The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones

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Alright, this comparison has been done since the bands debuted in the early 60s, but I have to make this survey for school. I need 100 responses, and thought this would be an easy way to get some answers. Please answer truthfully, as this is for a report I'm doing.

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

4. What is your favorite album by one of these bands? (just looking for one answer here - for example, if you like Let It Bleed the best by the Stones and the White Album the best by the Beatles, just go with Let It Bleed).

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

Thank you.

― David Coontz, Monday, 17 January 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Pop

2. The Beatles were and are obviously a lot more popular than the Rolling Stones. It seems bizarro to me that this would even be a question.

3. The Beatles

4. My favorite Beatles album is Revolver and my favorite Rolling Stones album is Hot Rocks.

5. The Beatles, by FAR. Again, it seems odd that this would even be a question.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Monday, 17 January 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I realized I made a mistake on number 4. I meant, if you like Let it Bleed best by the Stones and the White Album the best by the Beatles, but you like Let it Bleed better than the White Album, then just go with Let It Bleed (basically looking for just one answer).

― David Coontz, Monday, 17 January 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

What Matthew said. But I would substitue Let it Bleed with Hot Rocks for answer #4.

― darin (darin), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Rock and roll
2. The Beatles
3. The Beatles
4. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. The Beatles

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Straight ahead barn burning Rock and roll
2. The Beatles
3. The Beatles
4. Revolver
5. The Beatles

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Psych

2. The Beatles.

3. The Stones.

4. Beggar's Banquet

5. I don't feel terribly qualified to answer this question. The Beatles, at least, had a most immediate impact; the Stones I'd say may have done more to influence /a wider variety of (sonically different) bands/ . What I mean is, typically a Beatles-influenced band will be very pop, maybe with a psych feel. Where the Stones touched on those sounds, they also undoubtedly influenced lots of white-boy blues rock bands, country-rock bands, and also set the precedent for aging rockers NOT EVER BREAKING UP.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

Punk/indie

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

The Beatles were/are more popular

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

The Rolling Stones

Exile on Main Street

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

The Beatles

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Pop

2. The Beatles

3. The Beatles

4. Sgt Pepper

5. The Beatles

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

1. House

2. The Beatles

3. Stones

4. Let It Bleed

5. The Beatles

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Can't pick one.

2. Beatles

3. Stones

4. Let it Bleed

5. Stones (the Beatles were sui generis. It doesn't get more generis than the Stones).

― mick, Monday, 17 January 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Indie-pop-electro-prog-rock-hop

2. Beatles

3. Beatles

4. Sgt Pepper

5. Beatles

― Pumpkin Pirate (Broken Hipster), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

1. er, miserablism? post-punk probably describes it best

2. the beatles

3. the beatles by a country mile

4. abbey road ... no, revolver ... no, abbey road ... definitely abbey road

5. the beatles by several country miles, a stile, a large field and an ocean

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Metal rock
2. the Beatles
3. the Beatles
4. In a very close race between 'White Album' and Revolver, Revolver. It's a rare example of a perfect album. White album I probably listen to more, mind.
5. Oh god, obviously the Beatles.

― Carel Fabritius (Fabritius), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

pop

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

the Beatles

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

most of the time, the rolling stones, although i think "ticket to ride" is one of the greatest songs ever.

beggars banquet

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

the rolling stones had some impact on country-rock and funk, and certainly an impact on the aesthetics of some of the dirtier punk/metal bands. the beatles had an impact on beat bands, british psych, art rock, extreme, and oasis. (not bad until you get to the last two.)

answer: the beatles probably revolutionized music more, but the stones have the "stronger lasting impact."

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, my answer for 4 is Revolver.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Monday, 17 January 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Rock
2. The Beatles
3. The Rolling Stones
4. Exile on Main Street
5. The Beatles

― earlnash, Monday, 17 January 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

Rock

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

The Beatles

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

The Beatles

The Beatles (The White Album)

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

The Beatles

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Rock
2. The Beatles

3. The Beatles

4. Abbey Road

5. The Beatles

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Pop-rock

2. Beatles

3. Rolling Stones

4. Beggars Banquet

5. No comment

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

; the Stones I'd say may have done more to influence /a wider variety of (sonically different) bands/

Are you SURE about this? It seems that the Rolling Stones mostly just influenced country and rock groups, whereas the Beatles cover the gammut from power pop to art rock to adult contemporary to Michael Jackson to electronic music and beyond. Their fingerprints are all over pop culture in general, and they've been covered by artists in nearly every genre of music from around the world. They are so much a part of the fabric of late 20th century pop music that it's almost difficult to NOT be influenced by the Beatles, even if you hate them. Also, almost everybody knows The Beatles, which just plain isn't true about the Stones. The appeal of the Beatles crosses all ages and races, which is just not the case with the Stones.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

That which rocks.

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

I'm inclined to say the Beatles. The `Stones aren't for everyone, but there honestly is "something for everyone" in the Beatles catalog. Almost.

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

Well, I like'em both, really. The Beatles seem a bit more sunnier, poppier, more accessible....and the `Stones (vintage Stones, at least) seem a bit more pleasingly evil and debauched...for whatever that's worth. But, y'know, some days I'm in the mood for one, other days I'm in the mood for the other.

Revolver by the Beatles. Despite it being the (at the moment) univerally regarded "best Beatle album," I just think it holds up really well. The midpoint between their earlier, more conventional period and their arguably excessive experimental phase.

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

Without question, the Beatles.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Pop.

2. The Beatles.

3. The Beatles.

4. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

5. The Beatles.

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

1. pop
2. Beatles
3. The Rolling Stones until very recently, but the Beatles now.
4. Aftermath
5. The Beatles. The Stones have probably influenced more bands qua music, but the Beatles revolutionized recording technology and wrote the book on what it means to be a pop star in the 2o/21st century.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

my favorite beatles album:

http://franklarosa.com/ThumbnailServlet?image=/vinyl/BigImg/cathy.jpg&width=350&smooth=1

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

1. pop
2. beatles
3. stones
4. exile
5. stones

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

omg jody

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

1. avant-pop-indie-post-punk
2. beatles
3. beatles
4. sticky fingers
5. beatles

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe we've gotten this far without any smartass answers.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

now you've done it

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

Post punk

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

Beatles

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

Beatles

White Album

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

Beatles

― buck van smack (Buck Van Smack), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

Authentic Jamaican roots reggae.

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

Overall, yes.

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

I've never heard of two bands.

Which bands? I like The Freewheelin Bob Dylan' by the Bob Dylan Band.

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

Stronger than what? I think Kraftwerk had a lasting impact on music. I don't know very much about them, though.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Jazz/Free Jazz/Free Improv
2. Beatles
3. Beatles
4. Exile on Main Street
5. Beatles

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Do I have to choose? Weird/Alternative Pop then

2. Beatles

3. Beatles

4. Magical Mystery Tour. If that doesn't count as an album then White Album.

5. Beatles

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe we've gotten this far without any smartass answers.

We have a winner!

― Broken Hipster (Broken Hipster), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant gabbneb, not you dog latin.

― Broken Hipster (Broken Hipster), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

1. I'm not quite sure. Depends on my mood.
2. The Beatles were much more popular. I don't recall reading about Rolling Stonesmania.
3. Most days I prefer The Beatles.
4. Rubber Soul (gets the nod for In My Life)
5. The Beatles (over the Rolling Stones)

― Bruce S. Urquhart (BanjoMania), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

1. I'm going to say salsa. I can't think of any other genre that I like such a high percentage of (although certain areas of Arabic music would maybe win if I could put a name on them--but let's stick to salsa).

2. I think the Beatles were probably more popular overall (talking globally).

3. The Beatles.

4. Revolver.

5. The Beatles.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

1. bubblegum
2. the beatles
3. the rolling stones up to around some girls, but the beatles kind of have an advantage here by breaking up when they were still really good so you don't have to think about later less-inspired stuff
4. tough one, but I'd say just for the sake of argument that hot rocks and more hot rocks are better double album greatest hits packages than the red and blue beatles comps... for your survey you can put rs - "out of our heads", if that's easier
5. "stronger lasting influence" is pretty hard to quantify, but i guess i'd say the beatles but only reluctantly

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

1. N/A
2. Beatles
3. Beatles
4. Something New, probably
5. not a carefully considered answer, but the Stones

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

gabbneb, please explain the flaws in this survey's methodology.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

1. What is your favorite genre of music?
Um...Rock/Pop?

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?
Unfortunately, the Beatles are more popular than the Stones. Note I didn't say they were better, just more popular.

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?
If a gun was held to my nutsack, I'd say the Stones.

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?
Again, I'd have to concede that the Beatles have had way more impact. Most of it for the worse.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

too many mentalists (xpost - see?)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Pop
2. Beatles
3. Beatles
4. Abbey Road
5. Beatles

― jole, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Rock
2. Beatles for popularity, but I honestly think the Stones are better musicians.
3. Rolling Stones
4. Exile on Main Street is the greatest piece of artwork of any medium, EVER.
5. Beatles, hesitantly...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Post-Punk

2. The Beatles

3. The Rolling Stones

4. Let It Bleed

5. The Beatles

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

rap
beatles
beatles
abbey road
beatles

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beatles make a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism. In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulgent amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivalled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method.
Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.

― Tip Mikkleson, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

post-punk rock

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

the beatles

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

the rolling stones

aftermath -- an evil pop masterpiece.

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

the stones (as perverse as that may sound).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

1. genres...hm..okay I'll take post-punk

2. Depends on where we're talking about. I wonder if the Stones aren't more popular in the U.S. I'm going with the Stones for the hell of it.

3. Beatles, by as Fiendish said "a country mile"

4. For me it's a choice between childhood and adulthood: Sgt. Pepper vs. Abbey Road. I'm going with Abbey Road.

5. The Beatles. God was born when the Beatles formed, haven't you heard?

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

2. Beatles for popularity, but I honestly think the Stones are better musicians.

in the spirit of the above:

1. pop (but i honestly think classical is more complex)
2. beatles (but i honestly think the stones slept with more women)
3. beatles (but i honestly think chris robinson prefers the stones)
4. rubber soul (but i honestly thing revolver came later)
5. beatles (but i honestly think mick jagger is a better dresser)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Pop with a dash of pysch/jazz
2. Beatles
3. Beatles
4. All of them ... I'll say The White Album
5. Beatles

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

1. I guess the guitar bands are back as OK for me.
2. The Beatles, undoubtably
3. I grew up wid the Beatles albums.
4. One answer? Umm, probably Revolver.
5. Thesedays, more bands want to be the Stones than the Beatles, which is good.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

Jazz

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

Beatles (probably a simple fact not an opinion?

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

Beatles (but I love The Rolling Stones also)

4. What is your favorite album by one of these bands?

Abbey Road

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

Difficult. Far more bands used The Stones template but someone would probably have come up with a similar mix of Chicago blues, Chuck Berry, Dylan, Country, yadda yadda even if the Stones hadn't existed. The Beatles were much more of a one-off and probably changed the landscape more, even though they had fewer direct imitators.

― frankiemachine, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the beatles are a albums band , the stones ( i like them) are a singles band.
i'd pick beatles "revolver"(their first four had 8 originals and 6 covers and the white album should be a brilliant single album.
i haven't got any stones lps anymore but "steel wheels" is good.

can i cheat and say beatles "complete bbc sessions" and rolling stones"jumpback"
the stones can be easily copied but the beatles had wider taste in music.the beatles knew when to stop(thanks Yoko).

you'll get 100 replies here.

― revolverville, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Not applicable
2. I would say neither is currently as popular as Elvis Presley
3. I have no strong feelings either way about either band
4. Their Satanic Majesties Request
5. The Beach Boys

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Pop
2.The Beatles
3. The Rolling Stones
4. Between The Buttons
5. Unfortunately, the Beatles

― Neil Kulkarni, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Pop/Rock
2. The Beatles
3. The Beatles
4. Revolver
5. The Beatles

― mms (mms), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Jazz? Today, it's jazz.
2. The Beatles.
3. ? Maybe The Beatles ?
4. Revolver
5. ? Maybe The Beatles ?

― Acme 2, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Techno pop
2. clearly the Beatles
3. the Stones by a whisker
4. Let It Bleed
5. i can't see the worth of attempting to determine the answer to a question such as this

― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

1. jazz/post-punk
2. Beatles
3. Rolling Stones
4. Exile on Main Street
5. Beatles

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

Progressive Rock

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

the Beatles

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

I don't like either of them much, really.

I don't own a single album by either band. Best tracks, as an alternative

beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
stones - 2000 light years from home

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

Stones, probably, for useless "look at me i'm a badass motherfucker 'mojo'"

OK, now you've got yr info/survey, what are you going to target market at us? ;)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Stones, probably, for useless "look at me i'm a badass motherfucker" 'mojo' that shd read, argh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Jet.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

woo-ooo-ooh wooo-ooo-oooh wooo-ooo-oooh

― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Don't have one

2. Beatles

3. Rolling Stones

4. White Album / Exile On Main Street

5. Beatles (unfortuntately)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

just in, this from a poll conducted among the viewers of channel 4:

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

A: Robbie Williams

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

A: They're not as popular as Robbie Williams!

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

A: ROBBIE WILLIAMS!

A: ROBBIE WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

A: ROBBIE WILLIAMS

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Pop/Rock

2. Beatles

3. Beatles

4. Beatles, Revolver

5. The Beatles had far more of an impact, I think; the Stones executed well but didn't transform how musicians approached songcraft.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

... but I wouldn't like to give you the impression that I actually own anything by the Beatles... no hold on, I've got the "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

1. experimental rock/psych, but also pop-rock
2. beatles
3. beatles, but the gap is closing really fast.
4. rubber soul
5. beatles

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1. hard to say
2. beatles
3. beatles
4. sticky fingers
5. beatles

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

1. What is your favorite genre of music? Soul music.

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular? Beatles.

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer? Stones.

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music? The Beatles by a nose.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Psychpostpunksoulreggaebleeps

2. The Beatles

3. The Beatles

4. Between The Buttons

5. Beatles

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Hard rock (I had to think about this, given that for the last 25 years I way prefer disco and hip-hop; but in my heart I keep wanting disco and hip-hop to do what the Dolls did)
2. The Beatles
3. The Rolling Stones
4. Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass (U.S. version)(and for what it's worth, Let It Bleed is my least favorite '60s Stones album ("Can't Always Get What You Want" reducing "Heart of Stone" to platitudes and dragging on interminably), and The White Album and Revolver are among my least favorite Beatles' albums; my favorite Beatles album is The Beatles Second Album, which was their third album and didn't exist in Britain, and reminds me of the Stones)
5. The Rolling Stones (and among rock bands the Yardbirds would be number two in impact, though this question is difficult to answer since "impact" can pertain to so many different things: But sonically and emotionally, anywhere in music that "hard" is an issue - hard beats, hardcore - you're haunted by the Stones, like it or not, and what you're haunted by isn't just the impulse to be hard and bad, which long preceded the Stones, but the Stones' twisting this impulse into impossibility and sadness, running a critique of it at the same time they were doing it, and running a critique of a critique, eventually turning the pencil around and writing with an eraser)

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Avant-Garde Psychedelic Proto-Post-Punk R&B Jazz In Dub. Or just about any category that you could get both Captain Beefheart and The Slits into, to be honest. Plus whatever The Doc said, obviously.

2. The Beatles

3. The Beatles. I'd like to be able to say Rolling Stones but I'm afraid I can't.

4. Either Rubber Soul or Revolver.

5. The Beatles.

You're welcome.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

1. dont have one.
2. beatles.
3. beatles.
4. rubber soul/revolver. i think the stones are monstrously overrated and dont love any one of their albums more than their others. i think theyre more of a singles band personally.
5. beatles.

― ppp, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

what you're haunted by isn't just the impulse to be hard and bad, which long preceded the Stones, but the Stones' twisting this impulse into impossibility and sadness, running a critique of it at the same time they were doing it, and running a critique of a critique, eventually turning the pencil around and writing with an eraser

It seems to me that Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Little Walter, Hank Williams, and Johnny Cash basically had accomplished all of these things before the Stones, at least up through the part about the first critique - though I'm not sure I get the second meta-critique or the eraser part, so maybe that's where the Stones' contribution lies.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

the beatles

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, first I just want to say that this made me laugh:
i haven't got any stones lps anymore but "steel wheels" is good.

Okay, so...

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

Um... I think if I have to use the widely accepted "genres" I'll probably fall in the punk/indie camp. A substantial chunk of my favorites are technically postpunk and another good sized one would likely be called bubblegum, but punk/indie probably covers the majority.

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

The Beatles are more popular precisely for the reasons Stones fans tend to dislike them in these comparisons. Alex has probably already said it best... Just about everyone can find Beatles stuff to like, which isn't true for the Stones by and large.

The other reason they were more popular is their image. It stands to reason that a band marketed as "good guys" is going to be more accepted by everyone than a band with a "bad boy" image, right?

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

The Beatles

Abbey Road

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

Without context for this question it's difficult to answer, because it is dangerously easy to answer this question with the same answer as #2 but without different reasons. (i.e. They had a stronger impact because they were more popular.)

I am going to say the Beatles though, because I don't think the Stones changed the face of music in quite the same way. There's no doubt of the Stones' influence on tons of bands, but the Beatles "changed what was possible" in more ways. (Off the top of my head I'm thinking of use of harmony, for one.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

1. What is your favorite genre of music?

Classic pop (as in The Beatles ;) )

2. Overall, would you say that the Beatles or the Rolling Stones are (or were) more popular?

Fairly obvious, from chart performance, The Beatles.

3. Which of the two bands do you prefer?

The Beatles

4. What is your favorite album by one of these bands? (just looking for one answer here - for example, if you like Let It Bleed the best by the Stones and the White Album the best by the Beatles, just go with Let It Bleed).

That would be "Sgt. Pepper" then.

5. Which band do you think has had a stronger lasting impact on music?

Again, rather obviously The Beatles even though their legacy was more totally dominant before punk.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Geir, why you searching for Beatles threads today?

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

This was linked from another post.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nG_nKn7vZA

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/never-before-seen_footage_the_rolling_stones_play_the_beatles_1965

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 18 October 2012 23:54 (thirteen years ago)

And did the Beatles ever do the Stones? No. They did a Who track once though. "A quick one while he's away"

― Mark G, Friday, 19 October 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

The Stones' second single was, for all intents and purposes, written for them by Lennon/McCartney ("I Wanna Be Your Man").

And the Beatles didn't really cover "A Quick One" so much as goof on the "We'll soon be home" part during a lull in/the lull that was the Let It Be filming.

― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 19 October 2012 00:07 (thirteen years ago)

You'd think there would be 10 seconds of Satisfaction or something during the Get Back sessions, but it doesn't look like it...

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 October 2012 00:12 (thirteen years ago)

xpost I know, it just amuses me that the (only?) contemporaneous cover they ever had a go at was that one.

Not counting "Hello Dolly" that they did for the banned Xmas single

― Mark G, Friday, 19 October 2012 00:25 (thirteen years ago)

Good point re: only contemporaneous cover. My guess is that John started it off, having just played on the bill with the Who at the RnR Circus.

― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 19 October 2012 02:22 (thirteen years ago)

Well they covered a ton of current R&B stuff in the early years. But yeah nothing really past '65.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 October 2012 02:35 (thirteen years ago)

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