He also said in an interview in the 80's that all Queen fan's should be buried in a big hole. Don't forget he was supposedly part of the punk movement, big on controversial statements, pretty crap on quality music.
And he also absolutely destroyed an episode of Frasier. Not sure what about him I loathed the most.
master marathon runner · Member since
......his Da's 'White's lemonade' jingle was probably better than owt HE did.
Costa86 · Member since
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[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]Likewise, you could say Queen are completely out of touch with the market, and their music is boring and repetitive. But you can't say they are rubbish and talentless. That's a lie.
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Their sales tell a different story to them being out of touch with the market.
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Yes, yes, I don't personally think they are out of touch - I think they were brilliant, always - but that is an argument someone could logically make. On the other hand, saying they are rubbish is a non-argument really.[/QUOTE]
If they made that argument, it'd be a misguided / illogical one though. It's just as rubbish (as you put it) as the non argument examples you gave.[/QUOTE]
No, mate, "rubbish" is not as I put it. Costello supposedly used the term in reference to Queen.
Read stuff on the right from the Melody Maker. For those who can't be arsed with the utterance of someone so up his own arse at that point in time (hey, its 35 years later, perhaps he is a different person):-
QUEEN & DAVID BOWIE: "Under Pressure" (EMI).
Oh my God, it really is David Bowie this time, only with Queen. The very idea makes me feel sick, the record is worse. I can't see why he would want to team up with that prancing megalomaniac ("We Are The Champions Of The World"). Then maybe I can … there's always money.
Day dop · Member since
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[QUOTE] [b]Day dop wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]Day dop wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]Likewise, you could say Queen are completely out of touch with the market, and their music is boring and repetitive. But you can't say they are rubbish and talentless. That's a lie.
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Their sales tell a different story to them being out of touch with the market.
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Yes, yes, I don't personally think they are out of touch - I think they were brilliant, always - but that is an argument someone could logically make. On the other hand, saying they are rubbish is a non-argument really.[/QUOTE]
If they made that argument, it'd be a misguided / illogical one though. It's just as rubbish (as you put it) as the non argument examples you gave.[/QUOTE]
No, mate, "rubbish" is not as I put it. Costello supposedly used the term in reference to Queen.[/QUOTE]
Ah yes. I see.
Sheer Brass Neck · Member since
Well, he called Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant n*****"" so he's got the controversial, vitriolic act down, in comparison, Queen got off easy.
cmsdrums · Member since
Costello's vocal on his version of 'She' is so bad, leaves me yearning for Morrissey......as others have said, if you don't like something fair enough, but to say an act has no talent when they clearly have just completely devalues that opinion and makes it worthless.
Allan Campbell · Member since
I know this is an old thread but I stumbled upon it today and thought I would update it with more detail.
I actually listened to this show as a kid, and at the time I was a massive queen fan (I ended up later actually taking the photo for the back cover of Queen and Paul Rodgers Champions Live and later met up with Brian May in The Olympia Theater in Dublin in 2016).
It was on the Janice Long show, and they reviewed new singles at the time. Elvis Costello was a guest and they were reviewing Queen's Who Wants to Live Forever. Janice Long basically said it was awful, but everytime she gave a queen song a bad review that Queen fans wrote in by the thousand and then Elvis Costello said, it was just Queen trying to sound like Dire Straits and that the fans could send in their letters to him.
I remember at the time thinking he sounded rather angry and annoyed in general and didn't know much about him - although my mum liked some of his slower songs.
I like Elvis Costello a little bit, some of his tracks are really good and he married one of the most talented singers in the world - Diana Krall. so its not all bad.
I think in life, people can say things when they are younger and just have a little too much arrogance and self importance about them. That was just who Elvis Costello was at that time.
