The King & Eye
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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.
[edit] 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
| The Residents | |
|---|---|
| Album era (1972-1980) | |
| Meet the Residents (1974) | Not Available (1974, released 1978) | The Third Reich 'n' Roll (1976) | Fingerprince (1976) | Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978) | Eskimo (1979) | The Commercial Album (1980) | |
| Performance era (1981-1990) | |
| Mark of the Mole (1981) | The Tunes of Two Cities (1982) | Intermission (1983) | George & James (1984) | Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? (1984) | The Big Bubble (1985) | Stars & Hank Forever (1986) | God in Three Persons (1988} | The King & Eye (1989) | |
| Multimedia era (1991-1996) | |
| Freak Show (1991) | Gingerbread Man (1994) | Bad Day on the Midway (1995) | Have A Bad Day (1997) | |
| Band era (1997-2005) | |
| Wormwood (1998) | Icky Flix (2001) | Demons Dance Alone (2002) | Animal Lover (2005) | |
| Storyteller era (2006-present) | |
| The River of Crime (2006) | Timmy (2006) | Tweedles (2006) | |
| Related articles | |
| Snakefinger | N. Senada | Vileness Fats | Ralph Records | |
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!.
