http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Sun, 15 Feb 2004 13:02:52 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-44757 Anthony said ha ha? It was clearly Christine that said that wimpie statement, ha ha. 44757@blogcritics.org Sun, 15 Feb 2004 13:02:52 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-43555 Anthony says "Ha Ha". That was pretty intelligent. Everyone give him a round of applause for that brilliant statement. 43555@blogcritics.org Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:14:33 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-43530 Ha Ha 43530@blogcritics.org Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:35:18 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-43244 I have a feeling that "Christine" is really Anthony. He just made up an imaginary name, like "Jose". What a brilliant guy! 43244@blogcritics.org Tue, 10 Feb 2004 02:18:31 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-43242 jOSH PSYCHO HAS GIRLS ON HIS SIDE, BOY AINT DAT IRONIC 43242@blogcritics.org Tue, 10 Feb 2004 02:15:46 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-43230 Christine, I don't care what you think. Anthony is a punk, nothing more, nothing less. Funny how you can say stuff like that when you don't even know me. 43230@blogcritics.org Tue, 10 Feb 2004 01:37:35 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-43227 JOSH ANTHONY SOUNDS MORE STRAIGHT THAN YOU AND I LIKE THAT NAME PSYCHO. 43227@blogcritics.org Tue, 10 Feb 2004 01:28:56 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-43189 Your new name is gay and it doesn't make you look tough, so quit trying to scare everyone. 43189@blogcritics.org Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:02:35 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-43184 No Josh get it through your head you will lose. I aint a punk you are. You constantly cuss and carry on like a punk. How do you like my new name. 43184@blogcritics.org Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:52:52 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-43157 You're not a psycho, you're just another punk. 43157@blogcritics.org Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:39:26 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-43156 Yes i do follow you around to every site. Cuzz like i said before i am a psyco. Thanks for showing me how to spell my new name. 43156@blogcritics.org Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:36:47 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-43118 Hey Anthony, why do you follow me to every poll and start running your mouth? Is this the only way you can feel good about yourself? Must be. Face it - Elvis had more musical talent in his finger than any rapper has in their whole body. So c'mon, cry some more! 43118@blogcritics.org Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:56:31 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-43115 Hey josh what are you some old man, talking about 50 year old songs, cmon now. 43115@blogcritics.org Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:53:35 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-41458 I have to agreet that taking someone else's song and making it your own is much more difficult than just writing your own material. For God's sake, people are still talking about his songs, some of which are 50 years old! That's gotta count for something. I think Elvis is overrated, but he was a hell of a musician, no doubt. 41458@blogcritics.org Tue, 3 Feb 2004 02:20:25 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-41412 I have to agree with you Darren.Elvis P. really could take a song and make it his own.This helps to overcome the fact that he wrote very lttle of his own material. Very few performers have a strong enough musical personality,sense of style and unique enough voice to do it.Ray Charles Al Green & Jerry Lee Lewis(who like "E" wrote little of his own material but who could make a damned meal out of another persons song)all come to mind as some of the singers able to recut a song so well as to make the original seem obsolete, irregardless of the age or genre of the tune.To wit:Rev.Al Green makes deep soul masterpieces out of Buck Owens "Together Again" and Kris Kristofferson's "For The Good Times".Digressing here though a bit aren't I? Anyway,Elvis was a great "Song Stylist" as well as a good performer and great singer,I agree with you 100%. 41412@blogcritics.org Mon, 2 Feb 2004 22:59:08 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-41382 Elvis Presley's true talent was his abilty to completely identify with a song. The emotion of the song became his, and sometimes his interpretation of it transcended or even changed whatever feeling or emotion the songwriter was attempting to convey. He was a wonderful stage performer, true, but he was also a gifted arranger. Some people on these posts are classifying him, rather disdainfully, I might add, as just a singer, or just a stage performer. The fact is, he was as well-rounded a performer as any in his generation. He didn't write, true, but let's not forget that the era of the singer/songwriter is a relatively new one in the over all history of music. 41382@blogcritics.org Mon, 2 Feb 2004 21:30:19 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-15302 Well, Natalie and Dawn, surely Elvis summed up the two of you best: a hard headed woman is a thorn in the side of man. 15302@blogcritics.org Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:34:40 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-15265 The Queen has left the building. (you rock, dawn!) 15265@blogcritics.org Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:15:17 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-15264 In Re: songwriting v. singing While it may be true that it takes a little extra talent to write your own stuff, it takes even more talent to take a song someone else has written and make it completely your own. There are only a few people who can pull it off, Sinatra, Elvis and George Strait are the 3 masters of it, off the top of my head. 15264@blogcritics.org Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:15:08 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-15261 She has spoken 15261@blogcritics.org Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:54:43 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-15256 Individual art and one's leanings in taste have little to do with mass marketing of an icon. Elvis Costello isn't a historic icon, but there is little doubt that he will find a place in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame along with lots of other people who aren't as famous as Elvis Presley. All I am saying (and I am not referring to your Three Dog Night hostility) is that there is no comparison in who was graced with the most natural musical talent, and was bestowed the most charisma. Elvis the pelvis wins the crowds, Elvis the artist wins the critical acclaim. Never be surprised by my opinions, I conform to no one philosophy. 15256@blogcritics.org Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:28:55 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-15252 Sometimes, only sometimes. I do not look to the public for affirmation of what and whom I revere. Its help is neither wanted nor needed, thanks. 15252@blogcritics.org Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:05:46 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-15249 Good point, but at the icon level the public seems to know what it's doing: Marilyn, Groucho, Lucy, Elvis, Beatles 15249@blogcritics.org Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:51:16 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-15248 Eric: To some, perhaps most. But majority is no proof of correctness. 15248@blogcritics.org Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:42:26 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/17/183442.php#comment-15246 Well I sure as hell don't find "his whole repertoire historic" -- although he has made some fine records -- and I certainly don't think he'll ever be as remotely well-known as his namesake. Simply put, Elvis Costello is not an icon, and he doesn't completely define an age or a time or a place. Never has, never will. And I'm sorry, I don't agree at all about songwriting being a superior talent to singing. Elvis, like Frank Sinatra, is, in many cases, superior to most of what he sings. My guess is that you can, over time, learn songwriting; God knows lots of people do it. But singing? Singing like Elvis? A gift. You either can do it or you can't. 15246@blogcritics.org Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:22:53 EDT