Elton John Wants the Internet Shut Down

[david_mancuso]

"The internet is getting in the way of people creating good music."

United Press International

"The internet is getting in the way of people creating good music," says British music icon Elton John, "so maybe it should be shut down."

In a commentary appearing in The Sun newspaper on Wednesday, the star said the internet makes people sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn't help for long term artistic vision.

He said an incredible experiment would be shutting down the internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span.

"I'm sure, as far as music goes, it would be much more interesting than it is today," Elton John said.

Elton, 60, has admitted previously he is a bit behind the times technologically speaking. Once the Grammy Award winner was quoted as saying, "I am the biggest technophobe of all time."

He has however used the Web. His 60th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden in New York was streamed live over the internet. The singer also said his entire back catalog of albums would be made available for digital download.

Yellowbrix 2007

[Martin Red]

I want Elton to shutdown or at least shut up.

[The Crazy Life That Is Alarick T]

I disagree with Sir Elton becuase there are a lot of great artists that would have never been discovered without the internet (not to mention, finding good music stores online).

[Huey P. Freeman]

STFU!

Sincerely,

Those with a clue.

[eZy]

I want Elton to shutdown or at least shut up.

what's up Martin? i saw the same posted in a Brazilian message board and this was the first comment: ''how do i make to shut Elton john for 5 years? '' :rofl:

he should hang out with Prince, just sayin'..

[BrazenMuse]

what's up Martin? i saw the same posted in a Brazilian message board and this was the first comment: ''how do i make to shut Elton john for 5 years? '' :rofl:

he should hang out with Prince, just sayin'..

'cept Prince doesn't want the thing shut down...he's having too much fun with it.

[eZy]

'cept Prince doesn't want the thing shut down...he's having too much fun with it.

that's it... he could learn with prince how to enjoy

[BrazenMuse]

that's it... he could learn with prince how to enjoy

:grinyes:

[kaaos]

MSG for elton

Fuck off

[Martin Red]

that's it... he could learn with prince how to enjoy

:grinyes:

[DaveR]

http://deephousepage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140788&highlight=elton

[däp]

Elton, 60, has admitted previously he is a bit behind the times technologically speaking. Once the Grammy Award winner was quoted as saying, "I am the biggest technophobe of all time."
Yellowbrix 2007

end of discussion...

[eugene]

[QUOTE=eZy;491531]what's up Martin? i saw the same posted in a Brazilian message board and this was the first comment: ''how do i make to shut Elton john for 5 years?
maybe with 5 kilos of coke...

[Daryl]

this is one of the greatest thread titles...

[Huey P. Freeman]

Someone tell Elton to get back to us when he is relevant again.

[Leslie]

I want Elton to shutdown or at least shut up.

I knew the day would come when you and I would agree on something. Could not have said it better myself....well a well times STFU Elton would have worked. :mwink:

[Edith A. Giles]

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z201/poetry1973/bitchslap2.gif

[kev]

and the last time elton john put out anything of relevance was...?

[Tempest]

Elton John is irrevelant to the internet or the current music scene.
His wishes mean nothing. Like everone else says, he needs to STFU.

[NakedAge]

no .. He's actually RIGHT and maybe you should all SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Look at yas... STFU? like, 'Wtf?' You can't even write proper english and your saying he's stupid? Your talking in fucken Internet English.

The man is a LEGEND, in music. His songs will be remembered LONG after we are ALL dead. ............. Who here can say the same about their own music?

The point Sir Elton is making, is that the whole world has access to make music today because of the internet. Be it pirating programs, scabbing samples so forth and so forth. Because it's so readily available, ANYONE can do it. Thus, instead of people with a genuine life long passion busting their nuts beyond the norm, to go out and make music because it's what they love, they can do it alot easier, which is great, HOW EVER, people WITH OUT a genuine passion, who only see it as a pass time can also go and do the same.

Now in this industry, its not WHAT you know, but who you know. The internet is a powerful communication tool, and so, with the newly formed Mp3 record labels run from a website rather than an office, all it takes is for some shit cunt to get chummy via e-mail with a mp3 label and his song is signed sealed and downloaded. But, it's not a good song..

The record store I shop from here, shut down 2 weeks ago.. .... I'm fucken sad.. I'm MISERABLE.. It's the second time its happend to me. I don't make friends with the people I order vinyl off the net from, but, the humble record shop, is more than just a shop with wax... It's... The Dj's domain.. It's his hang out, its like, that movie Barber Shop, with Ice Cube, but for Dj's.

I remember, in 1999 trying to make music with out the internet. Not even knowing what the internet was. It was fucken hard man.. so fucken hard. Djing as well. ... I did my senior years of high school with out eating so I could save and buy records.

Some times you have to limit technology to preserve tradition and culture.
Sir Elton John is right.. I'd like to see the music with out the net for 5 years also.. I really would.. Leave all the music programs etc we have today, but with out being able to share it etc, I'd love to see it.. You watch, record labels would have to sell TALENT, because, they cant sell Mp3 and vinyl costs alot to produce, they'd have to sign music that would sell thus they'd only sign THE BEST... The music would impress alot .. ..

[DJ Teji]

I Here what your saying Bro BUT.................

With the internet it has made music more accesible and affordable to millions of people.
Your point of going without food to buy music, Yes most of us have been there I've been buyin records for nearly 30 years so I know what your talking about. Why should kids of today have to suffer to get the music as we did? How long can people who love music but don't have the cash, carry on buying highly priced and rip off priced CD's from major labels?
The Internet has transformed our industry for the better with labels being able to actually put out underground music without all the costs of having to set up expensive offices on broadway etc and paying all the pressing, packaging and distribution costs, why do you think so many great underground record labels went bust!
Yes there will always be people out there putting out crap music but that don't mean we are gonna play it!
Internet downloads are a god send for many DJ's who do it cause they love the music and don't make any money off it.

Elton John's just Pissed cause he don't know how to use the internet, maybe if he wants to continue he should embrace the technology and move with the times!

[NakedAge]

yes, but, the music QUALITY drops.. What he says is, if you get rid of the net the QUALITY will rise, and he's right. I agree the net is a God send to Djs, but, the consequence of it has been the quality of music. Now its about quantity not quality. If they deleted the internet and said "right everyone has to go back to vinyl" I'd be happy.. It wouldn't phase me in the slightest. But its not going to happen... Still tho, best music is only found on vinyl.. most Mp3 tracks are of a fill in quality cos every tom dick and harry is making them.

[DJ Teji]

Is Elton John trying to say that there has been a drop in quality music coming out since the internet started? How many quality tracks has he had out in the last 20 years? I'll tell you.. None.

If he had his way he would have tried to stop house music ever being developed because it embraced new technology. He would have wanted producers to go back to paying crazy amounts of money to hire musicians.
The electronic technology enabled the poorest producers and artists who had real musical ability to get their music out there (and hence house music was born) the quality of the sound even on vinyl wasn't the greatest (Trax, DJ international etc) but creative music was being put out.

I agree it is about quality and not about quantity, but you know what there are a lot more quality tracks available now, as much as there is crap.

Yes MP3's quality can't match vinyl but in time I'm sure the technology will develop to improve the quality, it's inevitable.

The fact that producers can now get here track out in days rather than months has to be a good thing all round.

Elton John hasn't had a hit record out for decades. I think he's just trying to be controversial to get some limelight. His opinion is irrelevant to our scene and if he hates the internet so why is he putting his making his back catalog available for download? you know the reason as well as I do, MONEY.

If we went back to vinyl how many labels that are putting out great music now would be able to survive? and more importantly how many dj's would survive? It all about the music bro let people put it out and make it affordable and accessible.

I rest my case

[NakedAge]

Is Elton John trying to say that there has been a drop in quality music coming out since the internet started? How many quality tracks has he had out in the last 20 years? I'll tell you.. None.





how many hit tracks have YOU had in the last 20 years? Elton Johns music is still heard today, his songs will stand the test of time, and he made them with out the internet. You can't sit here and say he's shit


And the Djs and record labels and so forth that would survive, would be the best ones. We'd have less music, but it would be QUALITY music

[DJ Teji]

Hit records?

Britney Spears has had hit records does that mean she's great?

[NakedAge]

no, but Elton John is.. You can not denie his music is great, his music transcends charts. Just like the Beatles. They didn't have the internet, their music isn't on any modern chart, they haven't had a hit for years as theyve been broken up for years, but, their music lives on and probably more people today sTILL know about them as opposed to brtiney speares

[Martin Red]

no .. He's actually RIGHT and maybe you should all SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Look at yas... STFU? like, 'Wtf?' You can't even write proper english and your saying he's stupid? Your talking in fucken Internet English.

..

Perhaps because this is the Internet, as long as it's understood, it's all semantics isn't it.

You talk in the queens English do you ?, well fuck the queen and any cunt that bows to that level of subservience, where's the equality with that, Fuck Sir Cunt, FUCK EM!



HOW EVER

However. :wink:




The man is a LEGEND, in music. His songs will be remembered LONG after we are ALL dead. ............. Who here can say the same about their own music?

King Arthur a legend, I wouldn't hang onto every word he said if he was around today. Dragons should be shutdown, he'd probably get a STFU here too.

Elton John 'made' good music, but in the eighties he also made some pony music, shite rubbish, commercial dick sucking music, with shite videos.




The point Sir Elton is making, is that the whole world has access to make music today because of the internet. Be it pirating programs, scabbing samples so forth and so forth. Because it's so readily available, ANYONE can do it. Thus, instead of people with a genuine life long passion busting their nuts beyond the norm, to go out and make music because it's what they love, they can do it alot easier, which is great, HOW EVER, people WITH OUT a genuine passion, who only see it as a pass time can also go and do the same...


Firstly, I am in England and I think the honour system is a fucking joke, I am not calling someone lady, dame or Sir because the queen said it OK, fuck the queen.

I'de call John Lennon Sir, if he was still with us, because he didn't except his award from the queen, what the fuck does the queen know about music, about as much as she knows about shake n vac or Benson & hendges, "by appointment to the queen" my arse.

Now on the subject of music, we where running out of ideas before the internet came about, I don't think it's helped, what it can do is help bury the good stuff is a mountain of doo-doo.

Some artists, like Artic Monkey got a start through the net.

Elton wasn't that relevant when Punk took over Britain, he was irrelevant then, when he was having tea in his mansion, he lost any connection with the pulse of England, he became a rich cunt with a bald head, he should of stopped chatting fart back in 1976 perhaps, certainly by the 80's, but he's a attention whore.

Elton's thing is self felatio, he comes across as pure ego. He has to comment on everything, he loves the limelight, he should count his cash and shut the fuck up, imho his finger isn't on any pulse except his own. He jumps on bandwagons, he glues himslef to any young celebrity on the way up, he must be scared of getting older, because he's always commenting on new artists and then befreinding them, like he is musical god, the knighthood went to his head, he should shut the fuck up until he's relevant again, i can't see that happening.

The world doesn't need anymore wanker celebs, i hate this culture, and he's part of it, cosy's up with Posh and Becks and anyone else the press is on at the time, Amy Winehouse etc, anyone who is in the papers daily is trying his best to become their freinds, probably hoping that some of their light will get to him and it does, the papers report "Elton likes ..." or "Elton said...", or "Posh and Becks stay with their best freind Elton" or Elton is at their wedding, oh please FUCK OFF Elton.




Now in this industry, its not WHAT you know, but who you know. ...

Wasn't it always that way, it's always been that way, although i'll agree that nepotism seems to be massive now, every second person you hear on the radio or see on TV is someones son or daughter, which shows you the way it is.



The internet is a powerful communication tool, and so, with the newly formed Mp3 record labels run from a website rather than an office, all it takes is for some shit cunt to get chummy via e-mail with a mp3 label and his song is signed sealed and downloaded. But, it's not a good song..

Not a good song like "candle in the wind" which was the worst example of an old man being a royal fucker, he's so in lovwe with the royals in make me puke

Crass as it gets.

I wrote a song about MMonroe but I can't be bothered to write another so fuck MMonroe she wont mind if I rewrite her song.

Royal cock sucker, FUCK HIM, if he had any relevance left he flushed it down the royal throne that day, CUNT !

Royalist CUNT.

SIR Elton John, from Elton John from Reginald Dwight, yeah keeping it real Reg you CUNT.



The record store I shop from here, shut down 2 weeks ago.. .... I'm fucken sad.. I'm MISERABLE.. It's the second time its happend to me. I don't make friends with the people I order vinyl off the net from, but, the humble record shop, is more than just a shop with wax... It's... The Dj's domain.. It's his hang out, its like, that movie Barber Shop, with Ice Cube, but for Dj's.

I remember, in 1999 trying to make music with out the internet. Not even knowing what the internet was. It was fucken hard man.. so fucken hard. Djing as well. ... I did my senior years of high school with out eating so I could save and buy records. ..

I'm with you 100% , but i doubt Elton would be, I use records shops and not to look for Elton John's songs, because they are commercial rubbish you can find in Virgin or HMV or even Amazon. Big Corps are Elton John and have been for an age.



Some times you have to limit technology to preserve tradition and culture.
Sir Elton John is right.. I'd like to see the music with out the net for 5 years also.. I really would.. Leave all the music programs etc we have today, but with out being able to share it etc, I'd love to see it.. You watch, record labels would have to sell TALENT, because, they cant sell Mp3 and vinyl costs alot to produce, they'd have to sign music that would sell thus they'd only sign THE BEST... The music would impress alot .

I don't think it would make one blind bit of difference to be honest.

Imagination isn't reliant on the internet or lack of it.

[NakedAge]

if someones given a title, you address them by it.

Your going to label his music as crap because in the 80's some of it went commercial? Don't tell me your one of these people whose so underground they think their a music mole? Commercial or not, IT WAS GOOD.

I'm sorry but I gotta agree with Elton John, because, he's achieved ALOT more than ALL of us musically, and you have to respect what he says, and what he says makes alot of sense to me.

Arctic Monkey started through the net, but who the fuck are they? They're crap. Its got nothing to do with the queen, at ALL or equality, if the mans a SIR you call him SIR end of story. He earnt the title. Whether you believe in the Queen or not the titles there, it's justified.


I think until any of us have made as much contribution to great music as he has, his opinion should be respected as he clearly knows more about this issue than all of us. He IS right though.. He cosys up with Posh and Becks, who cares, thats his business, he fucks bums, thats his business to. From the sounds of it you just hate him because he lives an extravagently, flamboiantly gay life style.. So be it, its not our place to judge his personal life.

You say the world doesn't need more celebreties? Well, MAYBE WE DO... Maybe, instead of 50 million Britney Speares, and 'Arctic Monkeys' who, are just as much attention seeking as Elton (she shaved her fucken head ... I wonder why) .. Maybe, the world would be better, if we only had a few Eltons instead of an endless number of Britneys.

You can not argue this mans talent based on his royal allegance. Because thats not judging his music, thats judging him as a person, which, you have no right to do. I stand by my choice.. Look at the legends from that era, from the 60's to the 80's ...... Compare them to the 90's and 2000's ... The quality... ... No fucken way Britney will do anything half as good as Elton.. EVER

[Martin Red]

It sounds like you love Elton so much you can't see the wood for the trees, been down this road before, star struck people cannot see it, been through it in conversations about George Michael etc etc.. people spent that much of their childhood and teen years idolising someone that they wouldn't recogonise any other logic.


I don't recognise titles given by the queen because the queen and her family are a bunch of murdering cunts.

Go to Ireland, where some call the St Georges flag the butchers apron, fuck the Queen , fuck Sir, Fuck Lord, Fuck em all.

He's a crass cunt and should shut the fuck up, do you think that when he said that, people would say, he's right, lets take the biggest information source in the world and throw it away. Let's take the INFORMATION superhighway and close it down because Elton doesn't like it because he's no longer relevant to todays youth.

The only reason he said it was because he likes the look of his own name in print.

Elton John is about as much of an influence to the internet as Elvis is to Chuck D.


The world turns with or without the internet or elton, the web educates and Elton (Dwight) suffocates.


Fuck him, fuck his diamond rings, fuck his celebrity status, fuck his colander head, fuck his VIcky Pollard tracksuits.


I think the Artic Monkeys are saying alot more to the youth than Elton is, whether or not you actually like the music is irrelevant now.


The same way I didn't listen to dad music, neither are they , whether you like it or not.

End of.

[Huey P. Freeman]

no .. He's actually RIGHT and maybe you should all SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Look at yas... STFU? like, 'Wtf?' You can't even write proper english and your saying he's stupid? Your talking in fucken Internet English.

The man is a LEGEND, in music. His songs will be remembered LONG after we are ALL dead. ............. Who here can say the same about their own music?

The point Sir Elton is making, is that the whole world has access to make music today because of the internet. Be it pirating programs, scabbing samples so forth and so forth. Because it's so readily available, ANYONE can do it. Thus, instead of people with a genuine life long passion busting their nuts beyond the norm, to go out and make music because it's what they love, they can do it alot easier, which is great, HOW EVER, people WITH OUT a genuine passion, who only see it as a pass time can also go and do the same.

Now in this industry, its not WHAT you know, but who you know. The internet is a powerful communication tool, and so, with the newly formed Mp3 record labels run from a website rather than an office, all it takes is for some shit cunt to get chummy via e-mail with a mp3 label and his song is signed sealed and downloaded. But, it's not a good song..

The record store I shop from here, shut down 2 weeks ago.. .... I'm fucken sad.. I'm MISERABLE.. It's the second time its happend to me. I don't make friends with the people I order vinyl off the net from, but, the humble record shop, is more than just a shop with wax... It's... The Dj's domain.. It's his hang out, its like, that movie Barber Shop, with Ice Cube, but for Dj's.

I remember, in 1999 trying to make music with out the internet. Not even knowing what the internet was. It was fucken hard man.. so fucken hard. Djing as well. ... I did my senior years of high school with out eating so I could save and buy records.

Some times you have to limit technology to preserve tradition and culture.
Sir Elton John is right.. I'd like to see the music with out the net for 5 years also.. I really would.. Leave all the music programs etc we have today, but with out being able to share it etc, I'd love to see it.. You watch, record labels would have to sell TALENT, because, they cant sell Mp3 and vinyl costs alot to produce, they'd have to sign music that would sell thus they'd only sign THE BEST... The music would impress alot .. ..How about you STFU?

[Martin Red]

I Here what your saying Bro BUT.................

With the internet it has made music more accesible and affordable to millions of people.
Your point of going without food to buy music, Yesve to suffer to get the music as we did? How long most of us have been there I've been buyin records for nearly 30 years so I know what your talking about. Why should kids of today hacan people who love music but don't have the cash, carry on buying highly priced and rip off priced CD's from major labels?

indeed, giving up food for funk, lol I agree with you, although the world is a different place now than the post war era, 60's 70's 80's, looking at the price some are willing to pay on ebay for a retro history, the kids today aren't short of few quid :wink:
I think you'll agree that no ones saying that Elton hasn't made some good music in his day, but that day has passed, and if he's putting out comments, like he has , that people will indeed say, shut the fuck up Elton you made some good music, you got knighted like McCartney, but that don't give you carte blanche.

[Martin Red]

Hit records?

Britney Spears has had hit records does that mean she's great?

Exactly.


Elton made candle in the wind which was a all time best seller, going to no 1 and staying there, he sold alot more of these than his previous stuff, this was his biggest chart hit, so such skewed logic dictated that was his best song.

I challenge anyone to find one CUNT (today - years on) that would admit to buying that crass nonsense. It's a likeley as people admitting they voted for Thatcher or perhaps Bush, but people did, and those people are what I call CUNTS.

:)

[kaaos]

how many hit tracks have YOU had in the last 20 years? Elton Johns music is still heard today, his songs will stand the test of time, and he made them with out the internet. You can't sit here and say he's shit


And the Djs and record labels and so forth that would survive, would be the best ones. We'd have less music, but it would be QUALITY music

I never liked Elton’s music, not one fucking song. Fucking elevator music or bank lobby music. The twat probably has no idea how to turn a PC on. So again I say, fuck off Sir Elton Twat.

[Martin Red]

The twat probably has no idea how to turn a PC on. So again I say, fuck off Sir Elton Twat.

Spin-Cycle Wizard

Elton John couldn't work a washing machine until he was 43

http://www.holymoly.co.uk/images/stories/Week0907/eltonwash.jpg
Increasingly creepy, mental little waxwork Sir Elton John has admitted to US show 'Enough Rope' that he was once so self-obsessed he was unable to carry out menial household tasks.

This all changed when his partner David Furnish strode into his life, grasped the Lenor, explained the spin cycle on the washing machine and highlighted the havoc that Hollywood's hard water was having on his kettle element.

When Elton was younger he was a crazy free spirit, always convinced he was correct and unable to take advice from lessers. He could cheerfully admit that he was a drug addict, but too ashamed to ask for advice on basic household issues.

Or, in short, he was rich and he had people to do it for him.

Now he's even richer and has a partner who can tell him about boil washes. Oh give him a fucking Lordship, he's suffered enough!

http://www.holymoly.co.uk/news/28/elton-john-couldnt-work-a-washing-machine-until-he-was-43-960.html

[Martin Red]

http://www.crystalair.com/stories/200703/200703002.jpg

Elton John To Release Anna Nicole Tribute
LONDON (CAP) - Sir Elton John announced today that he plans to re-release his hit song, Candle In The Wind. Much like he did with Princess Diana after her tragic death, Sir Elton is making this unusual move after apparently being touched by the short life and sudden death of Anna Nicole Smith.

"As big a mess as she was, it's just amazing the reaction to her passing, isn't it? We can't stop thinking about her," Sir Elton told reporters during a news conference outside the London headquarters of his dwarfism support charity, Tiny Dancer.

"I just feel terrible for her infant daughter, growing up with no mum and seven or eight dads. All the proceeds from this song will go towards a trust fund so the poor child can successfully hide from you fucking piranhas," Sir Elton said as he waved a chubby little finger at the gathered press.

Sir Elton had originally planned on dusting off Candle as a tribute to Britney Spears, but those plans fell through when the pop princess checked herself into rehab, and it finally took, last week.

"Brit went with the wrong razor, didn't she now?" a clearly-irritated Sir Elton asked.

While Sir Elton and his studio band will be recording the tribute next week, CAP News has obtained a copy of the lyrics for the revised song, which will be called Zeppelin In The Wind. The copy of said lyrics appears below.

Zeppelin In The Wind

Goodbye Vickie Lynn
You liked your men all rich, no ass and old
You had the grace to hold yourself
Tightly against the stripper pole
They crawled out of the woodwork
And the c-notes they fell like rain
They asked you for a lap dance
And they loved your many cute stage names.

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a zeppelin in the wind
Dragging ground wires, trying to get higher
Than a kite by ten
And I would have liked to have flown you
And maybe knocked you up with a kid
But your zeppelin's now a saggy shell
I can't believe what TrimSpa did.

http://www.crystalair.com/content.php?id=18200703002

[kaaos]

Spin-Cycle Wizard

Elton John couldn't work a washing machine until he was 43

http://www.holymoly.co.uk/images/stories/Week0907/eltonwash.jpg
Increasingly creepy, mental little waxwork Sir Elton John has admitted to US show 'Enough Rope' that he was once so self-obsessed he was unable to carry out menial household tasks.

This all changed when his partner David Furnish strode into his life, grasped the Lenor, explained the spin cycle on the washing machine and highlighted the havoc that Hollywood's hard water was having on his kettle element.

When Elton was younger he was a crazy free spirit, always convinced he was correct and unable to take advice from lessers. He could cheerfully admit that he was a drug addict, but too ashamed to ask for advice on basic household issues.

Or, in short, he was rich and he had people to do it for him.

Now he's even richer and has a partner who can tell him about boil washes. Oh give him a fucking Lordship, he's suffered enough!

http://www.holymoly.co.uk/news/28/elton-john-couldnt-work-a-washing-machine-until-he-was-43-960.html



Good god. The man is daft.

[DJ Teji]

Some people just believe any shit that somone writes just cause they are so besotted by their celebrity status. Take a wake up pill or get your head out of the clouds. You need to do something!

[DJ Teji]

He hasn't made any significant contribution to the music I've been listening to for the last 30 years and there are plenty of people on this board that have made bigger contributions to the world of dance music than that egomanic clown. He is just attention seeking and talking shit as always and if you can't see that you are not living in the real world. I'm sorry but candle in the wind ain't really doing for me.
But if that's your cup of tea goodluck!


Teji

[darrow]

I don't get it. Musical creativity is dead because people can email each other, chat online, get driving directions, find recipes and view porn?

[Martin Red]

I don't get it. Musical creativity is dead because people can email each other, chat online, get driving directions, find recipes and view porn?

:rofl:




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[Moksha]

Nakedage,

If you're such a big Elton fan... and follow the things he says... then surely you know that 99.99% of the time he is totally full of shit.

[Moksha]

Oh, and please don't buy any music from online record stores, buy any records you see suggested on this or other music forums, listen to any DJ sets from DJs past or present over the internet. If you really think he has a point, then why don't you follow the spirit of his argument and disengaqge yourself musically from the internet?

P.S. Bedroom computer production of music would have happened with or without the internet.

[DOTSmusic]

how many hit tracks have YOU had in the last 20 years? Elton Johns music is still heard today, his songs will stand the test of time, and he made them with out the internet. You can't sit here and say he's shit


And the Djs and record labels and so forth that would survive, would be the best ones. We'd have less music, but it would be QUALITY music

major labels don't really give a fuck about the quality of music anymore (or if they ever did before). they want what's going to make them money. there is plenty of QUALITY music out there, you just have to search it out. Elton has always been a pop artist, with plenty of radio play. my guess is he's judging it on the music you would hear that is readily available to the general listening public aka THE RADIO.

i doubt Elton has any clue about the majority of music being made today, he don't know shit about UNDERGROUND. you really have no right to judge what's out there when all you know about is what you can hear on the radio or on TRL and shit like that. in my opinion this is one of the greatest times for hearing interesting music of many different genres.. there is so much great stuff out there, you just gotta look.

thank gawd we have the internet, otherwise i would not know about the majority of this music.

[darrow]

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Actually, I just realized that I answered my own question.

Musical creativity is dead because we are all too busy emailing porn and our favorite recipes to each other.

He would've been better off calling for a moratorium on email and porn. Maybe then, even he could make a decent tune.

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[däp]

you can't have an intelligent discssion on a topic about which you have NO knowledge. [enter elton john]. he made himself look stupid.

[Martin Red]

I think until any of us have made as much contribution to great music as he has, his opinion should be respected as he clearly knows more about this issue than all of us. He IS right though.. He cosys up with Posh and Becks, who cares, thats his business, he fucks bums, thats his business to. From the sounds of it you just hate him because he lives an extravagently, flamboiantly gay life style.. So be it, its not our place to judge his personal life.

Was going to leave this, but whilst this is at the top of the board.

The sound of "it" , quote me on the "it" or are you projecting your own bullshit perhaps.

"Gay lifestyle", what is that then ? , getting on stage with Eminen , that kinda thing ?


He puts himself in the limelight, and he makes a fool of himself, over and over, he could count his cash and people wouldn't talk about him so much, but not Elton, he is a fucking meglomaniac who doesn't live in the real world, he hasn't made the world a better place IMHO, he hasn't fought injustice, he just licks royal ass, the same royals whose relatives raped and pillaged for monetary gain, Buckingham Palace is built on Negro, Asian and Irish skulls.

He's shallow and cuntish and loves public adoration he's addicted to fame like a crack head is to... well, crack

fuck him, in the "bum" perhaps, i don't care what he does with his todger, that's his decision.

but when he comes out with nonsense, it ain't gonna be yes sir, three bags full sir like your coming off with, subservient idiots can fuck off as far as i'm concerned.

Now can we please argue about something that actually matters, good day to you nakedage.

Peace, i'll leave it at that.

[kaaos]

Nakedage,

If you're such a big Elton fan... and follow the things he says... then surely you know that 99.99% of the time he is totally full of shit.

naked age has stopped using the net so don't bother asking him anything...lol

surely he feels so strong about elton's comments he will lead us by example.

[Bill Blake]

no .. He's actually RIGHT and maybe you should all SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Look at yas... STFU? like, 'Wtf?' You can't even write proper english and your saying he's stupid? Your talking in fucken Internet English.

The man is a LEGEND, in music. His songs will be remembered LONG after we are ALL dead. ............. Who here can say the same about their own music?

The point Sir Elton is making, is that the whole world has access to make music today because of the internet. Be it pirating programs, scabbing samples so forth and so forth. Because it's so readily available, ANYONE can do it. Thus, instead of people with a genuine life long passion busting their nuts beyond the norm, to go out and make music because it's what they love, they can do it alot easier, which is great, HOW EVER, people WITH OUT a genuine passion, who only see it as a pass time can also go and do the same.

Now in this industry, its not WHAT you know, but who you know. The internet is a powerful communication tool, and so, with the newly formed Mp3 record labels run from a website rather than an office, all it takes is for some shit cunt to get chummy via e-mail with a mp3 label and his song is signed sealed and downloaded. But, it's not a good song..

The record store I shop from here, shut down 2 weeks ago.. .... I'm fucken sad.. I'm MISERABLE.. It's the second time its happend to me. I don't make friends with the people I order vinyl off the net from, but, the humble record shop, is more than just a shop with wax... It's... The Dj's domain.. It's his hang out, its like, that movie Barber Shop, with Ice Cube, but for Dj's.

I remember, in 1999 trying to make music with out the internet. Not even knowing what the internet was. It was fucken hard man.. so fucken hard. Djing as well. ... I did my senior years of high school with out eating so I could save and buy records.

Some times you have to limit technology to preserve tradition and culture.
Sir Elton John is right.. I'd like to see the music with out the net for 5 years also.. I really would.. Leave all the music programs etc we have today, but with out being able to share it etc, I'd love to see it.. You watch, record labels would have to sell TALENT, because, they cant sell Mp3 and vinyl costs alot to produce, they'd have to sign music that would sell thus they'd only sign THE BEST... The music would impress alot .. ..

Off subject yes, but I’m dying for you to define what ‘proper English’ is?

And what are you doing on an INTERNET music site? Um, I mean this one....

[Kamiwa]

NakedAge gets the prize for the longest posts EVERRRR---geez!!!!

[kaaos]

Off subject yes, but I’m dying for you to define what ‘proper English’ is?

And what are you doing on an INTERNET music site? Um, I mean this one....


ironic isn't it

[SuzanneT]

How about you STFU?
:beerchug: Elton John has made one record in NakedAge's lifetime and that one sucked.
Fats Domino, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Xavier Cougat, Miles Davis, and James Brown probably thought Elton's music was a crock of shit too. Chuck Berry is a LEGEND but he made "My Ding-a-ling", God knows you can't blame the internet for that shit.

[Bill Blake]

:beerchug: Elton John has made one record in NakedAge's lifetime and that one sucked.
Fats Domino, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Xavier Cougat, Miles Davis, and James Brown probably thought Elton's music was a crock of shit too. Chuck Berry is a LEGEND but he made "My Ding-a-ling", God knows you can't blame the internet for that shit.


I'll bet my dick in butter that Charlie Parker would have dug the internet.

[däp]

Let he who is without bad grammar cast the first dangling participle. well, um, err...

[ngeso]

no .. He's actually RIGHT and maybe you should all SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Look at yas... STFU? like, 'Wtf?' You can't even write proper english and your saying he's stupid? Your talking in fucken Internet English.

The man is a LEGEND, in music. His songs will be remembered LONG after we are ALL dead. ............. Who here can say the same about their own music?

The point Sir Elton is making, is that the whole world has access to make music today because of the internet. Be it pirating programs, scabbing samples so forth and so forth. Because it's so readily available, ANYONE can do it. Thus, instead of people with a genuine life long passion busting their nuts beyond the norm, to go out and make music because it's what they love, they can do it alot easier, which is great, HOW EVER, people WITH OUT a genuine passion, who only see it as a pass time can also go and do the same.

Now in this industry, its not WHAT you know, but who you know. The internet is a powerful communication tool, and so, with the newly formed Mp3 record labels run from a website rather than an office, all it takes is for some shit cunt to get chummy via e-mail with a mp3 label and his song is signed sealed and downloaded. But, it's not a good song..

The record store I shop from here, shut down 2 weeks ago.. .... I'm fucken sad.. I'm MISERABLE.. It's the second time its happend to me. I don't make friends with the people I order vinyl off the net from, but, the humble record shop, is more than just a shop with wax... It's... The Dj's domain.. It's his hang out, its like, that movie Barber Shop, with Ice Cube, but for Dj's.

I remember, in 1999 trying to make music with out the internet. Not even knowing what the internet was. It was fucken hard man.. so fucken hard. Djing as well. ... I did my senior years of high school with out eating so I could save and buy records.

Some times you have to limit technology to preserve tradition and culture.
Sir Elton John is right.. I'd like to see the music with out the net for 5 years also.. I really would.. Leave all the music programs etc we have today, but with out being able to share it etc, I'd love to see it.. You watch, record labels would have to sell TALENT, because, they cant sell Mp3 and vinyl costs alot to produce, they'd have to sign music that would sell thus they'd only sign THE BEST... The music would impress alot .. ..




Adrian,

supposing someone had suggested in 1935 that electric guitars would diminish the quality of music,........

........is it your opinion that music would have been better if they had succeeded in stifling these instruments?

[that's rhetorical question you cannot answer, I know.]

[ngeso]

ROFL,


I just checked out Elton John's discography on wiki. At the very bottom it says:


"Next Elton John album (Hip-hop,R&B Style) TBA"


Lord have mercy on us all.

[matt fernandez]

ROFL,


I just checked out Elton John's discography on wiki. At the very bottom it says:


"Next Elton John album (Hip-hop,R&B Style) TBA"


Lord have mercy on us all.

http://www.immediart.com/catalog/images/big_images/SPL_R_T165126-Atomic_bomb_explosion-SPL.jpg

[eZy]

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[SuzanneT]

ROFL,


I just checked out Elton John's discography on wiki. At the very bottom it says:


"Next Elton John album (Hip-hop,R&B Style) TBA"


Lord have mercy on us all.
ahahahaha can you picture it: Elton John and Young Jeezy :icon_rofl: or better yet Elton John and Lil John Yeah-yuh!

[Sal Paradise]

Elton John' s a Big Turd with a Pink Bow tied around it.

[Bill Blake]

As a matter of character, anyone who’d take a knighting from a queen as opposed to telling the old bag to bug off and the system of monarchy period…is a wanker.

[kaaos]

ahahahaha can you picture it: Elton John and Young Jeezy :icon_rofl: or better yet Elton John and Lil John Yeah-yuh!

concidering how hip hop sells out now a days ...yes i can picture 'it'

[Sweetmeat Johnson Jr.]

Elton is one tragic queen, anyway. Nothing good came out of Elton after "Yellow Brick Road". Can't stand him now.

[NakedAge]

you know what shits me about this? I don't even like his music. It's not what I personally listen to. But for what they are, his songs are great, for the generation they were made for and so forth. His new stuff might be shit, but the man has still acoomplished alot, and should be recognised, and his theory is right. You can all sit there and say its not, but I bet you if you actually tried it, he'd be right.

[Huey P. Freeman]

you know what shits me about this? I don't even like his music. It's not what I personally listen to. Even more reason to
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[kev]

yeah, he's accomplished alot. like "benny & the jets". great song.

[kev]

damn naked age compared elton john to the beatles

l o fucking l

[The White Shadow]

I'm not so sure Elton will be remembered in the future. Ask anyone under 20 now and they probly don't even know who he is. Might be one of the reasons why he wants to do a Rap/R&B album.

[DJ Teji]

you know what shits me about this? I don't even like his music. It's not what I personally listen to. But for what they are, his songs are great, for the generation they were made for and so forth. His new stuff might be shit, but the man has still acoomplished alot, and should be recognised, and his theory is right. You can all sit there and say its not, but I bet you if you actually tried it, he'd be right.

So Naked Age You gonna take his advice?
Bet you don't cause you sound like a hypocrite just like your Idol.

We don't need to try it because we like the internet it brings us all closer together.
But I think you should try it yourself as your so caught up in his bullshit then you can find out for yourself why we all say you and Elton should STFU