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I picked up How Great Thou Art a few days ago, but only listened through today. Its beautiful.

ye i have that on vinyl.

i grew up with that 8-track! there are so many good songs on that one. as a kid "Run On" was my favorite. i think "Where No One Stands Alone" would be my favorite now.

i'm gonna get it out and get back to you.. it's been in the backlog of albums for a while..

So what's the quintessential best of compilation album?

one i've played a few times lately that's worth a mention imo is Elvis in the 70s: 28 great songs

EDIT: well ye i had a listen to How Great Thou Art & Run On stood out as one of the best.. but pretty much side 2 (bar for the last 2 tracks) just made me want to get up & party.. which is funny considering it's a religious album

I picked up How Great Thou Art a few days ago, but only listened through today. Its beautiful.

ye i have that on vinyl.

watched mad max for the first time in ages recently. haven't seen #2 in quite a while.

Anyone here seen Romper Stomper, Russell Crowe's early aussie film? I heard it was the inspiration for American History X. The first time I saw RS I was very young, i recall it was so bloody & violent. But when i watched it again recently it didn't seem so. Aint it funny how perceptions change.. maybe it's cause back then the levels of acceptable violence were so much lower and these days we are climatised to it more.

Frank Sinatra.. under my skin

I watched El Mariachi

doesnt count

well that's about the extent of my familiarity with the term.. that and of course the references in Once Upon a Time in Mexico..

Don McLean wrote American Pie about Buddy. Buddy had a grand vision, he would've stood alongside Martin Luther King jnr.

liked U2 early stuff more.. Bono became too mephisto for my liking, and then he just fell in love with his alter ego.. they kinda got caught in a vortex at the end, but i do like several of their tracks.

RHCP are pretty earthy.. i like that. cool guys.

kevin.. the resident techy :krider:

he said was he was in the studio working on a track with Adam Levine (lead singer of Maroon 5).

I'm not saying you're lying....... but I sincerely hope you are.....!

LA

Ha, yeah it didn't sound like a great idea to me at first either, but I got faith in Slash. If done right it could be pretty cool and also it would attract quite a bit of attention since his band is pretty popular these days.

Maroon 5 aint THAT bad.. not their greatest fan but i think they have somethin unusual about them..

i love the way he just has it in him.. no props, no gimmicks.

whatever "IT" is, he had "IT".

to be sure.. that's what makes him stand out.

ha ha ha, ye. i have seen that before, ages ago. i love the way he just has it in him.. no props, no gimmicks. For a white guy.. a legend indeed. (NOT being racist )

~ i like elvis' studio version best of his renditions.

me too. i love the way the guitar and the hand claps sound. i wish he would have added the slowed down boogie ending that he did on the Milton Berle Show though.

i didn't watch it all the way.. will have to have a look. slowed down boogie sounds good

oh my God, that's the best part. go watch it now. that's the part that got him in such hot water for being "lewd".

am pm'ing at the same time Am onto it .........

... oops

wow, big mama thornton rocks. i wish the soul of humanity would get filled again

~ i like elvis' studio version best of his renditions.

I watched El Mariachi

.. he coulda been leading em or at least been like...the elder statesmen, the elder of the tribe of rock n roll instead of being on the outside trying to bring down something he created or was instrumental in creating although having said that, rock n roll was bigger than Elvis and it always was.

rock and roll has blues roots going back to the turn of the century.. probably even before. Elvis bought that into the mainstream in a commercially likeable way. Maybe that's what he didn't like about it, after all the greedy hands came in.

Elvis' talent drove him, i doubt there woulda been anything else he could've done in his life.. he was on a collision course with stardom.

Does anyone feel that Elvis should be seen in a lesser light given that he didn't write any of the songs that he performed?

no, no at all. elvis could sing, really sing.

Yeah, that's the one thing I still don't understand. Why did he listen to the Colonel so much? HE WAS FUCKING ELVIS! Not to mention the Colonel wasn't even an american citizen at the time and in the country illiegally I think.

i always thought he was american.. my bad. where was he from?

He lied for many years saying he was from the US, but he was actually born in The Netherlands.

I don't get why Elivs listened to him so much (and gave him such a high percentage of $) and supposedly wouldn't fire him because he didn't like direct confrontation.

shame about that. sad to think where Elvis' life would've gone otherwise. i rly don't know all that much about the goings on in his private life.

Yeah, that's the one thing I still don't understand. Why did he listen to the Colonel so much? HE WAS FUCKING ELVIS! Not to mention the Colonel wasn't even an american citizen at the time and in the country illiegally I think.

i always thought he was american.. my bad. where was he from?

am listening to Burning Love atm

(sorry this is off-topic, one of my sons looks like Elvis:)

nah, i took em off. i never asked his permission

it's impossible to have a fave, but i like denial revisited, and vultures.. from Conspiracy of One; Tehran from their self titled; dirty magic from Ignition; and Lightning Rod from Splinter. These are probably my faves all round.

she's got issues, gone away.. and the OP song all good.

Conspiracy of One is actually a good album to start with.

The King still lives on!

On a somewhat side note: I often find myself wishing that they would've let Elvis do some "real" movies. I think he could've been a really good actor with some material with substance.

the one that really irks me was "A Star Is Born". he was offered that role in person by Barbara Streisand in 1975. he would have had to clean up off the drugs and lose some weight. he was willing to do it for that role. those close to him said he was so excited at doing that movie but the Col. made him turn it down because he was gonna be second billing behind Barbara. Elvis might still be alive today if he'd made that movie. when that film was a smash hit and Kris Kristofersen won an Academy award for the role Elvis turned down, it sent Elvis spiraling faster and further down that dark road that eventually claimed his life. damn shame.

wow.. i never knew that

~ the Colonel sounds suss now

i have several offspring albums from their first self-titled to splinter (which i quite liked) offspring rock.. my little boy knows heaps of their songs. This song, i believe, was written about dex's first wife who was killed in a car wreck. They're a sick band. I can see how they would be considered same-ish by some, but at least they're not irritatingly same-ish like the foo fighters.

SnakeEyes: .. anywhere man, really. i reckon.