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Revision as of 18:37, 11 December 2006 by Onefortyone (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The King & Eye is an album by the avant garde band The Residents, released in 1989. It consists of a series of Elvis Presley songs strung together with a narration exploring what motivated him throughout his career. Most of the album showed up in the Cube-E tour.
Through the perspective of a father telling his children fables about a long dead king and his songs, and a poignant string of narrative interludes - "The Baby King" - the work hints at a darker side of the Elvis mystique and questions the spiritual nature of his reign. The album "incisively portrays Elvis's life and work as a misguided abandonment of innocence in favor of a sad yet comedic Oedipal journey," writes Jim Green.
CD track listing
- Blue Suede Shoes
- The Baby King Part 1
- Don't Be Cruel
- Heartbreak Hotel
- All Shook Up
- Return to Sender
- The Baby King Part 2
- Teddy Bear
- Devil in Disguise
- Stuck on You
- Big Hunk o' Love
- A Fool Such As I
- The Baby King Part 3
- Little Sister
- His Latest Flame
- Burning Love
- Viva Las Vegas
- The Baby King Part 4
- Love Me Tender
- The Baby King Part 5
- Hound Dog
For other music relating to Elvis Presley, see also Dead Elvis, Dead Elvis (composition) and Jason Morphew's song, "Elvis Was a Mama's Boy" from his 2001 album, Not for the Faint of Heart!.
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