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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
I prefer the Stones because they were a bunch of white British kids that played essentially their own take on black American blues. The Beatles, while more musically complex their compositions are firmly rooted in the white European tradition.
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Which totally ignores the heavy influence of artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Ravi Shankar on The Beatles.
You could also argue that the Stones' sound was simply derivative of American Blues, while The Beatles actually innovated by combining different genres and musical styles in ways that hadn't been done before (especially in pop music).
Though anyone who would take The Kinks to a desert island over The Beatles gets their opinion disqualified anyway. And I like The Kinks.