The Friday Canon: ELVIS aka THE MONSTER TICK FEST

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

EVEN MORE TICKS THAN CLIFF. Jebus, Mr Presley was a busy bunny! In the first 3 years of his career he released 25 hit singles! And I'm sure he would have kept churning them out at a rate of knots if he hadn't joined the army/made a bunch of rubbish fillums/et less burgers.

I've left off the re-issues but there's still hella-ticky under the cut. You have THIRTY FOUR ticks to show your Elvis love. Uh-huh-huh!


[Poll #956916]

The Rolling Stones: (link)
1. Paint It Black
=2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
=2. Jumping Jack Flash
4. Get Off My Cloud
5. Brown Sugar / Bitch / Let It Rock
6. Let's Spend The Night Together / Ruby Tuesday
7. Street Fighting Man
8. Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown
9. Honky Tonk Women
10. Start Me Up

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This should keep you all busy! I totally typed this out yesterday as today I are super-busy at werk.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I didn't come close to 34 ticks. I like some Elvis, and he was a very fine singer, but I think I overreact against him because of his overinflated rep. I dislike the fact that he is so incomparably huger than greater and more important talents, I think, such as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Ike Turner.

LOLZ

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

How does this 'laughing version' of Lonesome Tonight go?

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised by these people not ticking Always On My Mind, but Jailhouse Rock is far and away the best record on this list.

Anyone who actually manages to tick 34 of these put your hands up.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

How can 'Jailhouse Rock' be on 100% with 15 tickies and 'Suspicious Minds' be on 100% with just 14? LJ-Poll ERROR!

A lot of love for 'Return To Sender' which surprises me... I've always been a fan, but mainly because Wycombe used to have a right back called Danny Senda, and the fans used to sing 'Return To Sender' at him.

'Suspicious Minds' is blatantly the best thing the Pelvis ever did.

what else was there for me to do but cry?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

More ticks for Marie's The Name please. It's one of my favourites - so sweet and simple but heartbreaking! Poor old Elvis.

Just one cornetto

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I was flabberghasted the first time I heard 'It's Now Or Never'. I honestly thought as a child that the cornetto song was an old Italian folk tune appropriated for selling ice cream, and that that was the joke. Unless Elvis has appropriated an old Italian folk tune for the purposes of selling, er, Elvis.

Guitar Man

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

More love for this please - it's a great pop song with a fantastic twangy guitar backing and best of all, a marvellous Elvis grunt leading into the outro.

US Male & A Little Less Conversation

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Both have (a) a great tune and (b) a fantastic sound and backbeat. But can anyone defend the lyrics?

FEAR FOR THE CHILDREN

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Many of Presley's records were condemned as wicked by Pentecostal preachers, warning congregations to keep heathen rock and roll music out of their homes and away from their children's ears (especially the music of "that backslidden Pentecostal pup.")

Hurrah! It must have been well exciting as a teenager to see someone doing teh sechsy moves on the telly when all you usually got was Dean Martin wibbling on in a suit.

Burning Love

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

You should be all tickying this!

Also, why does "Got a Lot of Living To Do" sound familiar? Do I know this song, or is that a famous lyric from somewhere else? (Or both?)