Last full album you listened to?

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1 minute ago, Len Cnut said:

I dunno, I think he looked exstatic in 69, just happy to be on the job and really belting em out, just watch Thats The Way It Is, does the bloke performing Suspicious Minds there look to you like he’s not into it?

I've watched it two days ago, as a matter of fact. 

great, great performance.

but there is certain sadness and loneliness in his eyes. I see a clear invisible wall between Elvis and the exctatic crowd full of cheering ladies. that was no rock n roll audience, and I can't honestly feel how Elvis felt at home there

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4 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

This I believe ends the conversation on who is the greatest frontman,

 

There’s always an argument to be made  

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4 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

This I believe ends the conversation on who is the greatest frontman,

 

the diego maradona of rock n roll

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3 minutes ago, action said:

I've watched it two days ago, as a matter of fact. 

great, great performance.

but there is certain sadness and loneliness in his eyes. I see a clear invisible wall between Elvis and the exctatic crowd full of cheering ladies. that was no rock n roll audience, and I can't honestly feel how Elvis felt at home there

Well how the hell is Freddie Mercury (or anyone for that matter?) into it on a stadium stage?

1 minute ago, action said:

the diego maradona of rock n roll

I posted Pele up there!

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Just now, Len Cnut said:

There’s always an argument to be made  

You are trying to annoy me, aren't you?

I took the fact that Little Richard is behind a piano as suitable grounds for omission, but if we are including him it is somewhat a tie between the two.  

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Just now, Len Cnut said:

Well how the hell is Freddie Mercury (or anyone for that matter?) into it on a stadium stage?

that's not difficult to answer. the various sing along interactions with the public. elvis never did that.

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1 minute ago, action said:

that's not difficult to answer. the various sing along interactions with the public. elvis never did that.

Why should the public be asked to sing - Rose did with Heaven's Dawawa also? I'm the paying customer. You're the singer. You sing the song you lazy wanker. 

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2 minutes ago, action said:

that's not difficult to answer. the various sing along interactions with the public. elvis never did that.

Stadiums are cold impersonal, there’s no such thing as stadium rock n roll, not really.

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9 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

This I believe ends the conversation on who is the greatest frontman,

 

He looks like an Easter Egg after he takes his blazer off. And did he wear knee pads?

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Just now, DieselDaisy said:

Why should the public be asked to sing - Rose did with Heaven's Dawawa also? I'm the paying customer. You're the singer. You sing the song you lazy wanker. 

the customer is king, as they say.

I want to feel entertained, I want to feel a connection with the artist. otherwise I could just put on a record at home!

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Just now, DieselDaisy said:

Why should the public be asked to sing - Rose did with Heaven's Dawawa also? I'm the paying customer. You're the singer. You sing the song you lazy wanker. 

Thank you, this ain’t a 1940s pub  

1 minute ago, soon said:

He looks like an Easter Egg after he takes his blazer off. And did he wear knee pads?

He’d better have the way he did those jumps onto his knees.

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1 minute ago, Len Cnut said:

Stadiums are cold impersonal, there’s no such thing as stadium rock n roll, not really.

motley crue, AC/DC, the rolling stones, guns n roses, metallica..... their music comes alive in a stadium setting. fire, confetti, strippers, madness, moshpits...

you know, there was music made after 1959, you're aware of that yes? 

8 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

 

I posted Pele up there!

pele is a boring wannabee

diego is smoke and mirrors (and the last part, you can take litterally)

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motley crue, AC/DC, the rolling stones, guns n roses, metallica..... their music comes alive in a stadium setting. fire, confetti, strippers, madness, moshpits...

you know, there was music made after 1959, you're aware of that yes? 

Rock n Roll ain’t fuckin’ Coca Cola sponsored bullshit, its played in cavernous dives and bars and clubs, stadiums are for selling hot dogs.

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2 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

Rock n Roll ain’t fuckin’ Coca Cola sponsored bullshit, its played in cavernous dives and bars and clubs, stadiums are for selling hot dogs.

the beatles never made it past the caverns. they played a roof once, but that doesn't count.

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this is entertainment, folks

 

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5 minutes ago, action said:

this is entertainment, folks

 

Wankers.  A mickey mouse New York Dolls with all the make up and none of the charm, gormless.

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the folk from the netherlands sure know how to throw a party

 

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Stand a million miles away from a couple of dots of a prefab stage and watch the show on a giant telly hanging over ya...and get yourself a T shirt on the way out for 20 quid, bollocks to that.

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5 minutes ago, action said:

the folk from the netherlands sure know how to throw a party

 

A colleague of mine went to see the Toppers, it's an annual thing... needless to say I never looked at him the same way again.

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3 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

Stand a million miles away from a couple of dots of a prefab stage and watch the show on a giant telly hanging over ya...and get yourself a T shirt on the way out for 20 quid, bollocks to that.

on the contrary my dear watson, that must be the single most uplifting performance I ever seen. that's something else than the granny music from the 50s, which my granddad is humming along to, with his pipe and dangling his knee

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2 minutes ago, action said:

on the contrary my dear watson, that must be the single most uplifting performance I ever seen. that's something else than the granny music from the 50s, which my granddad is humming along to, with his pipe and dangling his knee

And thats modern is it?  I had to google the wankers to find out who they were, Europop/disco?  Welcome to 1972   

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1 minute ago, Len Cnut said:

And thats modern is it?  I had to google the wankers to find out who they were, Europop/disco?  Welcome to 1972   

they are an absolute phenomenon, almost identifiying them with a whole nation. I see "the toppers" I see dutch attitude, partying, laughing, having a good time. it's one of the most purest examples of music directly stemming from a base culture, it basically advertises itself. 

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3 minutes ago, action said:

they are an absolute phenomenon, almost identifiying them with a whole nation. I see "the toppers" I see dutch attitude, partying, laughing, having a good time. it's one of the most purest examples of music directly stemming from a base culture, it basically advertises itself. 

I never thought I’d see the day where you’d be lecturing me on modernism  

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1 minute ago, Len Cnut said:

I never thought I’d see the day where you’d be lecturing me on modernism  

yeah I guess It's come to something when someone who refuses to go past the 90s lectures someone who refuses to go past the 50s .

so yeah, compared to you, I guess you could call me a modernist  

 

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8 minutes ago, action said:

they are an absolute phenomenon, almost identifiying them with a whole nation. I see "the toppers" I see dutch attitude, partying, laughing, having a good time. it's one of the most purest examples of music directly stemming from a base culture, it basically advertises itself. 

It's basically just carnival without the history and tradition behind it, isn't it? Adults dressing up, singing along to medleys, drinking a lot and having a good time. I'd rather get kicked in the balls repeatedly than attend a Toppers concert, but each to their own.