Wise Up Ghost samples and quotes

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Wise Up Ghost
Wise Up Ghost album cover.jpg
studio album by
Elvis Costello and The Roots
ReleasedSeptember 16, 2013 (UK)
September 17, 2013 (US)
Recorded2012-2013
ProducerElvis Costello, Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson and Steven Mandel
except The Puppet Has Cut His Strings produced by Costello, Thompson, Mandel and Ray Angry
LabelBlue Note

Sample and quotations from other Elvis Costello songs on Wise Up Ghost.

Walk Us Uptown


Sugar Won't Work

Sample from You Left Me In The Dark (0:00-0:15)

Refuse To Be Saved

Lyrics from Invasion Hit Parade (0:13-4:03)

Wake Me Up

Lyrics from Bedlam (0:11-0:54, 1:19-2:26, 3:01-4:07, 4:42-5:11)
Lyrics from The River In Reverse (0:57-1:18, 2:27-2:48, 4:09-4:31, 5:11-5:53)
Lyrics from Broken Promise Land (5:39-5:45)

Tripwire

Sample from Satellite (0:00-4:27)

Stick Out Your Tongue

Lyrics from Pills And Soap (0:10-0:49, 1:45-3:18, 3:31-4:47), including alternate verse from post-2001 concerts (2:20-2:55)
Lyrics from National Ransom (0:52-1:00, 3:19-3:47, 4:16-5:12)
Lyrics from Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over) (1:02-1:41)

Come The Meantimes


(She Might Be A) Grenade

Lyrics from She's Pulling Out The Pin (0:14-4:35)
Riff from Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over) (2:00-2:11, 3:08-3:45)

Cinco Minutos Con Vos

Quote from High Fidelity original arrangement (0:00-0:10), possibly sampled from 2009-11-20 performance
Sample from Impatience (3:30-3:38)

Viceroy's Row


Wise Up Ghost

Sample from Can You Be True? (0:01-6:26)
Lyrics from She's Pulling Out The Pin (2:14-2:20, 5:14-6:26)

If I Could Believe

Sample from Can You Be True? (3:04-3:45)