Rock and fuckin' Roll.

[AboveAverage484]

Springsteen and the E Street Band

 

Bob Seger

 

Tom Petty

 

John Mellencamp

 

Rolling Stones

 

The Who

 

G N'R

 

Doors

 

Pink Floyd

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Man, the New York Dolls were fucking rock and roll, without a doubt.

[AboveAverage484]

Man, the New York Dolls were fucking rock and roll, without a doubt.

No fuckin' doubt, everyone around here seems to dislike them, even though Aerosmith pretty much "stole" their entire image and sound (well, except for the cross dressing).

[Nighthawk]

Black culture needs to get over Elvis Presley, because he was all he's been said to be, no matter how much they whine. Fuck Little Richard.

A lame southern gospel singer who couldn't act or write his own songs. He sure was.

You clearly understand nothing of the mythos. The fact that he couldn't act was one of the best things about him. Ask Eddie Murphy.

[5_moves_of_doom]

Just as a note, it always really pisses me off when people today complain about how some pop artists suck because they "don't even fuckin' write their own songs" when many of the Elvis-esque acts of way back when didn't write their own material either. And these people typically love Elvis. "Dude he has SOUL."

 

By the way whoever was putting Elvis down should stop trying to swim against the tide and just accept his awesomeness.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

I don't give a shit about Elvis Presley.

[Nighthawk]

You'd look like a dork, I think, so that's ok. He's not for everyone.

 

It's not the music though, man. That's why it doesn't matter that he didn't write his own songs. He didn't have to. That's why he was awesome.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

People actually listen to Elvis Presley? Weird.

[Nighthawk]

His stuff in the 50s was actually pretty good, and like you I don't go in for a lot of that stuff. 60s was bad. 70s was campy.

[5_moves_of_doom]

His stuff in the 50s was actually pretty good, and like you I don't go in for a lot of that stuff. 60s was bad. 70s was campy.

Agreed.

 

I own his first record, and I put it in from time to time and it's relatively enjoyable, but really, it's the persona that makes Elvis so awesome. I might just like '70's-campy-fat-Elvis the best because that's when his persona/icon-stature was most interesting.

[Matt Young]

At The Drive In

What the f happened to them? I have their 2nd cd somewhere

They split up. Some of the members went on to form Sparta, while the lead singer (and maybe another member or two) created The Mars Volta.

 

The Mars Volta's new CD, Frances the Mute, is on sale for $6.99 this week at Best Buy. I got it and it's pretty good. I'd recommend picking it up.

 

As for Elvis, I was not a fan until I went to Graceland and saw everything there, heard a lot of his songs, etc. I now enjoy Elvis.

 

Some rock bands I like (although there are many more):

 

The Doors

Green Day

Metallica

Nirvana

Stone Temple Pilots

Led Zeppelin

Allman Brothers Band

Days of the New

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Guns N Roses

Black Sabbath

The Ramones

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

This might be cliche, but in terms of it..Elvis had more it than any other musician ever.

[Paul Stanley]

Suspicious Minds > life.

[rising up out of the back seat-nuh]

The live version of Suspicious Minds is enough to make me like Elvis.

[Edwin MacPhisto]

Man, the New York Dolls were fucking rock and roll, without a doubt.

No fuckin' doubt, everyone around here seems to dislike them, even though Aerosmith pretty much "stole" their entire image and sound (well, except for the cross dressing).

Really? I've never heard anyone on this board regard the Dolls with anything but giddy pleasure. And deservedly so.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

I remember starting a Dolls thread several months back, in which benoitrulz4life directed me to an old thread in which like a third of the people posting trashed them.

[Special K]

Guitar Wolf.