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What's wrong with me?
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree
My friends say I'm actin' wild as a bug
I'm in love
I'm all shook up
Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm
Yeah yeah yeah
Oh well my hands are shaky
And my knees are weak
I can't seem to stand on my own two feet
Who do you thank when you have such luck?
I'm in love
I'm all shook up
Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm
Yeah yeah yeah
Well please don't ask me what's on my mind
I'm a little mixed up, but I feel fine
When I'm near that girl that I love best
My heart beats so, it scares me to death
She touched my hand
And what a chill I got
Her lips are like a volcano that's hot
I'm proud to say that she's my buttercup
I'm in love
I'm all shook up
Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm
Yeah yeah yeah
My tongue gets tied when I try to speak
My insides shake like a leaf on a tree
There's only one cure for this body of mine
That's to have that girl that I love so fine
She touched my hand
And what a chill I got
Her lips are like a volcano that's hot
I'm proud to say that she's my buttercup
I'm in love
I'm all shook up
Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm
Yeah yeah yeah
Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm
Yeah yeah yeah
I'm all shook up
Interesting how a song about such intense emotion is so devoid of those feelings, just a casual bebop tune. I guess that's why hard rock and R&B got so big in the 1970s, it wasn't devoid of any of that. Just pulling a random song from memory, compare "All Shook Up" to "Kiss You All Over" by Exile, we went to that in just 20 years. Kind of fascinating seeing music evolve.
It's the recording industry. Even if Elvis felt the lyric(s), especially in the 1950s, expressing feeling in the music, or at least the "new" rock music, wasn't important. It was all about the delivery. Elvis delivered.
Huh, I'm a bit surprised by the apparent low ratings for EP songs. Yeah, he was an early version of Bieber, and most of his songs are pretty thin; still, this one is a CLASSSIC. I've rated it a 9 although it's probably more like an 8.x
Long Live RP!!
Sorry, but everything the King did is a perfect 10!!!!
I dunno. 7=Quite Likable, but not 8=Most Excellent or 9=Outstanding, and also better than 6=Pretty Good. Most of the detraction is the comments, not the ratings. It's an 8 for me.
I grooved to the segue into this from Paul Simon's "Graceland". As for "an early version of Bieber"? Yeah, they were both pop sensations, bad boys, and had "unfortunate experiences" with addictive substances. But Bieber has adopted styles that others also have adopted. Elvis became popular for doing things that no "popular" (=white) artist was doing. Heavens, just look at the top songs from 1955, before Elvis hit the scene. Cover artists like Pat Boone made "black music" "respectable" (his cover of "Ain't that a Shame" was #9 in 1955). Forgive me for editorializing, and I'm not really an Elvis fan, but as cultural phenomenon, Elvis really is The King!
All the unbelievable Black Musicians, Elvis, The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
bluejay08003 wrote:
I dunno. 7=Quite Likable, but not 8=Most Excellent or 9=Outstanding, and also better than 6=Pretty Good. Most of the detraction is the comments, not the ratings. It's an 8 for me.
I grooved to the segue into this from Paul Simon's "Graceland". As for "an early version of Bieber"? Yeah, they were both pop sensations, bad boys, and had "unfortunate experiences" with addictive substances. But Bieber has adopted styles that others also have adopted. Elvis became popular for doing things that no "popular" (=white) artist was doing. Heavens, just look at the top songs from 1955, before Elvis hit the scene. Cover artists like Pat Boone made "black music" "respectable" (his cover of "Ain't that a Shame" was #9 in 1955). Forgive me for editorializing, and I'm not really an Elvis fan, but as cultural phenomenon, Elvis really is The King!
***I totally agree with how badass Elvis was for his time. And he served in the military which was pretty cool too. And then he got TOO BIG (double entendre there...) and shit came crashing down....
I also liked the Graceland → the KING segue...BillG's a freaking genius at those segues, eh? Even the obvious ones. And you're right about how it used to be in America.... White vs. Black (Pat Boone vs. Little Richard) and then came the black sounding white guy and the music started to meld (as it should!) and yeah...Long Live RP!!
Huh, I'm a bit surprised by the apparent low ratings for EP songs. Yeah, he was an early version of Bieber, and most of his songs are pretty thin; still, this one is a CLASSSIC. I've rated it a 9 although it's probably more like an 8.x
Long Live RP!!
I dunno. 7=Quite Likable, but not 8=Most Excellent or 9=Outstanding, and also better than 6=Pretty Good. Most of the detraction is the comments, not the ratings. It's an 8 for me.
I grooved to the segue into this from Paul Simon's "Graceland". As for "an early version of Bieber"? Yeah, they were both pop sensations, bad boys, and had "unfortunate experiences" with addictive substances. But Bieber has adopted styles that others also have adopted. Elvis became popular for doing things that no "popular" (=white) artist was doing. Heavens, just look at the top songs from 1955, before Elvis hit the scene. Cover artists like Pat Boone made "black music" "respectable" (his cover of "Ain't that a Shame" was #9 in 1955). Forgive me for editorializing, and I'm not really an Elvis fan, but as cultural phenomenon, Elvis really is The King!
Huh, I'm a bit surprised by the apparent low ratings for EP songs. Yeah, he was an early version of Bieber, and most of his songs are pretty thin; still, this one is a CLASSSIC. I've rated it a 9 although it's probably more like an 8.x
Long Live RP!!
Funny you should ask. Joe Fassler at The Atlantic wrote on this very subject:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/06/why-songwriters-shouldnt-separate-words-and-music/372945/
I agree there isn't anything that makes this good. I have the sound turned off.
Was never a fan...I did enjoy the parody involving constipation..."I'm all backed up"...
Well, I don't agree, but you made me chuckle.
I agree there isn't anything that makes this good. I have the sound turned off.
Well, I don't agree, but you made me chuckle.
Today is the day we lost you all those years ago... Dad, I miss you so much... just wanted to let you know that I am thinking about you and I love you...
Elvis Aaron Presley, January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977
Today is my father's 79th birthday... everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches worships you, father... today, we will be very Elvish— elves for Elvis...
hope everyone in paradise has a marvelous birthday this year...
love you and miss you so much, father... we all look forward to your eternal return when you will sing like an angel for the world once more... amor fati...
Love to hear you sing, dad... miss you to this day... everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners in Graceland... love this song... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
Big Mama Thornton — Hound Dog
Elvis Presley — All Shook Up
Yep, I see what ya did there ..
It is so wonderful to hear you sing, oh my father! Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing!
Love you so much, Dad! So wonderful to hear you sing like an angel... love this song...
Everybody in my church loves this song...
miss you so much, dad...