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Did Elvis mean shit to you?

paquelaspaquelas 206 Posts
edited August 2007 in Strut Central
O RLY?

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  • SupergoodSupergood 1,213 Posts
    O RLY?

  • BaptBapt 2,503 Posts
    I like Elvis like emol likes Dylan.


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  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts
    I like Elvis like emol likes Dylan.


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  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    He helped loosen up Caucasoids.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts
    I fucks with elvis a little. Oh and before people start up on some hoity toity shit, his sun period was inarguably not greatly superior to the later work for which he became famed. Save that for the chin strokers convention.
    suspicious minds!
  • Mad Drama TeacherMad Drama Teacher 1,985 Posts
    I rented "Jailhouse Rock" when I was little and played with my slot racers instead. I'd imagine one had to see Elvis to fully appreciate him -- isn't Little Richard the one who says Elvis was the most electrifying performer he had ever seen black or white?

    I think rock music is better off for him having been a part of it, even, as some people maintain, he co-opted. Sometimes his music can sound great to me; other times I don't get much from it. Put me in a '57 Chevy and I'm sure it would sound good!

    I do acknowledge, though.
  • SPlDEYSPlDEY Vegas 3,375 Posts
    Fuck elvis.

    - spidey
  • PABLOPABLO 1,921 Posts
    He was a hero to most...

  • KaushikKaushik 320 Posts
    He meant something to me when I was 7 years old and, I got this album and it was my first vinyl ever, or maybe it was that "Snoopy's White Christmas", that album was so fresh!!

  • SupergoodSupergood 1,213 Posts
    I like Elvis like emol likes Dylan.


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    WASSUP BAPT!
  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    his rendition of Bridge Over Troubled Water from the Hawaii concert tape was fire.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Elvis was great, but wildly uneven. For every classic there were two genuine turds, and that's the stuff you gotta watch. The man could sing, he just had a distinct lack of direction, discretion and taste as far as selecting songs to record.

    And for the record - the Sun stuff IS superior to the RCA stuff, but that's only because he wasn't at Sun long enough to start sucking.
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    Elvis was great, but wildly uneven. For every classic there were two genuine turds, and that's the stuff you gotta watch. The man could sing, he just had a distinct lack of direction, discretion and taste as far as selecting songs to record.

    And for the record - the Sun stuff IS superior to the RCA stuff, but that's only because he wasn't at Sun long enough to start sucking.

    I think the more accurate assessment would be Pre-'60 Elvis is far superior than post-'60 Elvis although some of his much later stuff like Suspicious Minds and The Ghetto were great.
  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    Had a gig lst night, and for the 30th anniversary of his death I had to spin a tune of his...so I chose "A Stranger in my Own Hometown", great fuckin tune...the American studio shit from '69 is the Queen's tits for me. Yeah the Sun shit is important and great, but for me its the black leather wearing and speed pill popping Elvis that kick ass...
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Elvis was great, but wildly uneven. For every classic there were two genuine turds, and that's the stuff you gotta watch. The man could sing, he just had a distinct lack of direction, discretion and taste as far as selecting songs to record.

    And for the record - the Sun stuff IS superior to the RCA stuff, but that's only because he wasn't at Sun long enough to start sucking.

    I think the more accurate assessment would be Pre-'60 Elvis is far superior than post-'60 Elvis although some of his much later stuff like Suspicious Minds and The Ghetto were great.

    Yeah, you're right - I think that's more to the point. RCA did get some good sides out of him before the turn of the decade.

    As far as Hookup's comment about the later, black-leather, pill-poppin' Elvis that recorded "Stranger In My Own Home Town"...the only problem there is that he really only worked that angle part of the time. The rest of the time, he was doing these flaky, Bobby Goldsboro-ish country-pop ballads (no way in hell I can defend "Don't Cry Daddy"). Had he stayed on the "Suspicious Minds"/"Burning Love" train of thought, he'd be easier to ride for.
  • jaymackjaymack 5,199 Posts
    I've never heard an Elvis song before.





























  • spelunkspelunk 3,400 Posts
    No.
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