#0002
Next stop on my listening trip was the debut album from Elvis, one of the most influential people musically in the U.S at least. Obviously it seems like in the modern age people have completely forgotten his music, and instead only seem to know his image as the rebellious hip-waving bad boy that he was at the time. I guess I could say I was the same up until now.
I don't really want to play the iconoclast here but I just do not like Elvis at all. To me at least he seems the classic image over substance musician. Now that's not to say I don't enjoy a couple of his songs here and there (Hound Dog most notably) but overall he just doesn't appeal to me, especially on this album.
Now listening to this I can see why all the sheltered children of suburban white parents in the 50's would love this. Also I can see why the parents of those kids would find it vulgar in a 1950's mindset. But to me it just feels dated. While the Sinatra record I listened to before this or the multitude of jazz records I have listened to from this mid-50's era still hold water today, in 2016 this album just falls flat, to me at least.
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