kalelvisj said:

No offense taken!

girl66 said:

prince is far more talented than elvis, he writes his own music, plays most of the instruments dances and produces...2 whom ever it may concern u must come 2 ur senses there are no kings on this earth only PRINCES.....

loads of artist are better that Elvis. In fact hundreds and thousands!

mozfonky said:

I am an educated person....very well educated at that.
I'm in too much of a good mood to go looking up Elvis SHIT!

dseann said:

not talking about academia, talking elvidemia, I have a problem with people running off at the lips and not knowing what they are talking about. You know your college profs wouldn't like it either.

playinthesunshine said:

Elvis is better than most of the music I hear of today.

playinthesunshine said:

Thats not "facts", thats just your opinon

kpowers said:

Thats not "facts", thats just your opinon

girl66 said:

Ok cut the bs!

On paper elvis is no where near Prince:

Every one of elvis's songs, has never been written by elvis. Not 1 song he has composed either.

Only knows 3 cords of a gutiar.

Cant play piano, etc.

Moves cant dance, has no rytem.

U WILL NEVER HEAR ANYONE SAY ELVIS'S MUSIC IS COOL! OR HEAR ANY SONG IN A CLUB!

LMAO

Sam 8)

catpark said:

Yes, and unlike you I never said fact

sambluedolphin said:

I agree with most of what you say. I do like Prince's music better than Elivis. I have all of Prince's albums where as I only have 2 cd's of Elvis's. And yes Elvis music is cool. You can't just judge music because a club won't play it "nonsense".

kpowers said:

My Facts=My Opinions

catpark said:

yes your opinions

egyptkizzee said:

I know allot about Elvis, probaby more then I know about Prince. I have never heard anything about him being a racist. Im not sure how Chuck D could know.Its interesting how this song could make so many people say that he was a racist, I have heard people mention this before. If you listend to the song If I can Dream that is at the end of 1968 Special I think you would know that there is no way he could be. He sings the song with more emoition then I have ever seen anyone sing a song.

Im not sure who is a better entertainer but they are both very entertaing in diffrent ways. The are truly both my 2 alltime favorites. People put down elvis becuse he wasnt a great musician and didnt write his own songs, he did play a little guitar and a little piano. this realy doesnt bother me much because he had a great voice and knew how to sing a song. He also had allot of input on arrangements of his livemusic. He knew what sounded good.


David

wlcm2thdwn said:

Neither is Michael Jackson...from what I heard

Eddie Murphy said he met Elvis's manager, the Colonel, and the man rubbed him on his head for good luck.

GermanHottie1981 said:[quote]wlcm2thdwn said:[quote]No I don't think Prince's greatness will ever get the recognition he deserves, because he is not White.



I think his greatness has been reconized. He's been getting praised since "for you". He's been honored with awards so many times and his in the rock and roll hall of fame.

mozfonky said:

I guess what I heard from Elvis really doesn't leave a lasting impression on me. I wasn't inspired to go out and buy his albums to get deeper into his work.
The first time I heard Prince(8 years old- I Wanna Be Your Lover), I was fixated on his music. When I "came of age" I went out and bought everything he ever released.
To me this means that Prince is better than Elvis. Plus, Elvis did
rip off alot of his earlier hits(which made him a superstar) and Prince is an originator.
I'm not asking you to agree with me, I'm just stating my opinion.
[Edited 5/13/07 13:32pm]

dseann said:

I am blessed with a mother than filled the turn table with every kind of music and it had a lasting impact on eveyrthing I listen to, and had a tremendous impact on me having what I would call a very critical musical ear.

As far as a lot of people on this board not having been inspired enough by Elvis' music to dig deeper into, it makes perfect since to me. As I said in an earlier post, whether or not the curren generation gets into Elvis' music is no real indication of his quality or impact. If so, then we would have to measure Prince's talent/quality as an artist by how the young people of today view him. There is no way after 20+ years kids today can hear When Doves Cry, Controversy, (insert early ground breaking song of your choice here...) and hear it the way we heard it.

It just seems like an unfair measure to hold an artist up to from 50 years ago, heck 20 years ago, by how much people might like him now as compared to his time of real popularity/impact.

And before anyone says anything about Prince still holding up well to todays mainstream audience...Elvis has had more hit singles in the last 5 years than Prince has...especially in the UK where Prince really has their attention right now.

To me they are both musical royalty. Seems like Prince used to have a lot to say about taring down other people...Now I am gonna have to spend the next hour listening to Lovesexy just to get to Positivity.

and on the note.

Peace out and Lovesexy.

Whether you like it or not, Elvis is an icon by, for and of white supremacy. You get rid of white supremacy, and you get him in perspective.

America is white thank god like Europe, if it wasn't then it would be the worst ghetto in the world, oh wait, we already are. Elvis is special to america thank goodness and prince is a minority midget to most, america were lucky, keep us strong and keep them in the ghetto.....

fuck elvis. prince is the baddest motherfucking pimp on earth. elvis wasnt even half as good as prince is. give it up for my man prince

JonnyApplesauce said:

Its one way of looking at it maybe from pov of how it goes down in history, but mostly the answer is that Prince and Elvis are 2 greats at what they did and thing is they didnt/dont do exact same things. Elvis's output was huge, he had huge charisma and presence , great voice and great performer, and reasonably good actor possibly better actor than Prince. Prince does have charisma and aura of his own that he is able to project through his art and he excells in various ways that outdo Elvis you might say he is better guitar player or whatever but mostly they didnt aspire to be the same things and both are incredibly unique
its quite possible to say there will never be another Elvis or Prince.

kalelvisj said:

Yo,
I found a tracked version of Lovesexy.....I can skip right to Positivity

dseann said:

Do the Ten Commandments say anything about coveting another persons CD collection?

Graycap23 said:

Diagree, he's been praised since "For You". He's loved all over the world, he's won so many awards, he's in the rock and roll hall of fame.

kalelvisj said:

Naah....only your neighbors wife or something.

girl66 said:

You know what, screw Elvis, screw Jacko and screw 'history'. Because we all know, in our heart of hearts, that 'history' (official version) will NOT rate Prince as highly as those two, and yet we also know that 'history' is wrong and we are right, and that Prince is a far greater genius than either of those admittedly-talented song-and-dance puppets.

OskarKristio said:[quote]

JonnyApplesauce said:

Nah keep it as is

PriceAndTheRevolution said:

I think that critically Prince is already viewed with higher esteem than M.J. M.J. still gets more media attention but certainly not for his music. I think that Prince is the most acclaimed artist of this generation. He isn't the biggest selling, or MOST popular, but he his highly regarded as a musician and performer.

Prince is certainly rock royalty and will have a long lasting and important legacy.

I certainly don't think it is a matter of Race that has held Prince back. He had the "Pop" world in the palm of his hand from 84-92. He was also the critical darling in the music world during this time. If anything toppled Prince from the top is was Prince, not his race.

Peace out and Lovesexy.