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There aren´t enough threads about Elvis Presley, so here´s one
Posted by Ola Claesson on 29 May 2011 - 9:50pm.
He was pretty good, you know. Perhaps underestimated today, by getting his life turned into a Disneyland.
Money Honey, 1956
Hound Dog and All Shook Up, 1968 (The Comeback Special)
Suspicious Minds, filmed 1969 (That´s The Way It Is)
Play it f*****g loud!
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Tut, tut...
...no less than three videos and none of them titled, you'll have the Massive posting posse after you!
But but but
I´ll do it.
And I can't even see them.
Honest.
Not a big fan but
around 1993 I was listening to the radio and Heartbreak Hotel came on and stopped me dead in my tracks. It made me think that must have been what it was like in the '50s when it all was new. Astonishing.
Elvis
Came round to him in my early 40s, now a huge fan, Elvis was & remains the king.
You want more Elvis threads?
Here you go....
Imagine wearing that to work
With a matching lunch box.
Elvis is King
*Runs away cackling*
Poor old Elvis
but at least we were spared him being "re-invented" by Rick Rubin and doing some Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails tunes for his late 90s comeback complete with poignant arty B&W video.
Sorry
but that sounds like a pretty wonderful concept to me (maybe not the Radiohead, but Elvis sings Cave, oh yes!).
When he was good, he was very, very good
And when he was bad he was dreadful.
But the good outweighs the bad by a factor of about a million.
The quality and importance of the pre-army material goes without saying, but let's hear it for the late '60s - the Comeback show, Elvis in Memphis, the early Vegas years.
And if you get the chance, get yourself over to Memphis and Tupelo - Graceland is everything you'd expect it to be, in both good and bad ways, and the vibe at Sun is fantastic.
You also get the chance to stand by The King's grave and mutter something about there being 'too much facking perspective' to the bemusement of many.
Yes,
The early years are of course astounding and seminal, but I prefer the 'sad Elvis' of the late 60s onwards, when the weight of his self-awareness and the greater maturity of the voice adds infinite gravitas.
Agreed
..as witnessed on In The Ghetto, I Just Can't Help Believin' and Suspicious Minds especially. Note that when anyone covers Suspicous Minds, they tend not to do the 'Uh dontcha know's towards the end: I see that as a nod of deference to The King: noone could come close.
Elvis
Easily said from a distance of some 30 odd years, but I wish a 'Taste filter' could have been applied to his recording.
Then again, I am sure there are people out there who love 'old shep'
Heartbreak Hotel
That almost every significant musician of the 60s and early 70s said that when they first heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' it was like a flash of lightning amazes me. Nothing like that is ever going to happen again.
He's ok...
but a lot of his fans are rather weird.
A lot of people in general are rather weird
But maybe the percentage of weirdness are higher among Presley fans.
(Should that be IS higher?)
He's ok
but he's no Cliff Richard is he?
Runs away grabbing coat en route.