Music Banter - View Single Post - Most Underrated/Overrated Artists
View Single Post
Old 10-10-2012, 07:12 PM   #1746 (permalink)
Neapolitan
carpe musicam
 
Neapolitan's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Les Barricades Mystérieuses
Posts: 7,710
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger ? View Post
I personally think Elvis is underrated.

I think the whole cult of personality thing that's grown around him with fat impersonators and all those terrible movies eclipsed the fact he made some really awesome tunes.

Who cares if he didn't write them, not many artists did then. And if people hadn't ripped off black artists there wouldn't be any rock music anyway. It's not like he's the only one guilty of it.

When you strip it down to the bare essentials the body of work he did for Sun Records was amazing. And that's all I really care about when I put on an album.
I totally agree with you.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by mord View Post
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.

"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº?
“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards
Neapolitan is offline   Reply With Quote