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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''That's alright, indeed!'']]
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4	->''"This has been a hugely important album to me. I was always a big {{Rockabilly}} fan and a big Elvis fan, and to me this album is the purest expression of Elvis there was. Sure, there are better individual songs – but no one collection ever touched the album. When I was young, I used to think Elvis was the voice of truth. I don’t know what that means, but his voice… shit man, it sounded so fucking pure. If you grew up loving Elvis, this is it. Forget the Vegas period: if you really love Elvis, you’re ashamed of that man in Vegas. You feel like he let you down. The hillbilly cat never let you down."''
5	-->--'''Creator/QuentinTarantino''', who put ''The Sun Sessions'' on fourth place in a 1994 interview with ''Melody Maker'' where he listed his Top 10 personal favorite albums.
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7	''The Sun Sessions'' is a compilation album by Music/ElvisPresley, released in 1976 through Creator/RCARecords. It consists of (nearly) all the legendary recording sessions Elvis did between 1954 and 1955 at the Sun Studios of Music/SamPhillips. The historical importance of these sessions cannot be overstated. They practically launched Elvis' career and were fundamental in creating RockNRoll. Therefore this compilation gives you a chance to experience how music history would change forever.
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9	Back in the 1950s, due to technical limitations, these sessions were never put on one album, only on separate musical singles. Much of Elvis' albums from the 1950s and 1960s don't live up to his legendary reputation. The track-lists always lack many of his greatest hits of that period and have a lot of forgettable AlbumFiller. There's no ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' equivalent, except for ''[[Music/ElvisPresleyTheAlbum Elvis Presley (1956)]]'' and even that one doesn't do him entirely justice.
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11	In that retrospect ''The Sun Sessions'' provides a more satisfying listening experience. All the historically important and exciting early singles are here and show Elvis in his pure, raw, energetic power. No wonder it became one of the first musical recordings to be included in the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry in 2002.
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13	It is also known as ''The Sun Collection'' in the UK, and was actually released there in 1975.
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16	!! Tracklist:
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18	[[AC: Side One]]
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20	# "That's All Right (Mama) (1:57)
21	# "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" (2:04)
22	# "I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine" (2:28)
23	# "Good Rockin' Tonight" (2:14)
24	# "Milkcow Blues Boogie" (2:39)
25	# "You're A Heartbreaker" (2:12)
26	# "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" (2:37)
27	# "Baby, Let's Play House" (2:17)
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29	[[AC: Side Two]]
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31	# "Mystery Train" (2:26)
32	# "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" (2:30)
33	# "I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')" (2:26)
34	# "I Love You Because" (2:33)
35	# "Tryin' To Get To You" (2:33)
36	# "Blue Moon" (2:41)
37	# "Just Because" (2:34)
38	# "I Love You Because" (3:25)
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41	!! That's some alright tropes, mama!
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43	* AlliterativeTitle: "The '''S'''un '''S'''essions".
44	* {{Arcadia}}: The songs all have a rural country/blues atmosphere and evoke this imagery in the lyrics too.
45	* BreakUpSong: "You're A Heartbreaker", "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone", "Just Because".
46	* CompilationReRelease: The tracks were all recorded in the 1950s, but only compiled on one album in 1976. Could count as a GreatestHitsAlbum too, if only from Elvis' early output between 1954 and 1955.
47	* CoverAlbum: None of the songs were written by Elvis or his bandmates. "You're a Heartbreaker", "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" and "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" were all songs by local Memphis writers that Elvis apparently recorded first, but everything else is a CoverVersion, with sources ranging from {{Blues}} to CountryMusic to {{Bluegrass}} to show tunes and possibly even polka (while it had a long country history, Elvis may well have picked up "Just Because" from Frankie Yankovic, who had a big hit with it in 1948).
48	* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: He changes "Blue Moon" from a lush romantic song to a ghostly, ethereal ballad, eliminating the verse with the song's happy ending.
49	* FaceOnTheCover: Elvis singing and dancing.
50	* HalfwayPlotSwitch: "Milkcow Blues Boogie" starts off as a slow Blues song before Elvis orders the band to "get real, real gone for a change" and they start over doing it as uptempo rockabilly.
51	* HeavyMeta: "Good Rockin' Tonight", a rock 'n' roll song glorifying rock 'n' roll.
52	* MommasBoy: "That's Alright, Mama".
53	--> ''That's alright, mama''
54	--> ''Anyway you do''
55	* ThePowerOfLove: "Baby, Let's Play House", "I'll Never Let You Go" and "Tryin' To Get To You" are all love songs.
56	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: "I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')", where Elvis informs his girlfriend he'll be there for her all the time.
57	* PunBasedTitle: "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" and "I Forgot To Remember To Forgot".
58	* {{Rockabilly}} and RockAndRoll: The genre this album is usually classified in.
59	* SomethingBlues: "Milkcow Blues Boogie".
60	* StopAndGo: At the start of "Milkcow Blues Boogie".
61	* TonightSomeoneKisses: "I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine (I Keep My Loving In The Evening Time)".
62	* TrainSong: "Mystery Train" about a train that brings and takes Elvis' girlfriend to him.
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