Beatles Or The Stones

maxwell silver · 17-12-2006, 15:32

Okay then,in your opinion who was the better of these two biggest bands of all time?For me The Stones had the edge in the rock stakes but The Beatles were the more innovative.Have The Stones outlived their stay?Did The Beatles split too soon?Where Lennon/McCartney better songwriters than Jagger/Richards?.What do you think?

flashy · 17-12-2006, 15:50

the beatles

can't stand the rolling stones

lancsdave · 17-12-2006, 16:52

Based on longevity it has to be the Stones. Saw them in Berlin during the summer and it was an experience I will never forget.

chav1 · 17-12-2006, 16:55

got to be the stones , not that i like them much but the beatles to me were set of tree hugging touchy feely bitches and where did it get them , DEAD mostly

rolling stones , rock and roll , fast lives, faster women ,plenty of booze and still rocking

cmonstanley · 17-12-2006, 17:16

gotta be the stones the beatles only had about 6 good albums and couldnt sustain it the stones have at lea

st 20 good albums

lancsdave · 17-12-2006, 17:18

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Originally Posted by chav1

got to be the stones , not that i like them much but the beatles to me were set of tree hugging touchy feely bitches and where did it get them , DEAD mostly

rolling stones , rock and roll , fast lives, faster women ,plenty of booze and still rocking

They must have been better at tree hugging than Keith Richards. He tends to fall out of them

shakermaker · 17-12-2006, 18:13

The Beatles any day. The early stuff is a bit too 'I love you, you love me, doobidoobidoo' and the later stuff is one big trip but, for me, the best songs ever written were by them around 65/66 like Ticket To Ride, Yesterday and Eleanor Rigby.

The Stones had some great rock n roll songs but the longevity wrecked it for me as with The Who. They should've broke up decades ago. The new stuff is embarassing, they're just a business.

accymel · 17-12-2006, 18:27

Has to be the stones without a doubt i probably own most of their back catalogue

WillowTheWhisp · 17-12-2006, 18:50

Technically probably the Stones but personally I prefer some Beatles.

cashman · 18-12-2006, 00:53

love them both but the STONES win by a mile, jagger/richards a great songwriting team, lennon/mcartney good also but would argue lennon the much stronger of the two,on the basis that after the split mcartney wrote some real dirge wheras lennon some classics. saw the stones at the hyde park free concert also 20 years later so no they hadnt outlived their stay then certainly,only saw the beatles once they were ok, so on live performance the stones won again in my book.