Rolling Stones or Beatles

[Signals]

The Beatles.

 

[zrinkill]

Do not like either ...... But have to go Beatles

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I never understood the overwhelming appeal of the Beatles. They were talented and certainly a very good band, but I found too many of their songs hokey. I think their strong point for me was their versatility, going from something like 'Day Tripper' to 'Come Together.' I know McCartney is a great musician, but he's probably the one who I never quite 'got.' Ringo was a severly underrated drummer though. But honestly, The Who was a better band IMO. They didn't 'start the rock-n-roll revolution', but I'd take their albums, just on pure enjoyment of music and artistic ability, over the Beatles every time.

The Stones to me were far better. There will never be another Keith Richards. The guy's work still amazes me today. And with Mick writing the lyrics, it's like if you somehow got Magic Johnson and Larry Bird growing up close to each other and playing on the same high school basketball team.

Plus the Stones just seemed like they were made to have their music played in mob movies





YR

 

[Stautner]

I never understood the overwhelming appeal of the Beatles. They were talented and certainly a very good band, but I found too many of their songs hokey. I think their strong point for me was their versatility, going from something like 'Day Tripper' to 'Come Together.' I know McCartney is a great musician, but he's probably the one who I never quite 'got.' Ringo was a severly underrated drummer though. But honestly, The Who was a better band IMO. They didn't 'start the rock-n-roll revolution', but I'd take their albums, just on pure enjoyment of music and artistic ability, over the Beatles every time.

The Stones to me were far better. There will never be another Keith Richards. The guy's work still amazes me today. And with Mick writing the lyrics, it's like if you somehow got Magic Johnson and Larry Bird growing up close to each other and playing on the same high school basketball team.

Plus the Stones just seemed like they were made to have their music played in mob movies





YR

They clearly had some hokey songs (Hello Goodbye may have been the worst), but in general you have to put them in the context of the time they rose to popularity. They were doing things nobody else was - a lot of what was "rock and roll" is more what we would call "Pop" today, but for the time a lot of it was edgy. They also could get pretty heavy with some great guitar riffs, some psychodelic stuff, some pretty dark stuff and some that would still be pretty rocking by today's standards. And the sheer volume of the work - a lot of quality stuff crammed into a pretty short period in the limelight.

 

[arglebargle]

The Rolling Stones are the worlds greatest Irish bar band. They had this special trait of having one great song on any album, no matter how bad the album was. And against all odds, they have lasted forever.

But again, they were not the game changers that the Beatles were.