Elvis Presley
Every album we have reviewed, graded S to F.
- Albums graded
- 10
- Highest grade
- Average grade
- Span
- 1956 to 1971
Every album
10 albums, 1956 to 1971, each placed by its grade, then sorted onto the board.
The records
Newest first, each with the line its review opens on.
1971Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)A proper country album made at speed in Nashville, with a strange looped fragment stitched between every track.
1969From Elvis in MemphisHe goes home, hires a soul band, sings about poverty and adultery, and makes the best album of his career.
1967How Great Thou ArtThe gospel record he actually wanted to make, in the middle of the years he was contractually stuck.
1961Blue HawaiiHis biggest selling album of the decade and the moment the film factory took over completely.
1960Elvis Is Back!Two years in the army, then two nights in Nashville, and the best singing of his life on tape.
1958King CreoleThe best of the film albums, because for once the film was good and the songs were written to be songs.
1957Elvis' Christmas AlbumA seasonal cash in that scandalised half the country and contains one permanent recording.
1957Loving YouA film tie in with a great single on it and a whole second side of odds and ends.
1956Elvis (1956)The second album of a ludicrous year, cut in three days in Hollywood and better than that suggests.
1956Elvis PresleyThe first rock and roll album that mattered, half of it cut in a shed in Memphis a year earlier.