<![CDATA[ - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[ - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:21:14 EST Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:21:14 EST http://idolator.com/355955/ <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/355955/#c4205688 I realize that dropping an "N-Bomb" is never kosher in North America (as it more or less should be), but wasn't it pedagogical? From what I read on the subject, wasn't somebody shitting on Ray Charles, and he facetiously went "well, aside from being a blind, ignorant (I'm not even that stupid), he's a fucking genius"?

Maybe my read on the subject has been tactically mis-informed by the people writing liner notes on new EC reissues, but I find it hard to believe that the guy that wrote "Oliver's Army" is a closet white supremacist.

StuntKockSteeev

]]> 33:355955:c4205688 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:21:14 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/355955/#c4203189 @GhostOfDuane: Oughts-centrism, really? I'm an Elvis Costello fan.

tigerpop

]]> 33:355955:c4203189 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:55:30 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/355955/#c4201796 @Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee: Well, to be fair to Declan, he IS blind.

@tigerpop: lol at your oughts-centrism.

GhostOfDuane

]]> 33:355955:c4201796 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:31:58 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/355955/#c4200943 @GhostOfDuane: I had thought that Elvis had called him a BLIND ignorant n*****.

Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee

]]> 33:355955:c4200943 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:53:42 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/355955/#c4199793 @GhostOfDuane: Are you from 1980?

tigerpop

]]> 33:355955:c4199793 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:07:07 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/355955/#c4194677 @Maura Johnston: fair enough -- i withdraw my clapton hating. but allow me to replace it with some costello hating. the man called ray charles an ignorant n*****. ok i will stop hating now.

GhostOfDuane

]]> 33:355955:c4194677 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:20:44 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/355955/#c4194358 @Maura Johnston: Yes, though the Clapton-bashing was entertaining (if not exactly enlightening).

tigerpop

]]> 33:355955:c4194358 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:10:15 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/355955/#c4193587 @GhostOfDuane: (i think the EC in question is elvis costello.)

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:355955:c4193587 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:44:39 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/355955/#c4193478 Yes, because really, who is less of a weenie than the guy who wrote Wonderful Tonight? Seriously, Clapton has been living off the coattails of great musicians his entire post-drugs career (JJ Cale, BB King, Robert Johnson and now Robbie Robertson & Derek Trucks). Tough to claim that there's any more creative juice left, just a guy with a Strat going through the motions night in, year out.

GhostOfDuane

]]> 33:355955:c4193478 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:41:02 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/355955/#c4190704 Summers looks like he blew something out. Not sure what, but it looks painful.

I do look forward to EC making Sting and company look like weenies, though.

tigerpop

]]> 33:355955:c4190704 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:14:50 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/355955/#c4189564 Of course it is, just look at how hard they are rocking out.

GhostOfDuane

]]> 33:355955:c4189564 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:39:44 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/355955/#c4189249 Is this really necessary?

I don't mean this post, I mean The Police going back on tour.

loudersoft

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