I am…
- …an Elvis fan.
- …a Beatles fan.
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Hello F(r)iends,
There are two types of people in the world:
Elvis fans.
Beatles fans.
Which one are you?
-Thirst
Beatles
I’m not crazy about either. But of the two I gotta pick the Beatles. If I gotta pick. 
Elvis vs Beatles
Image vs Talent
Idol vs Musicians
Shallow vs Deep
Lyrics vs Poetry
Pop vs Art
Imitation vs Real
Mommy’s boy vs Rebels
Clean Cut vs Uncut
Show Pony vs Work Horse
Frozen in Time vs Changed the Times
Couldn’t write a Song vs Wrote Own Songs
Others played instruments vs Played own Instruments
Soldier vs Peacemaker
Right vs Left
Style vs Substance
Can’t pick… love em both
You forget the most important one
American vs British
And that ends any discussion of this issue.
In fact, for anal movie buffs, there’s a scene in Pulp Fiction that was cut out of the final movie but is available on the Extras on the Collector’s Edition DVD where Mia Wallace is ‘interviewing’ Vincent Vega when he first turns up at the Wallace household. Now, in the final cut we simply get glimpses of Mia, her lips at the microphone, her hand chopping up the line of coke, behind her back as she leans forward to snort it, her feet as she walks into the living room and says ‘let’s go’. You may also remember when they get to Jack Rabbit Slims that Mia says to Vincent ‘an Elvis man should love it’. In the outtake she’s interviewing Vincent on a handheld camcorder (unlike the rest of the movie this is shot in the normal 16:9 rather than Cinemascope) and says ‘I was going to ask you whether you were an Evlis man or a Beatles man but you’re obviously an Elvis fan’. The whole scene is very cute and actually underpins their whole dialogue over the meal making it far more realistic, but Tarantino cut it out so as to move the movie along. Admittedly the handheld feel is a little incongruous because the rest of the movie is shot and edited so precisely but I think that it should have been included.
Of course, I’m an Elvis man.
Ramones fan. Screw your poll.
Hello F(r)iends,
KM, your list is way off… The Beatles are not talented musicians, there’s nothing deep about them, they are not poetic and artful. In fact, the Beatles are a lot like Elvis in that they were idols tuning up pop songs. My comments are in parentheses and in red font.
Uccisore, I’m going to put you down as an Elvis man…
-Thirst
Beatles and its not even close.
the Beatles are the single greatest rock and roll
band of all time, end of discussion, good night,
drive home safely.
OH, you want proof. Sure, which one will be still be
played in 100 years? It sure the hell won’t be Elvis.
Kropotkin
Yeah, that’s probably the wiser of the two, Thirst. I mean, he died the year I was born, and that’s got to count for something.
Hey SIATFD, I’m pushing uphill as much as I can here… especially in the poetry/art category, I’m not about to score an own goal. I purposely left that one out.
There were others I purposely left out too because I didn’t want to humiliate Thirst4Pelvis. I’m not the kind of person who kicks someone when they’re down… but, in this case, I’ll make an exception
The Beatles changed the world; Presley didn’t even change his suites or hairstyle for 20 years.
Beatles were fresh and natural (e.g. hair), Presley was greased up like an Arab’s camel.
The Beatles avoided the shallow screaming teeny boppers, Presley couldn’t live without them
The Beatles didn’t dress up to perform; Presley dressed in costumes and made Liberachi look like a working class labourer.
Lennon died dramatically in the prime of life as a hero; Presley died, fat and bloated on the shit box.
The Beatles were knighted and part of real royalty; Presley was crowned a fake “king” by his PR people
The Beatles lived in real manors/castles; Presley lived in a fake manor that resembled Disneyland on the outside and a hore house on the inside (says a lot about his character doesn’t it?)
The Beatles were spiritual; Presley was religious and, as I said previously,
The Beatles were artists/musicians; Presley was a performer/actor
The Beatles were 'the real thing"; Presley was soda pop for the ‘new generation’ (of silly little girls.)
PS: It’s funny Thirst, I’ve been wanting to answer your Brokeback and Pepsi/Coke posts but haven’t had time and here I am (at 4:15am) talking to you about the Beatles and someone who dressed like Abba.
Life is strange… 
i came to ilp for the philosophy.
i stayed for posts exactly like this.
(p.s. thirst, everyone knows the beatles were WAY better. it’s like arguing superman vs. batman. everyone agrees: batman is the best hero ever and superman blows.)
both elvis and the beatles STOLE from the blues
Motorhead Forever
-Imp
Hello F(r)iends,
Imp, in holding with tradition, I am going to have to put you down for Elvis…
-Thirst
Neither.
Somewhere between Vivaldi and Malmsteen.
What’s an Elvis?
Beatles? I guess you can eat them, if they’re chocolate covered version.
No, definitely … Malmsteen, musician and misogynist.
Those who think the world can be divided into two types and those who think the world can’t be divided into two groups.
Or there are only 10 types of people in the world.
Those who understand binary and those who don’t.
Speaking of binary:
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Hey, not fair I don’t care for either So what does that make me?
the most important question of course is can you go to vegas and get married by a beatles imitator?
-Imp