Music Thread - Are you a Beatle Fan or Stones Fan?

[surferguy]

Personally I am a Stones Fan. The boys are still going and you HAVE to give them credit. I have seen them three times now.

I also ask of your favorite tune from your repsective choice.

For me it waivers all the time, but I am currently digging Sister Morphine and Moonlight Mile from Stickey Fingers.

This is good music.

[4X4]

Is this an either or? Because I like 'em both. But if I had to choose one collection to remain and the other to burn, I'd keep the Beatles.

[troutman]

Stones - Rocks Off

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg...3:gifexqtdldse

The opening track off the Stones' classic Exile on Main Street, "Rocks Off" perfectly sets the mood for what's to follow — murky, gritty, and menacingly raw, its strung-out incoherence captures the record's debauched brilliance with marble-mouthed eloquence. Jimmy Miller's idiot-savant production is almost impenetrably dense, chaotic and cohesive at the same time — it's as though in his efforts to keep the song from falling completely apart, he simply mashed all the vocals and instruments together, with a total disregard for spatial dynamics. Mick Jagger bleeds in and out of the mix, and for every lyric that cracks the consciousness, there's another rendered utterly incomprehensible (often further obscured by Keith Richards' seemingly random backing vocals); Jagger may as well be making up the words as he goes along, and for all we know, he could be. As Richards' cat-scratch guitar riff and Charlie Watts' snare drum also fly in and out of the radar, ironically enough it becomes the sidemen — pianist Nicky Hopkins and horn players Bobby Keys and Jim Price — who take center stage, rising up from the muck in a flourish of juke-joint majesty. Stripped of every last pretense, "Rocks Off" revels in its primitivism like a goddamn pig in slop.

[J pold]

The Beatles far and away

[mykalberta]

I say Stones, mostly cause I hate the Beatles.

[bigtmac19]

I'm dating myself. Growing up in the 70's it was all Stones. I like Beatles better now, but still Stones are on top.
Sympathy for the Devil, Gimme Shelter, You Can't Always Get What you Want, Under my Thumb, 19th Nervous Breakdown, It's only Rock & Roll.

[habernac]

love 'em both. Saw the Stones on the Voodoo Lounge tour and caught Paul McCartney in Seattle just over two years ago (almost 3 hours on stage, amazing setlist).

Picking one over the other, it's the Beatles for me. I still get misty eyed when I hear Lennon sing. Favourite songs would be Something, A Day in the Life and Norwegian Wood.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Both. If you put a gun to my head, I'd probably say Stones after I kicked you in the junk.

[CaramonLS]

Gimme Shelter and Paint it Black are the only 2 songs of theirs I enjoy. Listening to anything else, especially Brown Sugar and You Can't always get what you want, are just painful.

[kermitology]

The Beatles.. I always ask this question in interviews..

[worth]

I'd choose the Stones over the Beatles, but they are both great bands.

[surferguy]

Originally Posted by CaramonLS

Gimme Shelter and Paint it Black are the only 2 songs of theirs I enjoy. Listening to anything else, especially Brown Sugar and You Can't always get what you want, are just painful.

Understandable - but you referance hit songs. I am curious have you explored their catalogue?

[JiriHrdina]

Beatles.

I never liked the Stones, except for the odd tune (Under My Thumb, Ruby Tuesday)

[wpgflamesfan]

Stones - Gimme Shelter

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by kermitology

The Beatles.. I always ask this question in interviews..

You'd hire me then 'cause I love and prefer the Beatles.

I also love the DC Five. At one time their popularity rivaled that of the Beatles. They had so many great tunes.

[troutman]

http://www.rollingstonesnet.com/Beatles.html

Some basic comparisons and examples of influence during the years of friendly competition.

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...rolling+stones

[Kipper is King]

hehe. Just as I read this thread, Sgt. Pepper finished playing on my iPod. Beatles all the way!

I do like the Stones, but the Beatles were revolutionary.

[CaramonLS]

Originally Posted by surferguy

Understandable - but you referance hit songs. I am curious have you explored their catalogue?

Nope.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Beatles for me. I don't mind the Stones, but the Beatles seem a bit more........I dunno........classic or something to me. My parents grew up with them and I listened to a lot of their stuff as a kid, so that's why I am more fond of their music.

[troutman]

Isn't this like deciding which of your children you love more?