These Boots Were Made for Talkin'

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

I see, Kurt. Yours has an extra "ding" in it, right?

Ain't no ding but a chicken wing.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Ever read the Alice Walker short story "Nineteen Fifty-Five"? It's basically Walker's take on the "Elvis stole everything from black performers" yarn. There's a young white rock and roller/hillbilly whose stardom all comes from the songs he gets from a working black mother living on a Mississippi farm.

It's really a wannabe inflammatory piece of shit. There are any number of problems with having fictionalized Elvis rip off fictionalized Big Mama Thornton, but maybe my favorite is that the Thornton song Presley covered was written by two Jewish guys from NYC.

(here i go again)

first let me say... i LOVE elvis. one of the greatest performers ever.  i've got a shit ton of his albums, posters, pepsi bottles, ashtrays, perfume decanters, trash cans, etc.  but the man was a PERFORMER. if carl perkins or jerry lee lewis had elvis' looks/ moves/ charisma, we might have a different "king" of rock'n'roll. he doesn't deserve to be considered a musical genius when he NEVER WROTE A SINGLE SONG.

although i do agree that a lot of the "outrage" is misspent.  he wasn't guilty of anything except really digging r&b/gospel/soul and performing it in a way that had huge appeal.

Singer Not the Song

[Bizarro]

I see, Kurt. Yours has an extra "ding" in it, right?

Ain't no ding but a chicken wing.

I would've bet $5 you were going to say you had extra dong instead.

Missed opportunities...

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

So why did Elvis get rebranded a racist?  Cause of that Public Enemy song?

Probably because of the falsely attributed quote, too.

On one of the Sun Session songs (can't remember which) if you turn up the volume at the end, he calls his band "niggers."

[Bizarro]

So why did Elvis get rebranded a racist?  Cause of that Public Enemy song?

Probably because of the falsely attributed quote, too.

On one of the Sun Session songs (can't remember which) if you turn up the volume at the end, he calls his band "niggers."

I have all of 'em that have been released and have never heard that. Unless I heard it myself, I'd be inclined to dismiss it at best as something along the lines of the "No really, you can hear Aladdin  say 'all good kids take off your clothes!'" myth.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Why do Elvises have so much trouble with racist charges?

[Doctor Rock]

How in the goddamned tank do you have to be, to STILL be talking like this.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/F92d8mso47w" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/F92d8mso47w</a>

Could someone please punch that motherfucker?  Please? 

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

He said that as cars got smaller they'd get less efficient??

[bebopbalogna]

more from Poe.

[bebopbalogna]

holy shit.  i guess the ritalin just wasn't good enough...