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The color choices for the text on the cover of this album are absolutely apalling.

I'd like to know why the fuck they went with them. (I know they were parodying/paying homage to the Elvis Presley LP, but still, christ.. they could have made the colors more palatable. And why did Elvis go with those colors in the first place?)

― Ian Johnson, Monday, 23 June 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Um... cause it was the 50's?

I'm sure both Elvis and The Clash are very sorry they offended your delicate sensibilities.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 23 June 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The decade it was produced in does not change the fact that bubble-gum pink and bright green look fucking disgusting next to each other.

― Ian Johnson, Monday, 23 June 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

But I thought that was the point.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c019/c01939q06b4.jpg

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Monday, 23 June 2003 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

that's totally the point. Even to Elvis. I heard that the bass featured on said cover is in the Rock& Roll Hall of Fame next to Handsome Dick Manitobsa's wrestling outfit.

― autovac (autovac), Monday, 23 June 2003 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know that it was the point to Elvis. Around that time, people were decorating their kitchens in those awful colors.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 23 June 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

people do a little history
Elvis dressed in pink and black because it wasn't cool for white people to do that in Memphis
the green was for money, cash, moola, simoleons, cabbage

actually I don't know about the green thing, I might have made it up, but the pink was totally subversive at the time, just in there to piss off the squares

no offense Ian

― Neudonym, Monday, 23 June 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"Elvis dressed in pink and black because it wasn't cool for white people to do that in Memphis"

Hmmm.... so but would that have been because the rednecks would have considered that he was dressing like a negro or because they'd have considered he was dressing like a faggot or both?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 23 June 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

both i suspect

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 23 June 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Interesting - I knew the overt sexuality of Elvis' gyrating hips was considered subversive at the time but I'd never associated him with androgeny before!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 23 June 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

HE BROKE ALL THE RULES WAHEY!!

the clash put them back together again boo

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 23 June 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

No-one really seems to give a toss about him any more.... uh.... blaaaah!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 23 June 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

elvis never meant shit to me

― chuck d. (pete b.), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Never Loved Elvis

― Miles H. (vassifer), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Elvis had an heart-attack
'cos he got too bleedin' fat
He weighed nearly half a ton
He looked more like a pregnant mum

Elvis is dead, Elvis is dead
Elvis is dead, Elvis is dead

Elvis had a gammy leg
He had a gammy head
He had a gammy kidney
He's better-off dead

In August 1977
Elvis met his fate
But he couldn't get into heaven
'cos he couldn't get thru the gate2

-- Peter & The Test Tube Babies

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Learning neat things when you're just trying to troll: Classic.

― Ian Johnson, Monday, 23 June 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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