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Just can't give this one up

Tim Brough | Springfield, PA United States | 01/01/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is a collection of b-sides and album cuts that were left off Elvis' UK albums (the American Version is slightly different and bears the title "Taking Liberties"). It was like the early Beatles' records, in that so much material was being written and recorded, that the albums just couldn't contain them all. For instance, the UK versions of "My Aim Is True" and "This Year's Model" didn't contain the songs "Watching The Detectives" or "Radio Radio," and the US versions lost "Night Rally" and "I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea." You may want to skip this disc, since Rhino's reissues have pretty much placed these songs alongside their recorded counterparts, remastered. But it did give us EC completists a chance to wallow in some amazing songs, like "Dr Luther's Assistant" "Girls Talk" and his early forays into country, "Stranger in the House" and "Radio Sweetheart.""