Dead Elvis

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Dead Elvis is the debut album by electronic and rock band Death in Vegas. It has the end of the 1990s sound with a mix of dance/triphop/jungle with rock like the Propellerheads. I must say that this sound has aged like good wine (or is it just me). Their album on the original list (and in the book) was "The Contino Sessions" which I found a bit boring, but maybe deserves another spin.

R.I.P. Elvis

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Dirt

Not something I would like to listen to again

Eh 2

I gave the death in vegas album on the orginal list a 4, I really enjoyed it, this one didn’t really click the same. So I don’t think we need two albums from them.

When I listened to the original list's Death In Vegas album, I was like: "Did we actually need this on the list?" then never thought about that album ever again. But apparently someone out there saw that and was like: "Hell no. We need TWO Death In Vegas albums on this list!" That's not a dig, I think that's really cool. Just goes to show how diverse music tastes are and that every album, no matter how forgettable it might be to me personally, is someone's favorite. Dudes rock. That being said, this shit kinda boring.

On the official list's Death In Vegas selection I mentioned how much I liked it and should listen to more from this group. Here's my chance and, as I expected, I really liked this! Long double album but it was great to groove along to. Liked the guitar work in a lot of the songs.

That was an absolute tip of an album. I don't really know how to describe what I just listened to, but my brain certainly enjoyed it.

This is just a great, early 90's electronic album. Scratchy beats, occasional glitchyness, samples, jazzy floruishes. Perfect background music while working. Best Tracks: All The Glitters; Opium Shuffle; Dirt

Música electrónica. Así como ambiente. Me ha gustado. Un 4.

First 30 minutes are/were a nice hot summer walk soundtrack - i.e. this started out great, then it got just a little too dubby for me, then I just got annoyed. I'll just cut this one down the middle overall. Some good soundscapes, interesting to listen to (something I never would have given a second glance to at the time) for the most part and probably ahead of its time, idk... 5/10 3 stars. IMO: Belonged in the book? No.

I didn't even realise this band already had an album on the list. They don't deserve a second. This was very run-of-the-mill stuff. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No

Not bad

This mostly isn't doing it for me, although I'm finding I love Rocco. Lots of cool stuff going on in this one. Kinda just came and went as background music and was a bit too long.

Interesting trip hoppy album that explores some different genres. Decent enough background music. All That Glitters and Opium Shuffle were actually really good for an opening one-two, but it fell off aside from Rocco.

This strikes me as a bit of a "throw it at the wall" record. It treads space from stoner blues (a la G Love) on opener All That Glitters, to dubby Opium Shuffle + G.B.H. + Twist & Crawl, to grimey drum n' bass (Dirt, Rekkit), to some more atmospheric electro (Amber). Net effect is not a bad listen, but not very focused and hardly demanding of another listen. Low 3 for me.

Turns out I quite like dub step. This was an interesting album, but too long.

Electronica to get lost in while doing something

Solid ambient electronic LP with some interesting production elements and dance flair thrown in. For a 1997 release this sounds relatively modern, definitely some dated elements yet feels mostly fresh. Not as exciting or challenging as on 'The Contino Sessions,' but still feels like a decent addition and something different from the usual user list fare.

My usual issues with this genre of music in that I just find the songs internally repetitive in a way that doesn't do a lot for me. Though I'll say this is nicely eclectic across the range of songs.

It's alright, a bit repetitive and long. Didn't expect to hear reggae. 3 stars.

Alright

Intermittently cool/chill and interesting/engaging but too much that's filler/forgettable. Lacks soulfulness as does so much of the electronica of this vintage. Not as good as the otehr record, but pretty solid overall.

Trip hop is not for me.

There's nothing in this debut electronica album from Death In Vegas that hasn't been done ten times better in parts of their great subsequent LP *The Contino Sessions*, or even *Scorpio Rising* for that matter. Most of the tracks try to dig a hypnotic groove, but come off as wearing out their welcome quick instead of becoming truly mesmerizing. One possible exception: "Rocco". Anywhere else, this record is testing my patience way too much. Worse, some of the sounds there have aged like milk, and the 180-degree reggae turn on not one but *two* tracks in the middle of the first half doesn't make *a shred of sense*. Not only is that jump totally jarring on a sonic standpoint, but it's also a stylistic thread that's only used again once within the main tracklist, through the admittedly pretty good dub flourishes of "Materialized" -- also laced with a pretty cool sax, but still a composition that would have benefited from a shorter runtime, like all the other ones in this release. I didn't care enough for the whole album to explore the rest of the "bonus tracks", though. In all honesty, the "destination" doesn't sound so bad when you spin "68 Balcony" on its own, for example. But the journey to get there decidedly feels too bumpy. Another example where a "skip button"... for the users list (!) would have been reaaaaaallly useful... I hesitated between a 1 and a 2 to rate this record, but then I saw that the person who suggested it gave one star to *each and every Beatles album in the original list*. Mileages about the Fab Four may vary, of course... But it takes a special kind of "edgy" to hate them with such a red-hot brand of fire. Truly impressive. So let me be edgy in return. The only redeeming context I could imagine which might justify shitting on the Beatles with such dedication would be if someone had been abused during their childhood by a relative who happened to often play them... We have the pitch for a potentially very harrowing short story here, and if *really* that's what was going on, my sincerest apologies for what I am writing right now. What are the odds, though? Whoever you are and whatever happened to you, dear anonymous user, my heart goes out to you anyway. It's quite difficult -- and probably risky on a purely athletic level -- to listen to music using body parts that are NOT your ears and brains. Not to mention your heart, here taken as a metaphoric symbol, of course... Also let me guess... You're probably English, aren't you? Or you're coming from the British Isles, at least? Your galleries and "you love more than most" listings indeed smell of fish and chips, pickles, and vinegar crisps. I'm not judging in this case -- I love fish and chips, pickles, and vinegar crisps myself, just as I actually love many records on those 5-star galleries of yours. Yet unless a deep-seated trauma can explain your very personal hate for a band that's widely considered as the most pivotal influence you can find for the last six or seven decades in music history, you're still just looking as if you're out of your depth at times. It's obvious that you're having a huge amount of trouble using a somewhat rational perspective to assess the frigging Beatles in a balanced manner, all necessary subjectivity aside for at least one second of your assessment. What's too close to the heart may sometimes hurt the most, I imagine. Only a Brit can hate the Liverpool legends with such passion, very ironically... So yeah, I feel like I have no choice but to leave the first one-star review ever recorded for this very bizarre suggestion, coming from quite a peculiar user of this generator to boot. Of course, bad taste is not a crime, and speaking of *taste*, we're coming to the point where I should probably taste my own medicine -- because it is *also* quite obvious I could have used more rational restraint myself during the course of this review... But if bad taste's not a crime, then you can also forgive me for some of the awful things I have written up there, right? Right??? In the meantime, no one is talking about Elvis, whether alive or dead. Maybe I should have started there... 1/5 for the purposes of this list dedicated to essential albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (5 + 1) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 108 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 117 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 253 (including this one) ---- Émile, *quatre* nouveaux messages pour toi au dessus, du *Solid State Survivor* de Yellow Magic Orchestra au *Atrocity Exhibition* de Danny Brown !