Talk:Elvis Is Back!

About 1001 albums you must hear

The article says this "The album also is one out of two Elvis albuns from the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, it took the 23rd place, presley's other album on the list was "Elvis Presley" which took the 2nd place after Frank Sinatra's "In the Wee Small Hours."

But such book puts the albums in cronologic order, not in best or worse album, so , there is no 2nd or 23nd place , please fix this —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.216.95.107 (talk) 20:08, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Infobox genres
There's been some activity of late on this issue, so I figured it was time to start a thread here. I can't access the Connie Kirchberg book to check that it does actually say the album is rhythm and blues, and "Poore 1998" (which is used to support rock and roll) is not accompanied by full source details. The "pop, rock, blues" that follows those two genres is cited to McCormick's Daily Telegraph article, but what McCormick says is that on Elvis Is Back!, Presley "tackles ballads, blues, rock, pop and gospel". McCormick also writes: "The superior Bobby-Sox pop is enlivened by harmony singing from the Jordanaires and precise, unshowy singing from Elvis, but the LP takes off on burning blues rockers with Presley getting down and dirty …" So, perhaps we could take "pop" from McCormick, but "blues, rock, pop [and gospel]" are in fact only given as styles included on the album – McCormick is not saying that the album is blues, rock, pop (and gospel, which we omit).

I'm afraid this was probably my error, years back, when I didn't realise that on Wikipedia, it's not a case of listing genres/styles that sources say the album covers, but only the genre(s) that sources say the album is. For instance, at Rubber Soul, one source says the album is a "pre-psychedelic era mix of 1960s pop, soul, and folk". As accurate a description as "pop, soul, folk" is, imo, it's not what we use in that article. Similarly, at the Beatles White Album, there's only the (bland) "rock" and "pop", even though that album has a vast array of musical styles. So, here at Elvis at Back!, we can take only "pop" from McCormick. As I say, I'm unable to check Kirchberg and Poore with regard to rhythm & blues and rock 'n' roll. JG66 (talk) 21:40, 2 May 2019 (UTC)