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Released
  
March 10, 1997

Artist
  
Death in Vegas

Label
  
Concrete

Length
  
65:50

Release date
  
10 March 1997

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Recorded
  
Orinoco Studios, Milo Studios

Producer
  
Richard Fearless, Steve Hellier

Dead Elvis (1997)
  
The Contino Sessions (1999)

Genres
  
Trip hop, Big beat, Electronica, Electronic dance music, Neo-psychedelia

Similar
  
Milk It, The Contino Sessions, Satan's Circus, Scorpio Rising, The Best of Death in Vegas

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Dead Elvis was the first album by British band Death in Vegas. It was released on March 10, 1997 in the United Kingdom and on September 16, 1997 in the United States. This was the only Death in Vegas album to feature original member Steve Hellier. The British release features coloured Elvis graffiti on the cover, while the US version features a tattoo artist. The music video for "Dirt" was a minor hit on MTV's "120 Minutes". "GBH" was featured on the soundtrack for the 1998 American comedy-thriller film Homegrown.

Contents

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Track listing

All tracks by Richard Fearless & Steve Hellier

  1. "All That Glitters" – 6:34
  2. "Opium Shuffle" – 5:02
  3. "GBH" – 5:09
  4. "Twist and Crawl" (bonus track not featured on all versions) – 4:59
  5. "Dirt" – 5:52
  6. "Rocco" – 6:34
  7. "Rekkit" – 6:27
  8. "I Spy" – 4:58
  9. "Amber" – 8:07
  10. "Rematerialised" – 8:21
  11. "68 Balcony" – 5:07
  12. "Sly" – 3:33

Bonus disc (Dead Elvis Remix Sessions)

In France only, initial copies of Dead Elvis came packaged with a 10-track bonus CD, titled Dead Elvis Remix Sessions.

  1. "Dirt" (Slayer mix) – 6:33
  2. "Rocco" (Dave Clarke mix) – 6:18
  3. "Twist and Crawl" (Full mix) – 4:57
  4. "Opium Shuffle" (Monkey Mafia mix) – 6:15
  5. "City Rub" – 6:22
  6. "Dirt" (Old School mix) – 5:29
  7. "Rocco" (Dub) – 6:35
  8. "Opium Shuffle" (Dead Elvis mix) – 5:14
  9. "Claiming Marilyn" – 5:41
  10. "Dirt" (Mullet mix) – 6:09

Track 8 is the same as the album version.

Singles

  • "Dirt" (April 29, 1996)
  • "Rocco" (October 14, 1996; reissued October 13, 1997)
  • "Twist and Crawl" (April 14, 1997)
  • "Rekkit" (June 9, 1997)

    • Samples

  • "Dirt" contains samples from the MC at the Woodstock Festival addressing the crowd, as well as from "The 'Fish' Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" by Country Joe & the Fish, and "Big Mama" by Roxanne Shante.
  • "Rocco" contains a sample from "Moanin' Low" by Claire Trevor, from the film Key Largo (the main antagonist of the film is called Rocco). The sample can be heard explicitly in "Rocco (Dave Clarke mix)".

    • Personnel

  • Richard Fearless
  • Steve Hellier – Keyboards, Programming
  • Anthony Anderson – Guitar
  • Seamus Beaghen – Hammond Organ, Fender Rhodes
  • Ranking Roger – Vocals
  • Paul Rutherford – Trombone
  • Selah – Vocals
  • Andy Visser – Flute, Harmonica, Saxophone
  • Mat Flint – Bass
  • Tim Weller – Drums
  • Steve Dub – Engineer
  • Luke Gordon – Engineer, Mixing
  • Tim Holmes – Engineer, Mixing

    • Songs

    1All That Glitters6:35
    2Opium Shuffle5:03
    3GBH5:10

    References

    Dead Elvis Wikipedia
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