Never quite knew what he was singing on that one including the title, thanks!
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 June 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
seriously? lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 June 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
I probably figured out the lyric at one point, tbh, but I never bothered to learn that it was the title and who wrote the song.
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 June 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
the original marty robbins version is quite lovely, worth a listen imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 June 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
Keep posting those lesser-knowns, folks.
One of the very best lesser-known Elvis songs, from the late 60s Memphis sessions. This could be my single favorite Elvis vocal perormance and is a lock for my top 5.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw16NrqR_jk
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 17 June 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
oh god YEStop 5 for me also <3 for life
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
This will be high on my ballot, I love every version of this song I’ve heard but Elvis’ is prob my favorite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjH06bEZDZs
― sciatica, Monday, 18 June 2018 00:27 (five years ago) link
His cover of You Gave Me A Mountain is some all-time peak 70’s elvis imo. It’s a crushingly beautiful song as it is from Marty Robbins, but Elvis takes it to the summitThis one from Vegas Jan 26 1972 is my fave (the whole show is great) https://youtu.be/wp8bsrEbBJI🕸
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 18 June 2018 02:15 (five years ago) link
Never Been To Spain is so bomb. His gospel music is my other new love as an adult. Mum used to clean the house to it when I was a kid & I thought it was so uncool but now it just sounds like true devotion to me. All his gospel stuff is great but when he grew into his voice it was a whole new level
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
I’ve never listened to any of Elvis’s gospel stuff. Maybe I shoul, but I’ll wait till after I’ve turned in my ballot.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 18 June 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
i recommend everyone give it a shot before voting in the pollto me gospel is where he is at his most authentic, vocally
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link
Step in these arms is my fav Elvis
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Monday, 18 June 2018 04:59 (five years ago) link
do they still play "An American Trilogy" during the laser show at Stone Mountain? dang, that was a moment where I felt genuine "southern pride" despite being a carpetbagger & a latino who the yee-hawers would probably have loved to lynch. but Elvis bellows while Lee rides off at Appomattox and I'm in tears, yee-hawing too.― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, June 16, 2018 1:21 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, June 16, 2018 1:21 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i went tonight and yes they played the song. it was so nice to hear Elvis singing out in a big open lawn like that. for visuals they had a civil war section with lots of empty landscapes & explosions and zero rebel flags. during the song's triumphant ending they used animation to have the laser confederate generals on the mountain come to life and then break their swords. it was very surreal.
before this they had a bunch of Georgia songs: "Georgia on My Mind" by Ray Charles, "I Feel Good" by James Brown, "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard, etc. the displays included portraits of the artists so at some point there was a 50 foot laser Little Richard on the side of the mountain.
when they played "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis, they had fireballs cued up. "Devil Went Down to Georgia" was the highlight of the show & the one laser show/song combo you need to see. we left soon after (& before the ridiculously slow national anthem).
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 18 June 2018 05:08 (five years ago) link
thanks Adam, it sounds like it's the same as it was back in the day
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 18 June 2018 09:42 (five years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/67/a8/3667a8424fe2142f44a4e4b81affefe3.jpg
http://www.artnet.com/WebServices/images/ll00074lldnv9GFg7oeR3CiDfDrCWvaHBOcx8ZE/robert-lebeck-elvis-presley,-germany.jpg
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 18 June 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
some Elvis songs i'll be voting for. "Only the Strong Survive":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpqh_s0kLZQ
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 18 June 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
Burning Love
Lord Almighty,I feel my temperature risingHigher higherIt's burning through to my soulGirl, girl, girlYou gonna set me on fireMy brain is flamingI don't know which way to go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sBJkL3SEDg
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 18 June 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
(You're the) Devil in Disguise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyK_GbGuxyA
Aloha Oe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeLXcHWxjkQ
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 18 June 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
If I manage to put together what feels like a substantial ballot to me, “Burning Up” will definitely be on it. From my limited received knowledge about Elvis, I’ve always gotten the feeling that it was one of the songs that his more rockist fans loathed.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Monday, 18 June 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jTbfvsqXZQ
I keep coming back to this one, a nice rocking make-over of a Bob Wills tune.
I've got my ballot down to about 133 tracks now and it's surprising how many of them are songs associated with other artists.
― Brad C., Monday, 18 June 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
(xpost)
And by “Burning Up,” of course I mean “Burning Love”
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Monday, 18 June 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
Beyond The Reef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OgyRSq5w4g
deep Hawaiian blues
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 18 June 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
re "songs associated with other artists" I was trying to think of a covers side poll that would work here but while there are songs where Elvis' version is the "definitive" one (Viva Las Vegas, Burning Love, etc) there are plenty of others not so clearly "owned" (even An American Trilogy). so I scrapped the idea.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 18 June 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
As far as overlooked soundtrack tunes, I stan for “Ito Eats” from Blue Hawaii, in which Elvis closes the gap between rockabilly stutter and calypso syncopation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1jb7o8GlrQ
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link
peak cornball Elvis but I learned to love this via the Julee Cruise cover so am saving a place for it on my ballot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpULoPP14wU
― sciatica, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link
Collaborative Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/6fd7r3gr98kppsq3m9rs1yp3y/playlist/2Tk1UwI3gEa9RVrMkxLWP5?si=ieTkiFj9RzCXfavXrzN9vQ
I added the songs mentioned in the thread so far; feel free to add more
― sciatica, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 03:35 (five years ago) link
Cool, thanks!
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 04:02 (five years ago) link
very nice, thanks
― niels, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 06:57 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9f427lGdhU
Stranger In My Own Hometown, the legendary sweary one, but the youtube is full of gorgeous photos too. & once Elvis starts cussing then James Burton loosens up with very tasty licks
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
Never heard this before, still prefer the 'Elvis in Memphis' version but this is still smoking hot.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
everyone pls consider voting for good time charlie’s got the blueshttp://youtu.be/eN0hpyoSYsc🕸
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
Tomorrow Is A Long Time belongs to Rod Stewart
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
Tomorrow Is A Long Time belongs to Rod Stewart...Nope
Ha! I was trying to be polite by not commenting. Elvis has the definitive version and it's not close.
Anyway friends, please dig my favorite obscure soundtrack song, the glorious Change of Habit. Please add this to the spotify playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFya3NFN_NI
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link
heh I just saw your post on the other thread and have already done so!
― sciatica, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
Goodtime Charlie's Got The Blues, where have you been all my life? What a song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
I have never even heard of the elvis Presley motion picture Change Of Habit, just how far in the weeds is that one?
― sciatica, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
xp yessss
i love "mystery train" so muchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_eE0NPArEY
― cr.ht (crüt), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
anyone hesitant to check out the gospel stuff should start here imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_s23-_uK4w
― sciatica, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
It's one of the very last ones he did, with Mary Tyler Moore.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 June 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
That "Where Could I Go But to the Lord" is balm to the nerves
Here's another hot one from Elvis Country:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euzKlNlc3ps
― Brad C., Thursday, 21 June 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link
Here is another lock for my Top 5. This isn't obscure, but it doesn't get the recognition it deserves. It's absolutely perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59pOE3OmUi8
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 June 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
“Burning Love” is straight up bar rock. a Jerry Lee Lewis style rave up.
i love the apocalyptic lyrics.
It's coming closerThe flames are reaching my bodyPlease won't you help meI feel like I'm slipping awayIt's hard to breathAnd my chest is a-heavingLord have mercy,I'm burning a hole where I lay
its like a Cramps song
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 21 June 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
OMG for the last 30 years I thought he was saying I'm burning the whole world away.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 June 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
Burning Love is more like a Cars song than Cramps
― cr.ht (crüt), Thursday, 21 June 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
Too bad he never recorded Fire. Bruce wrote it for him, and it would be a perfect companion to Burning Love.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
I need a ton of these so keep sharing. These are some tests:
https://i.imgur.com/ylXuuiU.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/vg1Pvw7.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/ZBCAXtE.jpg
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Oh my!
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
sorry wait one more GREAT NEWShttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zAt0hnO6l_A/UqiRK7bOqzI/AAAAAAAAYMA/67L45X6onC4/s1600/Weekly+World+News+Elvis+Cloned+1993.jpg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 July 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
Saw the Eugene Jarecki film today (which I had been mixing up with the other Elvis documentary until literally after it was over, when I got some clarification from a friend)--fascinating. The very pointed Trump element is definitely heavy-handed now and again, but not to the extent (for me, at least) that it ruins the film. Chuck D is excellent. Actually, I liked all three viewpoints on the cultural-appropriation question: Chuck D, Van Jones, and David Simon. Still have to see the other film.
― clemenza, Friday, 27 July 2018 04:18 (five years ago) link
ok I'm finally tabulating now, so maybe we can roll out start of next week? dunno if it's standard to stick to Monday through Friday, was thinking it was but I dunno
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
btw listened to the 68 comeback special today, some days that's my favorite music in the world. those versions of "One Night", it's usually corny to say music sounds elemental, of the earth, but dang if those performances aren't like that, like the earth groaning
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
68 Comeback Special is playing in selected theaters in the US in August I am v excited https://www.fathomevents.com/events/elvis-68-comeback-special
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 July 2018 02:58 (five years ago) link
Thought about putting “One Night” but couldn’t quite get there. Really my ballot is just a snapshot of how I felt that day, that hour, except for my Number One.
― 3-Way Tie (For James Last) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 July 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link
The '68 show gets 5-10 minutes in the Jarecki film. The Colonel wanted 25 Christmas songs!
― clemenza, Saturday, 28 July 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link
The Colonel should have run an empire of toy factories and left human beings ie Elvis aloneMORE HATSMAKE THOSE ONES POOP THEMSELVESALL OF THESE RIDE BIKES NOWTEN THOUSAND MORE ON THE SHELVES BY FRIDAY
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 July 2018 03:29 (five years ago) link
Euler do you have the results so I can help with the images? I’ll have several free hours tomorrow to help out. Will you do the rollout? If i’m doing it I’ll also need the results on Sunday so I can do both the images and the rollout simultaneously on Monday.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 28 July 2018 06:17 (five years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WuYtjznWN0M/TS0UMzd_W0I/AAAAAAAABfo/auRT4WWnXxw/s1600/Come+Back+Elvis+3.JPG
19 Elvis Fans Can Be Polled: The ILM Elvis Presley poll roll out thread
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 28 July 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Saturday, 28 July 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
Holy shit at that leather photo Euler
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Saturday, 28 July 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
I have never seen the Comeback Special video! I know the tracks and the pics well. I’ll try to watch it soon.
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 28 July 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
Never heard or seen this one before but what a (faints)
https://youtu.be/MEU0tpYsY8M
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 30 August 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 30 August 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
Oops
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 30 August 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
It’s good though
We’re goin’ up,We’re goin’ down
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 August 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
haha!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 30 August 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
J. D., what you want me to do?
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 August 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
I'm sure this was said in a meeting somewhere: "If we can find a gay African-American man who has the Billy Ray Cyrus sound and the Billy Ray Cyrus feel, we can get a billion hits on YouTube."
― clemenza, Friday, 30 August 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
Rock and Roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but POLL it.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 August 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link