Elvis Sex-Change Explained

Elvis Sex-Change
Type:	Compilation Album
Artist:	Cornershop
Cover:	Cornershop_-_Elvis_Sex-Change.jpg
Released:	1993
Recorded:	West Orange, Preston, Lancs. Suite 16, Rochdale, Lancs
Genre:	Rock, indie rock
Length:	24:09
Label:	Wiiija^[1]
Producer:	John Robb
Chronology:	Cornershop
Next Title:	Hold On It Hurts
Next Year:	1994

Elvis Sex-Change is a compilation album by the British indie rock band Cornershop, released in 1993.^[2] It compiles the band's first two EPs In the Days of Ford Cortina and Lock Stock & Double Barrel.

Critical reception

Greil Marcus, in Artforum, wrote that the songs are "all blocked gestures and creative exhaustion, stumbling stabs at anger or love. It's music completely defined by its limits, and touching for just that quality."^[3]

Track listing

All songs written by Ben Ayres, David Chambers, Avtar Singh and Tjinder Singh.

1. "Waterlogged" – 3:56
2. "Moonshine" – 2:30
3. "Kawasaki (More Heat Than Chapati)" – 2:58
4. "Hanif Kureishi Scene" – 3:25
5. "England's Dreaming" – 3:36
6. "Trip Easy" – 2:59
7. "Summer Fun in a Beat Up Datsun" – 1:31
8. "Breaking Every Rule Language English" – 3:14

• Tracks 1 – 4 from the In the Days of Ford Cortina EP (1993)
• Tracks 5 – 8 from the Lock Stock & Double Barrel EP (1993)

Personnel

• • Tjinder Singh – vocals, bass, baja, dholki Ben Ayres – guitar, vocals
• Avtar Singh – guitar
• David Chambers – drums, baja

Additional musicians

• Anthony "Saffs" Saffery – sitar
• Kulwant Ghakal – flute

Technical

• John Robb – production
• Charlie – engineering
• Rex – engineering
• Kiran – drawings
• Jake – drawings

External links

• Elvis Sex-Change at Discogs.com

Notes and References

1. Book: Hyder, Rehan. Brimful of Asia: Negotiating Ethnicity on the UK Music Scene. 3 October 2017. Routledge. 9781351218085. Google Books.
2. Web site: Cornershop.
3. Book: Marcus, Greil. Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986–2014. 18 June 2015. Yale University Press. 9780300196641. Google Books.