Elvis Presley

With the market consistently flooded with Elvis Presley material, it's easy to get overwhelmed and intimidated by the dozens of box sets floating around. This one's essential. Chronicling Presley's rise to fame in the 1950s, the 140-track comp is exhaustive, but not overly so. All the key tracks are here (and there are many more than you may have realized). Get this.

As silly as the Brouhaha surrounding the selection of the Elvis stamp felt, it still came as a
curious relief when the young, sleek Presley was announced as the nation's choice. It was
all too easy to imagine America memorializing Elvis the camp icon, the tabloid headline, and
opting to render pop music's most central figure a punch line forever. The stamp vote was
more than a question of which Elvis is more attractive; it also concerned which... More >