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he he he!~ But I do agree the Who are a better act then Elvis |
I never really got into either of them, so I guess I liked them both about the same.
However, I saw Elvis Costello live a few weeks ago when he opened up for The Police. So he gets my vote. |
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You want the guy that redneck inbreds like or... The nerdy looking guy you try to dress like and pretend to own all the albums of to get pussy from college girls? This whole racism thing is just guilty white people looking for a way to show their not racist. I mean was anyone else playing working class blues like Cudrupp's with disgusting pep and vigor? Say Presley at worst was too excited to add an appropriate emotion to the music and accidentally hit a nerve but when you say he wins out because of racism, it means everyone who ever liked him then wanted to see black people hung from a tree. I'm no huge fan of either but ever since I bought "When I was cruel" I was a Presely fan much more. The King. Quote:
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Please, don't try to dissuade people's distaste for Elvis Presley by saying that we're trying to assuage our guilt about racism. It is evident that Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, or Bo Diddley didn't enjoy as much popular acclaim as Presley, and not because they were worse musicians. It's because they were black. And not a fucking thing is gonna change that. Don't try to feed us accusatory bullshit, mmmkay? |
All Presley did was angliscise black music
he made boring rockabilly then boring faux operatic pop elvis costello is a fantastic songwriter |
The actual "greatness" of Elvis is definitely overrated. None of his songs are all that great (in my opinion), but I can't deny that he opened the doors for other acts such as the Who.
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The fact of the matter is that the best Elvis is The Evil Elvis, Glenn Danzig. And that's despite the fact that he's a jackass.
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Elvis Presley is kind of the Joe DiMaggio of music. His iconic status is out of proportion with his greatness, but both were definitely great.
Early Elvis music is still pretty fantastic, in my opinion. I don't think it's the best music ever, but it's easy to see why he took the nation by storm with it. And he wasn't just a copyist. He may have owed a greater debt to bluesmen then was ever recognized at the time, but he he gave that music a rock energy and backbeat. Other artists, like Little Richard, did also, but they were contemporaries (who deserved more credit than they got). Elvis was doing it at virtually the same time and deserves the same "innovation" credit. I like Elvis Costello's music, but I'll take Presley over Costello any day. At least, his earlier stuff. |
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