Beatles or Stones?

[srbin84]

I can't believe people didn't think the Mick Taylor stuff was awesome.

[OleMissCub]

not that this really fits in the current topic, but i always felt the kinks were never given enough due for their influence. i wouldn't rate them above led zeppelin, beatles, or rolling stones in terms of their influence on music, but i think they're in the same ballpark.

 

The Kinks, along with Velvet Underground are probably the two most underrated bands in all of Rock'n'Roll.

[OleMissCub]

I can't believe people didn't think the Mick Taylor stuff was awesome.

 

Technically, the Stones acheived their greatest successes with Taylor i.e. Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street. I just think Jones gets alot of credit for being there when they were starting out and throughout the 60's, and thus when they had the most influence.

[Derwood]

Beatles > Pink Floyd > Led Zeppelin > CSNY > Queen > The Who > Black Sabbath > King Crimson > Journey > Bad Company > Heart > Blue Oyster Cult > Molly Hatchet > Mott the Hoople > Rolling Stones

[CubinNY]

Indeed, Keith should NOT be climbing trees.

 

As a sign of truce between Stones and Beatles lovers, I offer this amazing clip from the Rolling Stones RocknRoll Circus in 1968. It's John Lennon, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, and Mitch Mitchell from the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing "Yer Blues", a Beatles song from the White Album. Talk about rocking one's socks off. This is just WOW.

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAjdRHzH4M8

 

Jagger looks like a pre-pubesent girl in that clip.

[Derwood]

Indeed, Keith should NOT be climbing trees.

 

As a sign of truce between Stones and Beatles lovers, I offer this amazing clip from the Rolling Stones RocknRoll Circus in 1968. It's John Lennon, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, and Mitch Mitchell from the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing "Yer Blues", a Beatles song from the White Album. Talk about rocking one's socks off. This is just WOW.

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAjdRHzH4M8

 

Jagger looks like a pre-pubesent girl in that clip.

 

that would be the ugliest prebusescent girl in history

[srbin84]

John and Mick sounded like they were on quaaludes or something, lol.

[OleMissCub]

Indeed, Keith should NOT be climbing trees.

 

As a sign of truce between Stones and Beatles lovers, I offer this amazing clip from the Rolling Stones RocknRoll Circus in 1968. It's John Lennon, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, and Mitch Mitchell from the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing "Yer Blues", a Beatles song from the White Album. Talk about rocking one's socks off. This is just WOW.

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAjdRHzH4M8

 

Jagger looks like a pre-pubesent girl in that clip.

 

that would be the ugliest prebusescent girl in history

 

It's a rare day indeed when you can say that Keith Richards..err..Rasputin, is one of the healthiest looking guys in a band.

 

By the way....amazing how young all those guys were in there, and all were already hugely famous. The oldest was Lennon at 28, Jagger 24, Richard and Clapton 23, and Mitch Mitchell was 21. That's just crazy.

[srbin84]

It's really tough to choose, but if anyone is up for offering their five favorite songs from either of these two, mine are:

 

Get Off My Cloud-65 (great riffs by Jones/nice, steady beats from Watts as always)

 

Gimme Shelter-69 (Richards wrote this one/cool, classic sound)

 

Can't You Hear Me Knocking-71 (Richards plays lead first half, Taylor second, both phenominal)

 

Rocks Off-72 (Cool all the way around, the horns and piano are nice additions)

 

Tumbling Dice-72 (Probably my favorite of all if I had to pick one, I love the lyrics and guitar)

[rocket]

something

here comes the sun

tax man

golden slumbers

blackbird

 

that might not be accurate, i just did it off the top of my head

[srbin84]

For The Beatles, the songs I really like are Come Together, Here Comes the Sun and In My Life.

[OleMissCub]

something

here comes the sun

tax man

golden slumbers

blackbird

 

that might not be accurate, i just did it off the top of my head

 

Abbey Road fan are ya?

 

I'd go with

 

Stones

Paint It, Black

Gimme Shelter

As Tears Go By

Jumpin Jack Flash

Play with Fire

 

Beatles

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

In My Life

It's All Too Much

Nowhere Man

A Day In The Life

[adamb0719]

I don't agree with the critics. I don't understand the glorification of records like Sgt. Peppers, which were more likely inspired by band members taking lsd hits in front a tape recorder than artistic genious and superior metaphorical thinking.

 

How little you obviously know on the subject. No offense. There is only one instance in the ENTIRE Beatles recording sessions over 7 years where one of them was on LSD. That was Lennon who was promptly dismissed by the producer.

 

It seems like a lot of Beatles fans deny their drug use for some reason.

 

Deny it nothing. They did marijuana, cocaine, heroin, lsd.

 

But NOT in the studio. How is that sooo difficult to believe. No doubt it had an influence on their lives and the lyrics they wrote. However, everything they did IN the studio, especially with sgt. pepper, was sober and changed the way people made music forever. They spent 15 hours a day in the studio making their records. To try and downplay their creativity as music makers is ludicrous.

 

There are reasons why Music Schools have entire classes devoted to the study of the Beatles. Did you know that they invented distortion on guitars? Did you know that they were the first to ever play backwards loops, which is so frequently used now. Did you know they were the first band to use sampling i.e. Puff Daddy.

 

They did smoke marijuana in the studio.

[OleMissCub]

 

They did smoke marijuana in the studio.

 

Sure, but it was very infrequent, and when they did it they'd run off like little school boys and run to the bathroom in the studio and light up. I've read numerous books on them, they'd generally wait till they got home to light up.

[adamb0719]

 

They did smoke marijuana in the studio.

 

Sure, but it was very infrequent, and when they did it they'd run off like little school boys and run to the bathroom in the studio and light up. I've read numerous books on them, they'd generally wait till they got home to light up.

 

I have read quite a few books as well. Didn't they say they would 'go have a laugh?' I thought you had written that they never did drugs in the studio. Misunderstanding on my part.

[OleMissCub]

 

They did smoke marijuana in the studio.

 

Sure, but it was very infrequent, and when they did it they'd run off like little school boys and run to the bathroom in the studio and light up. I've read numerous books on them, they'd generally wait till they got home to light up.

 

I have read quite a few books as well. Didn't they say they would 'go have a laugh?' I thought you had written that they never did drugs in the studio. Misunderstanding on my part.

 

I was really meaning more serious drugs like the LSD or Heroin they did.

[SouthSideRyan]

Stones:

 

Honky Tonk Women

Gimme Shelter

Jumpin Jack Flash

Street Fightin Man

Sympathy for the Devil

 

Beatles:

 

Oh! Darling

Ballad of John and Yoko

A Day in the Life

I saw her Standing There

Revolution

 

That Beatles list was tough, had to narrow it down from about 20 songs that I absolutely love.

[CubinNY]

It's really tough to choose, but if anyone is up for offering their five favorite songs from either of these two, mine are:

 

Get Off My Cloud-65 (great riffs by Jones/nice, steady beats from Watts as always)

 

Gimme Shelter-69 (Richards wrote this one/cool, classic sound)

 

Can't You Hear Me Knocking-71 (Richards plays lead first half, Taylor second, both phenominal)

 

Rocks Off-72 (Cool all the way around, the horns and piano are nice additions)

 

Tumbling Dice-72 (Probably my favorite of all if I had to pick one, I love the lyrics and guitar)

 

Stones: One of my favorite songs of all time is Sympathy for the Devil.

 

Beatles: At our wedding my wife and I had a string quartet play I will

[Balsa]

Favorite Stones songs:

Sympathy for the Devil

Parachute Woman

Prodigal Son

Stray Cat Blues

Factory Gir

Rocks Off

Shake Your Hips

Ventilator Blues

Stop Breaking Down

Soul Survivor

Country Honk

Midnight Rambler

 

(If you can't tell, my favorite album is Beggars Banquet)

[OleMissCub]

 

Beatles: At our wedding my wife and I had a string quartet play I will

 

I bet that was realllly nice. That's a great Paul song. He had some good quiet guitar songs on the White Album: Blackbird, I Will, Mother Nature's Son.

[Derwood]

 

Beatles: At our wedding my wife and I had a string quartet play I will

 

I bet that was realllly nice. That's a great Paul song. He had some good quiet guitar songs on the White Album: Blackbird, I Will, Mother Nature's Son.

 

my wife and my first wedding dance was to Paul's rendition of "Til There Was You"

[OleMissCub]

 

Beatles: At our wedding my wife and I had a string quartet play I will

 

I bet that was realllly nice. That's a great Paul song. He had some good quiet guitar songs on the White Album: Blackbird, I Will, Mother Nature's Son.

 

my wife and my first wedding dance was to Paul's rendition of "Til There Was You"

 

That's awesome! That was actually the second song they played on the famous Ed Sullivan show.