there are two types of people in the world (Elvis/Beatles)

[master terrence]

simple question:


are you an Elvis person or a Beatles person?

You are either one or the other, no fence sitting here.

Now, a Beatles person can like Elvis, and an Elvis person can like the Beatles, but an Elvis person will always like Elvis more and a Beatles person will always like Beatles more.

Yes, this is the same question from Pulp Fiction.


EDIT: note to those who are incapable of having fun, this thread is not for you.

[Soluzar]

I'm a Beatles person who kind of likes some Elvis. I would hate to have to only listen to one or the other, but I prefer the Beatles music to that of the King... marginally.

[GreatNekoKoneko]

...im a Beatles guy that loves the Beatles. i never really got on to Elvis.

[MonkeyBoy0314]

I remember this from Pulp Fiction, except you can only see this scene on TV and nowhere else

I'm definitely a Beatles guy

[Haro!]

I like a few Elvis songs, but Beatles all the way. Although... I don't believe in Beatles.. I just believe in me.. Yoko and me... Lennon moment!

[tokyo_master]

I'm a major Beatles fan who also has a soft spot for the king in my heart

[HoshikuHanako]

I swing towards the Beatles....just for our ears sake DON'T LET YOKO EVER SING!!!! LOLz...

[Vaikyuko]

I vote neither. I guess if I had to pick, I would pick...ah, Elvis, I suppose, but it's a narrow margin.

I really don't care for one over the other, nor do I like either enough to know much aside from one or two songs each. XD

[master terrence]

I'm an Elvis person, though I don't listen to Elvis, I listen to psychobilly and some other stuff that is kidn of rooted more to the Elvis side. Beatles... meh.

[Reidar]

I don't like either in the least.

I'm hereby proud of being disassociated with the human race.

[333jeffery]

MT, if you like rockabilly, you should try the Rev. Horton Heat, and the Cramps.
As for the poll, I'll take the Beatles....

[Joeshie]

I don't like either in the least.

I agree with this man.

[RPGQueen]

Beatles rock! Elvis is alright, but for that generation I would have listened to Johnny Cash before Elvis.

[soulreaper]

I would choose Elvis before the Beatles, but...

for that generation I would have listened to Johnny Cash before Elvis.

QFT.

[CrossboneGundam]

"You either like (white rock musician A) or (white anglo-saxon rock musician B)."

This question hinges on an excessively narrow view of music and the world. Both Elvis and the Beatles were white guys who made it big in a genre founded by african-americans who could never achieve the same level of success or recognition and rarely receive the credit they're due.

People have been making music all over the world for literally tens of thousands of years, if not more. It's downright ludicrous to say that these two selections are the "be-all, end-all" pinnacle of human musical achievement.

Anyway... I can't stand Elvis and I find most Beatles stuff to be decent, but nothing I'd go out of my way to find.

[kenshinbebop]

I'm a Beatles fanatic who is iffy about the "King"(he's ok, but I never really listen to him).

Beatles FTW most deffinately IMO.

John Lennon and George Harrison are gods. Paul and Ringo are great too. :D

[Old Ape Face]

Um i guess my Signature, Past avatars, location, titles, haven't explained this point clear enough, Obviously i'm with the Beatles, the "King" of rock never realy drew me into the crowed, I guess it's becuase the Beatles are the role models of most of the rock and pop music created today. Swing is good if you like danceing. Plus i think Paul Mccartneis legendary make believe death, to be most amazing compared to the suposed alian abduction thing with Elives. "It sounds more believable."

On the other hand if you're talking about Elvis Castelo i'll let it slide.

I think Paul is my role model from the Beatles, John Lennon was a genious George Harison was unique with the Sitar, but Paul made people go crazy, and Ringo is still my favorite Drummer.

[Alice Catherine]

That's not a fair question. They're two completely different genres. I always saw Elvis to be more Glam Rock and the Beatles to be more Alternative rock or Pop rock. I like the Beatles better.

[Old Ape Face]

as a matter of fact, i've heard Elvis sounds in Beatles music. like the voice or the style of the music, so it's like Elvis plus more.

[blackknight]

"You either like (white rock musician A) or (white anglo-saxon rock musician B)."

This question hinges on an excessively narrow view of music and the world. Both Elvis and the Beatles were white guys who made it big in a genre founded by african-americans who could never achieve the same level of success or recognition and rarely receive the credit they're due.

People have been making music all over the world for literally tens of thousands of years, if not more. It's downright ludicrous to say that these two selections are the "be-all, end-all" pinnacle of human musical achievement.

Anyway... I can't stand Elvis and I find most Beatles stuff to be decent, but nothing I'd go out of my way to find.

Yes, thank you for the lecture, professor.

Beatles for me. Can't stand anything by Elvis. It still baffles me why people refuse to admit he's dead. NO ONE HAS A PROBLEM ACKNOWLEDGING THAT JOHN IS DEAD!!

[Sendo Takeshi]

Chucky Berry >>>>> both

[Old Ape Face]

Yes, thank you for the lecture, professor.

Beatles for me. Can't stand anything by Elvis. It still baffles me why people refuse to admit he's dead. NO ONE HAS A PROBLEM ACKNOWLEDGING THAT JOHN IS DEAD!!

but John was shot, and he was also the walrus, Superstitions says it means death, and he's the first to die.

While there's still Paul and Ringo to look up to.

[Nano]

I'm a Nirvana person, but Kurt Cobain was a Beatles person, so I guess I am too.

[Bernard_Monsha]

Elvis was cetainly more talented than the Beatles were. He produced countires, blues, and gospel records. The Beatles songs all sound the same to me. They are by no means bad but I own no Beatles albums and have several from Elvis.

[kenshinbebop]

the pillows are Beatles people. :D It's true. They have songs like "Fool On The Planet" (Fool On The Hill)....and in Ride on Shooting Star, they say "Beep beep, beep beep, yeh" like in Drive My Car.
[/little known pillows facts]

Pauls great, but he's not my fave. Musically, I love John Lennon and George Harrison. They're songs hav so much meanong. Imagine has to be the greatest song I ever heard, IMO.
And George with My Sweet Lord, Wah-Wah, Isn't It a Pity....etc.
Though Paul has Live and Let Die. <3
And Ringo....Ringo has...Oh My Lord, and Octopus' Garden!!!!

Elvis jsut took the blues and put it into a version white people could be hip too. :lol:
(No one else watches Yes, Dear, I assume. :uhh:

[Old Ape Face]

Elvis was cetainly more talented than the Beatles were. He produced countires, blues, and gospel records. The Beatles songs all sound the same to me. They are by no means bad but I own no Beatles albums and have several from Elvis.


Yellow Submarine and Helter Skelter sound nothing alike, and Within you Without you and Love you two are both Sitar pieces written by George Harison.

there are some songs that sound the same like As My Guitar Genitally Weeps and Happiness is a warm gun. but the Beatles have done everything from Metal to Blues. and from ragtime to carnival themes.

the pillows are Beatles people. :D It's true. They have songs like "Fool On The Planet" (Fool On The Hill)....and in Ride on Shooting Star, they say "Beep beep, beep beep, yeh" like in Drive My Car.
[/little known pillows facts]

Pauls great, but he's not my fave. Musically, I love John Lennon and George Harrison. They're songs hav so much meanong. Imagine has to be the greatest song I ever heard, IMO.
And George with My Sweet Lord, Wah-Wah, Isn't It a Pity....etc.
Though Paul has Live and Let Die. <3
And Ringo....Ringo has...Oh My Lord, and Octopus' Garden!!!!

Elvis jsut took the blues and put it into a version white people could be hip too. :lol:
(No one else watches Yes, Dear, I assume. :uhh:

the Beatles have one of my favorite blues tunes ever, it's called Yer-Blues, :P and one of the greatest group closings "I Want You (She's so Heavy.)"

Ringo's got "Don't Pass Me By" too

[kenshinbebop]

carnival themes.

Your Mother Should Know. :lol:

[Old Ape Face]

Your Mother Should Know. :lol:

:P actually she does, but the funny thing is, those carnival thems might mean takeing drugs :P

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Would you like to take the three Capitolised letters? LSD)

[kenshinbebop]

I have this book of 100 greatest Beatles songs in the opinion of the auther, then there's facts about the writing and recording of each song. And the menaing behind them. I laughed thorugh all of it, because someone was always high, or on an acid trip. it was insanely mellow. :lol:

"I am, he is, you are, he is, you are me and we are all together". ;)

LSD was "supposedly" about a picture John's daughter drew. The pic is in the book. :lol: It's so wierd.

[Old Ape Face]

I have this book of 100 greatest Beatles songs in the opinion of the auther, then there's facts about the writing and recording of each song. And the menaing behind them. I laughed thorugh all of it, because someone was always high, or on an acid trip. it was insanely mellow. :lol:

"I am, he is, you are, he is, you are me and we are all together". ;)

LSD was "supposedly" about a picture John's daughter drew. The pic is in the book. :lol: It's so wierd.
Isn't the song Come together really about the four Beatles members, i'm still debating this, Wikipedia says it is, and i don't know who to believe.

[kenshinbebop]

Doesn't say that in the book...I'd quote it word for word, but it's pretty long and I'm lazy. :/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_together

It's basically summed up here.
For Tim Leary's campaign...
talks about a crazy, rugged priest that wanders into town...(he one holy roller).

[Old Ape Face]

but each set stanza, there is one line describing each of the members in the band. i read it about Abbey Road. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road_%28album%29)

"Come Together", the album opener, was written by Lennon originally for Timothy Leary's 1969 campaign for governor of California, with the original title "Let's Get It Together". A rough version of this can be heard in outtakes from Lennon's second bed-in event in Canada. "Come Together" was released as a double A-side single with "Something". It was the subject of a lawsuit brought against Lennon by Morris Levy due to the fact that one line in "Come Together" is similar to a line of Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me". It has been suggested that each verse of "Come Together" is about one of the Beatles: respectively George ("He one holy roller"), Ringo ("he wear no shoe-shine"), John ("He got Ono sideboard") and Paul ("Got to be good looking").

[kenshinbebop]

Hmm...I'm confused....I gues the only people who will ever know is the Beatles. X_X
great song no matter what it's about. :D

[Old Ape Face]

Hmm...I'm confused....I gues the only people who will ever know is the Beatles. X_X
great song no matter what it's about. :D

It makes sence to think of Abbey road as their break up album, and the fist song is the Clincher. Where I want you (she's so Heavy) is the conclusion. and the other half is the final thoughts.

[kenshinbebop]

Let it Be was pretty deeap also. Besides the title track, there's Two of Us, I Me Mine, The Long and Winding Road...I always think of Let it Be as they're break-up album...even though it was they're last album...

[Old Ape Face]

Let it Be was pretty deeap also. Besides the title track, there's Two of Us, I Me Mine, The Long and Winding Road...I always think of Let it Be as they're break-up album...even though it was they're last album...

Abbey road was the last album recorded though, "Let it be" was released after abbey road, but it was recorded before it. according to that wikipedia article.

yes Let it be is a very deep album, Hey Dude is a very deep song.

but the song "The End" is the final breaths of the Beatles.

[master terrence]

"You either like (white rock musician A) or (white anglo-saxon rock musician B)."

This question hinges on an excessively narrow view of music and the world. Both Elvis and the Beatles were white guys who made it big in a genre founded by african-americans who could never achieve the same level of success or recognition and rarely receive the credit they're due.

People have been making music all over the world for literally tens of thousands of years, if not more. It's downright ludicrous to say that these two selections are the "be-all, end-all" pinnacle of human musical achievement.

Anyway... I can't stand Elvis and I find most Beatles stuff to be decent, but nothing I'd go out of my way to find.



You really are dumb, I said it was a scene from pulp fiction. I wasn't being serious...

[kenshinbebop]

but the song "The End" is the final breaths of the Beatles.

Kyou Ef Tee :)

[Old Ape Face]

then there's "Her Majesty" which is just a hidden track removed from between Mr mustard and Polythene Pan. :P

[kenshinbebop]

The first time I heard Her Majesty I was like, that's it? :lol: It's over too quick. :/

[Old Ape Face]

if you place that track between Mr. Mustard at PP you can hear the connections it's kind of a pointless part in the album. I just ignore it.

[kenshinbebop]

Yeah the last note is cut short and it's at the beginning of PP. Talk about poor editing....

[Old Ape Face]

Yeah the last note is cut short and it's at the beginning of PP. Talk about poor editing....

i think that's why they took it out :P

[Shiroiyuki]

I like the Beatles a lot. Elvis, to me, will always just be a big fat guy with unrealistic movies......and okay songs, but not a very appealing voice.

No offense to anyone who likes him, of course. This is just MY OPINION.

[Haro!]

Without Elvis, Junichiro Koizumi would never have said "Thank you American people for Love me Tender" nor made a cover album of Elvis songs. So the King gets some respect for that.

[Evil_Koala]

I'm an Elvis person. :)

I saw this somewhere >_> On some movie.

[CrossboneGundam]

I always saw Elvis to be more Glam Rock and the Beatles to be more Alternative rock or Pop rock. I like the Beatles better.

Glam rock is like David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era. Alternative is a late 80s-mid 90's development. Elvis may have put on flamboyant rhinestone covered jumpsuits, but he was still singing the same stuff he had been for the 20 or so years before that.

You really are dumb, I said it was a scene from pulp fiction. I wasn't being serious...

That doesn't make my biting critique any less relevant. And the fact that your response (in a situation where none is even necessary,) is to start flaming like a nine year old says pretty much everything about the intellectual balance here.

[SDAnimeFan]

I'm a Beatles person.

[seba_boi]

Now, a Beatles person can like Elvis, and an Elvis person can like the Beatles, but an Elvis person will always like Elvis more and a Beatles person will always like Beatles more.
You haven't met my brother.... He's both an Elvis and The Beatles fan... He's practically seen every Elvis movie made...



I'm more of a Beatles fan... Hard to argue, the best band of all time... Influenced a lot of artists and popularized a lot of song gimmicks that are imitated to this day (singing a segment of a previous song in another song, the use of orchestral sounds in a rock song, repeating lyrics)... Heck, even Yoko Kanno is influenced by The Beatles--just listen to Kanno's "Nowhere And Everywhere" (The Seatbelts is practically an anagram of The Beatles with an extra t and s)... And I don't know any other bands that had more songs covered by other singers (I swear I heard a Carpenters version of "In My Life [There Are Places I Remember]")... And they achieved all this with only touring for four years!!! They gave up touring in 1966 (The Rolling Stones have been touring forever and they still need to catch up to how many hits The Beatles had)!!!...

[seba_boi]

Oh, and I forgot to mention my favourite Beatles and Elvis songs:

BEATLES:

1. "If I Fell" (my most favourite Beatles song, bar none)
2. "Eleanor Rigby"
3. "Michelle"
4. "Hey Jude"
5. "Penny Lane"
6. "In My Life (There Are Places I Remember)"
7. "Let It Be"
8. "Here, There, And Everywhere"
9. "Till There Was You"
10. "We Can Work It Out"

>> "Across The Universe" is a fantastic song but I actually hate The Beatles version (despite being the original), and I prefer Fiona Apple's and Rufus Wainright's own versions...

ELVIS:

1. "Suspicious Minds"
2. "Can't Help Falling In Love" (for the longest time I thought the title was 'Fools Rush In')
3. "Wooden Heart"
4. "All Shook Up"
5. "Love Me Tender"

[tenshi_a]

The Beatles are overrated. They were horribly musically lacking. The songwriters couldn't even read music. Ringo's drums are unbearably poor and annoying. They gave a bad name to various forms of spirituality by inextricably linking them to psychedilic drugs.

They had a damn good studio producer for a lot of the time, drressing up their music into something good. But the Beatles themselves; not up to much.

So I vote Elvis. He was cool. Then, he wasn't. Then he really wasn't. Then he was dead. Much simpler.

The greatest thing Elvis did for the world was invent Elvis impersonators. They're funny. The worst thing the Beatles did in the world was invent Beatles impersonators. They're annoying.

If there were no Beatles, just think... just think of a beautiful beautiful world without Oasis!! Paradise, yeah?

[RyoTD]

"You either like (white rock musician A) or (white anglo-saxon rock musician B)."

This question hinges on an excessively narrow view of music and the world. Both Elvis and the Beatles were white guys who made it big in a genre founded by african-americans who could never achieve the same level of success or recognition and rarely receive the credit they're due.

People have been making music all over the world for literally tens of thousands of years, if not more. It's downright ludicrous to say that these two selections are the "be-all, end-all" pinnacle of human musical achievement.

Anyway... I can't stand Elvis and I find most Beatles stuff to be decent, but nothing I'd go out of my way to find.
Nevermind the seriousness of the poll, this man speaks the truth. You can go home now, folks.

[Old Ape Face]

and don't forget that lovely time frame people, We're talking 1960s man. i like to call this decade the the time or both peace, war, and the space age man, when Nasa just set foot on the moon, when Albert Einstein developed his theories, when the united states was full of hippies and nazis. and the Russians where blowing each other up. (I mean that emphatically, not to be based off of fact.)

My mom was in 8th grade when the Beatles where around.

[seba_boi]

The Beatles are overrated. They were horribly musically lacking.
Pish Posh!.... Musically lacking?... Hahaha...

[Jae Hoon]

Both Elvis and the Beatles suck, where is the option for people who dont listen to crappy music.

[seba_boi]

Both Elvis and the Beatles suck, where is the option for people who dont listen to crappy music.
What sort of music do you listen to then?...

[Jae Hoon]

What sort of music do you listen to then?...

Tom Petty (filler)

[kenshinbebop]

The Beatles are overrated. They were horribly musically lacking. The songwriters couldn't even read music. Ringo's drums are unbearably poor and annoying. They gave a bad name to various forms of spirituality by inextricably linking them to psychedilic drugs.

They had a damn good studio producer for a lot of the time, drressing up their music into something good. But the Beatles themselves; not up to much.

So I vote Elvis. He was cool. Then, he wasn't. Then he really wasn't. Then he was dead. Much simpler.

The greatest thing Elvis did for the world was invent Elvis impersonators. They're funny. The worst thing the Beatles did in the world was invent Beatles impersonators. They're annoying.

If there were no Beatles, just think... just think of a beautiful beautiful world without Oasis!! Paradise, yeah?

Haha I HOPE your joking. If your not, highlight below. :)

Musically speaking they are great. Their lyrics are pretty much top notch in my book-songs about everything, well written, and most of all-songs so coded behind language that no one knows what it means that it's brilliant.
John Lennon was an amazing rhythm guitarist, but I like him most for his lyrics. He wrote the modst beautiful songs that can bring me to tears on certain days when I think deep enough about them. Imagine might just be the best damn song ever written IMO, excluding the 20+ other songs I can list that are great by him...

I shall go on if I must, but you probably don't want to hear it...

[seba_boi]

Tom Petty (filler)Tom Petty would most likely vote for The Beatles or Elvis too even if his name was included on the list...

[kenshinbebop]

Tom Petty (filler)

I only liked him with the Traveling Wilberry's, give or take a few exceptional tracks.. :/

[Jae Hoon]

Good for Tom Petty, we arent asking Tom Petty. Beatles and Elvis still sucks.

[master terrence]

I don't own any elvis stuff, I've just listened to covers. Alot of the music I'm into found it's inspiration in Evlis some how.

who would have thought that perfect cirlce/tool fans were in some way linked to beatles fans, right?

[seba_boi]

Good for Tom Petty, we arent asking Tom Petty. Beatles and Elvis still sucks.But Tom Petty did Beatles covers...

The Beatles composed like a hundred songs, you can't be serious that all of them suck... "Let It Be" and "Michelle" oughta be listenable even for a Tom Petty fan...

[Sendo Takeshi]

One more time for those that didn't see it:

Chuck Berry > both