LOL Still going on about it, huh? I’ll keep playing, but if you really start to get angry and others continue to get all emotional over it, I quit.
Along with a gazillion other people. That’s pretty weak. Many people do that way better than Elvis. (Well at least Garth and more importantly The Beatles 
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Not really sure how this relates to your argument… but yeah I agree.
No truer words were ever spoken from Wayne Newton’s character in Adventures of Ford Fairlane:
Do you realize we’re gonna have to… ship this “wick-prick” platinum just so the teenage girls will have a compact disc cover to get wet with? Come on, you gotta know better than anybody that, uh, there’s a lot more to the music industry than actual music. You just have to learn to tune it out.
I’m the only one here who has been consistent. I’ve followed your inconsistency over the internet shooting down one claim after another. Do you call starting with Elvis being the best because of record sales, moving on to Elvis being the best because he was the first (Maybe first white guy), then moving on to Elvis being the best because he was not the first because he was doing covers, back to Elvis being the best because of mass appeal, consistent?
I don’t like KISS even remotely, but i’ve never heard a bad thing about their stage show, even from people who claim to not be KISS fans. (I’ve heard their stage show is 10x better than their music, easily believed since their music blows). I’m barely a casual fan of the Crue. I like Zeppelin’s Singles.
KISS started out caricatures. So, kinda silly to say “they became…” when that’s what they were doing all along. The Crue are definitely cartoons. Slash and Zeppelin are rock gods, though. (Even if Zeppelin isn’t my Rock God) and if you think Zeppelin or Slash are cartoons compared to Elvis? Then there’s no helping you. You’re blinded by the gold lamé jump-suit.
Hand over your money. As somebody who works at a high school, I can tell you there is much love for KISS in the hallways. Also, Johnny Cash, Misfits, Zeppelin, Guns n Roses, Metallica, Nirvana, an occasional Smashing Pumpkins as well as an occasional The Smiths, and there’s one specific kid who dresses in all black every day and wears death metal shirts. Burzum, Mayhem, Sepultura, Etc. Funnily enough not so much Elvis. Actually NO ELVIS. So, based on your “teenagers won’t like it.” claim to validate Elvis, Panic at the Disco are more popular than Elvis and therefore better music. Still wanna go with the “what the kids like…” route?
Ugh… It’s been OVER 50 years since Zeppelin hit. So… Um, yeah. I gotta wait another 50… ? So, a hundred years I’ve gotta wait for what people said about Elvis after 25? LOL. Not the most solid of arguments.
I wouldn’t know. I would say, no based on what I know of the 2.
Didn’t all the cool kids like Elvis back in the day? No, Zeppelin weren’t really on the radar back in my day, at least not in my frumpy old town.
Objective? What is there to be objective about? He stole black music and brought it in an acceptable form to a white racist audience (Although, the ultra racists weren’t fooled by it and still wanted him banned cause they knew it was associated with “the darkies”)… He was huge for about 20 or so years and then turned into a complete joke… That’s pretty much it. Anything else is a rewriting of history. AND I would say that the Crue isn’t quite the joke Elvis is, although, yes, still a joke.
Okay. I guess, Sure. Still not as image failed as Elvis, though.
Certainly. but again, not as image failed as Elvis. I guess you could make the argument that the Crue aren’t even important enough to make fun of anymore but ya’ know, whatever.
Not really. I think it’s pretty spot on with the Crue. But at least some of their songs are catchier than anything Elvis, though. You know, CEOs don’t sign their personal favorites.
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