Your Favourite 'My Aim Is True' Song
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Your Favourite 'My Aim Is True' Song
It used to be 'Welcome To The Working Week' or '(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes' but since last week i can´t stop listen to 'Blame It On Cain'. What a great song...
'So if the man with the ticker tape,
he tries to take it,
well this is what I'm gonna say'
Gorgeous sing-a-long chorus, very well performed...
Classic song. Classic debut!
'Alison', 'Less Than Zero', 'Pay It Back'... not a single weak song in here
What´s your favourite?
'So if the man with the ticker tape,
he tries to take it,
well this is what I'm gonna say'
Gorgeous sing-a-long chorus, very well performed...
Classic song. Classic debut!
'Alison', 'Less Than Zero', 'Pay It Back'... not a single weak song in here
What´s your favourite?
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Depends. If I'm allowed to count Watching the Detectives, then that one. That's one of my all-time favorites. Otherwise, cliche or no, I have to say Alison. Oliver's Army has never played a show without playing that song in over 2 years, and I never tire of singing it. It's one of the best melodies ever penned.
My favorite non-greatest hit from MAIT is Welcome to the Working Week.
My favorite non-greatest hit from MAIT is Welcome to the Working Week.
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noiseradio wrote:Depends. If I'm allowed to count Watching the Detectives, then that one. That's one of my all-time favorites. Otherwise, cliche or no, I have to say Alison. Oliver's Army has never played a show without playing that song in over 2 years, and I never tire of singing it. It's one of the best melodies ever penned.
My favorite non-greatest hit from MAIT is Welcome to the Working Week.
"'Alison' is a beautiful song that deserves to become a universal standard like Paul McCartney´s 'Yesterday'" Colin Larkin
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It would be impossible to pick one best song from this classic album. Red Shoes and Alison are undoubtably great songs, but personally I've grown to dislike (relative to other EC songs) them because they're so overplayed and especially shouts of "Alison!" at concerts tends to personify the grating, casual Elvis fan to me.
Watching the Detectives, however, is a Hall-of-Fame song that is still just as great as ever despite heavy play.
Over the years I've gone through phases in which I've been obssessed with literally every other song on this record, especially Sneaky Feelings, No Dancing, and Mystery Dance (in horny teenage times).
But I'd really want to single out Less than Zero as a truly special song -- a hint of the great storytelling-songwriting and dramatic imagery that Elvis would develop in years to come.
Watching the Detectives, however, is a Hall-of-Fame song that is still just as great as ever despite heavy play.
Over the years I've gone through phases in which I've been obssessed with literally every other song on this record, especially Sneaky Feelings, No Dancing, and Mystery Dance (in horny teenage times).
But I'd really want to single out Less than Zero as a truly special song -- a hint of the great storytelling-songwriting and dramatic imagery that Elvis would develop in years to come.
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