Songs
Show all 538 Elvis Costello & The Imposters songs
- ...And in Every Home (33)
- ...Dust (35)
- (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea (417)
- (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame (12)
- (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (135)
- (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes / Purple Rain / I Want You (1)
- (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (507)
- (What's So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love and Understanding / Substitute (2)
- 13 Steps Lead Down (11)
- 15 Petals (43)
- 45 (91)
- 5ive Gears in Reverse (8)
- A Certain Girl (5)
- A Face in the Crowd (85)
- A Good Year for the Roses (98)
- A Matter of Time (4)
- A Slow Drag With Josephine (102)
- A Voice in the Dark (2)
- Accidents Will Happen (233)
- Adieu Paris (L'envie des étoiles) (6)
- After the Fall (1)
- Alibi (57)
- Alison (421)
- Alison / I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (7)
- Alison / Somewhere (1)
- Alison / Suspicious Minds (15)
- Alison / Tracks of My Tears (1)
- Alison / You Win Again (1)
- Alison / You've Been Cheatin' (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 (92)
- Almost Blue / Stripping Paper (1)
- American Gangster Time (53)
- American Mirror (10)
- American Without Tears (20)
- And Your Bird Can Sing (12)
- Anna (Go to Him) (1)
- April 5th (1)
- Ascension Day (11)
- Baby It's You (2)
- Basket Case (1)
- Be Real (1)
- Beaten to the Punch (2)
- Bedlam (128)
- Before I Grow Too Old (1)
- Bertha (2)
- Beyond Belief (207)
- Big Boys Cry (2)
- Big Chief / Tipitina / Tipitina and Me / The Olde Professor (1)
- Big Sister's Clothes (1)
- Big Stars Have Tumbled (17)
- Big Tears (33)
- Black and White World (4)
- Black Sails in the Sunset (1)
- Blame It on Cain (34)
- Blood & Hot Sauce (42)
- Blue Chair (28)
- Born Under a Bad Sign (1)
- Boy With a Problem (10)
- Brilliant Disguise (1)
- Brilliant Mistake (85)
- Brilliant Mistake / Boulevard of Broken Dreams (19)
- 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 (32)
- Can You Hear Me? (2)
- Charm School (5)
- Cheap Reward (1)
- Chewing Gum (2)
- Church Underground (6)
- Cinco Minutos Con Vos (9)
- Clown Strike (59)
- Clowntime Is Over (19)
- Clubland (256)
- 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 (83)
- Crawling to the USA (5)
- Crooked Teeth (1)
- Cry One More Time (1)
- Cry! Cry! Cry! (29)
- Cryin' Time (6)
- Cupid (1)
- Daddy Can I Turn This? (6)
- Dance Dance Dance (1)
- Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (64)
- Deep Dark Truthful Mirror / You've Really Got a Hold on Me (31)
- 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 (18)
- 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 (134)
- Either Side of the Same Town (3)
- Episode of Blonde (40)
- Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (1)
- Everybody's Cryin' Mercy (15)
- Everyday I Write the Book (316)
- Everyday I Write the Book / Mr. Big Stuff (2)
- Fallen (1)
- Farewell, OK (33)
- 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)
- Gimme That Wine (1)
- Girl (16)
- Girls Talk (51)
- 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 (226)
- Green Shirt (1)
- Hand in Hand (9)
- Happy Birthday to You (7)
- Harry Worth (8)
- He's Given Me Things (14)
- Heart of the City (127)
- Heart Shaped Bruise (24)
- Help Me (4)
- Hetty O'Hara Confidential (59)
- Hey Bulldog (10)
- Hey Clockface / How Can You Face Me? (18)
- Hidden Charms (17)
- Hidden Shame (5)
- High Fidelity (226)
- Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head (7)
- Honey Hush (5)
- Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind? (46)
- 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 Living Long Like This (1)
- I Almost Had a Weakness (1)
- I Can Only Give You Everything (7)
- I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down (183)
- I Cried My Last Tear (1)
- I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier (1)
- I Don't Want Your Lyndon Johnson (3)
- I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (1)
- I Found Out (1)
- I Hope (9)
- I Hope You're Happy Now (184)
- 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 (35)
- I Still Miss Someone (8)
- I Threw It All Away (2)
- I Wanna Be Loved (15)
- I Want to Vanish (2)
- I Want You (172)
- I Want You / I Believe to My Soul (2)
- I Want You / I Say a Little Prayer (2)
- I Want You / You Know My Name (2)
- I Will Follow You Into the Dark (1)
- I'll Make It All Up to You (2)
- I'll Watch Out for You (1)
- I'll Wear It Proudly (12)
- I'm a Mess (1)
- I'm Ahead If I Can Quit While I'm Behind (2)
- 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 (5)
- In the Darkest Place (20)
- Inch By Inch / Fever (2)
- Indoor Fireworks (81)
- 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)
- Just a Memory (1)
- Just About Glad (16)
- Kid About It (38)
- Kinder Murder (33)
- King Horse (52)
- Knoxville Girl (2)
- Last Boat Leaving (2)
- Leave My Kitten Alone (7)
- Less Than Zero (80)
- Let Him Dangle (3)
- Let Me Roll It (6)
- License to Kill (1)
- Like a Rolling Stone (1)
- Like Rain (1)
- Lip Service (6)
- Lipstick Vogue (94)
- Little Palaces (5)
- Little Palaces/Set of Traditional Fiddle & Accordion Tunes (1)
- Little Savage (7)
- Little Sister (2)
- Little Triggers (32)
- 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 (16)
- Lovers Walk (13)
- Luxembourg (2)
- Luxury Liner (7)
- Magnificent Hurt (54)
- Man Called Uncle (1)
- Man Out of Time (154)
- Man Out of Time / Tangled Up In Blue (1)
- Más y más (3)
- Maybe Just This Once (4)
- Mexican Divorce (1)
- Miracle Man (24)
- Mistook Me For a Friend (17)
- Monkey to Man (111)
- Moods for Moderns (55)
- Moods for Moderns / Shotgun (1)
- Motel Matches (42)
- Mouth Almighty (3)
- Mr. and Mrs. Hush (40)
- Mr. and Mrs. Hush / Getting Mighty Crowded (1)
- Mr. Crescent (7)
- 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 Most Beautiful Mistake (12)
- My New Haunt (4)
- My Three Sons (16)
- Mystery Dance (227)
- Mystery Train (13)
- National Ransom (21)
- National Ransom No. 2 (4)
- National Ransom No. 9 (4)
- Nearer to You (4)
- Needle Time (48)
- Needle Time / Yer Blues (1)
- New Amsterdam (6)
- New Amsterdam / You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (5)
- New Lace Sleeves (39)
- Newspaper Pane (15)
- Next Time 'Round (23)
- Night Rally (5)
- Night Time (1)
- No Action (25)
- No Dancing (2)
- No Dancing / Please Please Me / Be My Baby (1)
- No Flag (26)
- No Hiding Place (16)
- No Man's Woman (1)
- No Particular Place to Go (14)
- No Wonder (2)
- North (1)
- Nothing Clings Like Ivy (23)
- Oliver's Army (151)
- On Your Way Down (15)
- One Bell Ringing (16)
- One of These Days (7)
- Opportunity (1)
- Our Little Angel (15)
- Out of Time (45)
- Overture (2)
- Pads, Paws and Claws (2)
- Paint the Red Rose Blue (3)
- Pancho & Lefty (7)
- Pardon Me, Madam, My Name Is Eve (4)
- Party Girl (50)
- Payday (14)
- Peace in Our Time (1)
- Penelope Halfpenny (41)
- 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 (21)
- Pouring Water on a Drowning Man (3)
- Pretty Words (1)
- Professor Longhair Medley (2)
- Promised Land (1)
- Psycho (2)
- Pump It Up (512)
- Pump It Up / Busted (9)
- Purple Rain (32)
- Quiet About It (6)
- Radio Radio (330)
- Radio Silence (8)
- Radio Sweetheart / Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) (7)
- Ramble On Rose (3)
- Real Emotional Girl (1)
- Red Cotton (1)
- Red Dirt Girl (7)
- Red Red Red (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 (75)
- Shake for Me (1)
- Shallow Grave (4)
- She (64)
- She Handed Me a Mirror (2)
- She's Pulling Out the Pin (6)
- She's the One (1)
- Shipbuilding (116)
- 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 (31)
- So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (5)
- Song With Rose (12)
- Soul for Hire (5)
- Spooky Girlfriend (66)
- Starting to Come to Me (1)
- Stations of the Cross (39)
- Stella Hurt (48)
- Still (6)
- Still Too Soon to Know (26)
- 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 (35)
- Sulky Girl (22)
- Sulphur to Sugarcane (15)
- Sunday's Best (10)
- Surrender to Rhythm (1)
- Surrender to the Rhythm (6)
- Suspect My Tears (22)
- Suspicious Minds (4)
- Sweet Dreams (16)
- Take It or Leave It (1)
- Take Me I'm Yours (1)
- Talking in the Dark (35)
- Tart (46)
- Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution) (92)
- Tears Before Bedtime (62)
- Tears of Rage (2)
- Tears, Tears and More Tears (4)
- Tell Me Right Now (1)
- Temptation (25)
- 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 (28)
- The Boy Named If (17)
- The Butcher's Boy (1)
- The Comedians (29)
- The Crooked Line (10)
- The Dark End of the Street (4)
- The Death of Magic Thinking (31)
- The Delivery Man (48)
- The Delivery Man / The Butcher's Boy (9)
- The Difference (6)
- The Element Within Her (1)
- The Greatest Love (7)
- The Imposter (15)
- The Invisible Man (2)
- The Judgement (37)
- The Last Year of My Youth (2)
- The Long Honeymoon (53)
- The Loved Ones (36)
- The Lovers That Never Were (3)
- The Man You Love to Hate (15)
- The Monkey (15)
- 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 (26)
- 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 (51)
- 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 (30)
- 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 (78)
- Tiny Steps (5)
- Tipsy Woman (13)
- Tokyo Storm Warning (10)
- Toledo (8)
- Too Far Gone (1)
- Town Cryer (39)
- Tramp the Dirt Down (30)
- Tripwire (3)
- Trouble (1)
- Truth Drug (22)
- 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 (202)
- Uncomplicated / Shotgun (3)
- Under Lime (14)
- Under Lime / Jimmy Standing in the Rain (2)
- Unwanted Number (42)
- Veronica (33)
- Viceroy's Row (3)
- Waiting for the End of the World (93)
- Wake Me Up (4)
- 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 (455)
- Watching the Detectives / Help Me (10)
- Watching the Detectives / Invisible Lady (15)
- Watching the Detectives / Invisible Lady (3)
- Watching the Detectives / Invisible Lady / Isabelle in Tears (3)
- Watching the Detectives / Walk Us Uptown (1)
- We Are All Cowards Now (18)
- Welcome to the Working Week (26)
- What if I Can't Give You Anything but Love? (49)
- Wheels (11)
- When I Paint My Masterpiece (9)
- When I Was Cruel No. 1 (7)
- When I Was Cruel No. 2 (60)
- 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 (30)
- 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 (70)
- 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 455 times by Elvis Costello & The Imposters
- 1479 times by 23 artists
- First Played in Concert April 18, 2002 at Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY, USA
- Most Recently Played September 4, 2022 at The Mountain Winery, Saratoga, CA, USA
Years
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Plays by Other Artists
- Elvis Costello & The Attractions 524 times
- Elvis Costello 302 times
- Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve 74 times
- Elvis Costello & The Rude 5 38 times
- O.A.R. 32 times
- Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint 19 times
- McLovins 15 times
- Elvis Costello and The Roots 4 times
- The Henry Girls 2 times
- INXS 2 times
- Lo Carmen & the Great Beyond 1 time
- Elvis Costello & The Confederates 1 time
- Elvis Costello & Nick Lowe 1 time
- The Craic 1 time
- Deer Tick 1 time
- Hayseed Dixie 1 time
- Robyn Hitchcock 1 time
- Debora Iyall 1 time
- Robert Earl Keen 1 time
- The New Standards 1 time
- Red Hot Chili Peppers 1 time
- Todd Wright 1 time