Elvis Presley - The Albums and Singles Thread pt3 The Seventies

As far as "Every" ...well I will do the best I can lol

 

You say that like it's a bad thing

 

Yessssss, and a fabulous one!

 

That one may be the greatest post-1977 of them all, at least for me. Top 3 without a doubt next to "The King of Rock'n'roll" and "Reconsider baby".

 

It might slow down when the hundreds of FTD titles are discussed.

 

Just think of the fun - we can rate every JD dive bomb routine from best to worst!

 

Well I wasn't thinking of necessarily going that crazy lol

 

But now you must. Or else the vengeful spirit of J.D. Sumner will dive-bomb you from beyond the grave.

 

I'll shatter his bass with my Ian Gillan Child In Time Vocal lol .... well probably not these days

 

Definitely. Even though the mainstream releases have slowed down during the last few years, there are so many releases to go through. How about discussing the essential releases only? I can try to help create a list.

 

I would certainly appreciate that, if it isn't an imposition.

 

This was aso released by Sony/Legacy(which is what I was referring to).

 

Oh wow. Covering the FTDs too? You have a good full year ahead of you, at least!

 

These are what I was looking at doing.... and there aren't too many singles that I think need to be looked at, because most are just on the albums, and essentially promo releases anyway. Correct me if I'm wrong

78
He Walks Beside Me lp
Mahalo From Elvis
Elvis Sing For Children ... and adults too
Canadian Tribute
From Elvis With Love
Legendary performer 3
79
Our Memories of Elvis Vol 1
Memories Of Elvis vol 2
80
Elvis Aaron Presley (8lp)
81
Guitar Man
This Is Elvis
Greatest Hits Vol 1
82
Memories of Christmas
The Elvis Medley
83
I Was The One
Legendary Performer 4
84
Golden Records vol 5
Golden Celebration (6lp)
Rocker
Elvis greatest Hits - Golden Singles 1
Elvis greatest hits Golden Singles 2
85
A Valentine Gift For You
Reconsider Baby
Always On My Mind
86
Return Of The Rocker
87
The Memphis Record
Number one Hits
Top Ten hits
Complete Sun Sessions
88
Essential Elvis Vol 1 first Movies
The Alternate Aloha
Essential Elvis Vol 2 stereo 57
90
Great Performances
91
Essential Elvis Vol 3 Hits Like Never Before
Collectors gold
The Lost Album
92
Complete Fifties Masters
From The heart'
93
The Double Features releases x4
Essential sixties masters'
94
double features x3
Amazing Grace
95
double features x3
Essential sixties masters two - Command Performances
Essential seventies masters walk a mile in my shoes
96
Elvis 56
essential Elvis Vol 4 a hundred years from now
The Original Elvis Presley Collection (50cd)
97
An Afternoon In the Garden
Platinum - A Life In Music
Time Life Collection Love Songs
Time Life Collection Rock And Roll
Time life Collection Movie Magic
98
Time Life Collection Country
Time Life Collection From the Heart
Time Life Collection The Rocker
Time Life Collection Romantic Elvis
Time Life Collection Rhythm And Blues
Essential Elvis Vol 6 Rhythm and Country
Time Life Collection gospel
Memories The 68 Comeback special
Time Life Collection Treasures 53-58
Time Life Collection Treasures 60-63
99
Time Life Collection Treasures 64-69
Sunrise
Home Recordings
Time Life Collection Treasures 70-76
Time Life Collection Fun At The Movies
Suspicious Minds 69 Memphis anthology
Artist of the Century
Tomorrow Is A Long Time
Burning Love
2000
Essential Elvis vol 6 Such A Night
Time Life Collection Christmas
2001
50 greatest love Songs
2002
Today Tomorrow And Forever
A Little Less Conversation JXL remix
30 Number 1 Hits
2003
Close Up
Rubbernekkin Paul Oakenfield Mix
2nd To None
2005
Elvis By The Presleys
2006
Hitstory
2007
The Essential Elvis Presley

That is essentially what I was looking at running through.
Singles are generally from those albums and seem like they can be incorporated into the conversations about any set we are on.

Please give me your input folks

Cheers
Mark

 

I'll give it a further look but that looks pretty good to me. We can probably get by with having the Time Life series as a single entry, as only the bonus tracks were new IIRC.

 

As for the Ftd's .... I was thinking of Making that two threads. The Albums and Sessions, and then the Live stuff
If we decide to go through with it, We would run through the outtakes and such from Elvis Presley, Elvis, the Jailhouse Rock Ep's etc.
If we decided to go through with it - we would run through the live ftd's on a separate thread. I would certainly need help with this, as I have possible 10 or there abouts.

Like I say, this is merely if everyone wants to continue on, and we could reassess at various stages what we want to do.

Just ideas at the moment.

 

and that's where I would need help from you guys, because I know nothing about anything there ... I have the Number one's dvd-audio and that's it lol

 

Aside from anything else don't we need to combat the Beatles are the only band that matters seven hundred threads a day?

Just joking Beatles fans, I'm a Beatles fan too

 

Also, there are hundreds of FTD releases, many that have been superseded by subsequent, more complete releases. Additionally, there are some very in-depth, informative FTD threads already in existence. @mark winstanley, a suggestion would be to narrow the FTD discussion when the time comes.

 

I'm sort of looking at it as a sessions thread...
But really it's just an idea at the moment, by the time we get there it would depend if people still want to play. I mean we've been at it over a year already

 

My vote is for discussing every FTD release on this thread, preferably in the order in which they were released, alongside other major contemporary releases (e.g., 30 #1 Hits, Close Up, etc.). The existing FTD threads are very lengthy, and sometimes the discussion see-saws back and forth between topics/releases. With Mark's format and Reference Guides, it's much easier to locate discussions on a given song/album.

 

If we did it that way, it would probably work out to be
Thread 4
Elvis the posthumous years 1978-1998
Thread 5
Elvis the FTD years 1999- ....

I guess that way we could have deeper looks at things like the That The Way It Is box and such in a release timeline order.

We can touch on superceded albums, and save the in depth for the updated versions...
Still just thoughts

 

As long as it is not a Department of Redundancy Department. I don't even see the need to include the Time Life stuff. And I would prefer FTDs have their own separate thread. On your list I have missed Great Country Songs (1996) and Heart And Soul (1995).

 

I know very little about this, so please bear with me here...what is the story here? Why did RCA junk those tapes? That makes no sense to me whatsoever.

And how do they find a tape like "Harbor Lights" and then lose it again?

 

The only reason to is the bonus tracks, most of which at the time were unique I think? Plus, at least with the bigger releases it helps put them in historical context of how Elvis was treated by his label at the time.