Moody Blue
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Media Type: CD
Artist: PRESLEY,ELVIS
Title: MOODY BLUE
Street Release Date: 05/16/2000
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February 27, 2010
3:49 am
this album has a little of everything for fans and collectors, drug abuse, bad eating habits and his cronies the memphis mafia..all contributed to his unhealthy life and demise.
Rating: 4 / 5
February 27, 2010
4:24 am
I am a 12 year old music fan from Lucasville Ohio. My mom has the original blue album of this. I would say along with In person at The International Hotel Las Vegas Nevada and the Jailhouse Rock Soundtrack and the Sun Records songs. This is one of Elvis’ best. Moody Blue is like a country/rock/disco song. Everyone has heard Way Down. Unchained Melody is better than The Righteous Brothers version. He’ll Have To Go is a great Country Song originally by George Jones. I am saying all these great things about this album. Why Did I Give It 1 star? The best song on the album is the live version of the Olivia Newton-John song Let Me Be There recorded in Memphis Tennesee. This song RCA didn’t bother to put on this CD It should be between He’ll Have To Go and Way Down or on the record or cassette- the end of side 1. Anybody who gave this 5 stars has not heard the original album which is 1 million stars. I don’t mind a few bonus tracks but what you mainly buy the album for is the album not bonus tracks. There is a version avaidible without bonus tracks if you would like to hear the best song on the album. I ordered that version from The Record Shop yesterday. By the way I did not buy this version.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 27, 2010
5:45 am
In an amazing warping of truth in advertising, RCA has remastered and reissued the entire _From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee_ album, preceeded it with nine of the original ten cuts from _Moody Blue_, and dubbed the result _Moody Blue_ with “ten tracks orignally released on “From Elvis Presley Boulevard….”.” They’ve even changed the cover art! Wouldn’t it have been more effective to just delete the three forgettable live tracks from _Moody Blue_, added some alternate takes, and call it the _Complete Graceland Sessions_?
Of course, apart from _Elvis Country_, Elvis and RCA were never known for their sense of careful album planning. Enough bitterness…
These performances capture Elvis at a misunderstood period in his life. Yes, he was overweight, unhealthy, and bored with the superstar life. That did not, however, stop him from laying down consistently strong performances. “Way Down” is probably Elvis’ most convincing rocker since “Burning Love” while “She Thinks I Still Care” and “He’ll Have to Go” are two of his best country tunes since his final Nashville sessions in 1971.
Other highlights of this package include the King’s haunting rendition of “Danny Boy”, the great “Love Coming Down”, “For the Heart”, and “Solitaire”.
Unfortunately, a handful of true stinkers weigh this collection down. The three remaining live tracks from _Moody Blue_ (“Let Me Be There” was left off even though there was still plenty of room on the CD for it. Plus, it was already available on a previous live album) are generally forgettable. “Unchained Melody” is okay, but reminds the listener of the shakiness of Elvis’ final live performances. “If You Love Me” is barely decent but “Little Darlin’” may well be the worst song Elvis dared to release during the 70’s.
Finally, there’s the schmaltzy “The Last Farewell”. If “Way Down” and “Burning Love” were reminders that the 70’s Elvis could still rock with the best of them, the hideously overproduced (even by Elvis standards) “The Last Farewell” strongly supports the widely-held belief that Elvis was a washed-up, overweight Vegas crooner by 1976.
Overall, though, this is a very listenable compilation which would probably get three and a half stars it that were an option. A half star, however, was docked because of the screwed-up billing of this collection.
Rating: 3 / 5
February 27, 2010
7:12 am
All the songs from the original alblem are on here and sounds great Elvis poors his heart out on this.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 27, 2010
9:11 am
Essentially a “two-fer,” with one track omitted but the entire “From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee” added for a total of 19 tracks. You’d never know, thanks to radio programmers’ selective memories, that the King kept singing (quite well) and kept up a presence in the Top 40 up until his death. Which sadly came while this LP and the chugging single “Way Down” were on the charts in 1977.
Useful for collecting three of Elvis’ last five Top 40 singles–”Way Down”, “Hurt”, and the title track, the rest of this disc is a mishmash of good and less-good cover versions of country classics (“He’ll Have To Go”, “She Thinks I Still Care”, “Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain”) and ’70’s pop songs including Neil Sedaka/The Carpenters’ “Solitaire” and Roger Whittaker’s “The Last Farewell”. The low point of the disc is the three opening live tracks used to pad the original LP because of Elvis’ erratic recording availability and his odd behavior in general. Making citizen’s drug busts, posing with Nixon, peanut butter and banana sandwiches and all. Unless you think the King needed to sing a version of Olivia Newton-John’s “If You Love Me (Let Me Know).”
[Footnote for the small intersection between fans of Elvis' later years and readers of rock writing: "Hurt" is a relatively hard-to-find entry in "The Heart Of Rock And Soul", excellent book by Dave Marsh...]
Rating: 4 / 5