2ruedas2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Amazing performance, but the song has nothing to do with Health and Safety! It is about the Falklands Conflict. Another perspective Robert Wyatt's version, if you have any doubts the song is anti thatcher and political, well if it wasn't Robert Wyatt would not have recorded it!

timridley1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@2ruedas2 A song that means something and is so so beautiful.

junysaerus (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i love elvis costello this is awesome he went to the same secondrey school as me i stood behind him in a record shop and wanted to tell him how brilliant he was but i felt abit embarrased and did not want to invade his privacy!great voice brilliant junysaerus

JuleszzC (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Brillant - my family comes from Gloucester MA, Before my time my family depended on the fisihing industry - so many still do depend on it. Loved Elvis Costello before this song but this song feels personal and is so poetic that it's a personal favorite My friends and I drove many miles in the 80s to see Costello play live. Moved South since then but would travel to n recapture that adventure. Again, brillant!!

Emmett006 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I love the bass on this live version. So much so that the single version sounds a bit sterile without it. But then this live version just cries out for that trumpet solo.I think this song is really about 'Heath and safety'. It's about how many men die unnecesarily leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves. Shipbuilding, mining and building are dangerous jobs.I really enjoy risk taking, For me it's one of the last things we have to difine us as men, but life moves on...

pedro19611969 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

2011 and we still "shipbuilding" in Afghanistan

compass61 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I don't dislike this take but I much prefer the album version with the late Chet Baker playing trumpet.

burleq (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The great musical genius of my generation. Makes me prouder than punch! The clock-

canoepug (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@2ruedas2 The whore should have been shot.

theamazingivysmith (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The bass in this song. <3