Elvis Is Back by Elvis Presley

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3.17
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Didnt like it

Ik vond dit niks

Fuck Elvis

Complete crap

Mannnn I ain’t listening to this! “But it’s influential!!” Yeah so was the Reagan administration. Boring ass old man who stole music from black people for YEARS. Death on the shitter is 1000x more dignity than this guy deserves. 0/10 without even listening to it 😂

That's ancient stuff, I can't and won't listen to it! It's all nicely crafted sounds for yesterday's listeners.

More stuff i've heard on the radio over the years. Tired and overplayed, but some good hits like orange crush. Not a huge fan.

Not for me

No, Elvis is not back

Well, it was a much simpler time I guess. I think I may have been a backing singer for Elvis in a former life. At least the tracks are very short. My brother loved Elvis, but preferred Shakin’ Stevens, which explains a lot.

I had such hopes at Fever (4), but then the rest was just Elvis. I bet he didn't smash 70 Hot Wings with his comeback after the army.

mierda

When he had decent material, Elvis could sing the hell out of a song. Far too often he had this kind of horrible saccharine drivel to deal with. Absolutely brutally bad production with soggy orchestration and no life whatsoever.

I don't have a coherent review, I just don't really get it

Elvis was completely over-rated.

dunno why this guy was so popular

No more elvis...

Hef aldrei verið fan og þessi plata breytir engu um það. Ekki minn tebolli. Plús krípfaktor.

Elvis may have been cool then, but who cares now? Seriously. What impact does Elvis have 60 years later? Not much. Like seriously, Elvis has some iconic hits. But there are exactly zero on this album, so what’s the point? Why the hell is this album on this list? It’s utterly unimportant.

Genuinely painful to sit through.

Why does the streaming version of this album sound like it's being played underwater? Look, I understand Elvis was foundational in popularizing stealing music and theatrics from black musicians and sanitizing them for white audiences, but this just feels so fucking soulless to me.

I wasn't really familiar with any of tbe songs. He still can't really sing. It is probably better than a one but I will round down.

Still not a fan

My mother loved Elvis. You could go so far as to say that for a time she was obsessed with him. Evidence being a life-sized cardboard cutout of Elvis standing in our kitchen among many other representations of him in memorabilia, e.g. Elvis clock, wallpaper, plates, etc. As you might imagine, I've heard a few Elvis songs and seen some Elvis movies in my time. This record has some okay songs, but nothing that really stands out as an amazing Elvis track. Too be honest, for me the best thing about this record is the typography on the cover and even that isn't the best of its era.

Blegh. Boring.

Make me know it - a bland and forgettable opening track. Fever is an excellent track that suits his voice, it shines over the minimal backing - clearly the inspiration for the Cramps cover, but still not as good as the Peggy Lee version 2 years earlier. The girl of my best friend reminds me why I hate a lot of late 50s and early 60s music, slow bland and a real snooze fest. I will be home again can be added to that list too. Dirty Dirty feeling is an anthem for stalking, followed by kidnapping and possibly worse... Thrill of your love. Tedious love song. Soldier Boy - Another slow ballad. Nothing going for it. Such a night - a celebration of a one night stand, a little more upbeat, but still very bland. Couldn't be bothered to listen to the last few tracks beyond the intro. Why is this album on the 1001 list? There must be better Elvis albums out there, and if they are already on the list, then this one doesn't deserve its place.

Elvis? More like Pelvis, because this album is ass. Sorry bozo, don't like the music plus banana sandwiches aren't even that good.

a hundred times better than the later memphis record we got a couple weeks ago, but minus two stars for "fever", and two stars for priscilla. the performance of "fever" was actually a pretty good cover of peggy lee's arrangement. here's an additional verse i added, mimicking the style, historicity, and politics of peggy lee's additions to the original song by eddie cooley, otis blackwell, and willie john: emmett till and carolyn bryant had a very mad affair when his cousin tried to kill her he said, "curtis, oh don't you dare" she gives me fever with her kisses fever when she holds me tight fever i'm her mister and cousin, won't you treat him right

PE said it best... Elvis was a hero to most, but he Never meant shit to me, you see, straight out Racist—that sucker was simple and plain Motherfuck him and John Wayne! But I listened to this from start to finish and this seems like the soundtrack for Making America Great Again.

I don’t know what to do with you, Elvis. I do enjoy your rockabilly stuff, ‘Make Me Know It,’ ‘Dirty, Dirty Feeling,’ ‘Girl Next Door Went A-Walking,’ as well as the blues numbers, ‘Like a Baby,’ ‘It Feels So Right,’ ‘Reconsider Baby.’ But the other half of this LP, all those sappy songs about romantic love found and lost… I don’t want 'that' Elvis back. That Elvis should re-enlist. Ahhh, this isn’t an album for me anyway, or most of you, maybe none of you. This is an LP for all the teenage girls in the late 1950’s who pined for Elvis while he served his time in the military. And I’m sure they wet their panties when they saw this cover- all sexy-eyed and coifed hair. Doggone dreamy, this Elvis is. The Jordanaires are here again, doing their doo wop best. Backing band, The Blue Moon Boys, are also back, rockin’ and playing the blues. Not that we hear much from them. Guitarist Scotty Moore is seldom allowed to tear it up. The reigns are loosened up a bit for pianist Floyd Cramer and saxophonist Boots Randolph on the last two numbers. But this is really all about Elvis. And his voice is in fine form, maybe it’s best, at times growling and barking, while other moments just as smooth and soft as a milkshake. If you like Elvis, you’ll enjoy this LP. And, if you’re not a fan (and I'm not), then there’s nothing here that’s going to change your mind. It is what it is: Elvis Presley. And he’s back. But baby, he never really left your aching heart in the first place, did he?

do not like.

Det här gjorde tyvärr inget för mig. Fever är ju bra liksom men inte tillräckligt.

Did not vibe. Reminds me too much of Christmas and copying black musicians

fucking hate elvis

Reminds me of mom…

it's probably good thanks to the black artists he stole from fuck elvis for grooming a 14 year old kid i refuse to listen to him idgaf

Elvis is very much overrated

Only listened to Fever.

Classic but kinda creepy

Nope, not for me

Turns out I *still* don't like Elvis. "Fever" is OK, but Elvis is no Peggy Lee. :-)