TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.2576
Elvis Presley Album Rankings
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In the Elvis Presley mythology, 1968 marks the year of the TV Renaissance, when Presley delivered a mesmerizing, passionate performance on NBC, which regenerated his career after years of kitschy movi
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Elvis Presley's second album was really his first to be conceived and cut as an album -- his debut long-player,Elvis Presley, although a brilliant record, was assembled from busted singles attempts an
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Today it all seems so easy -- RCA signs up the kid from Memphis, television gets interested at around the same time, and the rest is history.
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As silly as the Brouhaha surrounding the selection of the Elvis stamp felt, it still came as a curious relief when the young, sleek Presley was announced as the nation's choice.
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SinceFrom Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60's Mastersgave up the ghost of being a complete overview of Elvis Presley's '60s recordings, the compilers of the companion five-disc box setWalk a Mile
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Elvis Presley's legendary recordings for Sun Records had been reissued many times beforeSunriseappeared in early 1999, most notably in the 1987 collectionThe Complete Sun Recordings.
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The 1999 remastering of this classic album features the complete contents of the March 20, 1960, RCA Hollywood session plus the dawn-to-dusk April 2 Nashville session that rounded out the album, for a
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8
Western swing, blues, countrypolitan, traditional country, gospel -- if it was music that even brushed the airwaves of a Southern state, Elvis Presley at his best could make it his own, and Elvis was
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There aren't many rock albums that feature music one can honestly say changed the world as we know it, but that is, if anything, a modest appraisal of the contents of Elvis Presley'sThe Sun Sessions.
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The fourth volume ofElvis' Gold Recordswas the first of his hits compilations to be issued at a point when Elvis Presley wasn't considered a very important rock & roll star anymore (a few months later
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The originalElvis' Golden Records, Vol.
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12
FollowingTiger Man, released four weeks earlier,Memories: The '68 Comeback Specialcompleted RCA's repackaging of material recorded for Presley, and the Elvis Presley television special broadcast in De
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13
The Elvis juggernaut rolls on, gaining a posthumous momentum that threatens to make his life irrelevant save as fodder for the enrichment of various commercial entities.
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14
Elvis Presley's comeback recordings from the late '60s are generally regarded as some of the finest music he ever made, not only because they proved he could still be exciting, but because they're mus
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Like the Beatles' 1, Elvis Presley'sElvis 30 #1 Hitsaims to be the proverbial offer no one can refuse. For neophytes catching up with rock history,30 # 1 Hitswill serve as textbook and gold mine.
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This weekend, Elvis Aron Presley would have been 70 years old.
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Aloha from Hawaii Via Satelliteis a double-album set that captures Elvis' celebrated live television concert from 1973.
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An expanded three-disc collection that attempts to trump a 1994 double-disc set (Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs) by offering virtually every single Elvis recording of a sacred song,Peace in
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Good Rockin' Tonight "...if it came down to a choice between sound and feel, there was never any question which Sam Phillips, or Elvis Presley, would choose.
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Elvis had made his mark primarily via teenagers purchasing his singles.
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Jailhouse Rock , Lovin' You and King Creole are universally considered his best rock 'n' roll movies.
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27
The title says a lot, since Elvis had made his mark primarily via teenagers purchasing his singles.
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28
Elvis Presley doesn't really need more compilations -- either single discs or box sets -- in his catalog, but RCA's 1999 triple-disc set Artist of the Century does wind up filling a need, of sorts.
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29
A&R director Gregg Geller took over stewardship of the Elvis Presley catalog at RCA in time to orchestrate a series of releases marking Presley's 50th birthday (January 8, 1985).
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30
Jailhouse Rock , Lovin' You and King Creole are universally considered his best rock 'n' roll movies.
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32
Between 1966 and 1968, Elvis recorded just enough studio material to fill one complete secular album and How Great Thou Art, a far more polite (and slightly surreal) reading of traditional religious
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BMG Heritage's 2005 release Love, Elvis is not the first Elvis Presley collection released in time for Valentine's Day, nor is it likely to be the last (although, to be fair, it's likely to be the fi
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Presley cut several gospel albums over the course of his career, most of them overblown affairs.
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42
As if to make up for not recording in the studio for all those Hollywood years, Elvis took the first few years of his comeback dead serious.
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44
Gregg Geller's compilation presents Elvis totally as bluesman...and a great one at that.
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51
The first cut is "Love Letters" and it's a beautiful song. Presley's voice is all there and then in comes the schizoid background, half-funk and half muzak.
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53
Astonishingly, given Elvis Presley's physical condition, he (or his management) agreed to film a TV special in June 1977 at two concerts held in Omaha and Rapid City, SD.
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