The Ex, "Elvis & I," off Dead Fish, 1990.
― dad a, Monday, 14 September 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Are there even 100 songs that mention elvis in 1989v
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 9 November 2017 08:34 (six years ago) link
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers f/ Axl Rose "Heartbreak Hotel"
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 03:45 (three years ago) link
Do covers count?
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
"No fish can swim. Until The King is born! Until The King is born! In Tupelo! Tupelo-o-o! Til The King is born in Tupelo!
Nick Cave hip in before it got cool in '85.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 03:54 (three years ago) link
the "Mystery Train" soundtrack should also count for this
― billstevejim, Thursday, 6 August 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
it doesn’t mention elvis but “wicked game” came out in 1989...
― brimstead, Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
Man, I still want to write this book
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
"Wicked Game" is in Wild at Heart -- written and shot in '89 with many Elvis references.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
First three posts itt give me the giggles
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
I think I have the makings of an EMP paper or Believer article in here.
If you are serious about this, you should check out this book, which is academic but very readable and engaging.
― total mormon cockblock extravaganza (jaymc), Friday, December 12, 2008
Even more obvious, Marcus's Dead Elvis, which came out in '91. Also very readable and engaging, far less abstruse than some of his others.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
haulofrecords8 years agoI am Skid Roper and Mojo Nixon has NEVER lived in Escondido. In the '80s he lived in the North Park section of San Diego and now he lives in Coronado, California. The phone # with the 619 area code was to machine at his San Diego house. I just wanted to clear up some mis-information
― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link
El Vez's first EP didn't come out til 91, dang
― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
heh was just the other day thinking about the jack Womack novel Elvissey, which I now see came out in 1993
the NME 'last temptation of Elvis' comp came out in 1990 though
at the time I felt as though this pop cultural moment had a definitive death knell in 'Elvis ate America' by The Passengers (1995) - which felt lame and dated the second it came out IMO
1993 would get you Hobart paving by St Etienne, which would be nice
but I respect the purity of the OP
― umsworth (emsworth), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
Everything but the Girl - The Night I Heard Caruso Sing (1988)
― ridingstarbassxd (unregistered), Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
and I've never heard this album, but:
https://i.imgur.com/MIIXw4F.jpg
The King & Eye is an album by the American avant-garde band The Residents, released in 1989. It consists of a series of Elvis Presley songs strung together with a narration exploring what motivated him throughout his career. Most of the album showed up in the Cube-E tour. This album was the last full-length album The Residents released before entering their "Multimedia Era."Through the perspective of a father telling his children fables about a long dead king and his songs, and a poignant string of narrative interludes - "The Baby King" - the work hints at a darker side of the Elvis mystique and questions the spiritual nature of his reign. The album "incisively portrays Elvis's life and work as a misguided abandonment of innocence in favor of a sad yet comedic Oedipal journey," writes Jim Green.
Through the perspective of a father telling his children fables about a long dead king and his songs, and a poignant string of narrative interludes - "The Baby King" - the work hints at a darker side of the Elvis mystique and questions the spiritual nature of his reign. The album "incisively portrays Elvis's life and work as a misguided abandonment of innocence in favor of a sad yet comedic Oedipal journey," writes Jim Green.
― ridingstarbassxd (unregistered), Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
^damn, already mentioned upthread
Frank Zappa - Elvis Has Just Left the Building (1988)
― ridingstarbassxd (unregistered), Thursday, 31 December 2020 22:06 (three years ago) link