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View Poll Results: Who's The Better Elvis?
Elvis Costello 18 62.07%
Elvis Presley 11 37.93%
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Old 04-24-2009, 02:30 AM   #51 (permalink)
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No, they just stole their entire "sound" from The Ramones, but at least they didn't steal songs, expect for Paul Anka's via Frank Sinatra.
They don't sound like The Ramones...The Ramones sound good.

And I did say "as far as I'm aware". Either way, they just helped prove the 'Elvis sucks' point by comparing the two.
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Old 04-24-2009, 02:31 AM   #52 (permalink)
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Preference wise I'd go with Costello.

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The Sex Pistols are also incredibly overrated.

But, as far as I'm aware, at least they didn't just steal songs.
Well for one they did and two Elvis didn't. He didn't steal songs, he credited the writers.

Presley was an original musician for his time, he recorded other peoples songs but he put his own spin on them. He did put a white face on rock n roll but you say it like that's a bad thing, he made rock n roll mainstream and paved the way for every white rock n roll musician.

The Sex Pistols were a british New York Dolls. They put a face on punk and got punk into the mainstream so they are important for that. But to call them more original and talented than Elvis is ridiculous.

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No, they just stole their entire "sound" from The Ramones, but at least they didn't steal songs, expect for Paul Anka's via Frank Sinatra.
Absolutely not.

They don't sound even remotely like the Ramones, they copied the New York Dolls. But thats stupid to suggest that every band in a given genre are complete ripoffs of the band that started it.

It's like saying Iron Maiden are a ripoff of Black Sabbath.
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Old 10-25-2022, 05:56 AM   #53 (permalink)
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Old 10-25-2022, 06:10 AM   #54 (permalink)
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Nevertheless, I would question why you would necrobump a thread from thirteen years ago to say that.
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Old 10-25-2022, 06:18 AM   #55 (permalink)
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Nevertheless, I would question why you would necrobump a thread from thirteen years ago to say that.


Hey trollheart, thanks for the concern; I listen to music on the computer at random and Elvis popped up and I figured there would be a thread for him.


I googled "Elvis musicbanter" and this is where I landed, So I then tried to like him. I gave a few listens to his songs and it's just what I remembered.

I just dont like him
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Old 10-25-2022, 01:28 PM   #56 (permalink)
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Weird though that this would be the only one. Surely not? I don't like him either, but then, I don't like, oh, say I don't know, the Fall, and I don't seek out threads about them. But whatever, just wondered. It's a pretty pointless thread, as there is about as much in common between Presley and Costello, I would say, as there is between say Jon Anderson and Richard Dean Anderson.
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Old 10-26-2022, 12:38 PM   #57 (permalink)
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In 2008? Much as I don't like him personally, I have to admit that he has never gone out of vogue. Everyone knows who he is, and he's always been popular. I doubt you could pick a time period after his rise to fame up to now when he would not be popular.
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Old 10-26-2022, 12:40 PM   #58 (permalink)
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Elvis Presley is the most overrated artist of all time.

It's rather fitting that he died on the toilet, seeing as how he was nothing but a piece of ****.


A classic Elvis blast from MB past.
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In 2008? Much as I don't like him personally, I have to admit that he has never gone out of vogue. Everyone knows who he is, and he's always been popular. I doubt you could pick a time period after his rise to fame up to now when he would not be popular.

He is gradually going down in the all-time rankings as time goes on however. Thirty years ago, he would have been considered second only to the Beatles but today, you'd be lucky to see him in the top ten. He doesn't seem to be quite as timeless as the Beatles, Stones, or Led Zeppelin as younger people seem to relate to them a bit better. Still, I imagine he'll always have a place in the music history books.
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Old 10-26-2022, 05:51 PM   #60 (permalink)
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So there's hope for me yet?
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