Reviews (page 14 of 14)
elvis presley é ruim e esse álbum só confirma isso
I tried. I tried twice. Blue suede shoes was a fun start, but it's such a damp squib. Like a floppy nothing record. I got bored. I got bored twice.
Tasapaksu levy jolla hassun kuuloinen laulaja.
worst one yet. His band is tight! But he would be better if he stopped the vibrato and weird owlwolwowowow stuff.
My goodness he's always left me cold and this album has done nothing to change that. Such an annoying voice. What an EARTH is going on with the goofy singing on One-Sided Love Affair specifically? Insufferable. Tutti Frutti is alright because of the nostalgia for Brave Little Toaster it evokes. Did really like Blue Moon - Take 9/M though. Really cool and psychedelic/modern-sounding? Had only heard the Chromatics cover before and liked it a lot/thought I'd massively prefer it but here we are liking original.
A 28 minute long album that sounds like it took 28 minutes to make. Sloppy and often strained vocal performances from Elvis with weak backing instrumentation. It put him on the map though, and that’s the entire reason this album exists.
lately my buddy has been giving me clues to guess the day's new album before i see it. the clue that gave this one away was that despite the acclaim it's not an important album in the slightest & i think that's all that needs to be said about it
I’m not going to waste a lot of words here. I’m not a big Elvis fan but I tried to listen to this with an open mind. Nope. Hot garbage. There’s maybe two songs I can kind of tolerate and that’s pushing it. Have no desire to hear this again. Ever!
White in a bad way.
dull.
I'm sure it was good back on the day but I would not listen to this on purpose.
Not at all a fan of Elvis and the cult that followed him around. The vocal styles are irritating and the mix of rockabilly is just uninteresting to me.
Not for me
No es un disco que haya envejecido bien, es pobre en sonido, las líricas son repetitivas y tanto melodica como armonicamente no tiene ningún sustento para funcionar hoy en día. Respeto que haya sido importante para el nacimiento del rock, pero hoy no puedo darle una buena reseña.
You can tell on this album that young Elvis is still honing his sound. There are some moments where Buddy Love slips away and Julius Kelp starts to wear through. It's some dated work but for it to be the 1st rock album to ever chart...deserves the list. The album cover has been copied several times by others for it's importance in music history. Certainly an icon and would have liked to see the impact Presley had on everyone and everything 1st hand...1.35.
Better than the prior Elvis I guess but nothing special. I'll hear Blue Suede Shoes again but the rest just fall into skippable Elvis. 1.38 stars
the longest 28 minutes ive ever spent. mindnumbing rock and roll thats slightly redeemed by his vocal chops. horrible otherwise
wow this sucks favorite tracks: none
No
Not for me. 1/5
Hef aldrei tengt við sjarmann svokallaða og þetta er mest megnis frekar boring.
Not for me. Blue Suede Shoes is fun and campy, but the I Got A Woman cover is a limp facsimile of the original. I Love You Because is sappy and unoriginal, and Just Because gives me old time revival vibes. The Blue Moon cover, however, has a sparse, interesting interpretation that I actually enjoyed. I know it's unfair, but Elvis has such an identifiable singing style, but unfortunately that sound and style has been relentlessly parodied for 50 years and I cannot take him seriously. When I was a kid, I bought the myth that Elvis was unique, and original, and brought a certain type of rock and roll to the masses. But as I've grown, and discovered that people like Ray Charles, Billy Wright, Little Richard and scores of others were out there doing the same type of music, I fully believe that Elvises level of fame has more to do with his race than his talent. Also, he was a pedophile.
no
loved it
We can call him the "denigger". It takes black music, puts a white face on it and sells a lot without doing anything
Nej men va fan. Inte mer Elvis. Kräkemoji. Det är så tråkig ointressant musik. En 1a för Blue Suede Shoes och Blue Moon. Killen gillar blått.
Elvis gives me the creeps at the best of times. Having to listen to him sing swooning love songs to what I can only assume are 13/14 year old girls (his favourite) is tough to get through.
Elvis sucks ass, worst thing to ever happen to music.
If I rated his ability to steal songs from black people, it's be a 5/5. But I am solely rating this album, so it's gonna be a 1/5. Not a fan of his voice. A-bop-bop-a-loom-op a-lop-bop-boom
didn‘t like it; his voice is not agreable to my ears
I've never been an Elvis guy. The affectation in his voice has always rubbed me the wrong way. "One-Sided Love Affair" is the most ridiculous example of this. It's goofy af. And that must be it because I've fully enjoyed other musicians playing similar whitewashed "blues"/early rock n roll who don't sing like this. Blech.
1/10 Holy hell, do I not like this. The rock is ok, but it is done better by those who came before and after. The slow country and ballads are the sleepiest horseshit. There is no passion here, only technique and even that's lacking. In summary, no, sir, I don't like it. 4-4-2024
The quintessential one-star album. A talentless predator riding on the coat-tails of better men and better artists. 0.5/5.0: Unlistenable
The OG of stealing black music and giving nothing back
Ich kann mit Elvis nichts anfangen. Diese dauernde Selbstdarstellung. Ich hoffe, die Musik seiner Vorbilder, die er kopiert hat, taucht hier auch noch auf.
I just don’t understand the hype around Elvis. He has a decent singing voice, but his style in delivery is so over the top that if fits better as a cartoon character than it does an actual artist. It also bothers me that this can be considered as one of the great albums when he isn’t credited once as a writer for the song. I might enjoy one of the song on the album from time to time, but as a whole, there is absolutely nothing glueing this as one product other than that all of the songs are extremely short. The processing on his vocals are drastically different from song to song, and there is no main overarching idea for any collection of the album. Just not enjoyable to listen to all the way through at all. 1/5
Early rock 'n' roll is tediously repetitive. Elvis appropriated country and blues (to put it politely) and I find his posturing and peculiar, affected pronunciation and singing style more annoying than the monotonous music. He sounds like a parody of himself.
Very "bluesie" sound
He's a cultural appropriator i feel like I'm crossing a picket line. but hey! music.
Not good
Boring
Was angry. Don't think I'd like regardless
I've never listened to an Elvis album in it's entirety before and I hope never to again. Devoid of substance. This guy was good looking and likely the right face at the right time but not a musical talent as far as I'm concerned.
one good song. The rest is boring. It is dated. 5 stars if you like old music.
Blue Suede Shoes was great. The rest was garbage. Love songs with a pitch he can't reach or or overly affected vocals that come off more absurd than the Elvis parodies I've heard throughout my life.
Too oldschool
Garbage
I knew i wasnt gonna rate this high anyway, judging how he whitewashed rock n roll by doing songs by black artists but worse, but i underestimated how boring this album would actually be to listen to.
Eh. He's OK. I don't get the appeal. Most of the songs are covers and not as good as the original versions. Pretty wild that you could be the most famous artist in the world back then doing other people's songs worse than they did.
Awful
not a fan tbh
Mercifully short record from The Memphis Flash. Blue Suede Shoes still has some punch and there are a couple of other tracks that I don't mind. His renditions of I Got a Woman and Tutti Fruitti however *pale* in comparison to other performances of these songs. Sorry King, it ain't my thing.
Pretty mad that this album invented rock and roll In all seriousness though, this… kind of sucks. I was expecting a lot more as I do enjoy quite a few Elvis songs from this era, but they all seem to have been either standalone singles or from EPs. Blue Suede Shoes is a great opener but the rest of the songs are either pretty subpar covers that have been done miles better by other artists (I’ve Got a Woman, Blue Moon, the somehow energy-less Tutti Frutti) or are just very bland, and often with incredibly annoying vocal inflections
Ugh Elvis. What a struggle to listen to because the originals are vastly superior. I understand he helped bring Rock 'n Roll to the mainstream but that's only because most if not all of the songs were originally written by black people and America is racist. I would much rather listen to all of the originals except the country songs can be thrown away. This album was difficult to listen to and his voice is annoying. It's awful. Find the original versions of the songs and listen to those instead.
I’d rather listen to the original artists this culture vulture stole from. He’s charismatic and can sing but I find him highly overrated.
Well thank god that's over! Makes me understand why there are so many Elvis impersonators. Even Elvis sounds like some schmuck "doing" Elvis.
Yuk
Simple and catchy music. Basically pop rock produced to be commercialized with little to no substance in this music. I can give him credit at being a great vocalist and entertainer. He also brought certain genres mainstream because of his popularity so he was influential for the time. Some parts are fun but it might as well just be a collection of singles.
Kolejny krazek od pana Presleya, tym razem debiutancki material studyjny z 56, zatytulowy oczywiscie eponimicznie, chociaz wydany w 56, to niektore z trakow byly juz sprzedawane singlowo w 54, bo przeciez jakos major musial sprzedac mlodego utalentowego muzyka, ktory dodatkowo tworzyl cos swiezego, bo tak mozna okreslic nagrywanie rockabillitowych coverow szlagierow bluesa czy country, ktorych spuscizne czuc na tym nagraniu, ale jednak sprzedana w nowej formie, bo pojawiaja sie elektryki, big banda zastepuje bardziej standardowy band czteroosobowy, w wiekszosci, jesli okladka i personelowa lista nie klamia sam Elvis gra na akustyku i pianine na tryin to get to you, jakos wersji spotifajowej pozostawia wiele do zyczenia, bo jest to jeden z dziwniejszych miksow mono na sterego jakie slyszalem, ale moze tez jest to sprawa samego rocznika wydania, ze brzmi tak akwaryjnie, dziwne echa, trzaski i praski, tak jak na innych materialach covery to milosne opowiesci w ktorych ciezko szukac czegos innego niz popowego spiewania do tanczonych mlodych i szczesliwych ludzi, jedynym utworem ktory znalem przed odsluchem byl openingowy blue suede shoes, ktory siedzial mi w glowie glownie przez kultowy opening, ktory wielokrotnie byl przerabiany na potrzeby kolejnych epok muzykowania, trzeci Presley na liscie, a ja nadal nie jestem przekonany do jego muzyki, a dyskografia spora, wiec cos pewnie jeszcze sie trafi do zmiany opinii, na plejke rokowanska wrzuce jedynie wspomniany butowy traczek
piss
fuck elvis, fuck the 50s, fuck rock and roll
Didn’t finish, reminds me of Abby
I just never got into Elvis. He's the Don Corleone of rock music: he's the original, but his biggest fans have ended up making it so that Elvis became a parody of himself.
Disappointing. Just made me want to listen to actual rythme and blues from the time
I had a hard time getting through this one. Elvis is not my taste
Did not listen. I honestly can't stand Elvis's mush-mouthed singing, but don't tell Aunt Sue.
28 min of racist appropriation!
nein
I didn't realize that the first song on the first elvis album was blue suede shoes I'm not the hugest elvis fan, but he's the king so i guess i gotta listen Got into a huge fight with my father about a third of the way through this album! Pretty excited about that, and it definitely hasn't soured my listening experience at all. Ok tutti fruitti is annoying as shit I don't remember a single song off of this record, besides blue suede shoes, which i liked. I guess i can see why people like elvis, but I don't think i do.
oh this is painful
i am a murderer
can only stand his voice for so long - makes most songs sound the same. no songs really stood out. 5/10