The Rolling Stones vs. The Beatles

[Vincent Vega]

Which do you prefer?

For me, the Stones, any day of the week.

[ChineseDemocracy2004]

I love both bands but I voted for The Beatles.

[Powerage5]

STONES.

[The_Universal_Sigh]

the Stones have about as many bad/average/boring songs as good ones. The Beatles were batting pretty much 100%. The Stones have many various styles, The Beatles have many many more. Obvious answer really.

[DirtyDeeds]

Cop out answer, but tie. Where the one fell short, the other excelled. Between the two of them, they pretty much defined what a rock band was.

[KBear]

Stones have a lot of average stuff I agree, but they've also got a tonne of great stuff.

I'm not crazy about those early Beatles songs that were really dorky and silly.

Beatles are more of a pop band, the Stones hard rock, and so I'll take the Stones.

[inthisriver]

Why not just bump one of your 50 other Beatles vs. Stones threads?

Stones made some of my favorite albums but...

the Beatles are God.

[duff_rose]

Can't pick.

[GivenToFly]

Rolling Stones. It's not even a question.

Stones - my favorite band behind GNR. Nuff said.

Beatles - I like a handful of songs; most I find boring; a lot I find downright annoying.

[tarheels180]

the Stones have about as many bad/average/boring songs as good ones. The Beatles were batting pretty much 100%. The Stones have many various styles, The Beatles have many many more. Obvious answer really.

The Stones also have 3 times as many albums as the Beatles. If the Beatles had kept going, there surely would have been weaker material in there eventually.

[Chewbacca]

I really don't like any of them, but I guess I would prefer the Stones.

[Dan H.]

The Beatles, of course.

[luciusfunk]

The Beatles, hands down.

[Damn_Smooth]

Stones. It's not even a competition.

[dalsh327]

Sticky Fingers vs Revolver? Tough one.

Stones were the better live band, so Stones get it.

[Guest Len B'stard]

Beatles, more important, more listenable, more original...infinitely superior.

[Johnny Drama]

Beatles, more important, more listenable, more original...infinitely superior.

[Dazey]

Beatles, more important, more listenable, more original...infinitely superior.

[Guest Len B'stard]

And furthermore, i resent the accusation that The Beatles were a shit live band and they were just a studio concern and thats where they excelled, funnily enough a theory much trumpeted by certain Stones, absolute fuckin' bollocks, no band on earth has gotten the sort of audience responses that The Beatles did, The Beatles hit hard, you didn't play in Hamburg and working mans clubs up North without having some fuckin' gut to your playing. Yeah yeah, "it's all just hysterical girls", no it's fucking not, The Beatles were mesmerising live, they sort of dug their own pit with some of the statements they put out, particularly my mate John, all that stuff about we might as well've been waxworks, this was sort of Candlestick Park or rather Shea Stadium era disillusion setting in, some of the early venues they played in a band of their calibre could REALLY get across.

This instinctive musical knack each member had isn't something that is born in a studio, its done by proper fucking graft. I mean fuckin' hell, in Germany they used to do a fuckin day performance for a few hours then rest up then play all fuckin' night, hopped up on fuckin' uppers and just bangin' em out, The Beatles were tight as fuck as a band, just on point, they played through fuckin' PA systems and what is now archaic fuckin' amplification and they still laid it down.

And really, we're King Shit live band is kinda funny considering how sloppy The Stones were at their thing live. Not criticising them, the sloppiness is part and parcel of their whole thing but to say The Beatles weren't a good live band is just ridiculous.

This theory that is pimped across the world that The Stones were some kind of hardnuts and The Beatles were just fuckin' soft lads is fuckin' silly too. Quite frankly, comparitively, it's The Stones who were the fuckin' soft lads, they played in quaint little blues clubs in London, try playing a fuckin' working mans gaff up in Liverpool in the early 60s, if anything, The Stones attitude comes off a bit forced and a bit of a put on whereas The Beatles just come across like a bunch of sarcy scouse wrong 'un's

It's pretty much only Americans that buy into that theory anyway, or people not from England...and thats not an insult either, it's just that unless you're from here you probably don't have as good of an idea of what each area represents and what the people that come from there are like.

Edited August 20, 2012 by sugaraylen

[bran]

Rolling Stones. It's not even a question.

Stones - my favorite band behind GNR. Nuff said.

Beatles - I like a handful of songs; most I find boring; a lot I find downright annoying.

the rolling stones are not my favorite band or my second favorite band but i agree with this, the rolling stones are awesome i could never get the beatles outside a few songs

[classicrawker]

It is comparing apples to oranges here. Different types of music....I love both bands and think they made brilliant music but I am a much bigger Stones fan as they are probably my favorite band of all times but this does not diminish the brilliance of the Beatles catalog.........

[DirtyDeeds]

I've just enrolled in a university course entitled "The Beatles and Their Times." It is being taught by the #2 (or at least at one point he was #2) personal collector of Beatles memorabilia worldwide, who is an American Civil War historian for his day job. Only been to one class so far but I can tell it's going to be fucking incredible and the best class I'll ever take in my life. It's actually being taught by two professors. Both provided photos of themselves in their youth... the female professor as a 14-year-old girl in her bedroom next to her shrine she had built to Ringo Starr, holding up a birthday cake... not for her birthday, but for Ringo's 24th birthday. The male professor showed us his photos of his college days where he put himself through school working at a local record store. He had photos of himself surrounded by his growing collection, including a photo of him surrounded by no fewer than 20 butcher cover albums. Then he showed us one of his prized possessions (look but no touch!), the White Album, serial number A0000000001 (I guessed how many zeroes, so don't go being a smartass proving me wrong, but the important bit was that it was the first pressing). Both professors had the biggest grins on their faces the whole time and seemed like they were 15 again. We walked into the auditorium for the first class to a movie theater screen showing the Ed Sullivan Show in full, with the volume cranked. I have a whole new appreciation for that now, as seeing an image of the band life-size (or a bit larger, actually), with good, loud volume, surrounded by a bunch of other young people in an auditorium setting provided the slightest taste of what it would be like to see them, not that it came anywhere close, but it was still awesome, and a grand entrance for a great class. It's going to be a hell of a class. I wish college was always like this.

Edited August 24, 2012 by DirtyDeeds

[The Real McCoy]

Stones.

B)

[Johnny Drama]

I've just enrolled in a university course entitled "The Beatles and Their Times." It is being taught by the #2 (or at least at one point he was #2) personal collector of Beatles memorabilia worldwide, who is an American Civil War historian for his day job. Only been to one class so far but I can tell it's going to be fucking incredible and the best class I'll ever take in my life. It's actually being taught by two professors. Both provided photos of themselves in their youth... the female professor as a 14-year-old girl in her bedroom next to her shrine she had built to Ringo Starr, holding up a birthday cake... not for her birthday, but for Ringo's 24th birthday. The male professor showed us his photos of his college days where he put himself through school working at a local record store. He had photos of himself surrounded by his growing collection, including a photo of him surrounded by no fewer than 20 butcher cover albums. Then he showed us one of his prized possessions (look but no touch!), the White Album, serial number A0000000001 (I guessed how many zeroes, so don't go being a smartass proving me wrong, but the important bit was that it was the first pressing). Both professors had the biggest grins on their faces the whole time and seemed like they were 15 again. We walked into the auditorium for the first class to a movie theater screen showing the Ed Sullivan Show in full, with the volume cranked. I have a whole new appreciation for that now, as seeing an image of the band life-size (or a bit larger, actually), with good, loud volume, surrounded by a bunch of other young people in an auditorium setting provided the slightest taste of what it would be like to see them, not that it came anywhere close, but it was still awesome, and a grand entrance for a great class. It's going to be a hell of a class. I wish college was always like this.

Yeah. Go fuck yourself

[DirtyDeeds]

I've just enrolled in a university course entitled "The Beatles and Their Times." It is being taught by the #2 (or at least at one point he was #2) personal collector of Beatles memorabilia worldwide, who is an American Civil War historian for his day job. Only been to one class so far but I can tell it's going to be fucking incredible and the best class I'll ever take in my life. It's actually being taught by two professors. Both provided photos of themselves in their youth... the female professor as a 14-year-old girl in her bedroom next to her shrine she had built to Ringo Starr, holding up a birthday cake... not for her birthday, but for Ringo's 24th birthday. The male professor showed us his photos of his college days where he put himself through school working at a local record store. He had photos of himself surrounded by his growing collection, including a photo of him surrounded by no fewer than 20 butcher cover albums. Then he showed us one of his prized possessions (look but no touch!), the White Album, serial number A0000000001 (I guessed how many zeroes, so don't go being a smartass proving me wrong, but the important bit was that it was the first pressing). Both professors had the biggest grins on their faces the whole time and seemed like they were 15 again. We walked into the auditorium for the first class to a movie theater screen showing the Ed Sullivan Show in full, with the volume cranked. I have a whole new appreciation for that now, as seeing an image of the band life-size (or a bit larger, actually), with good, loud volume, surrounded by a bunch of other young people in an auditorium setting provided the slightest taste of what it would be like to see them, not that it came anywhere close, but it was still awesome, and a grand entrance for a great class. It's going to be a hell of a class. I wish college was always like this.

Yeah. Go fuck yourself

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