Elvis has nothing on Eminem. Elvis didn't even write his own music or lyrics. Eminem will be around for a long time.
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:19:38 EST SonataPathetique@aol.com wrote:
Elvis has nothing on Eminem. Elvis didn't even write his own music or lyrics. Eminem will be around for a long time.
That's a twisted way of looking at things. You seem to assume that somebody who writes his own songs is higher of the achievement scale that somebody who interprets them, and this regardless of the respective quality of the composer and interpret? With such argument, you can almost throw away all classical music business and a long line of fantastic performers who felt that interpreting great music (written by others) was better that trying to write mediocre ones. I wish Emanem (who BTW I don't know) to stick around for long, and not to become one more flavor of the month artist whose records will pile at Salvation Army. Patrice (who prefers a good interpret to a mediocre composer).
on 11/13/02 8:19 AM, SonataPathetique@aol.com at SonataPathetique@aol.com wrote:
Elvis has nothing on Eminem. Elvis didn't even write his own music or lyrics. Eminem will be around for a long time.
You're so right. Composing is the only way in which a musician can have credibility. Sinatra, Crosby, Sarah Vaughan, and Louis Armstrong didn't compose their own music either, and, as a result, their stuff is over-rated and will probably soon die away, unlike Eminem, who is truly eternal. Elvis presley was not all that great. The SUN SESSIONS are not an epochal moment in American music history. Eminem, however, is the truth and the light. skip h NP: Elvis Presley, The Complete 1950's Recordings (box set)
ouch, Skip. i think you just broke my sarcasm detector. on 11/13/02 8:19 AM, SonataPathetique@aol.com at SonataPathetique@aol.com wrote:
Elvis has nothing on Eminem. Elvis didn't even write his own music or lyrics. Eminem will be around for a long time.
You're so right. Composing is the only way in which a musician can have credibility. Sinatra, Crosby, Sarah Vaughan, and Louis Armstrong didn't compose their own music either, and, as a result, their stuff is over-rated and will probably soon die away, unlike Eminem, who is truly eternal. Elvis presley was not all that great. The SUN SESSIONS are not an epochal moment in American music history. Eminem, however, is the truth and the light. skip h
on Wed, 13 Nov 2002 09:05:03, skip Heller wrote:
The SUN SESSIONS are not an epochal moment in American music history. Obviously, Elvis didn't "create" Rock N Roll, he was just one of a number of artists drawing inspiration and influence from 2 different cultures around the early/mid fifties. But the passion and energy in his interpretations of songs like "Mystery Train", "Tryin' to get to you" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky" put him streets ahead of his contemporaries and made him an inspiration to later artists such as The Beatles, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Bruce Springsteen, U2, the list goes on . . . Popular Music and Music in general, would be a barren and desolate place without any of the above artists. I can't say the same for eminem.
NP: Elvis Presley, The Complete 1950's Recordings (box set) Without doubt, the best Presley compilation ever . . .
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