By (small) popular demand - Beatles vs Stones

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Poll question: By (small) popular demand - Beatles vs Stones

You can't compare the two of course, lots of people like both, well tough. It's an either / or poll. This poll will define forever which is the better band, it's not just a two-bit poll put up by some waster with nothing better to do on a Monday afternoon.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Too bad Paul is dead.......

http://uberkinder.5u.com/paul/

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Deleted

[joeybee12]

3. Why the heck is this even close?? Beatles, Beatles, Beatles!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. You might be surprised by the number of Stones votes, y'know.

[Bluzmann57]

9. The Rolling Stones!!!!!!!!

They are as old as dirt and still rocking. And they were more or less a Blues band. They know about the greatest music in the world. The Stones!!!!!! And Keith Richards may just be immortal. I mean after all, he should have been dead a looooooooonnnnnng time ago.

[a_random_joel]

4. There is no comparison.

Beatles by a long shot.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Actually, I'd put Let it Bleed and Exile up against any Beatles record.

They are as good as any Beatles disc.

[vi5]

10. As well as Sticky Fingers and Beggars Banquet....

Great rock records.

[vi5]

7. I like rock and roll, not pop so I go with the Stones....

The true embodiment of rock and roll. At least until they started refusing to go quietly into the night. Assuming though that we are talking both bands in their prime.

Rock and roll should be dark, disturbing, mysterious and bad for you. Which is why the Stones win.

[corarose]

8. I liked the EARLY Stones

They were dirty and they looked like guys your parents would die if you brought them home.
They also had good music when then first started out.

[NightTrain]

11. From "Satisfaction" through EXILE ON MAIN STREET...

...the Stones were *the* greatest rock and roll band on the planet, bar none!

[vptpt]

12. Isn't today....?

Isn't today the anniversary of John Lennon's death?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

13. Way to arrange a Beatles landslide, bud

:-)

14. Beatles

even the Stones would say that.
I remember an interview with Jagger and Richards I saw years ago where they were talking about how people thinking the Beatles were sweet and nice compared to the Stones didn't realize it was all an act and that the Beatles were major hellions starting clear back in Hamburg.
The interview is a little hazy in my head now, but I remember getting the impression that the Stones were even a little scared of the Beatles in the early days.

That's really about the attitude, not the music per se, I know. A lot of times it seems the attitude is what has people preferring the Stones. That's why I bring it up.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. It's a fair point. "She's a Rainbow" is a great song you wouldn't

expect from the Stones. They could be as earnest as the Beatles when they wanted to.

[elperromagico]

16. I think the Stones' reputation has been hurt

by their "beating of a dead horse," so to speak. They've become the subject of a great many old fogey jokes. As far as I'm concerned, the last really great Stones album is at least 20 years old.

Since the Beatles quit 33 years ago, their memory is preserved in amber. Had they kept going the way the Stones did, their reputation would have suffered equally. Had the Stones quit when Brian Jones was fired, their reputation might still be as (relatively) unscathed as the Beatles'.

[jpgray]

17. Hey, Mick Taylor did just fine (nt)

[youngred]

18. How can it not be the beatles

they are simply the best