Greatest Male Solo Artist - 2nd Round - Elton John vs Peter Gabriel

[cloggypop]

[KMD7]

Elton based on his 70's and early 80's for me but I really like Gabriel as well.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

5 hours ago, Mook said:

Elton John made some great stuff in the early/mid 70s but then so did Peter Gabriel after he left Genesis. I much prefer his voice too.

 

 

Mook knws.

5 hours ago, Chairman Meow said:

Elton John is just a poor mans Vic Reeves club singer.

 

 

But this could swing my vote. Still makes me howl.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

1 hour ago, cloggypop said:

White boot wanker.

[SasaS]

Peter Gabriel was always boredom personified for me, I think the soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ was the only thing he did I liked. Elton John on the other hand is just... honestly, how can you stand songs like Nikita or I'm Still Standing or that horrible duet he did or Candle In the Wind or... I'm sure Mook has a vinyl from 1972 or something which is an acceptable piece of blue-eyed soul or R&B or something, but I have never heard an Elton John song which didn't make me feel like I've suddenly developed a rash. 

[Bjornebye]

6 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Peter Gabriel was always boredom personified for me, I think the soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ was the only thing he did I liked. Elton John on the other hand is just... honestly, how can you stand songs like Nikita or I'm Still Standing or that horrible duet he did or Candle In the Wind or... I'm sure Mook has a vinyl from 1972 or something which is an acceptable piece of blue-eyed soul or R&B or something, but I have never heard an Elton John song which didn't make me feel like I've suddenly developed a rash. 

Hahahahaha 

[SasaS]

8 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Hahahahaha 

No really, how can you stand those songs?  I get Oasis and stuff like that but Elton is something your uncle would probably hide as a guilty pleasure.

[Mook]

18 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Peter Gabriel was always boredom personified for me, I think the soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ was the only thing he did I liked. Elton John on the other hand is just... honestly, how can you stand songs like Nikita or I'm Still Standing or that horrible duet he did or Candle In the Wind or... I'm sure Mook has a vinyl from 1972 or something which is an acceptable piece of blue-eyed soul or R&B or something, but I have never heard an Elton John song which didn't make me feel like I've suddenly developed a rash. 

I don't have any Elton John albums. I've got Peter Gabriel's first two solo albums although a mate borrowed the debut about 14 years ago & I still haven't got it back.

 

*goes off to text mate

[Mook]

1 minute ago, SasaS said:

No really, how can you stand those songs?  I get Oasis and stuff like that but Elton is something your uncle would probably hide as a guilty pleasure.

You're talking about really shit Elton John stuff here though, his first few albums had some good songs on them.

 

 

[Bjornebye]

19 minutes ago, SasaS said:

No really, how can you stand those songs?  I get Oasis and stuff like that but Elton is something your uncle would probably hide as a guilty pleasure.

Ok. 

[Red Banjo]

Peter Gabriel is clearly under appreciated around these parts.

 

Elton is class too tho. Difficult, but Solisbury Hill is one of my all time favourites, so that. 

[SasaS]

40 minutes ago, Mook said:

You're talking about really shit Elton John stuff here though, his first few albums had some good songs on them.

 

 

Well, that was kind of my point with the imaginary scenario. 

 

[Captain Howdy]

1 hour ago, SasaS said:

Peter Gabriel was always boredom personified for me, I think the soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ was the only thing he did I liked. Elton John on the other hand is just... honestly, how can you stand songs like Nikita or I'm Still Standing or that horrible duet he did or Candle In the Wind or... I'm sure Mook has a vinyl from 1972 or something which is an acceptable piece of blue-eyed soul or R&B or something, but I have never heard an Elton John song which didn't make me feel like I've suddenly developed a rash. 

Listen to his early albums, they are very, very good.

[Mudface]

2 hours ago, SasaS said:

Peter Gabriel was always boredom personified for me, I think the soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ was the only thing he did I liked. Elton John on the other hand is just... honestly, how can you stand songs like Nikita or I'm Still Standing or that horrible duet he did or Candle In the Wind or... I'm sure Mook has a vinyl from 1972 or something which is an acceptable piece of blue-eyed soul or R&B or something, but I have never heard an Elton John song which didn't make me feel like I've suddenly developed a rash. 

Wha'?

 

He made half a dozen stone cold classic albums in the early '70s, none of them are particularly obscure and all of them are absolutely superb. Candle in the Wind was just a pleasant ballad on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and judging him by the other songs you mentioned is like saying Bowie was shite based on Blue Jean and Let's Dance (or Gabriel was shite based on Sledgehammer).

 

He did taper off big time in the late '70s and '80s, but then so did a number of other huge artists from the '70s when they started chasing the MTV bucks, including Gabriel himself.

[Code]

9 hours ago, El Diego said:

Solsbury hill is an absolute banger and top reds tune.

It is a great track, but Erasure did it better.

 

 

[Mook]

3 minutes ago, Code said:

It is a great track, but Erasure did it better.

 

 

Of all the shite you've posted on these music threads, that takes the fucking biscuit.

 

Fucking Hell.

[Captain Howdy]

29 minutes ago, Code said:

It is a great track, but Erasure did it better.

 

 

[SasaS]

40 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Wha'?

 

He made half a dozen stone cold classic albums in the early '70s, none of them are particularly obscure and all of them are absolutely superb. Candle in the Wind was just a pleasant ballad on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and judging him by the other songs you mentioned is like saying Bowie was shite based on Blue Jean and Let's Dance (or Gabriel was shite based on Sledgehammer).

 

He did taper off big time in the late '70s and '80s, but then so did a number of other huge artists from the '70s when they started chasing the MTV bucks, including Gabriel himself.

I don't think I attempted a comprehensive evaluation of Elton John's opus, just that what I was exposed to was horrible, each and every time. Not exactly an incentive to go look for his early stuff, especially if this is not my kind of music (it couldn't be further from it actually). 

[Captain Howdy]

2 minutes ago, SasaS said:

I don't think I attempted a comprehensive evaluation of Elton John's opus, just that what I was exposed to was horrible, each and every time. Not exactly an incentive to go look for his early stuff, especially if this is not my kind of music (it couldn't be further from it actually). 

Be that as it may your dismissal of a seismic artist with seemingly no knowledge of the work that made him so is shallow.

[Mudface]

16 minutes ago, SasaS said:

I don't think I attempted a comprehensive evaluation of Elton John's opus, just that what I was exposed to was horrible, each and every time. Not exactly an incentive to go look for his early stuff, especially if this is not my kind of music (it couldn't be further from it actually). 

It's very far from the sort of stuff I would generally listen to as well, but it's still exceptionally good. And it's not so much his early stuff as his most successful stuff- as someone else mentioned in another thread, by the mid-70s, 2% of all worldwide record sales was by him, he was likely outselling even Led Zeppelin at that time.

[TheBitch]

How can anybody not love Code for bringing Erasure into a Peter Gabriel/ Elton John thread. 
 

Negged, obviously, but that was quality work. 

[Lee909]

Im just starting Eltons book now

 

Quiet interesting interview for the book launch

 

 

[Code]

11 hours ago, Mook said:

Of all the shite you've posted on these music threads, that takes the fucking biscuit.

 

Fucking Hell.

Peter Gabriels original is neither here or there in a genre and beat. 

[Total Longo]

11 hours ago, SasaS said:

I don't think I attempted a comprehensive evaluation of Elton John's opus, just that what I was exposed to was horrible, each and every time. Not exactly an incentive to go look for his early stuff, especially if this is not my kind of music (it couldn't be further from it actually). 

Out of curiosity, what is?

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

Out of curiosity, what is?

Bad Manners.