The Beatles were big because they were more like craft.. but the Stones are more like art. Different kind of big.
If the two were food, Beatles would be like Rice Crispy cereal, processed to perfection that leads to nausea requiring search for something palate cleansing.. like say.. bread.. they eventually became their own bread after they split but perhaps they got drawn in their own overly sweet music that just like honey was difficult to swim for a long time in.

Stones.. Stones were more self made not so processed, they were more like organic food, the flavor is deeper,
more intense, lasts longer and long after eating you feel that your body has been feed for a very long time... in a very good healthy way.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it 1968?

Oh shut up.

They’re both great but the Beatles are absolutely superior.

Not as superior as you

Huh?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it 1968?

Oh shut up.

They’re both great but the Beatles are absolutely superior.

Not as superior as you

Anonymous wrote:I saw the Stones at FedEx field on Weds. it was my tenth time seeing them and it’s always amazing. Sure, they are old but their songs are timeless. You gotta give them credit for their staying power. Having read Keith’s book, I don’t know how any band stays together, much less those guys.

I like the Beatles and I appreciate their contribution to music history, but I also think their music is overrated. If there was one band whose music I could take to a desert island, it would be the Stones.

This

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of either except for that magazine

That’s a start.

Never heard of either except for that magazine

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Anonymous wrote:Favorite Stones song?

Depends on my mood, but at any given time it could be:
Wild Horses
Gimme Shelter
Lovin’ Cup
Shine A Light
You Can’t Always
Sympathy (Get Your Ya Yas Out version)
Brown Sugar

Yes, I’m a fan.

Great picks. My favorites:

Moonlight Mile
Beast or Burden
Get Off of My Cloud
Start Me Up
Wild Horses (The Sundays version too)

Anonymous wrote:Favorite Stones song?

Depends on my mood, but at any given time it could be:
Wild Horses
Gimme Shelter
Lovin’ Cup
Shine A Light
You Can’t Always
Sympathy (Get Your Ya Yas Out version)
Brown Sugar

Yes, I’m a fan.

Favorite Stones song?

Anonymous wrote:Fun fact: the Rolling Stones' first hit record was a Lennon-McCartney song.

Actually, it was their second single. They needed a follow-up hit and Jagger was visiting the Beatles in the studio. Paul said they had a song they just needed to finish. It was I Wanna Be Your Man. He went in a corner with John and finished it then and there.

One underappreciated aspect of McCartney and Lennon's genius was that, beyond all the songs they recorded with the Beatles, they gave away a huge number of songs during the 60s that became hits for other artists. Just another reason their songwriting talent is really unparalleled in the rock/pop world.

This album has just a few of them and doesn't even include I Wanna Be Your Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_Lennon_and_McCartney_Gave_Away

Another thing people don't fully appreciate is that, despite the fact that Apple Records folded fairly quickly as a record company for anyone other than the Beatles, they did help produce albums for Badfinger, Cilla Black, and most notably, they were the first to sign James Taylor. The lyric "a holy host of others standing around me" in Carolina In My Mind is a reference to the fact that Paul played bass on it and George sang backing vocals. It also went the other way -- George openly said his lyric "something in the way she moves" came from Taylor's lyric.

This is a long way of saying that when you combine the ingenuity of the Beatles' group and solo outputs and the influence that music had, along with how many songs they gave away to others and the concrete impact they had on other artists' careers, I simply don't see how any other band compares.

Fun fact: the Rolling Stones' first hit record was a Lennon-McCartney song.

Stones

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Anonymous wrote:The Beatles by far! But I am a The Who junkie. I still love “Substitute” and “I’m a Boy” and their other songs. My favorite group until they lost Roger Daltry. So ahead of their time.

I forgot to add that I am a hardcore George Harrison fan as well as The Who fan.

Another George fan! This is awesome

FYI: Roger Daltrey is still the lead singer for The Who. Him and Pete Townshend are the surviving members of the group, and they are playing a concert today at Wembley Stadium. You're thinking of either Keith Moon or John Entwhistle, both of whom passed away.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Beatles by far! But I am a The Who junkie. I still love “Substitute” and “I’m a Boy” and their other songs. My favorite group until they lost Roger Daltry. So ahead of their time.

I forgot to add that I am a hardcore George Harrison fan as well as The Who fan.

Another George fan! This is awesome

From Jagger himself. On the live band point, he’s right they were awesome in their pre-fame days before they literally couldn’t hear themselves play. They didn’t have the conditions to play well by mid-1963 and then they stopped touring before equipment got to the point where you could really rock out, Who style.

Anyway:

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were. There isn't a real comparison with anyone now. I suppose Michael Jackson at one point, but it still doesn't quite seem the same. They were so big that to be competitive with them was impossible. I'm talking about in record sales and tours and all this. They were huge... They certainly were not a great live band. Maybe they were in the days of the Cavern, when they were coming up as a club band. I'm sure they were hilariously funny and all that. And they did have this really good onstage persona. But as far as the modern-day world, they were not a great performing band. But... (t)hey were the Beatles. They were this forerunning, breakthrough item, and that's hard to overestimate. Jagger 1995