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Elton John is one helluva musician. Glad to see it on iTunes first.

Me First?

I'm just waiting for the young'uns to say....Elton who?

Like they did with jethro Tull.

Hey, I'm just wondering if we'll ever get access to what he was watching during that entire year when he locked himself up in his mansion and watched gay porn and did drugs all day every day? You know, for that one entire year. I think it was 1972. Hmmmmmm . . . good times.

Sweet, sweet guy. I love the gays- errr, I mean, the Bi's.

He's pleased for the fans' sake. Gee, how magnanimous. When will I be getting my royalty check?

Elton John's albums don't hold up as albums. His only stuff worth owning are the hits. And in recent years even those are suspect.

The BITCH is back!

Dieter -- You don't know the history of mind-altering barbituates and gay anal-pounding backdoor pokey sex.

I do.

Man, you could park a car in the gap between those front teeth of his ... with all that money, I can only think of one reason he doesn't fix that.

ELTON JOHN?

He should be beaten to death and have a pool cue shoved up his ass.

el-TONE
Man, you could park a car in the gap between those front teeth of his ... with all that money, I can only think of one reason he doesn't fix that.

Uh, he does... they just keep getting pushed back by something...

I blame all the world's problems on gays too. The world would be so much better if I could clone myself and replace the gays.

I am sick and tired of people who aren't like me. I wish we were all the same.

Salamander Sam

ELTON JOHN?

He should be beaten to death and have a pool cue shoved up his ass.

Post-mortem? So... you're not only gay, you're a necrophiliac?

I like that one song. How does it go?
"Hold me closer, Tony Danza"?

This splooge-meister hasn't been relevant since the '80's. If I hear Candle in the Wind one more f-cking time I swear I'm gonna shoot up a f-ckin' mall somewhere.

Elton John's career died when Diana got her face flattened in that stupid French underpass.

Who the f-ck hasn't heard of horizontal guardrails?

Answer: The French.

(BTW: The French? Mostly gay, too.)

How much has Friends influenced our humour?

Buster, wasn't Jethro Tull, that guy that played the flute??

You are a bunch of sick losers. I wonder if any of you can sing and play piano?

"How much has Friends influenced our humour?"

You know that's a moo point. Right?

hotinplaya
Buster, wasn't Jethro Tull, that guy that played the flute??

Elton plays the skin flute...

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

Can you "teach" me, sweetums?

It's times like these that make me long for the restrictive, mind-your-own-business, of-course-Rock-Hudson-isn't-gay 1950's.

Yep, he's gay. So what?! EJ is one of THE greatest musician/singer/songwriters of our time. Period.

Word Patrol!.....

EXACTLY!

TR

Elton John had his day in the sun, but he's been washed up for quite some time now. Now he's turning into the self-parody that Elvis did at the end of his career.

How much more time is going to be spent on here offending a minority? This is a mac site so take your socio-political issues somewhere else. You might also want to consider that there might be gay people reading this board. You don't see any anti-breeder comments on here, think about it.

Nice move guys!

Why would anyone want to buy music through onlines services like iTunes?
It baffles me. All you end up with is a useless MP3.
I will stick to CD's, thanks, something I can collect and hold in my hand....if I need an MP3 for my PC, I'll rip it from my own CD (An MP3 is no substitute for the real thing).

"You don't see any anti-breeder comments on here . . ."

Yeah. But those animal husbandry types kind of creep me out. No wonder sheep are nervous.

kim: "Why would anyone want to buy music through onlines services like iTunes?
It baffles me."

Well, don't be baffled, kim. That's easy enough to answer. There are millions of customers who have bought two billion songs from the iTunes store. And then there is you. You are not like them. I think it's more puzzling why people buy Windows PCs. But then, I keep coming up with the same answer.

"Through the end of 2006, customers purchased a total of 90 million iPods and 2 billion songs from the iTunes store." - Steve Jobs

MW: instead - that was cool.

It's amazing to me how when the subject turns to either politics or sexual orientation we get inundated by new posters with new names. Or maybe it's regular posters who don't want to spread they're bile and "tarnish" their online name. Either way, it's a sick, sad commentary on the people who say these things.

What's the deal with all the homophobes here?!

So when did the MacDailyNews boards get so filled up with anti-gay fat ass slobs?

roger: I think Slashdot sprung a leak and some of them spilled on to these threads. The intarweb can get real messy.

Not an Elton John fan, but it is nice to see that an artist actually put some thought into how their catalog would be presented.

Thomas Cruise Mapother: hysterical. If there were a south park episode about Elton John, surely this line would be used.


Kim: "Why would anyone want to buy music through onlines services like iTunes?
It baffles me. All you end up with is a useless MP3."

First, you do not end up with an MP3 when you buy from iTunes or the majority of download stores. In fact, there are stores that offer tracks with either lossless compression or .wav files. Second, digital music on a storage device: CD, iPod, computer, whatever. Same thing. Saying you need a CD for a collection is silly. Third, I do appreciate the differences in sound quality of compressed tracks. However, it should not be impossible for anyone with a sliver of a clue to figure out that there scenarios where a lossy file will do. An example: buying a single track out of nostalgia that will be played once a year. Why pay $10 for the CD? Not only that, but the majority of people listen to their music through computer speakers or low-end ear buds. Do you really think those people are concerned with fidelity? Those kinds of speakers are so poor that the encoding from iTunes is sufficient. Sure, if you are going to listen on a serious home stereo system, compressed files are not the way to go. However, if it baffles you why anyone would want to use a service like iTunes, then you are either willfully ignorant or barely functional.

"The BITCH is back!"

You're not far off - When I was a kid my dog would howl along whenever Rocket Man came on the radio. The only other sound to cause that was an album of wolfs howling.

So when did the MacDailyNews boards get so filled up with anti-gay fat ass slobs?

When did MDN get taken over by four-year-olds with a grudge? There are more flames and just plain stupid, irrelevant comments posted to this forum than almost any other I'm aware of. MDN generally does an excellent job of presenting interesting, relevant articles and commentary; but all this childish banter is really boring. Please take it someplace else!

@Dieter, el-Tone, doood et al...

Are you American? You have never been good with minorities over there have you?

Maybe I am missing something, but the iTS already had a bunch of EJ stuff. What;s truly new and different?

Word Patrol noted:

"EJ is one of THE greatest musician/singer/songwriters of our time. Period."


You left out 50% of the reason for Elton John's success -- credit is due to his long-time lyricist Bernie Taupin. Without Bernie, you would not have the flowing poetic lyrics that is an integral part of Elton John's music.

Bern

Well, Reg pretty much kissed the yellow brick road goodbye after the 'Blue Moves' album, imho. Up to that point, I had everything he released-including 'Empty Sky' and 'Here and There'.

My recommendations are
1) Tumbleweed Connection
2) 11/17/70
3) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
4) For sydneyStephen to go fuck himself and realize that I have the balls to post whatever I think as TowerTone, I don't need no stinkin' aliases.

Replies welcomed
ignorance expected

Might I note that Apple lead the way with enlightened hiring policies.

Kim, you bozo, you can't get MP3s from the iTunes music store. They're AAC. The fact that you did not know that makes me sure your point of view is pretty much irrelevent.

Doesnt anyone here remember that not so long ago EJ was ripping on the iPod in favor of satellite radio that he was the spokesman for? Thats what Kim was quoting, although not very well. I believe it was covered here on MDN some time ago.

@Towertone

Hmmm. Did you think I was referring to you in my post?

Check post number 9 from top. Its all your fingers except 1.

el-Tone? see it?

It had occurred to me that it was you, but I was polite enough to give you the benefit of the doubt...

Thank goodness this thread appears to be dead.

Where is Blue Moves!!!! I thought it was the ENTIRE back ctalog.