Suspicious Minds - Viva Elvis Version (2010)
For those in the United States, the Viva Elvis remix version of “Suspicious Minds” is now available for download from iTunes. They’ve knocked this one of out the ballpark, folks. Fantastic job. Looking forward to the full album in November.
Go to iTunes to download “Suspicious Minds” (Viva Elvis Version).
Update: The new “Suspicious Minds” single is also available on Amazon.
Sony has unveiled a new website, www.suspicious-minds.com, to promote the November release of Viva Elvis: The Album – which features remixed versions of Elvis classics like “Suspicious Minds.” Five song samples are available there by default. You can hear more if you share the page on Facebook or Twitter. (Hint: Or you could just go to Amazon’s Elvis page and listen to all of the samples.) Two or three of the samples sound amazing, two or three sound like total duds, and the others are probably somewhere in between. We’ll have to hear the whole album to find out for sure, though. It hits stores November 9. Internationally, there will be several different variations available.
Thanks to a YouTube link posted on the sidebar of the Elvis Today blog, I just heard the Viva Elvis remix version of “Suspicious Minds” for the first time.
To say the least, it was incredible. Viva Elvis-The Album has now gone from being a release I was mildly interested in to a must-have due to this fantastic, modern-sounding version of “Suspicious Minds.”
Do not take “remix” the wrong way. This is not a sound-effects-filled dance remix like the JXL version of “A Little Less Conversation” (which, incidentally, I loved), but instead is a fresh take on the background to the original vocals – sounding closer to what one might imagine an Elvis song would be like if he recorded in 2010.
The album hits stores in November, though the “Suspicious Minds” single is apparently out in some locations now.
This may be yet another game-changer for the Elvis legacy.
I mentioned a trailer for Viva Elvis: The Album in my review of Elvis On Tour: 75th Anniversary Celebration. I’ve finally had a moment to find that trailer online. It really is something incredible – maybe the best Elvis trailer I’ve ever seen. It shows a lot more creativity and artistic inspiration than most Elvis promos.
Who knows how the actual album content will be, but this trailer is just fun to watch.
Check it out.
Viva Elvis: The Album hits stores in November. The Viva Elvis Cirque du Soleil show, now playing in Vegas, looks awful – but its soundtrack has my attention so far.
The Mystery Train 