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Since english is not my native language I never bother about lyrics too.Ciscoking wrote:English isn`t my native language..so I don´t bother about lyrics..
Renan wrote:Since english is not my native language I never bother about lyrics too.Ciscoking wrote:English isn`t my native language..so I don´t bother about lyrics..
IMO this is a very good sound. The version found in the import "Whole Lotta Shaking Going On" is great!
I like his vocal in this song.
Women do love this song. I have never met one who didn't. You would get much farther with her with This Is Our Dance than you would with Baby, Let's Play House.Ciscoking wrote:C`mon Doc...you have a date with a beautiful woman....you have eaten and already drank a few glasses of fine wine.
Then the DJ plays This Is Our Dance.
I hope my friend Doc is reading this...his women fall asleep when this song`s played....obviously it isn´t the song..it´s him...Rob wrote:Women do love this song. I have never met one who didn't. You would get much farther with her with This Is Our Dance than you would with Baby, Let's Play House.Ciscoking wrote:C`mon Doc...you have a date with a beautiful woman....you have eaten and already drank a few glasses of fine wine.
Then the DJ plays This Is Our Dance.
'Bike: you have to lay off ingesting the "critical-just-to-be-critical/ opinionated-because-I-can" Robert Christgau, who I just happened to read yesterday on his site as having once dismissed "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" and "Can't Help Falling in Love" "schlock masterpieces." Wasn't it the "Colonel" himself who kept pushing to have this even then ancient song (from the '20s) recorded by Elvis? He was on to something.Greg I agree that is there is good romantic schlock ("Are You Lonesome To-Night?" is structurally as corny as it gets) as Elvis proved he could redeem it over and over. Something like "Hurt" is pure melodrama without him. However, his vocals here and on stuff like "This is Our Dance" don't have that kind of inspiration. Listen to "Home is Where the Heart Is" by comparison. He just glides through that tune using all his range, caressing and elongating words to give them meaning. Here's he more dutiful. Dutiful Elvis is better than 90 percent of anyone else but still. It's all subjective but that's how I feel.
Again, with all due respect but since when are you so defensive about balladry and light pop? You've come to the defense of the pop output of Madonna - so save some room for Elvis' Italian romp! This is another song with gusto that I enjoy, aware that it is too much in the veinn of Humperdink & Jones for some, but in small dosages, I like that, too."Heart of Rome" is a guilty pleasure of mine. Complete schlock but Elvis is having so much fun and his voice is so beautiful that I forget that Dean Martin would have rejected the tune itself.
I agree with you LTB except Hurt was done well by at least two other people and never sounded melodramatic to me. Also agree with Mojo jam and the horns and other overdubs on a song that is faded in. Instead of spending money on those overdubs he should of thought of a way to record a beginning to edit at the beginning. Sorry to repeat myself.likethebike wrote:I'm not in love with the melody here either except for the bridge. I agree the lyric is hideous. Elvis sings the hell out of it though without the level of inspiration he brought to songs that hit home. Listening to it I feel some of the same regret I get listening to some of Elvis' lesser movie songs from 1960 to 1963 where I wonder what he would have done with some superior material.
Greg I agree that is there is good romantic schlock ("Are You Lonesome To-Night?" is structurally as corny as it gets) as Elvis proved he could redeem it over and over. Something like "Hurt" is pure melodrama without him. However, his vocals here and on stuff like "This is Our Dance" don't have that kind of inspiration. Listen to "Home is Where the Heart Is" by comparison. He just glides through that tune using all his range, caressing and elongating words to give them meaning. Here's he more dutiful. Dutiful Elvis is better than 90 percent of anyone else but still. It's all subjective but that's how I feel.
I agree with the argument posted here that "Love Letters" brought the momentum of the comeback to a halt. I would include the 1971 singles in there as well which with the exception of "I'm Leaving" and the 1970 released and recorded "I Really Don't Want To Know" were really dull and hookless. (When sometime board poster and critic did his essential review of Elvis' ouevre in Goldmine in 1997, making this same point he called those singles "staggeringly dull.) Not only did those records destroy his critical momentum but they destroyed his commercial credibility as well.
I think LL was an album released to meet only contractual demands. It is no less of a hodgepodge than Elvis Now or Elvis Fool because these songs are left overs. They're songs Elvis sang to get to where he was going to get "Elvis Country" and "That's the Way it is". That was kind of his woodshed way of working that he often used dating back to Sun. If those albums were "That's All Right Mama" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky", LL was "I Love You Because" or "Harbor Lights". I do agree that because it came from the sessions it's a little more coherent than Elvis Now or Fool even though I feel Fool has more individual moments. I also agree that Elvis' vocals generally make it listenable if nothing else.
The only real highlights for me are the remake of "Love Letters" which is quite a treat IMO. Some have commented that Elvis didn't change too much from the 1966 recording but this is quite a rethink to my ear with Elvis singing in a much hoarser voice and more aggressively using melisma. Where in 1966 he went for grace, here he goes for pure eroticism and largely achieves it. It's almost erotic desperation. I wouldn't say it's superior to the 1966 recording but it's more original and it stands as a separate achievement. It makes me wish that Elvis would have or would have time to revisit some of his other songs in a serious studio context in later years.
The other highlight is Mojo even with Felton's overwrought overdubs. The humor and rural edge on that track might have fit on "Elvis Country" maybe right next to "I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water" although it's not quite a perfect fit. It has the same kind of abandon that "Muddy Waters" has but it's lighter and less edgy and miles away from the rueful character of that album. Perhaps it could have been a single with "Muddy Water" on the flip. (I think Water is a better song but I put it on the B because it is a second trip to the Elvis Country single mine.) A double sided rocker by Elvis in 1971 that would have caused some commotion.
"Heart of Rome" is a guilty pleasure of mine. Complete schlock but Elvis is having so much fun and his voice is so beautiful that I forget that Dean Martin would have rejected the tune itself.
It's a little too Elvis Humperdink for my taste. But then I'm not a womanRob wrote:Women do love this song. I have never met one who didn't. You would get much farther with her with This Is Our Dance than you would with Baby, Let's Play House.Ciscoking wrote:C`mon Doc...you have a date with a beautiful woman....you have eaten and already drank a few glasses of fine wine.
Then the DJ plays This Is Our Dance.
Oh boy nit picking a typo!!1drjohncarpenter wrote:You didn't answer my question. You posted this gem:sam wrote:per·sua·sion : A party, faction, or group holding to a particular set of ideas or beliefs.
Do we know what "persuation" is???sam wrote:But do we know what persuation the Doc is???
DJC
I was bristling more at Robert Christgau's "The World According To Me" approach but having read more of his criticism on other subjects, I have to say he's a brilliant writer, even when I don't share his biases.likethebike wrote:I don't necessarily think it's being opinionated for its own sake to point out that there are well written ballads and corny ballads and that sometimes Elvis redeemed corny ballads magnificently.. .
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