Lunatics and Poets

Red Elvises
Shooba-Doobah Records
General | Jan 2005

Reviews

Mor
Reviewed 2005-02-03
Russian Rokenrol Revolution! Shake all your hipster cynicism. All of it! Take off that trucker hat – god, you’re so 2004. HAVE SOME FUN. The Red Elvises are Siberian ex-pats living in LA doing old style rock, rockabilly and surf with silly, fun lyrics and un-ashamed Russian accent. If you haven’t seen an entire venue full of people dancing in a show in SF (not nodding their heads – really dancing) – you haven’t seen the RE’s live. Guitars, a 4-foot wide red balalaika, brass, grand synths sound… those guys lash it all out in the solos, check it out: 2, 3, 4, 9 (FCC: 2, 9, make a call on 4).

1. Sound recording: ocean, seagulls.
2. *FCC ("Bullshit") Bouncy, silly, fun! *
3. * Mid/up tempo, long instrument solos at the end. *
4. ** Upbeat piano hoochie-koochie rocking blues, FCC-borderline ("I've got a condom in my pocket… gonna find me pretty girl") check out Pink Floyd homage. Hilarious. **
5. Sound recording: Wind
6. Silly winter reggae.
7. Dramatic, breakup song, surfy, big, trumpets, upbeat, Japanese… ha…
8. Quiet, slow, accordions, violin, Parisian/Eastern Europe cabaret, the sad sorry of a Phuket Geisha…
9. * FCC("Fuck", repeated) Mid tempo: this is the most hilarious indie-rock spoof I have ever heard. *
10. Mid tempo surfy.
11. mid tempo.
12. Sax, tacky, islands, tiki. Party song if there ever was one.
13. Sound recording: the woods.

Recent airplay

Tchaikovski
Venice, Usa, Ocean
summer ducksJul 23, 2007
Venice, Usa, Ocean
Mood SwingsOct 10, 2006
Night Butterfly
the evil TwinsApr 12, 2006
Love Rocket
knifefishhappyhourMar 27, 2006
Love Rocket

Charting

2005-02-06 — 2005-04-10
Week EndingAirplays
Mar 20 1
Mar 13 3
Mar 6 3
Feb 27 1
Feb 20 4
Feb 13 4

Track listing

1. Ocean
2. Venice, Usa
3. Night Butterfly
4. Love Rocket
5. Wind
6. Winter Reggae
7. Ticket to Japan
8. Memoirs of Phuket Geisha
9. Juliet
10. Tchaikovski
11. Party Like a Rock Star
12. This Music Is Wasted If We D