Quicklists XCIX: Top Five Elvis Songs

[sactochris]

Jailhouse Rock
Baby, Let's Play House
Mystery Train
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Suspicious Minds

[dee dee]

Jeesh, sorry to pick In the Ghetto. It's not like I pop in the Elvis tunes anymore. My experience with Elvis comes from spinning tunes at my Grandma's house as a pre adolescent. i tried to think in terms of what songs I might not turn off if they came on the radio.

[drtpants]

You aren't the only one and you have an able backer in Smitty.

At least you didn't pick something off the Clambake! soundtrack.

[Smitty]

Jeesh, sorry to pick In the Ghetto. It's not like I pop in the Elvis tunes anymore. My experience with Elvis comes from spinning tunes at my Grandma's house as a pre adolescent. i tried to think in terms of what songs I might not turn off if they came on the radio.

No shame, dee dee.

[Penny Lane]

1) not all songs are supposed to "rock"
2) ok, it is pretty sentimental & dramatic
3) disagree wholeheartedly - it's an extremely sympathetic song, maybe it a maudlin way but it is blaming the plight that the impoverished black kids have to endure is ignored by "you & me"
4) love the Texas in My Rearview Mirror album - don't know much about him beyond that (you're talkin to a C&W guy here)
5&6) a lot of songs fall in that category, doesn't necessarily mean they "blow"
7) don't see how that falls on the song

Never thought I'd be defending "In The Ghetto"

also, he never wore unitards. EVER.

[drtpants]

ok, maybe they weren't unitards but he wore them awfully tight to be calling them jumpsuits.

[Penny Lane]

american trilogy
that's alright
mystery train
love me tender
one night
blue xmas
return to sender
burning love
little sister


fat, drug addled, sweaty, lyric forgetting, jump suit wearing elvis rocks balls. that elvis transcended music and became something spiritual.....sad and lonely and tragic and excessive and human and proud and uplifting and depressing and honest.


long live the king.

i agree, Dime. i like the aloha from hawaii Elvis just as the much as the 67' Christmas special Elvis, and that version of American Trilogy is so good...

[Penny Lane]

ok, maybe they weren't unitards but he wore them awfully tight to be calling them jumpsuits.

those were custom made jumpsuits. don't confuse them, they weren't THAT tight!

this is so awesome.



then again, not sure which is better..