The King & Eye

Infobox Album
Name = The King & Eye
Type = cover
Artist = The Residents

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Released = 1989
Recorded =
Genre = Avant-garde
Length =
Label = Rykodisc
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = God in Three Persons
This album = The King & Eye
Next album = Freak Show

"The King & Eye" is an album by the American avant-garde band The Residents, released in 1989. It consists of a series of Elvis Presley songs strung together with a narration exploring what motivated him throughout his career. Most of the album showed up in the Cube-E tour. This album was the last full-length album The Residents released before entering their "Multimedia Era."

Through the perspective of a father telling his children fables about a long dead king and his songs, and a poignant string of narrative interludes - "The Baby King" - the work hints at a darker side of the Elvis mystique and questions the spiritual nature of his reign. The album "incisively portrays Elvis's life and work as a misguided abandonment of innocence in favor of a sad yet comedic Oedipal journey," writes Jim Green.

CD track listing

# "Blue Suede Shoes"
# "The Baby King Part 1"
# "Don't Be Cruel"
# "Heartbreak Hotel"
# "All Shook Up"
# "Return to Sender"
# "The Baby King Part 2"
# "Teddy Bear"
# "Devil in Disguise"
# "Stuck on You"
# "Big Hunk o' Love"
# "A Fool Such As I"
# "The Baby King Part 3"
# "Little Sister"
# "His Latest Flame"
# "Burning Love"
# "Viva Las Vegas'
# "The Baby King Part 4"
# "Love Me Tender"
# "The Baby King Part 5"
# "Hound Dog"