Elbow are the Nationwide Mercury Prize 2008 winning alternative rock band based in England. The band formed in the English town of Bury, Greater Manchester whilst at sixth-form college during 1990, and currently comprises:
Over the band's 18 year career they have released four studio albums, four EPs and ten top fifty singles in the UK. The band are named after a line in the BBC TV mini-series The Singing Detective which says that the word "elbow" is the most sensuous word in the English language, not for its definition, but for how it feels to say it. They began specialising in "chilled funk", but changed the direction of their music after unanimously deciding they were "shit". The new songs got notice from both Island Records and Universal, but after signing with both the band was dropped before anything was released. After all this trouble, the band released two critically acclaimed EP's on the independent Ugly Man Record label which caught the att
1 | Friend of Ours | The Seldom Seen Kid |
2 | The Fix | The Seldom Seen Kid |
3 | Powder Blue | Asleep in the Back |
4 | An Audience With The Pope | The Seldom Seen Kid |
5 | Ribcage | Cast Of Thousands |
6 | Little Beast | Asleep in the Back |
7 | Grace Under Pressure | Cast Of Thousands |
8 | Red | Asleep in the Back |
9 | Flying Dream | Cast Of Thousands |
10 | Mirrorball | The Seldom Seen Kid |
11 | Not A Job | Cast Of Thousands |
12 | Starlings | The Seldom Seen Kid |
13 | I've Got Your Number | Cast Of Thousands |
14 | Newborn | Asleep in the Back |
15 | One Day Like This | The Seldom Seen Kid |
16 | Coming Second | Asleep in the Back |
17 | Bitten By The Tailfly | Asleep in the Back |
18 | Fallen Angel | Cast Of Thousands |
19 | Crawling With Idiot | Cast Of Thousands |
20 | Grounds for Divorce | The Seldom Seen Kid |