Elvis in Memphis and The Stooge's Fun House

These come in at 191 and 192 on the best of all time list via Rolling Stone. I had never listened to Fun House before. I assumed it would be a wreck given its age and the fact that it’s basically a live in the studio album. Turns out going in with such lowered expectation was a good thing as it’s a fun record. It’s art-punk-pop before there were was anything like that in rock music. It’s raw, it’s brash and it goes there. It’s worth a listen, but yeah, it’s pretty dated sounding. You may not give it more than a spin or two.

Elvis in Memphis is really all you need to know about the King in his later years. Solid musicians performing a set of material that shows everything the man could do. Is it that good? I would put an early hits collection up there before this. The raw originals show off what the excitement was about this man, while this is just a solid selection of work from an industry veteran. Still, it’s worth a listen, but I wanted to go back to the original singles more than anything.