Is Elvis Presleys in the ghetto the whitest song ever ?

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i still don't understand what anthony easton meant by this thread and resent him for it.

classic.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

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Disc 2, Track 6. Are you going to call Sammy "white" now?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Well it's the worst track on the Memphis album by a long way; so yeah dud. If "Suspicious Minds" was on there in its place it would be almost perfect. (or better yet "If I can Dream")

― de, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

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(So much for hyperlinking an image to a URL)

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Jessica Hopper thinks the new Magnetic Fields is a contender.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Surely Nick Cave's version of "In the Ghetto" is whiter? Or paler?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I hear there's a bluegrass cover of Beach Boys "Surfin Safari" out there, somewhere.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Merritt's career trajectory is sort of like Truman Capote's: starts of young and weird and amazing and full of feeling, progressed into weird upscale non-reactive creature seemingly involved in invisible patronage system / making-people-giggle game. Except so far as I recall, Capote's actual creative production didn't take any downward turns quite so dramatic as this recent Merritt one.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

"i" is not THAT bad, guys...

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link

what do you mean by "invisible patronage program," nabisco?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link

don't think it's one of Evlis' best, but not a dud. fairly standard late-'60s liberal consciousness move and all. not as good as the spinners' "ghetto child" by a longshot. yeah, ell was "white." the whitest song ever? kind of a dumb question.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

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