Please
― Frankie Teardrop Explodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link
Love the switch between the two bass parts (acoustic and twangy electric) on that one.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
What was the story about "You're So Square (Baby, I Don't Care" again? That Bill was comfortable playing the electric bass so Elvis finally just grabbed it and played the intro, I believe.
― Frankie Teardrop Explodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
Dude couldn't play shit. C F G Am at the most
― calstars, Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
Bill?
― Frankie Teardrop Explodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 June 2016 01:05 (seven years ago) link
Big E
― calstars, Thursday, 30 June 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link
r.i.p. scotty, the elvis sun sessions are one of those things that will just sound awesome forever
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 30 June 2016 07:17 (seven years ago) link
RIP!i read that sam philips bio last month, and it is crazy the amount of sheer happenstance/good luck went into those Presley Sun sessions. just change one tiny element and it wouldn't have worked.― tylerw, Wednesday, June 29, 2016 3:41 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― tylerw, Wednesday, June 29, 2016 3:41 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I just finished the Guralnick Elvis bios not too long ago. Even his first meeting with Scotty and Bill... I knew how it would end, but still worried he was going to blow it.
I just love that imagery of Elvis, Scotty, Bill, and Sam Phillips crammed into one car, with Bill's bass strapped to the roof, and driving from show to show all over the South. Now they're all gone. RIP
― Ex Slacker, Friday, 1 July 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
Really in a "Moody Blue" mood lately. great song
Is the 70s masters box set worth seeking out and digging into?
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
Really in a "Moody Blue" mood lately. great songIs the 70s masters box set worth seeking out and digging into?
100%
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
The FTD Jungle Room sessions is great late Elvis.
The at stax set is excellent
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB74JaVoWLA
20/20 The Elvis Cover-Up (1979)
Excited to find this documentary. This is referenced a lot in an Elvis conspiracy book "The Most Incredible Elvis Presley Story Ever Told" by G.B. Giorgio.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
Anything new in that special ? I like the vintage feel but the content is pretty well-trodden at this point
― calstars, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 01:16 (seven years ago) link
Just echoing above: the '70s masters box is fantastic, and so is the recent Elvis at Stax 3CD set.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
YES. it is my favorite of the three box sets. it's addicting. i spent one week listening to nothing else and i regret nothing.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 02:45 (seven years ago) link
'70s box set also the only way to hear "elvis country" without the interludes afaict
― he mea ole, he kanaka lapuwale (sciatica), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 05:02 (seven years ago) link
Some of the tracks yes but not all from the album. Plus the versions on the box set are not necessarily the album masters. However the box is one of the few places where you can hear the interlude song in full (I was born 10000 years ago)
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
I'd not heard the 1968 semen anecdote before. What's the source? (of the anecdote not the semen obv)
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
'I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago' also available on the Legacy Edition of Elvis Country.
― Austin, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
It's also on the 90s reissue as a bonus track
Re: The Semen story--It was in some Elvis bio that got reviewed in Blender in the early/mid-00s. They ran an excerpt w/the anecdote alongside a still from the special wherein Elvis has this very goofy look on his face and a caption speculating that perhaps that moment was when it happened.
― Kenneth Without Anger (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
Oh man...."An Evening Prayer" from He Touched Me, take 3
Back-up singer proposes way to sing the closing "Amen...."
Elvis: Good Idea. Now get your ass back in the room.Back-up singer 2: It's easier just to do it the other way.Back-up singer 3: It's easier to do it the other way.Back-up singer 4: It's easier to do it the other way.Back-up singer 3: We like the other way.Elvis: We're not looking for easy ways.
― Hadrian VIII, Sunday, 21 August 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
RCA just dropped their own version of that collection: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22213-way-down-in-the-jungle-room/
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 August 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
Ah, that most have been what showed up in my Release Radar on Friday.
― Deneb on Ice (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 August 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
Finally reading Guralnick's Last Train To MemphisBarely begun and already teared up
so good
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 April 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link
this seems to have rattled a few cages.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/16/millennials-elvis-presley-legacy
― piscesx, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
idk, i feel like it's a very statistics-driven piece and i dont disagree but it's kinda ignoring the reality of what elvis has become
I dont think i really started buying elvis albums until my late 20's or early 30's when i realized on my own that it wasnt just nostalgic hits my mum liked that i heard growing up, that there was a whole world of stuff that was pretty cool
frankly i dont think he's been an artist for the "youth" for a long time, decades even
im not mad about it
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
agreed, and anyway good music endures, esp. in a digital marketplace that obviates the choice of one artist's work over another. It's not like Elvis is gonna go unheard.
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 19 May 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
my feeling about the article is that the argument it makes is probably pretty much right -- but, yknow, who cares. i don't think elvis's greatness should be judged by how many millennials are listening to him on spotify. his place in american culture is secure and isn't going to vanish just because we aren't experiencing an "elvis moment" the way we arguably had a bowie moment last year.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
my sense is that he's falling into obscurity slightly faster than his contemporary musical icons
― calstars, Friday, 19 May 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
That article is "true" but also completely wrong. It pertains to Elvis the business not Elvis the artist. He has one of the richest outputs out there so as long as there are music heads around he'll be fine.
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
well, it pertains to Elvis the Baby Boomer messiah.
― sexualing healing (crüt), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
Elvis the interpreter vs Elvis the songwriterHave to go interpreter right? I mean, an American Trilogy.
― calstars, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
how many songs did he even co-write? maybe a dozen?
― sexualing healing (crüt), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
according to a snap YouGov poll of 2,034 British adults, a hefty 29% of 18- to 24-year-olds said they had never listened to an Elvis song
lol wow you've proved a specific demo of British 20 somethings don't care about Elvis
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link
The messiah thing is in need of a revival I feel. The poptimist turn took rock as an antagonist too carelessly. Elvis is the moment pop actually becomes good imo. But that depends on how you feel about Broadway and jazz-pop and adult contemporary I guess.
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
So do interpreters fade away faster than composers?
― calstars, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
pop was fantastic before Elvis
― sexualing healing (crüt), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
ok
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
i suppose it depends on just how long-lasting the appeal of a static sheet of music is.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
not sure how pop is being defined here but yes there was a lot of great popular music before elvis
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
I'm not sure there's even one. At some point, the Colonel required songwriters to share a co-writing credit with Elvis if they wanted him to sing their song. Not sure how long that lasted because Elvis seemed embarrassed by the arrangement and admitted that he'd never written a song.
― Ex Slacker, Saturday, 20 May 2017 04:42 (six years ago) link
The co-writing credit was on a couple of songs on the love me tender ep iirc. Plus there's a handful of "arranged by" in the gospel stuff.
― wtev, Saturday, 20 May 2017 08:29 (six years ago) link
Sinatra?
― wtev, Saturday, 20 May 2017 08:30 (six years ago) link
What do milennials think of Sinatra
― c (calstars), Saturday, 20 May 2017 11:37 (six years ago) link
yeah he's someone that's fallen off the radar even with the Gen x-ers. the endless tribute shows and 'An Evening With The RatPack' balls must have had a similar dulling impact as the Chinese Elvis impersonators.
http://www.masseytheatre.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Rat_Pack.jpg
― piscesx, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
if only there was a way for millennials to effortlessly search for older music that is not being presently marketed to them.
sadly, no such system has been invented.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
I always thought Chuck D was talking about Elvis Costello
― MaresNest, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
From the perspective of 2017, Presley is closer to Sinatra and the world of crooners than the Beatles and what came after - an interpreter of straightforward songs with professional backing. He doesn't navigate irony, investigate druggy surrealism or engage with studio production. It's top line melody with sincere introspection and a swinging rhythm section. Even when I got into him in the 1990s, it was when I was choosing to explore older approaches to pop- Hank Williams, Besse Smith, Louis Jordan. His singing-songwriting peers like Berry and Bo Diddly and Jerry Lee Lewis were much more about the riff and the noise and everything that came after. He was a real weirdo like the other early rock 'n' rollers, but his art doesn't work the same way.
― pavane to the darryl of strawberry (bendy), Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
From the perspective of 2017
yes the era of Carpool Karaoke. Elvis could fit in perfectly in this post-rockist world.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
The article doesn't acknowledge it's the post-rockist world but goes for the bizarre "where's his Sgt. Pepper?" angle. It's true that Presley is closer to the pre Beatles world but that's no longer that big of a deal (and as I said, I'd treat him as a bigger delination mark but that's a nonstarter apparently) and yeah, he doesn't do the rock Diddley/Berry/Lewis stuff but he does the pop part of the rock and roll equation (him/Buddy/Fats) which is as important these days. But he's one of a kind really. He has a much more exposed singing style than any of the earlier "crooners". No one ever sold pomposity in such a vulnerable way. Anyone else who goes for something like Blue Moon, Suspicious Minds, In the Ghetto, American Trilogy etc etc ends up kitschy imo. One of the key distinctions being that Elvis had a recognizable tone and character for each part of his vocal range. Basically not sure I'd rate any vocalist above him. It helps that he was fed hits for a long time so 30#1's plays as well as Immaculate Collection.
― gospodin simmel, Saturday, 20 May 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link