The four-CD box-set Platinum was released to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Elvis's death. While much of the material here is made up of familiar hits, there are also 77 unreleased performances spread over the set. Of course, unreleased doesn't necessarily mean better. The original versions of "Heartbreak Hotel," "Rip It Up," and "That's All Right" are so firmly embedded as the foundations of rock & roll that the new versions here add little luster. But what makes Platinum a real treasure-trove is hearing Elvis off mic, whether off-duty or working up songs in the studio prior to recording. Disc 1 1. I'll never stand in your way 2. That's alright 3. Blue moon 4. Good rockin' tonight 5. Mystery train 6. I got a woman 7. Heartbreak Hotel 8. I'm counting on you 9. Shake rattle and roll/Flip flop and fly 10. Lawdy Miss Clawdy 11. I want you I need you 12. Hound dog 13. Don't be cruel 14. Rip it up 15. Love me tender 16. When the saints go marching in 17. All shook up 18. Peace in the valley 19. Blueberry Hill 20. Teddy bear 21. Jailhouse rock 22. New Orleans 23. I need your love tonight 24. Big hunk o'love Disc 2 1. Stuck on you 2. Fame and fortune 3. It's now or never 4. It feels so right 5. Mess of blues 6. Are you lonesome tonight 7. Reconsider baby 8. Tonight is so right for love 9. His hand in mine 10. Milky white way 11. I'm coming home 12. I feel so bad 13. Can't help falling in love 14. Something blue 15. Return to sender 16. Bossa nova baby 17. How great thou art 18. Guitar man 19. You'll never walk alone 20. Oh how I love Jesus 21. Tennessee waltz 22. Blowin' in the wind 23. I can't help it 24. I'm beginning to forget you 25. After loving you Disc 3 1. Tiger man 2. When my blue moon turns to gold again 3. Trying to get to you 4. If I can dream 5. In the ghetto 6. Suspicious minds 7. Power of my love 8. Baby what you want me to do 9. Words 10. Johnny B Goode 11. Release me 12. CC rider 13. Wonder of you 14. Sound of your cry 15. You don't have to say you love me 16. Funny how time slips away 17. I washed my hands in muddy water 18. I was the one 19. Cattle call 20. Baby let's play house 21. Don't 22. Money honey 23. What I'd say 24. Bridge over troubled water Disc 4 1. Miracle of the rosary 2. He touched me 3. Bosom of Abraham 4. I'll be home on Christmas day 5. For the good times 6. Burnin' love 7. Separate ways 8. Always on my mind 9. American trilogy 10. Take good care of her 11. I've got a thing about you baby 12. Are you sincere 13. It's midnight 14. Promised land 15. Steamroller blues 16. And I love you so 17. Trouble 18. Danny boy 19. Moody blue 20. Hurt 21. For the heart 22. Pledging my way 23. Way down 24. My way 25. Jaycess speech (excerpt)
