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dhinojosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 09:58 AM
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Poll question: Elvis VS The Beatles
Ok. You know the drill. Stuck on a deserted island again, it's only you , a sexy partner, and all the rum colada drinks and bbq you can handle.

But you can only choose one. What will it be....
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 09:59 AM
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1. Elvis is great...
...but the Beatles' catalog is more varied. Having only the Fab Four wouldn't drive you nuts as quickly.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 10:01 AM
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2. Beatles - By A Billion Light Years
Far more diversity in the music and much less filler. I don't dislike all of Elvis' work, but some of it is really pretty weak. Especially the movie soundtrack stuff.
The Professor
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 10:04 AM
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3. Just pray it never happens
frankly, I'd go with the Beatles because of diversity (and I LOVE early Elvis) but being stuck with one of anything for eternity would be hell. I think I would rather go without.
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 10:04 AM
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4. Beatles - hands down
Here's a poem that touches on the subject:

Albin's Drugs

This I recall from a day in
August of 'seventy-seven:
Hollywood Way and Magnolia
Boulevard meet a few blocks from
here, in the city of Burbank.
Now there's a Thrifty, but once the
name of the store on the southeast
corner - a drugstore - was Albin's.
Then, long ago, in the summer,
Danny O'Heron had many
flyers he needed delivered.
Placing the flyers on people's
cars, homes and lawns was my job. I
stopped to get lunch at the in-store
counter at Albin's. I heard a
customer taunting the waitress,
"Elvis, your hero, your lover's
dead." I cared little, as rock for
me had begun with the Beatles.
Elvis had seemed like an old-time
idol, not unlike Sinatra.
That I recall from a day in
August of 'seventy-seven.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 10:08 AM
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5. Elvis you can dance to. Beatles songs are only good for military marches
So let's change the parameters a bit. Give me two sexy partners, a millionaire golfing buddy (maybe give him a sexy partner too), some brainy inventor guy to cobble together the basic amenities of life for us all, and a seasoned boat captain so that eventually we can get off the island.

OK, now I'm ready to be stranded. This'll work out great!
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wallwriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 10:52 AM
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8. Early Beatles music has the same type of R&B ripoffs
that got Elvis started. A lot of that you could still dance to. The difference is that the Beatles got more creative while Elvis just got more fat. I think it's the difference between hallucinogens and barbituates. Oh yeah. And talent...
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 11:04 AM
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10. R&B ripoffs?
Elvis sang other people's songs, he didn't rip them off. If you want to talk ripoff we can go into some certain bands from the british blues explosion from the late 60s.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 10:20 AM
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6. Where's Forrest Gump? He should be defending Elvis about now
Having said that - I vote for the Beatles
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 10:37 AM
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7. I love The Beatles as much as anyone but..
I have listened to Elvis since I was 5 and have everything he recorded. If I had all of that with me, I wouldn't get as bored as I would with the Beatles stuff. Elvis was all over the place. Country, Rock and Roll, Jazz, ballads, rock, contemporary, pop, rockabilly and so on.
Not only the diversity in music, but he had some of the best musicians on his records. Scotty Moore, Bill Black, D.J Fontanna, Ronnie Tutt, Jerry Scheff, Boots Randolph, Charlie McCoy, James Burton, Jerry Reed, Hank Garland, Glen D. Hardin, Glen Campbell, Chet Atkins, The Memphis Horns, Floyd Cramer... just to name a few.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 10:54 AM
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9. I am not, nor have I ever been an Elvis fan
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 08:30 PM
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11. Kick
Hoping Forrest comes in to help me out here.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 11:35 PM
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12. Kick again
Still waiting for Forrest
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