What's your favourite album from this man?

>>71193737
The one with the song where he cracks his head on a toilet

>>71193737
Highway 61 Revisited

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>YOU AINT NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG
what did he mean by this?

Heartbreak Hotel

>>71193737
Probably the first one.

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his gospel records were probably the only worthwhile albums as a whole.

>>71193737
idk about album, but suspicious minds has a special place in my heart

reddit

>>71194909
fuck off

>>71193737
The one where he steals black music and makes a lot of money because he's white.

>>71194947
>because he's white

You forgot his god-tier voice.

>>71194975
He did have a great voice, but he wouldn't have had a fraction of the success he had had he been black.

>>71194999
Why? Because there haven't been any successful black gospel and blues singers?

>>71194999
Maybe not, but why hold it against him.

Incredible talent and iconic persona and image. Truly one of a kind.

>>71195031
>Why hold it against him
I'm mostly shitposting, even though there's something to be said about a white man taking advantage of his color to make money out of black culture.

Still, he did pay his respects and recognised the heritage of his music, and that makes him a cool cat by my standards. It's a shame that his talents, due to 1950s/60s release standards, are so diluted on a much too vast discography, though.

>>71195021
Pre-1954? Marginally successful, especially in the south. But, as I said above, I'm mostly shitposting.

>>71195144
It is much more the audience that is at fault than Elvis. He was making the music he liked, influenced by black culture around him. The audience lapped up black culture once it was given a wholesome whiteboy sheen.

>>71195144
>too vast discography
Just different phases of his career I guess

Rock and roll, R&B, Gospel etc. Personally I prefer old Elvis when his voice had deepened. Not even Cash could come close to singing like that.

>>71195197
That's true, but it's still a discussion worth having. Sure, he was genuinely enamored with black culture, and that transpires in his music. But history is filled with oportunistic bastards who denied their influence out of racism, while still making a buck out of black culture (i.e. Allen Brothers).

>>71194947
What about his country music?

>>71194947
>because he's white.
That and incredibly handsome, his image is a lot more marketable than some random nig nog

>>71193737
Golden Records (1958)
Elvis is Back! (1960)
Golden Records Volume 3 (1963)
How Great Thou Art (1967)
From Elvis in Memphis (1969)

The 7 minute version of Suspicious Minds is my jam

That said, in general, he's an artist you should be talking about his songs, not albums

For me, his ballads tend to be the most underrated...stuff like That's When Your Heartaches Begin; I Was the One and Any Way You Want Me are killer tracks

That said, even though I've listened to like twenty-five of his albums, I'd never recommend going through his discography, it's exhausting when a lot of the payoff comes from just a handful of albums

>>71196415
Where's "I'm 10,000 Years Old"?

>>71194075
Ask Big Mama Thornton.