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Presley launches comeback with new CD
by Casey Kasem
Collision Entertainment Editor
Although Pittsburgh Penguin
announcer, Mike Lange has said
time and time again that "Elvis has
left the building!," the King
himself has hit the comeback trail
with a vengeance. I Have Returned
To The Building: The King is
Back! hits the shelves April Ist.
Presley's latest single, Personal
Jesus, displays the King's new
penchant for alternative music.
Twelve of the disc's 14 tracks are
covers of previous hits from a
variety of artisits. Presley brings
new life to The Bangles' Walk Like
An Egyptian, Metallica't Enter
Sandman, Billy Ray Cyrus' Achy
Breaky Heart, and Rhythm Is A
Dancer by Snap. Why Presley
chose to release a CD containing
songs of such varying styles is
unknown, much like his reasoning
for making his comeback so public.
My favorite tracks from the
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collection are Friends In Low
Places, a duet with Willie Nelson,
and Rumpshaker, a song was a hit
for Wreckz 'N Effect. The only
thing missing from the remake of
Garth Brooks song it the case of
Budweiser which makes the song
all the more better. Nelson and
Presley's voices combine to make a
velvety sound reminiscent of
Wayne Newton. Rumpshaker gives
Presley new incentive to thrust his
midsection like he had wanted to on
the Ed Sullivan Show.
The most haunting track is End
Of The Road. In the liner notes,
Elvis discloses that the real source
of the songs lyrics stem from a
suicide note that he had intended to
leave when all of us thought he had
died in 1977.
With the help of MTV's Buzz
Clips, Elvis Presley will open the
eyes of a new generation of
followers. The next single Beer
Nut Boogie, is an original and is
scheduled for release April 31st.
Pseudo-legendary
punk band returns
after 6 year hiatus
by Harry Pakoze
Collision Staff
Move over Nine Inch
Nails! Go sit on a torpedo,
Ramones! Because after a
six-year break from touring
and recording, the world's
easily most intense punk
band - The Skulls - are back,
with a new album - Your
Body is Bleeding from the
12-inch Stab Wounds I Gave
You, and a U.S. and U.K.
tour. And although you
won't see a video for their
title cut on MTV (because
they're a bunch of wimps
who are too scared to play
good music) or hear it on the
radio, The Skulls remain as
popular now as they have
since their inception in
1981. According to Skulls'
frontman and band
spokesman Mike Mortis,
their tour will prove this.
"We'll kill em' all," he says.
"Unless they come see us. It
f---ing worked last time."
Last time was 1987, the
year they released their last
album, Bang Your Head
Through the Concrete...( You
Stupid - F---). It was then
that The Skulls - Mike
Mortis, Dare Du Jore -
guitars and pig sacrifices, and
EFF YEW - bass and
enormous amounts of drug
and alcohol, lost long-time
drummer S.F. Brains to the
terrible wasting disease
known as 'Beer Nuts'. (No
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the band "stopped giving a
(censored)," says Mortis.
"We didn't feel like doing
anything." "Luckily for us,
we found Nothtep when we
did." Nothtep the Unknown
Drummer, Brains'
replacement, fits in perfectly
with the band, wearing a full
black robe with hood to hide
his face just as the rest of the
band wears masks. Why?
Who CARES? They're cool.
Cool, indeed. Since 1981,
the band has released a
number of critically ignored
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abhorred) albums including
87's Bang..., their great self
titled first album, 1984's
Live from a Basement
Somewhere in New York
City, and of course, who
could forget that great family
album, Satan's Sex Factory.
"It isn't luck," claims
Mortis. "We admit it.
We're just f---ing awesome."
The Skulls will start their
tour in May with popular
punk band Punk-is-Pump
opening up for them, as well
as another band whose name
is too graphic to print here.