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<center><h3> | <center><h3> Elvis: The Haarlem Shuffle </h3></center> | ||
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The songs on ''Get Happy!!'' were written over a year in which Elvis can't help but have changed somehow considering the way events upset his previous poise. Broadly speaking, the lyrics seem to come from either a period of sleepless nights in the US of A, or from later, more conciliatory times back home. | The songs on ''Get Happy!!'' were written over a year in which Elvis can't help but have changed somehow considering the way events upset his previous poise. Broadly speaking, the lyrics seem to come from either a period of sleepless nights in the US of A, or from later, more conciliatory times back home. | ||
Elvis still isn't too enamoured of the modern world (and he rails humourously at the harbinger of bleakness and automation on "(I Need, I Need, I Need A) [[Human Touch]]" — which is also, appropriately, a fine tribute to The Specials), but he seems more at ease this time with the strain between his curiously old-fashioned morality and modern temptations, if only marginally less bitter at the bind he, and others, find themselves in. Try, for starters, "[[Black And White World]]": ''"I was looking at the black and white world / Trying to nail some pin up / Those days she was just a beautiful girl / Now she's plain and hung up / It seemed so exciting if you'd only put me back to back with that girl / With just a little lighting / There'll never be days like that again /Can I resist a bargain?"'' | Elvis still isn't too enamoured of the modern world (and he rails humourously at the harbinger of bleakness and automation on "(I Need, I Need, I Need A) [[Human Touch]]" — which is also, appropriately, a fine tribute to The Specials), but he seems more at ease this time with the strain between his curiously old-fashioned morality and modern temptations, if only marginally less bitter at the bind he, and others, find themselves in. Try, for starters, "[[Black And White World]]": ''"I was looking at the black and white world / Trying to nail some pin up / Those days she was just a beautiful girl / Now she's plain and hung up / It seemed so exciting if you'd only put me back to back with that girl / With just a little lighting / There'll never be days like that again / Can I resist a bargain?"'' | ||
The question seems to have been answered. But Elvis' camera keeps clicking in his head. Here's a sordid, sorry little polaroid from the sexual supermarket with music down home from [[Aretha Franklin]] and lyrics from one of the prime exponents of the wry country idiom. ''"Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches / I struck lucky with motel matches / Falling for you without a second look /Falling out of your open pocket book / Giving you away like motel matches"'' ("[[Motel Matches]]"). | The question seems to have been answered. But Elvis' camera keeps clicking in his head. Here's a sordid, sorry little polaroid from the sexual supermarket with music down home from [[Aretha Franklin]] and lyrics from one of the prime exponents of the wry country idiom. ''"Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches / I struck lucky with motel matches / Falling for you without a second look /Falling out of your open pocket book / Giving you away like motel matches"'' ("[[Motel Matches]]"). | ||
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