Elvis Presley

[derrick60053]

Stranger In The Crowd...
ELVIS Stranger In The Crowd (Unreleased Rehearsal) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu8WEP89FOI)

Girl Happy (new edit)....
Elvis Presley - Girl Happy *New Edit* by DjEthan - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAoaBvctFEI)

Come On Everybody (Blu-Ray)....
Elvis Presley - C'mon Everybody (real BLU-RAY Version) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iKfSVxP3D0&feature=related)

Come Let Us Pray....
Elvis Presley # Let Us Pray (Change of Habit) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSaMtsqULl8)

Change Of Habit (Pat 1 of 9)...
Elvis Presley # THE MOVIE Change Of Habit # part 1 of 9 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3UF-zO2O8c)

[jerseyboy72]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-NDXtDUcGQ&ob=av2n

[russtafa]

I prefer Alvin Stardust or Garry Glitter

[hippifried]

So I said to Elvis:
(knock knock knock)
C'mon dude, hurry up. I gotta go.
What'd ya do, die in there?

[derrick60053]

Would it help if I said Brazil is just as beautiful/cool?

[Quiet Reflections]

Carl Perkins-Blue Suede Shoes - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79CJON8fv6c)

[derrick60053]

Jesus Christ, if you're going to post a response post someone with balls. Watch this, limp wristed mother fuckers.....
BO DIDDLEY 1965 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeZHB3ozglQ&feature=related)

[jerseyboy72]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlKJ-0bnxdA

[jerseyboy72]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZerZbsEMKQ&feature=related

[derrick60053]

What'd you say, man. Quit mumblin' and talk out loud...
Bo Diddley "Mumblin' Guitar" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfz9VfFOKQ)

[Stavros]

There is no justification for a separate thread on this topic, if you want us to know what you have been listening to it can go here What are you listening to now?

http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=42046&page=399

[lisaparadise]

i feel sorry for those younger than i because youve missed the greatest singer entertainer there ever was and ever will be. ELVIS An American Trilogy (Best Picture & Sound Quality) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9saX9cF248&feature=related)

[Stavros]

i feel sorry for those younger than i because youve missed the greatest singer entertainer there ever was and ever will be

I don't feel sorry for anyone who missed one of many over-rated musical illiterates, a worthy partner in futility to Michael Jackson, Madonna and Lady Gaga. The fact that this relentless drivel can still be accessed on YouTube means they haven't missed anything, but can suffer the crushing indignity of being insulted by this vacuous trash, from an obese drug addict whose unfulfilled mother-worship distorted a career that should have been strangled at birth. Real people were making music long before this southern jerk arrived on the scene, happily many real people continue to do so. Mind you, I am biased. My sister was a Presley fan, and I have never forgiven my father for dragging to see Love Me Tender. It's political. Send in the clowns.

[Prospero]

Do you feel the same way about Bob Dylan, Stavros? Just wondering.

[lisaparadise]

i feel sorry for those younger than i because youve missed the greatest singer entertainer there ever was and ever will be

I don't feel sorry for anyone who missed one of many over-rated musical illiterates, a worthy partner in futility to Michael Jackson, Madonna and Lady Gaga. The fact that this relentless drivel can still be accessed on YouTube means they haven't missed anything, but can suffer the crushing indignity of being insulted by this vacuous trash, from an obese drug addict whose unfulfilled mother-worship distorted a career that should have been strangled at birth. Real people were making music long before this southern jerk arrived on the scene, happily many real people continue to do so. Mind you, I am biased. My sister was a Presley fan, and I have never forgiven my father for dragging to see Love Me Tender. It's political. Send in the clowns.admin please send me his ip addy so i can releave this guy from his misery.

[Prospero]

LOL Lisa... I guess we all have different tastes, but some find their loathing for certain things artists to contain. Now for instance I could say some very harsh things about the music of Andrew lloyd Webber and his ilk....

[Stavros]

I was converted to Dylan not long after his first visit here, but John Wesley Harding was the last album of his that I bought, and although some songs from later albums are ok, to me his career ended with JWH, the rest has been one very long agony, although I thought his book was well written. I think the way in which Woody Guthrie has been virutally erased from American music is strange, I can only explain it as something political. The sound of Elvis sends me into a panic, I feel like an emerging terrorist without a target, why should this be? Its as bad as hearing the voice of Marilyn Monroe...as for Costello, I got as far as Elvis and backed off, although I believe I heard a few pointless minutes of his in 1983. When it comes to music, films and books I admit to being intolerant and a cultural bigot, but I enjoy being provocative sometimes, it should not be taken too seriously.

[Yvonne183]

Although this is not Elvis, it is his roots. I just feel it should be acknowledged. I don't know about the vid part but the song is cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0

[russtafa]

Although this is not Elvis, it is his roots. I just feel it should be acknowledged. I don't know about the vid part but the song is cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0i agree i love the fifties artists they were so cool.i always thought Bob Dylan was a scruffy hippie with no style

[lisaparadise]

I was converted to Dylan not long after his first visit here, but John Wesley Harding was the last album of his that I bought, and although some songs from later albums are ok, to me his career ended with JWH, the rest has been one very long agony, although I thought his book was well written. I think the way in which Woody Guthrie has been virutally erased from American music is strange, I can only explain it as something political. The sound of Elvis sends me into a panic, I feel like an emerging terrorist without a target, why should this be? Its as bad as hearing the voice of Marilyn Monroe...as for Costello, I got as far as Elvis and backed off, although I believe I heard a few pointless minutes of his in 1983. When it comes to music, films and books I admit to being intolerant and a cultural bigot, but I enjoy being provocative sometimes, it should not be taken too seriously.you have no clue about music period end of story.

[onmyknees]

i feel sorry for those younger than i because youve missed the greatest singer entertainer there ever was and ever will be

I don't feel sorry for anyone who missed one of many over-rated musical illiterates, a worthy partner in futility to Michael Jackson, Madonna and Lady Gaga. The fact that this relentless drivel can still be accessed on YouTube means they haven't missed anything, but can suffer the crushing indignity of being insulted by this vacuous trash, from an obese drug addict whose unfulfilled mother-worship distorted a career that should have been strangled at birth. Real people were making music long before this southern jerk arrived on the scene, happily many real people continue to do so. Mind you, I am biased. My sister was a Presley fan, and I have never forgiven my father for dragging to see Love Me Tender. It's political. Send in the clowns.



Man you seem to be overly traumatized about the whole fucking thing....And maybe in your world musicians are Buddhist Monks, but in mine they all have more than a few shortcomings, overindulge and more than likely meet untimely ends. It's about the art, and nothing else. When evaluating a performer I try to listen to what other performers and musicians say about the person's work as opposed to fans or critics. In this case, Presley has a long list of influenced.
To that end, I never felt GaGa was particularly talented until I asked a nephew who's a classically trained musician currently in a Boston Orchestra....he informs me otherwise and claims despite her trendy stage show, and Madonna like extravagance, GaGa is an enormously talented musician, song writer and musical historian. That's good enough for me, but appearently not you...

[Prospero]

It is odd how passionate and partisan people get about music. Those who love particular people to the point of collecting the worst bootlegs and outtakes - and live recordings. There are tens of thousands of scarcely listenable Dylan illegal recordings out there.

Then you get those who are vehement haters - such as the sort of OTT comments by Stavros about Presley.

For me music is such a wonderful and life enhancing thing that I truly try to be as open to any and all music as i can be - from obscure third world folk musics (Tuvan throat singing anyone) to obscure avant garde classics - Nono, Penderecki et al - to the best of modern pop (lady gaga).

But when it comes to the history of popular music in the modern world since recording got underway it seems pointless to disregard the seminal influence of such people as the grest bluesmen, the great jazz musicians, Presley, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Dylan and Springsteen. For good or ill they have created a musical landscape for our culture for the past 50 years. Widen that and we'd need to hear Om Kolsoum for an understanding of the Arab mind etc.

And to dismiss the great and original literacy of an artist like Elvis Costello because he has chosen Elvis as a forename is - well ...not to be taken seriously. But then maybe Stavros has a playful side after all.

Music is music ad most has a place - be it on the most developed (Bach or Mozart) or the most primal (Punk).

[fred41]

Elvis was cool.
Elvis was an entertainer.
Women loved him and thought he was sexy.
Guys weren't threatened by him because many admired and wanted to be like him.

...no reason to get all farty because he didn't write his songs or play an instrument in the Philharmonic.

Sorry he wasn't a poet.
He didn't have to be.
He was cool.
He wasn't a dick.

[Stavros]

It is irrational, that is all I can say; I admit it; it has nothing to do with an appreciation of the history of popular culture, I can see Presley's place in it, but that is true of the Beatles, Punk, and hip-hop -it doesn't mean I want to listen to any of it. Basically, I should have kept my mouth shut...

[lisaparadise]

It is irrational, that is all I can say; I admit it; it has nothing to do with an appreciation of the history of popular culture, I can see Presley's place in it, but that is true of the Beatles, Punk, and hip-hop -it doesn't mean I want to listen to any of it. Basically, I should have kept my mouth shut...lol thats the smartest thing youve wrote all week lol

[onmyknees]

lol thats the smartest thing youve wrote all week lol

LMFAO....Lisa you're a trip !! Stavros is allright...he just overthinks shit from time to time.

[lisaparadise]

LMFAO....Lisa you're a trip !! Stavros is allright...he just overthinks shit from time to time.ya i know i like stavros but were talkin Elvis here god damn it.lol

[Merkurie]

I like his grand daughter Domino
http://www.grooby.com/promo/domino/leopardcouch001.jpg

[Maxwell Silver]

Elvis could sing but had zero song writing talent and little to no skill playing the guitar.

[russtafa]

Elvis could sing but had zero song writing talent and little to no skill playing the guitar.

and who cares its rock n roll not classical or jazz?