(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea

the Ted Lasso episode (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea (Ted Lasso) January 2014 August 2024 (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea Elvis-costello-and-the-attractions-i-dont-want-to-go-to-chelsea-radar.jpg single Elvis Costello and the Attractions This Year's Model You Belong to Me 3 March 1978 New wave garage rock https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/08/30/elvis-costello-20-best-albums-my-aim-roots/89541286/ Elvis Costello: 20 best albums, ‘My Aim’ to the Roots The Arizona Republic Masley Ed 2016-08-30 2025-06-21 to the subterranean homesick garage-rock of his greatest ode to sexual frustration, “Pump It Up,” and “(I Don’t Want to Go To) Chelsea, dub-punk https://www.treblezine.com/elvis-costello-this-years-model-review/ Elvis Costello : This Year’s Model - Treble Terich Jeff 2005-08-07 Treble 2025-06-21 reggae https://www.spin.com/2022/01/elvis-costello-albums-ranked/ Every Elvis Costello Album, Ranked Shipley Al 2022-01-30 Spin 2025-06-21 3 06 Radar Elvis Costello Nick Lowe Elvis Costello Watching the Detectives 1977 Pump It Up 1978 Official video XvRQDsH0Yho "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" is a song written by new wave musician Elvis Costello and recorded by Costello with his backing band the Attractions. The song appeared on Costello's 1978 second album, This Year's Model. Written by Costello while working as a computer programmer, the song was lyrically inspired by films Costello had been watching as well as childhood trips to Chelsea. Musically the song featured influence from bands such as the Who and the Kinks and is notable for Bruce Thomas's prominent bassline. "Chelsea" was released as the debut single from This Year's Model, reaching number 16 in the UK and charting in other countries. The release was accompanied by a music video. The song has since received positive reception from critics and remains a staple of Costello's live set. Background and lyrics "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" was written by Costello in the mid-1970s while working as a computer programmer. Costello recalled the night he wrote the song: Early one morning, I snuck my guitar into the office, as I knew I'd be working late into the night. Once everyone else had gone home and I was alone in the otherwise darkened building, with just the hum and chatter of the computer terminal and the far-off light of a coffee machine next to the stairwell where murderers lurked, I wrote '(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea'.Costello 2016 146 Lyrically, the song was influenced partially by "a late run of '60s films set in London on the BBC" that Costello had been watching at the time. Costello was also inspired by trips he had taken with his father to Chelsea in his youth; Costello explained, "I'd gone with my Dad to a few of the more enduring clothing haunts of Chelsea on a rare outing together. ... Now Chelsea seemed even more of an unattainable neighborhood. It stood for both the groovy past and was reported in the papers as the hot-bed of the new punk ferment".Costello 2016 146 The song was recorded quickly; bassist Bruce Thomas recalled, "We literally did the best tracks on [This Year's Model]—"Pump It Up", "Chelsea"—in one afternoon. It was like Motown. We'd just go in, play them, and that was it".Thomson 2006 Bruce Thomas credited John Entwistle's bassline on "My Generation" as an inspiration for his performance.Gross David C. 2022-08-01 Bruce Thomas Pushed Rock to a New Era https://bassmusicianmagazine.com/2022/08/bruce-thomas-pushed-rock-to-a-new-era-august-2022-15th-anniversary-issue/ 2022-12-06 Bass Musician Magazine en-US Music "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" was based on what Costello described as a "stop-start chord sequence borrowed from the Who" combined with a "clickerty-clackerty guitar figure off an old Rocksteady record by the Pioneers".Costello 2016 315http://www.elviscostello.info/articles/d-g/fa8308a.html Elvis Costello: The Face Interview by Paul Rambali The Face Magazine August 1983 In his album notes for Girls Girls Girls, Costello wrote that the song "[m]ight have been just a poor relation to 'All Day and All of the Night', 'I Can't Explain' or even 'Clash City Rockers' had it not been for Bruce Thomas' great bassline. Meanwhile I was trying to fit in this lick from an old Pioneers record, though which one I can't recall."Costello, Elvis (1989). Girls Girls Girls [CD booklet]. Brentford: Demon Records. Costello later commented on the song's combination of influences, "[It] has effectively three hooks [Costello's guitar, Bruce Thomas's bass, and Thomas's drums] and you would have struggled to pinpoint where the ideas had originated".Costello 2016 315 Pete Thomas said of his drum part on the song, "The precedent of some fancy drumming had been set. 'Watching the Detectives' had that drum intro. 'Chelsea' is me saying, 'If Elvis Costello is going to have fancy drum intros, I'm doing one'. It was one of the first few takes. If you really listen to it, I'm trying out stuff all the way through".Modern Drummer 10 Reasons to Love Pete Thomas Patrick Berkery https://www.moderndrummer.com/article/february-2019-10-reasons-to-love-pete-thomas/ Costello later claimed that Thomas had lifted the drum intro from Mitch Mitchell's performance on the Jimi Hendrix Experience's song "Fire".Costello 2016 315 Organist Steve Nieve uses a deliberately out of tune Vox Continental organ on the song; Costello described the keyboard sound as "thin" and "evil". Costello 2016 316 Costello cited the song as an example of This Year's Model'''s "spiky and sour" sound, which was created through "a solitary box of tricks to delay and detune" the instruments.Costello 2016 315 Release and reception "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" was released as the debut single from Costello's second album This Year's Model on 3 March 1978. The B-side was "You Belong to Me", another song from This Year's Model. The single was Costello's second chart hit in the UK, peaking at number 16 on the UK Singles Chart over a chart stay of ten weeks.Elvis Costello & the Attractions https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/16770/elvis-costello-and-the-attractions/ Official Charts 17 February 2019 The single reached number 12 in Irelandhttps://www.irma.ie/search/%2A Artist: Elvis Costello IrishCharts.ie Irish Recorded Music Association and number 93 in Australia. The song received glowing critical attention at the time, with the NME concluding, "The single's so good, the very act of releasing it amounts to bragging on a colossal scale".Thomson 2006 The song was released on This Year's Model on 17 March 1978, though it was omitted on US versions of the album for being too British.Troper Morgan Girls, Girls, Girls, Etc.: Elvis Costello - "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" https://www.popmatters.com/girls-girls-girls-etc-elvis-costello-i-dont-want-to-go-to-chelsea-2495828032.html PopMatters 6 August 2012 24 July 2019 Since its release, "Chelsea" has been praised by music critics. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised the song for being "underscored with sexual menace", while the same site's Tom Maginnis called it a "brilliant ska-inflected rocker".Erlewine Stephen Thomas This Year's Model https://www.allmusic.com/album/this-years-model-mw0000189632 AllMusic 24 July 2019Maginnis Tom (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea https://www.allmusic.com/song/i-dont-want-to-go-to-chelsea-mt0002198379 AllMusic 24 July 2019 Kit Rachlis of Rolling Stone praised Costello for the "precision" with which he described Chelsea, while Morgan Troper of PopMatters said, "It's almost not worth listening to Model unless it's a version that contains 'Chelsea', as the song's presence is essential to This Year's Models overall impact".Rachlis Kit This Year's Model 29 June 1978 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/this-years-model-197949/ Rolling Stone 24 July 2019 Dave Lifton of Ultimate Classic Rock named the song as the 7th best Elvis Costello song, proclaiming it the "standout" from This Year's Model and calling it "a perfect example of the mixture of chaos and skill [the Attractions] brought".Lifton Dave Top 10 Elvis Costello Songs https://ultimateclassicrock.com/elvis-costello-songs/ Ultimate Classic Rock 12 October 2013 23 April 2020 Martin Chilton of the Daily Telegraph named the song Costello's 15th best.Chilton Martin Elvis Costello's 40 best songs https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/elvis-costello-40-best-songs/ The Telegraph 26 August 2015 24 January 2023 Costello has since performed the song frequently, including at his set for Woodstock '99.Elvis Costello - (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/11/elvis-costello-i-dont-want-to-go-to-chelsea2.html Paste Magazine 24 July 2019 24 July 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190724033634/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/11/elvis-costello-i-dont-want-to-go-to-chelsea2.html dead A live version of the song, described as "excellent" by Maginnis, appeared on the album Live at the El Mocambo. Video The video shows the band performing in an unfurnished, light-drenched, wholly white set, and uses a simple shrinking square zoom effect. After a photo-montage effect with still photographs of Costello, the video opens with him playing the opening guitar riff in close-up. The video then alternates between the band playing together and shots of Costello singing in an increasingly contorted pose. The video, directed by Paul Flattery, employs the same set as the video for "Pump It Up" and all the musicians can be seen wearing the same clothes. Bassist Bruce Thomas had injured his hand a few weeks previously and can be seen wearing a bandage mitt.https://jazzrocksoul.com/artists/elvis-costello/ Elvis Costello - 12 January 2022 Personnel Elvis Costello – electric guitar, vocals Steve Nieve – piano, Vox Continental organ Bruce Thomas – bass guitar Pete Thomas – drums Charts Chart (1978)PeakpositionAustralia (Go-Set)93Ireland2 12 Elvis Costello I Don't Want to Go To Chelsea 9 June 2015 trueUK 16 1978-04-15 27 February 2019 true ReferencesCitationsSources''' Costello Elvis Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink 2016 Blue Rider Press New York 978-0399185762 Thomson Graeme Complicated Shadows: The Life and Music of Elvis Costello 2006 Canongate U.S. 978-1841957968 Category:1978 songs Category:1978 singles Category:Elvis Costello songs Category:Songs written by Elvis Costello Category:Song recordings produced by Nick Lowe Category:Songs about London Category:Radar Records singles