for the Roses (86)
A Matter of Time (4)
A Slow Drag With Josephine (102)
A Voice in the Dark (2)
Accidents Will Happen (201)
Adieu Paris (L'envie des étoiles) (6)
After the Fall (1)
Alibi (57)
Alison (371)
Alison / I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (3)
Alison / Somewhere (1)
Alison / Suspicious Minds (13)
Alison / The Tracks of My Tears (1)
Alison / Tracks of My Tears (1)
Alison / You've Been Cheatin' (1)
Alison/You Win Again (1)
All Grown Up (8)
All I've Got to Do (8)
All or Nothing at All (2)
All the Rage (17)
All These Strangers (9)
All These Things (1)
All This Useless Beauty (13)
All This Useless Beauty / Do You Know What I'm Saying (1)
Almost Blue (89)
Almost Blue / Stripping Paper (1)
American Gangster Time (48)
American Mirror (10)
American Without Tears (20)
And Your Bird Can Sing (12)
Anna (Go to Him) (1)
Ascension Day (11)
Baby It's You (2)
Basket Case (1)
Be Real (1)
Beaten to the Punch (2)
Bedlam (123)
Bertha (2)
Beyond Belief (203)
Big Boys Cry (2)
Big Chief / Tipitina / Tipitina and Me / The Olde Professor (1)
Big Sister's Clothes (1)
Big Tears (1)
Big Tears (28)
Black and White World (4)
Black Sails in the Sunset (1)
Blame It on Cain (32)
Blood & Hot Sauce (42)
Blue Chair (27)
Boy With a Problem (10)
Brilliant Disguise (1)
Brilliant Mistake (77)
Brilliant Mistake / Boulevard of Broken Dreams (6)
Brilliant Mistake / Happy Birthday to You (1)
Broken Promise Land (4)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1)
Bullets for the New Born King (4)
Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter (48)
Button My Lip (29)
Can You Hear Me? (2)
Charm School (5)
Cheap Reward (1)
Chewing Gum (2)
Church Underground (6)
Cinco Minutos Con Vos (8)
Clown Strike (58)
Clowntime Is Over (19)
Clubland (250)
Come the Meantimes (21)
Complicated Shadows (20)
Condemned Man (6)
Condemned Man / I Put a Spell on You (2)
Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4 (2)
Country Darkness (78)
Crawling to the USA (5)
Cried My Last Tear (1)
Crooked Teeth (1)
Cry One More Time (1)
Cry! Cry! Cry! (29)
Cryin' Time (5)
Daddy Can I Turn This? (6)
Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (64)
Deep Dark Truthful Mirror / You've Really Got a Hold on Me (29)
Different Finger (2)
Dishonor the Stars (3)
Dissolve (12)
Distorted Angel (3)
Don't (3)
Don't Bother Me / It Don't Bother Me (2)
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (16)
Don't Look Now (17)
Don't Lose Your Grip on Love (4)
Don't You Lie to Me (1)
Dr. Watson, I Presume (4)
Drum & Bone (6)
Dust 2... (26)
Earthbound (5)
Either Side of the Same Town (91)
Episode of Blonde (40)
Everybody's Crying Mercy (15)
Everyday I Write the Book (305)
Everyday I Write the Book / Mr. Big Stuff (2)
Fallen (1)
Farewell, OK (8)
Favourite Hour (4)
Femme Fatale (4)
Ferry Cross the Mersey (1)
Flutter & Wow (45)
Folsom Prison Blues (1)
For More Tears (2)
Fortune Teller (2)
Freedom for the Stallion (4)
From a Whisper to a Scream (21)
From Head to Toe (1)
Games People Play (1)
Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet (7)
Get Out of My Life, Woman (1)
Get Ready (2)
Getting Mighty Crowded (5)
Ghost Train (1)
Girl (16)
Girls Talk (48)
Go Away (10)
Go Tell (Your Quiet Sister) (15)
God Give Me Strength (16)
God's Comic (10)
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (1)
Green Shirt (177)
Hand in Hand (8)
Happy Birthday to You (6)
Harry Worth (8)
He's Given Me Things (14)
Heart of the City (107)
Heart Shaped Bruise (22)
Help Me (4)
Hetty O'Hara Confidential (6)
Hetty O'Hara Confidential (2)
Hey Bulldog (10)
Hey Clockface / How Can You Face Me? (2)
Hidden Charms (15)
Hidden Shame (5)
High Fidelity (215)
His Latest Flame (12)
Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head (7)
Honey Hush (5)
Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind? (45)
Hoover Factory (5)
Hot Burrito #1 (1)
How Much I Lied (1)
How to Be Dumb (2)
Human Hands (55)
Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over) (16)
I Ain't Livin' Long Like This (1)
I Almost Had a Weakness (1)
I Can Only Give You Everything (4)
I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down (174)
I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier (1)
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (1)
I Found Out (1)
I Hope (5)
I Hope You're Happy Now (181)
I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself (1)
I Know (1)
I Let the Sun Go Down (1)
I Lost You (4)
I Stand Accused (2)
I Still Have That Other Girl (31)
I Still Miss Someone (8)
I Wanna Be Loved (15)
I Want to Vanish (2)
I Want You (163)
I Want You / I Believe to My Soul (2)
I Want You / I Say a Little Prayer (2)
I Will Follow You Into the Dark (1)
I'll Watch Out for You (1)
I'll Wear It Proudly (6)
I'm a Mess (1)
I'm in the Mood Again (2)
I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime) (2)
I'm Not Angry (1)
I've Been Wrong Before (6)
If I Could Believe (1)
If You Love Me (1)
Imperial Bedroom (1)
In Another Room (4)
In the Darkest Place (18)
Inch By Inch/Fever (2)
Indoor Fireworks (64)
Indoor Fireworks / This House (1)
International Echo (3)
Intro (1)
Isabelle in Tears (1)
It Must Have Been the Roses (2)
It Takes Time (3)
It Tears Me Up (1)
Jimmie Standing in the Rain (81)
Joanna (1)
Just a Memory (1)
Just About Glad (8)
Kid About It (38)
Kinder Murder (30)
King Horse (51)
King of America (1)
King of America / Brilliant Mistake / Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1)
Knoxville Girl (2)
Last Boat Leaving (2)
Leave My Kitten Alone (7)
Less Than Zero (77)
Let Him Dangle (3)
Let Me Roll It (3)
License to Kill (1)
Like Rain (1)
Lip Service (5)
Lipstick Vogue (92)
Little Palaces (5)
Little Palaces/Set of Traditional Fiddle & Accordion Tunes (1)
Little Savage (7)
Little Sister (2)
Little Triggers (31)
Living in Paradise (6)
London's Brilliant Parade (2)
Lost on the River #12 (2)
Lost on the River #20 (1)
Love Field (7)
Love Hurts (8)
Love That Burns (15)
Lovers Walk (13)
Luxembourg (2)
Luxury Liner (7)
Magnificent Hurt (6)
Man Called Uncle (1)
Man Out of Time (146)
Man Out of Time / Tangled Up In Blue (1)
Más y más (3)
Mexican Divorce (1)
Miracle Man (24)
Mistook Me For a Friend (6)
Monkey to Man (106)
Moods for Moderns (55)
Moods for Moderns / Shotgun (1)
Motel Matches (31)
Mouth Almighty (3)
Mr. & Mrs. Hush (26)
Mr. and Mrs. Hush / Getting Mighty Crowded (1)
Mr. Feathers (3)
Mr. Feathers / God's Comic (1)
Must You Throw Dirt in My Face (3)
My All Time Doll (14)
My Baby's Gone (9)
My Dark Life (6)
My Funny Valentine (7)
My Little Blue Window (7)
My Mood Swings (25)
My New Haunt (4)
My Three Sons (15)
Mystery Dance (188)
Mystery Train (12)
National Ransom (21)
National Ransom No. 2 (4)
National Ransom No. 9 (4)
Nearer to You (4)
Needle Time (44)
Needle Time / Yer Blues (1)
New Amsterdam (6)
New Amsterdam / You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (5)
New Lace Sleeves (38)
Newspaper Pane (1)
Next Time 'Round (22)
Night Rally (5)
Night Time (1)
No Action (25)
No Dancing (2)
No Dancing / Please Please Me / Be My Baby (1)
No Flag (6)
No Flag (2)
No Hiding Place (16)
No Man's Woman (1)
No Particular Place to Go (14)
No Wonder (2)
North (1)
Nothing Clings Like Ivy (22)
Oliver's Army (148)
On Your Way Down (15)
One Bell Ringing (16)
One of These Days (7)
Opportunity (1)
Our Little Angel (14)
Out of Time (45)
Overture (3)
Pads, Paws and Claws (2)
Pancho & Lefty (7)
Pardon Me, Madam, My Name Is Eve (4)
Party Girl (47)
Payday (14)
Peace in Our Time (1)
Penelope (1)
Pennies From Heaven / A Voice in the Dark (1)
Photographs Can Lie (38)
Pidgin English (36)
Pills and Soap (16)
Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues) (2)
Please Please Me (7)
Point Blank (1)
Poison Moon (3)
Poisoned Rose (14)
Polythene Pam (10)
Poor Fractured Atlas (3)
Poor Napoleon (11)
Possession (20)
Pouring Water on a Drowning Man (3)
Pretty Words (1)
Professor Longhair Medley (2)
Promised Land (1)
Psycho (2)
Pump It Up (450)
Pump It Up (3)
Pump It Up / Busted (9)
Purple Rain (32)
Quiet About It (6)
Radio Radio (300)
Radio Radio (4)
Radio Silence (8)
Radio Sweetheart / Jackie Wilson Said (7)
Ramble On Rose (3)
Real Emotional Girl (1)
Red Cotton (1)
Red Dirt Girl (7)
Red Red Red (1)
Red Rose Blue (1)
Riot Act (22)
Rocking Horse Road (16)
Roxanne (1)
Runnin' Out of Fools (2)
Secondary Modern (13)
Secondary Modern / Watch Your Step (1)
Seconds of Pleasure (5)
Shabby Doll (74)
Shake for Me (1)
Shallow Grave (4)
She (64)
She Handed Me a Mirror (1)
She's Pulling Out the Pin (6)
She's the One (1)
Shipbuilding (111)
Shot With His Own Gun (55)
Sin City (4)
Sleep of the Just (6)
Sleepless Nights (8)
Slippin' and Slidin' (Peepin' and Hidin') (1)
Slow Down (8)
Smile (3)
Sneaky Feelings (4)
So Like Candy (29)
So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (4)
Song With Rose (12)
Soul for Hire (5)
Spooky Girlfriend (66)
Starting to Come to Me (1)
Stations of the Cross (37)
Stella Hurt (48)
Still (6)
Still Too Soon to Know (14)
Stranger in the House (10)
Strict Time (92)
Stripping Paper (8)
Substitute (14)
Such Unlikely Lovers (1)
Sugar Won't Work (22)
Suit of Lights (32)
Sulky Girl (22)
Sulphur to Sugarcane (15)
Sunday's Best (10)
Suspect My Tears (22)
Suspicious Minds (4)
Sweet Dreams (15)
Take Me I'm Yours (1)
Talking in the Dark (35)
Tart (46)
Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution) (91)
Tears Before Bedtime (62)
Tears of Rage (2)
Tears, Tears and More Tears (4)
Tell Me Right Now (1)
Temptation (24)
That Day Is Done (2)
That's How You Got Killed Before (2)
The Beat (22)
The Birds Will Still Be Singing (1)
The Bottle Let Me Down (26)
The Butcher's Boy (1)
The Comedians (7)
The Crooked Line (10)
The Dark End of the Street (2)
The Death of Magic Thinking (3)
The Delivery Man (44)
The Delivery Man / The Butcher's Boy (9)
The Element Within Her (1)
The Greatest Love (7)
The Imposter (15)
The Invisible Man (2)
The Judgement (36)
The Last Year of My Youth (2)
The Long Honeymoon (53)
The Loved Ones (36)
The Lovers That Never Were (3)
The Monkey (12)
The Name of This Thing Is Not Love (9)
The New Year (1)
The Other End (Of the Telescope) (2)
The Other Side of Summer (14)
The Parting Glass (1)
The River in Reverse (25)
The River in Reverse / I'll Take Care of You / This Wheel's on Fire (1)
The River in Reverse / This Wheel's On Fire (1)
The Roadette Song (1)
The Scarlet Tide (47)
The Sharpest Thorn (5)
The Spell That You Cast (8)
The Tears of a Clown (1)
The Town Where Time Stood Still (10)
The Tracks of My Tears (2)
There Stands the Glass (4)
There Won't Be Anymore (1)
There's a Story in Your Voice (26)
They Didn't Believe Me (1)
This House Is Empty Now (10)
This Is a Test (1)
This Is Hell (5)
This Wheel's On Fire / River in Reverse / I'll Take Care of You (3)
This Wheel's On Fire / River In Reverse / On Your Way Down / I'll Take Care of You (2)
This Wheel's On Fire / River In Reverse / On Your Way Down / I'll Take Care of You / This Wheel's On Fire (1)
This Wheel's on Fire / The River in Reverse (2)
This Wheel's on Fire / The River In Reverse / On Your Way Down / I'll Take Care of You (7)
This Will Be Our Year (1)
This Year's Girl (1)
This Year's Girl (74)
Tiny Steps (5)
Tokyo Storm Warning (10)
Toledo (8)
Too Far Gone (1)
Town Cryer (38)
Tramp the Dirt Down (30)
Tripwire (3)
Trouble (1)
Truth Drug (8)
Turning the Town Red (1)
Turpentine (36)
Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa (2)
Two Little Hitlers (4)
Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song) (1)
Uncomplicated (192)
Uncomplicated / Shotgun (3)
Under Lime (14)
Under Lime / Jimmy Standing in the Rain (2)
Unwanted Number (42)
Veronica (28)
Viceroy's Row (3)
Waiting for the End of the World (87)
Waiting for the End of the World / I Can Only Give You Everything (3)
Wake Me Up (3)
Wake Me Up When September Ends (1)
Walk Us Uptown (21)
Walkin' My Baby Back Home (11)
Waltzing Matilda (1)
Watch Your Step (39)
Watch Your Step / You've Been Cheatin' (1)
Watching the Detectives (421)
Watching the Detectives / Help Me (10)
Watching the Detectives / Walk Us Uptown (1)
We Are All Cowards Now (2)
We are all Cowards Now (1)
Welcome to the Working Week (26)
What if I Can't Give You Anything but Love? (2)
Wheels (11)
When I Paint My Masterpiece (9)
When I Was Cruel No. 1 (7)
When I Was Cruel No. 2 (58)
When I Was Cruel No. 2 / Gloomy Sunday (2)
When I Was Cruel No. 2 / My Funny Valentine (4)
When I Was Cruel No. 2 / Watching The Detectives (2)
When It Sings (1)
Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further? (5)
Who's the Meanest Gal in Town, Josephine (13)
Why Can't a Man Stand Alone? (7)
Why Don't You Love Me (29)
Why Won't Heaven Help Me? (11)
Wild Honey (3)
Wild Honey / The Other Side of Summer (1)
Wild Horses (7)
Wild Side of Life (1)
Wonder Woman (21)
Wondering (2)
Working in the Coal Mine (1)
Yes We Can / The Sharpest Thorn (1)
Yes We Can Can (5)
You Belong to Me (59)
You Belong to Me / The Last Time (1)
You Bowed Down (4)
You Don't Know My Mind Today (1)
You Little Fool (53)
You Shouldn't Look at Me That Way (15)
You Tripped at Every Step (7)
You Turned to Me (6)
You Win Again (1)
You'll Never Be a Man (23)
You'll Never Walk Alone (1)
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (1)
You've Really Got a Hold on Me (14)

Watching the Detectives performed by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

Original Artist Elvis Costello
From the release My Aim Is True (Album)
Total Plays 421 times by Elvis Costello & The Imposters
1430 times by 20 artists
First Played in Concert April 18, 2002 at Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY, USA
Most Recently Played October 24, 2021 at Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Years

1	2011	45

2	2002	44

3	2013	40

4	2019	38

5	2005	36

	2018	36

7	2012	28

8	2016	24

	2017	24

10	2015	23

11	2008	19

12	2003	10

	2007	10

	2014	10

	2020	10

16	2021	8

17	2004	5

18	2006	4

	2009	4

20	2010	3

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Watching the Detectives performed by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

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