Songs you wish Elvis had recorded

[kalowski]

He could have done a marvelously lazy version of I've Just Seen a Face
https://youtu.be/m8LbJfC0SYM
And a pretty magnificent Ooh, Las Vegas.
https://youtu.be/kZ1X1lBTn2g - obviously, since it contains most of Elvis' "Taking Care of Business" band

[PlanktonSideburns]

Chop suey

[Pauline Walnuts]

Coprolagnia by Sutcliffe Jügend

[BJBMK2]

If the story is true that Bowie wrote Golden Years, with an eye on Elvis to record it, that would have been something special. Would have been a very poignant note in his haunted, final Vegas years.

[Pauline Walnuts]

I'd have quite liked to have hear his version of  Feels like I'm in love, but then we wouldn't have had Kelly Marie's definitive version, So I dunno then.

[PlanktonSideburns]

A disco Elvis would have been nice

[PlanktonSideburns]

Limp biscuit- my way or the highway

Coulda done a great version of that

[studpuppet]

"You suffer (but why?). Ahh, thankyouverymuch"

Alternatively, he'd have made a big Las Vegas spectacle of Don Everly's Omaha

[Pauline Walnuts]

A disco Elvis would have been nice

He was getting there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf9tJ9r7sBo

[PlanktonSideburns]

That fake Elvis version of living la Vida loca was a real missed opportunity with it's hilarious MIDI brass

[chveik]

the rite of spring

[PlanktonSideburns]

He was getting there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf9tJ9r7sBo

Man that's fab

A credence Clearwater collaboration would have been nice

[non capisco]

I'm afraid this was a regular imaginary earworm for a lot of last February.

[Pauline Walnuts]

A full on Blaxploitation soundtrack would have been cool.

[DrGreggles]

I'd have quite liked to have hear his version of  Feels like I'm in love, but then we wouldn't have had Kelly Marie's definitive version, So I dunno then.

https://youtu.be/4y2C8u-ruPY

[Astronaut Omens]

A full on Blaxploitation soundtrack would have been cool.

Fucking hell yeah, "Little Child Running Wild" from Superfly would have been brilliant. I suppose he'd already done stuff like "In the Ghetto" which is not lyrically a million miles away in sentiment but is still a bit handwringing and distant.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Rocket USA

[Kankurette]

Down With the Sickness

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

He was getting there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf9tJ9r7sBo

'70s Elvis dabbled in a bit of slinky symphonic funk too. Man alive, I love '70s Elvis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5bRvciQS9g

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Yes, he's terribly unhealthy and lost during his 'last concert' (this wasn't literally his last concert, he played a few more gigs before pegging it on the bog a few months after this), but that voice never deserted him. Fuck's sake, imagine being able to sing like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi5jjUVMK9A

Sorry. I'm feeling a wee bit drunk and maudlin. It's my 47th birthday. I've outlived The King by four years. Take that, dead Elvis.

[chveik]

happy birthday ballad!

[ProvanFan]

Chop suey

Thought this was a Maid Marian and her Merry Men reference but it's probably System of a Down isn't it

[Mr Banlon]

A cover version of The Scaffold's Thank You Very much

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

happy birthday ballad!

Thanks! Sure, this rhinestone jumpsuit looks ridiculous on me, but The Elvis Presley would probably appreciate the effort I've gone to.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

He would've definitely sang the first verse of We Are the World. And he would've closed the Philadelphia leg of Live Aid. A duet with Phil Collins on In the Ghetto followed by a tedious all star jam of Suspicious Minds.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Years in the wilderness followed by a series of critically acclaimed 'back to basics' albums produced by Rick Rubin.

[chveik]

collabs with Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift at 90 years old

[poodlefaker]

some  late Doors stuff - Love Her Madly, Riders on the Storm.

[ajsmith2]

Wurlitzer Jukebox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc45z7uCWFM

[pigamus]

Fuck The Pain Away