Dok ([info]cyberinsekt) wrote,
@ 2008-02-05 13:56:00
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Eilert Pilarm - Jailhouse Rock
I'm not at my best first thing in the morning. I can usually manage a few simple phrases along the lines of "What time?" and "Need bathroom now", but overall my powers of communication are sub par. My tongue feels like a halibut, suddenly startled to find itself encased in a mouth. For Eilert Pilarm, Sweden's most famous Elvis impersonator, this what life must be like all the time.

Eilert has a problem with words. I wouldn't fault the guy for singing in an unfamiliar language, except that he tries to do this (semi-)professionally. He should at least know what the words - or indeed, any words - are supposed to sound like. To be quite honest, it might also help if he had more than a passing familiarity with the tune.

This is outsider music par excellence. Sit back, listen to his take on Jailhouse Rock, and let your jaw hit the ground. And then stick a fish in there, just because.

Eilert Pilarm - Jailhouse Rock



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godoggo
(Anonymous)
2008-02-06 02:24 am UTC (link)
Well this seems like a fitting time to thank you for bashing Elvis some posts back, because it inspired me to download and finally give a good listen to the Sun Sessions.

http://rapidshare.com/files/49517377/Elvis_-_Sun_Records_1_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/49518421/Elvis_-_Sun_Records_1_.part2.rar

Wonderful stuff, and I'm not even much of an Elvis fan (the Killer is much more my speed). Anyway, please feel free to let us know what else you hate!

BTW, in L.A. we have a guy named Kavee Thongprecha who's known as the "Thai Elvis."

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Re: godoggo
[info]cyberinsekt
2008-02-06 10:15 am UTC (link)
That's the peculiar thing I've found writing about music: whenever I praise something, it sounds ever more like mere hyperbole; when I let the vitriol flow I feel as if I'm being far more honest. It's not surprise at the amount of music I truly hate; rather at how good it feels to do so.

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godoggo
(Anonymous)
2008-02-07 03:58 am UTC (link)
Thai Elvis video here http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=495746&fr=

Personally, there's not much music that I truly hate. A necessary quality unavoidability, which doesn't apply to much these days. I do have some very bad feelings about some of the pop music of the '80s, when 90% of humanity seemed to have become truly evil, and it occurs to me that I tend to get angry when gangster rap is inflicted on me, most often via someone's open car window, but that's about it.

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