Song Contest Part XVI, Host: ???, Theme:???, Noms Due: ???

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Elvis didn't invent SHIT, and to say he gave credit to every single song he covered is plain wrong. Half the songs he "covered' no one knew who wrote them in the first place. They had been covered for years by a great number of different black artist over many many years. Rolling stones did the same thing.


Absolute thieves the lot of them
If you cover someone else's song, but give them the writing credit, that isn't stealing. You're just covering the song. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Taking someone else's song and giving yourself the writing credit, that's stealing.

How and why does it matter if nobody knew who wrote the songs in the first place? He still credited them - all of them - to whomever wrote them. And saying that I'm just plain wrong is 100% incorrect. Which songs did he not credit the song's writers?
 

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I was The White Stripes.

I voted like this:

5. Vampire Weekend
4. Live
3. IVY
2. Nancy Sinatra
1. The Turtles

Billy - Elvis

I did not care for that Elvis song but more by proxy of it being a round that batted really deep. Also God.
 
1 Ivy - Pocket Full of Blood
2 Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
3 Torche - Kicking Back One Out
4 Nana Grizol - Circles Round the Moon
5 Live - Waitress Plugger35
6 Brand New - The Shower Scene Marklar_33
7 Vampire Weekend, Danielle Haim - Hold You Now
8 Billie Eilish - All the Good Girls Go to Hell Loonerty
9 Perfume Genius - Hood roo2macca
10 I Was A King - Norman Bleik Noobz0r
11 Steve Earle - Tennessee Blues
12 White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
13 Sierra Ferrell - In Dreams GreyCrow
14 Nancy Sinatra - How Does That Grab You Darlin'
15 Jericco - Dahab Drunkgoliath
16 Cliff Haywood - Whirlpools por_please_ya
17 Macross 82-99 - At Night ChappyUK
18 Sudan Archives - Come Meh Way Ulahoopski
19 Planet 1999 - Party NinjaSwan
20 Czarface, MF Doom - Captain Brunch _Rake_
21 Aesop Rock - Lazy Eye AuntyBlindEye
22 YBN Cordae, Anderson Paak - RNP Harvey Manfrenjensenden
23 Magnetic Fields - Absolutely Cuckoo NaturalDisaster
24 Ann Peebles - Trouble Heartaches & Sadness
25 JJ Cale - After Midnight
26 Elvis Presley - If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side Hoos
27 Rodriguez - Crucify Your Mind
28 The Turtles - Elenore SM
29 The Firebirds - I Wonder Why The Speaker

Who is missing from this list? raskolnikov?
 

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I'm sure the true gospel singers of the church were too black for your (extremely) racist grandma.
Wow. Uncalled for. My Grandma didn't have an easy life. Grew up in a nunnery, didn't see her real mother for 42 years after they were torn apart. Never knew her father (wasn't on birth certificate). Died only 54 years old of a brain tumour (I was 2 years old).
She loved Elvis so much that when he died, her faith in God actually shattered a bit.
Wouldn't be surprised if she loved other music including those by black folk, I'll have to ask my mum. Disgusted you would say something like that... :(
 
Wow. Uncalled for. My Grandma didn't have an easy life. Grew up in a nunnery, didn't see her real mother for 42 years after they were torn apart. Never knew her father (wasn't on birth certificate). Died only 54 years old of a brain tumour (I was 2 years old).
She loved Elvis so much that when he died, her faith in God actually shattered a bit.
Wouldn't be surprised if she loved other music including those by black folk, I'll have to ask my mum. Disgusted you would say something like that... :(
I would bet my crevice that Rake was joking.
 
I hope so... But wasn't a very funny one to me :/
Maybe it was in poor taste, depending on your point of view of course, but I'm sure it was just a little bit of dark humour.

If you'll pardon the pun.
 
I think what we're seeing tonight is proof that the contest community lives and dies on the existence of nominations>posting of noms>voting>posting of results

When nominations or results get delayed or don't get posted at all this place descends into anarchy.
 
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