The King & Eye
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| Studio album by The Residents | ||||
| Released | 1989 | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde, Noise rock | |||
| Label | Rykodisc | |||
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The King & Eye is an album by the American avant-garde band The Residents, released in 1989. It consists of a series of Elvis Presley songs strung together with a narration exploring what motivated him throughout his career. Most of the album showed up in the Cube-E tour. This album was the last full-length album The Residents released before entering their "Multimedia Era."
Through the perspective of a father telling his children fables about a long dead king and his songs, and a poignant string of narrative interludes - "The Baby King" - the work hints at a darker side of the Elvis mystique and questions the spiritual nature of his reign. The album "incisively portrays Elvis's life and work as a misguided abandonment of innocence in favor of a sad yet comedic Oedipal journey," writes Jim Green.
A remix version of the album featuring a more heavily synthesised, drum n bass-type sound was released in 2004, consisting of a main album plus a three-track bonus e.p.
Omitted from the remix version were "Return to Sender", "Marie's the Name" and "The Baby King" Parts 2-5.
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