Bootleg: Forbidden Playthings
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| Forbidden Playthings | |
 unofficial recordings of Elvis Costello with Steve Nieve, Anne Sofie von Otter and The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | |
| Released | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Recorded | January 6, 1996, Stockholm, Sweden January 5, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Label | Doberman |
| Length | D1 - 56:21 D2 - 38:44 |
FM broadcast recordings from Stockholm, Sweden, January 6, 1996 with Anne Sofie von Otter and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and January 5, 1999 with Steve Nieve and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
| Disc 1 January 5, 1999 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Writer(s) | Length | |||||||
| 1. | Introduction | 1:18 | |||||||
| 2. | Accidents Will Happen (EC, Steve & orchestra) | Elvis Costello | 4:38 | ||||||
| 3. | Painted From Memory (EC, Steve & orchestra) | Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello | 5:17 | ||||||
| 4. | All This Useless Beauty (EC, Steve & orchestra) | Elvis Costello | 6:12 | ||||||
| 5. | Upon A Veil Of Midnight Blue (EC & orchestra) | Elvis Costello | 5:59 | ||||||
| 6. | Put Away Forbidden Playthings (EC & orchestra) | Elvis Costello | 4:43 | ||||||
| 7. | I Still Have That Other Girl (EC, Steve & orchestra) | Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello | 3:50 | ||||||
| 8. | What's Her Name Today? (EC, Steve & orchestra) | Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello | 5:31 | ||||||
| 9. | Almost Blue (EC, Steve & orchestra) | Elvis Costello | 5:36 | ||||||
| 10. | This House Is Empty Now (EC & Steve) | Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello | 7:09 | ||||||
| 11. | The Birds Will Still Be Singing (EC, Steve & orchestra) | Declan MacManus | 6:08 | ||||||
| Disc 2 January 6, 1996 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Writer(s) | Length | |||||||
| 1. | Introduction | 2:05 | |||||||
| 2. | Upon A Veil Of Midnight Blue | Elvis Costello | 5:16 | ||||||
| 3. | The Birds Will Still Be Singing | Elvis Costello | 6:23 | ||||||
| 4. | Autumn Leaves | J. Kosma, J. Prévert, J. Mercer | 6:00 | ||||||
| 5. | Baby, It's Cold Outside | Frank Loesser | 3:31 | ||||||
| 6. | Without A Song | V. Youmans, B. Rose, E. Eliscu | 2:57 | ||||||
| 7. | Lost In The Stars | Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill | 4:33 | ||||||
| 8. | My Ship | Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin | 3:25 | ||||||
| 9. | Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | Cole Porter | 4:34 | ||||||
Notes
- Disc 1:
- All tracks were recorded at Berwaldhallen (The Berwald Hall) in Stockholm on 1999-01-05 (late show).
- Tracks 2-4 and 7-10 feature Steve Nieve on keyboards.
- Tracks 2-6, 8-9 and 11 feature the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Disc 2:
- All tracks were recorded at Berwaldhallen (The Berwald Hall) in Stockholm on 1996-01-06 (late show).
- Tracks 4-6 and 8-9 feature Anne Sofie von Otter on vocals.
- All tracks feature The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Release Information
- Date: 1999
- Media: 2xCD
- Catalogue number (comments): Doberman 187/188
Quality
- Very good - John Martin
