Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:49 pm
shanebrown wrote:I have already discussed Spanish Eyes, but special mention should be made of the brilliant guitar work that is beautifully done.
shanebrown wrote:Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues shows Elvis recording a track that would have sounded great on the radio in 1974 and would have sat nicely alongside artists such as Eagles. A missed opportunity perhaps. The performance is brilliantly and subtly arranged and Elvis is relaxed and yet totally committed.
Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:19 pm
shanebrown wrote:Considering what was left in the can from Stax when this was issued, the choice of songs used is somewhat bizarre. Perhaps it would have been better to issue one funkier album and one more country-orientated record. This would have meant pulling If You Talk In Your Sleep, Promised Land and Thinking About You on to Good times and moving She Wear My Ring, Spanish Eyes and Take Good Care Of Her to Promised Land. But this wasn't to be. Promised Land will forever stand as the strongest of the three Stax albums from the 1973 sessions but, like Raised On Rock, Good Times does at least have some great moments.
Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:17 am
shanebrown wrote:Fountains Of Love also has that slight latin feet to it as well.
Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:35 am
Rob wrote:shanebrown wrote:Fountains Of Love also has that slight latin feet to it as well.
Wasn't there only one fountain?
Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:39 am
Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:40 am
Rob wrote:I'll bet there have been Latin feet in the fountain at one time or another.
Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:17 am
Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:43 pm
shanebrown wrote:Great to watch in TTWII and EOT but with just the audio the ending (especially of post 1970 versions) gets me yelling at the hi-fi!
Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:58 pm
Hav-A-Tampa wrote:shanebrown wrote:Considering what was left in the can from Stax when this was issued, the choice of songs used is somewhat bizarre. Perhaps it would have been better to issue one funkier album and one more country-orientated record. This would have meant pulling If You Talk In Your Sleep, Promised Land and Thinking About You on to Good times and moving She Wear My Ring, Spanish Eyes and Take Good Care Of Her to Promised Land. But this wasn't to be. Promised Land will forever stand as the strongest of the three Stax albums from the 1973 sessions but, like Raised On Rock, Good Times does at least have some great moments.
Nice review, Shane! It really seems RCA just cobbled together the albums without much thought in the 70's... Why did they save many of the best Stax cuts until January 75, almost a year after the Good Times release? Imagine a 12 track album with this line up in 1974:
Promised Land
I Got A Feeling In My Body
Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues
You Asked Me To
There's A Honky Tonk Angel
My Boy
If You Talk In Your Sleep
I've Got A Thing About You Baby
Help Me
Your Love's Been A Long Time Coming
Thinking About You
Talk About The Good Times
Then they could have used tracks like Spanish Eyes and Love Song Of The Year for B-sides, and Take Good Care Of Her was already out as a single... well, it makes more sense to me...
Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:11 pm
(Perhaps an implicit acknowledgement that EP knew he was up to no-good, even if he didn't comprehend the full magnitude of what he was doing to himself.)
Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:20 pm
Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:07 am
A most inappropriate album title if ever there was one. To paraphrase The Kinks' Ray Davies, more like 'Where Have All the Good Times Gone?' Like so many artists before and since, Elvis Presley had fallen victim to a genuinely pathetic fallacy, that of his own artistic invincibility. The American Studio and RCA marathons (1969 and 1970 respectively) may have produced a preponderance of excellent finished masters, but Elvis was now under the grand delusion that quantity and quality were the same.
Whatever usable material had emanated from the July and December '73 Stax sessions had already been spread far too thinly over both Raised On Rock and The Promised Land [sic] and an exhumation order on the remains failed to produce anything of genuine merit.
Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:44 am
Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:13 am
Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:54 am
ekenee wrote:He left out verses all the time. Example: if this was true then why would he include these words to "way down" when he was in much deeper trouble by that time?
the medicine within me no doctor could prescribe
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