Elvis Presley - Essential Elvis Presley
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Free Music Review: A great collection, but...
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great collection of songs from probably the most famous and influential rock star of all time. It includes many hits, several groundbreaking recordings from his Sun days, and a few lesser known songs. While this is a great set of music, I can't help but ask why was this released? These songs have been released numerous times through the years and most avid Elvis fans already have them. Casual fans would probably appreciate the "Elvis 30 Number 1 Hits" CD better.
Don't get me wrong, this is another great collection of Elvis songs, but nothing that you can't already get on other collections. If you want an "essential" 2 CD Elvis set you can get both "Elvis 30 Number 1 Hits" and "2nd to None" for almost the same price that you can get this collection, and you would get 61 songs instead of just 40. Or if you wanted to spend a few more bucks, you could get the 3 CD "Hit Story" release.
Instead of coming out with "new" compilations every few months, I think BMG/RCA would do better by pushing some of the excellent releases they already have on the market and re-releasing some of his albums that are out of print domestically with some rare bonus tracks. Or why not release the next "Gold Records Volume 6" to catch the songs that were left off the first 5 volumes of that series? If they want to keep releasing compilations, they should at least include a remix of a song to try to attract the interest of potentially new and younger fans. Just re-releasing "new" collections of the same songs that have been released numerous times is not cutting it. They need to come up with a better marketing strategy for Elvis' outstanding library of music! It appears some of the poor management practices that hurt his career and legacy have continued after his passing!
Free Music Review: Essential
Hit: 5 Stars
Being a casual fan of Elvis, and liking more songs I had heard year by year in various places etc...when this one became available I finally decided to pick it up. Other than the obvious big hits, it has some lesser known songs for the casual fan like myself who wanted to go to the next level.
Never really been a fan of his gospel or love songs for the most part, but have taken a liking to some I had never heard like "If I Can Dream", "Kentucky Rain" (which are both up there in the top ten favs of Elvis now). "Fever" is a song I like also that just burns in a good way perhaps.
Basically, there's 34 songs on here I really like out of the 40, and a couple I could go either way eventually...plus the ones I skip. But overall this is a nice surprise since it's twice as many songs or more that I like now and most of them i had barely heard before if ever.
Free Music Review: Essential is right
Hit: 5 Stars
Sure, there are more than a few Elvis anthologies out there and, yes, there is nothing on this set that isn't readily available on a few hundred other compilations, but this one is noteworthy in its own way, and a great collection as well. Focusing less on hits than on great performances, "Essential Elvis" gathers a handful of Sun sides, the best of his early RCA output and acclaimed sides from throughout his career. You get the best of Elvis' many hits as well as critically-acclaimed album tracks ("Reconsider Baby", "Trouble", the live "Polk Salad Annie"), and that, for once, is a unique concept in Elvis reissues. Everyone will have differing opinions on what should or shouldn't have been included, and tob sure sure some great tracks have been left out, but this is a whale of a great collection of "essential" Elvis.Free Music Review: The Essential Elvis Presley
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, who'd give an Elvis Presley album less than five stars if they'd gone to all the trouble to hunt it up and order it? Of course I like it. A day without Elvis is like a summer without roses. Why we don't give every newborn an Elvis CD is beyond me. Sometimes the federal and state governments lack imagination. A nice album. I would have been happier,
though, if it had contained "A Fool Such as I". But it didn't. Neither
was "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You". Nor was there "Trying To Get
To You". But, you know, it's so cheap and sleazy to second guess the poor
guys that have to jam a major artist's work onto two CDs. The Essential
Elvis Presley is an excellent starting point for an Elvis collection.
Free Music Review: Essential Music From The Best
Hit: 5 Stars
If you were stranded on an island and could only take one Elvis cd with you this would be the perfect one.There is not a bad song on this cd and it is a good and pleasant listening mix of all of his music.You get the blues,rock,rockabilly,gospel,movies,and some live concert music.One of the best arrangements of songs of all the cds that have been released since his untimely death.If you grew up listening to Elvis music it will bring back so many memories and if you are just getting acquainted with his music you will be pleased and will build happy memories.Not a bad price.Buy it,play it once and you will not want to play anything else for a long time.You will be hooked.This cd brings to mind what all the fuss was about.