The Stones are the greatest band in the world. The Beatles are (or were, whichever you prefer) the greatest band in the world. Stop arguing Jesus and enjoy the video! Also, Metallica blows.
lol this was stupid. And the Stones are better, which is saying a LOT, since the Beatles are just epic. Like my mom said... people only like the Beatles better because they were like the first real band. Doesn't make them the best.
The Stones sill tour. Mick has won more Grammeys than any Beatle. They didn't bail on their fans. Maybe it's because they really love what they do. Everyone likes money but thier still here because they love music and their not politians. They don't need political votes to sell out Football and basebaseball stadiums. They love music not what political party you are.
bullshit you cant beat the stones okay atleast jagger didnt act like an asshole all the time the only cool beatle member was paul so OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO john lenon is a midget
The Beatles music - except for a couple rockers- mostly sounds like a bunch of computers creating music. Sterile, overpolished, safe. The Stones sound like humans creating gritty, sweaty rock.
@asianwhitenigger READ MY COMMENT SHITHEAD. I said 'except for a couple rockers' meaning yer blues and helter skelter. the rest is care bears bullshit like hey jude, rocky raccoon, we can work it out, etc.
@steveconn just cause you say you served me doesnt make it true fagboy ( cool word to use too, like the awesome dance movies) you can always spot a dickhead when he says the beatles have "care bear" tracks and only love songs .oh ya lets be clear you said except for a couple of rockers too - Fucking idiot whats Im so tired you cant do that Ill cry instead honey pie then??? Ill tell you this much - they dont fall under the category of "care bear" or "rocker" beatles are more diverse -
@asianwhitenigger Yeah, just like the Stones wore matching suits, sang dippy songs about peace and holding hands, and sang in perfect chipmunk harmony. Good call, you stupid piece of shit.
No one's afraid of you, asshole, so stop deluding yourself about that already.
@steveconn The stones never wore suits? Write in " I wanna be your man - Stones" and youll see that your SPICK brain is mistaken
and after watching that video - If youre even gonna pretend that the Stones were not influenced by the Beatles - Just fucking kill yourself
And thats the first time I ever heard someone diss a band by saying they sing in perfect harmony. LOLOL fucking dumb ass southern Spick American faggot who wears a T shirt with lips on it every third day
@asianwhitenigger Is "Conn" a latino surname? Put it together, you dumb motherfucker. Or get someone smarter than you (just about anyone) to help you out with it.
Were the Stones wearing matching suits and singing in castrated chipmunk harmony? The only thing the Stones had in common with the Beatles was both were white and played music. Back to the shortbus, you mindless, pointless cocksucker.
@rhcp500 Pete Townshend said that even The Who had no musical integrity. Pete is a great musician and song writer, as is John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. He was sort of right, but notice how he said "without their voices". the beatles had great harmonies, and it made up for their "alright" ability to play their instruments (though I think George Harrison is a brilliant guitarist). The
Stones didn`t have near as good vocals, but had great all round musicians.
@brandonlace I dont get where the argument against their talent with instruments comes from. The only time they didnt play well was at the end of their touring career when they couldnt hear themselves over the crowd. Their songs sans vocals sound *lacking* but its not the same thing. Its lacking because the songs were written with a strong vocal element in mind. Its an instrument in itself. You could say "take out the guitar and it sounds lousy" too. listen to The End and tell me theyre mediocre
@rhcp500 I don`t think that it was necessarily lack of skill, in retrospect. Now that I think about it, It probably had more to do with the circumstances in which the Beatles early albums took place in (being recorded in short amounts of time under pressure from the record company). I just gave a listen to The End, as well as some other abbey road stuff and the White Album too. They were much better then in the later years (my opinion). I think that`s what Pete Townshend meant.
I love these both bands so fuckin' much... But I figure that Beatles were better writers than The Stones (Jagger himself has said it) but the Stones had a better sound (Lennon himself has said it). :)
@Pandemonium44 Better writers if you like LCD hyped songwriting...the Stones took drugs but that never effected their lyrics. Meaning that the Beatles wrote songs about holding hands then out of no where said they were walrus'
@EvilAnticsLive I really don't understand your reasoning... Stones are IMO pretty much as great as Lennon or McCartney but you say drugs never even effected their lyrics?! Hello! Brown Sugar, Mother's Little Helper, You Can't Always... , Sister Morphine and the entire Satanic Majesties. And the Beatles might sung they were walrus' but Stones sang about being monkey. (Monkey Man)
@Pandemonium44 You totally don't understand what I ment. The Stones sung about drugs (sometimes) but drugs never effected the way they wrote meaning the were writing crazy stuff from day one. The Beatles however, were some sugar pop band who suddenly started singing about Strawberry Fields Forever and acid-inspired things, not just singing about taking acid.
@EvilAnticsLive Ah, right, okay. Yeah I agree, The Beatles were the nice boys that turned into drug addicts. Mostly, I think that the Dylan meeting they had in 1964 was the reason for the drugs but of course Beatles wanted to experiment and be different too, they just didn't want to settle with rock/pop songs about love. But on the whole what does it matter what you sing about as long as it's good music, right? :)
@Pandemonium44 Lennon bashed everything he ever did for most of his life. He bashed the entire Beatles catalog, as well as the solo work of George and Paul. The fact that he said the stones had a better sound doesn't really mean much (he also bashed the stones on several occasions. .towards the end of his life he began retracting much of what he had said though. I'm sure with a little more time to live he would have began gushing about the beatles as much as we do
You wish. The stones outlasted the beatles by decades. By the way they have written more number 1 songs. By the way they still tour. By the way they are having another tour. By the way your beatles quit being a team. By the way THE ROLLING SNES ARE TH GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND IN THE WORLD AND I DIDN'T SAY THAT.
@DANGELOSOLD Too many by the ways... The Beatles accomplished more than the Stones have in 10 years. They aren't THE greatest, but one of the best. The Beatles came back together for a short period around 1994-1995 to make possibly their best tracks yet. The Beatles are also more famous/ infamous...
@DANGELOSOLD by the way the beatles are the most sold act in musical history.by the way the beatles are no.1 in rolling stone and vh1's list of 100 greatest artists of all time. the stones are the FOURTH (ha) most sold band after beatles,zeppelin and queen.by the way the beatles wrote the stones' first hit for them(i wanna hold your hand)
so, im sorry but i dont see any possible comparison, the beatles are more succesful even though they had a very small time together.
@CrAzyUT00BP00P5 if not for the Beatles opening the door for the rest of the British bands nobody would know who the stones are, now I can understand you have your favorite band but be open minded about the history of music
@zombiewalrus666 you do know that the beatles and stones were really great friends and planned shit like that for a joke right? And also the musical styles of both albums are completely different.
The beatles became a band before the rolling stones and the rolling stones played beatles songs and played around and changed bites and made it there own and they can't be bothered to make anything from scratch .
@MsSamian how do you figure the beatles are better then the stones you can't compare the two the beatles were good boys and the stones were bad boys but to each there own just remembers the greatest rock and roll band in the world are the rolling stones
In 2004, a BBC released poll voted Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da the worst song ever. That’s because it is. Although Octopuses’ Garden runs it close…and Hello, Goodbye isn’t exactly the work of genius either.
The Beatles lasted about six years, giving us a few good albums and lots of great singles. And then, well, they just gave up because they couldn’t really be bothered anymore. Listen to ‘Let It Be’ and you’ll hear the sound of a band who can’t be bothered.
By contrast, The Stones helped kick start the musical career of Marianne Faithful and the bands that followed them from the London r n’b scene included The Kinks, The Who and The Yardbirds.
The Stones recorded ‘Beggars Banquet’, ‘Sticky Fingers’, ‘Exile on Main Street’, ‘Goats Head Soup’ in succession.
The Beatles made only one really consistent album – ‘Sargeant Peppers..’. The rest were pretty ropey (Let It Be, The White Album, Revolver…some good, some bad on all).
While The Stones are responsible for the execrable ‘Satanic Majesties Request’, there is nowhere near the level of self-indulgent rubbish as that churned out by The Beatles.
‘The White Album’, for example, is four good songs plus an hour of tiresome half-written rubbish, like ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road’.
Is this really the work of the best band in the world ever? Nope…it’s just rubbish from a bunch of self-indulgent millionaires.
When you’re five or six years old, ‘Yellow Submarine’, ‘When I’m Sixty Four’, ‘Here Comes The Sun’ and the like are fantastic songs. In pretty much the same way as ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ is fantastic poetry.
The fact is, though, that The Beatles novelty songs are, frankly, embarrassing. They’re generally awful music hall pastiche with – in far too many cases – the tone deaf Ringo singing.
The Stones avoided this trap and thank God for that.
Ringo Starr is an amiable, likeable scouser. Unfortunately, what he is not is a good drummer. In fact, he wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles.
I’ve heard all the revisionist nonsense about Ringo’s abilities over the last few years, but that’s all it is: nonsense.
By contrast, Charlie Watts is a fantastic drummer. His minimalist style in The Rolling Stones often hides his natural jazz style, but what he does in the Stones is always, always perfect.
@clague52 They did, sorta. The Beatles hooked`m up with a record company and wrote I Wanna Be Your Man and gave it to them, along with another song later on.
With Beatles in mind, I've posted the video, "40 years in 3 minutes", which is a music video containing the Beatles' rooftop performance, historical events over the last 40 years and 8mm film antics from the period, all cut tightly to GET BACK and GLASS ONION. Hope you enjoy!
The Beatles did more the music then the rolling stones ever did. If it wasn't for The Beatles writing the rolling stones first hit, the rolling stones might not have made it.
The Stones 'made it' after their performances on the London rhythm and blues circuit were recognised. Their orginal recorded material is a homage to the greats of blues, rock and roll and rhythm and blues. They didn't need cheesy manufactured pop rubbish and pretty boy looks to 'make it' - they were able to through musical ability and innovation.
sigh. pop rubbish? really? was that necessary? the Beatles are and always wll be the greatest band in the world. so y'know what? bugger off thanks. i could care less about what you think sorry
@lennon2starkey7 Total bullshit. The Stones were growing in popularity without them. In the above clip the Beatles finally sound like they have balls.
I gotta say the top comment is retarded, The beatles aren't a contest to the stones why do you think they still play today. beatles are trash and history.
@jillzi7 The Beatles Wrote The Worst Song Ever…Official
In 2004, a BBC released poll voted Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da the worst song ever. That’s because it is. Although Octopuses’ Garden runs it close…and Hello, Goodbye isn’t exactly the work of genius either.
@jillzi7 The Stones, of course, are still going. While, admittedly, they haven’t done anything worthwhile in the last twenty years, they continued growing as a band way after The Beatles split and put out great album after great album well into the 1970s and even one (Tattoo You) in the 80s as well.
The Beatles lasted about six years, giving us a few good albums and lots of great singles. And then, well, they just gave up because they couldn’t really be bothered anymore. Listen to ‘Let It Be’ and you’ll hear the sound of a band who can’t be bothered.
@jillzi7 By contrast, The Stones helped kick start the musical career of Marianne Faithful and the bands that followed them from the London r n’b scene included The Kinks, The Who and The Yardbirds.
The Stones recorded ‘Beggars Banquet’, ‘Sticky Fingers’, ‘Exile on Main Street’, ‘Goats Head Soup’ in succession.
The Beatles made only one really consistent album – ‘Sargeant Peppers..’. The rest were pretty ropey (Let It Be, The White Album, Revolver…some good, some bad on all).
While The Stones are responsible for the execrable ‘Satanic Majesties Request’, there is nowhere near the level of self-indulgent rubbish as that churned out by The Beatles.
‘The White Album’, for example, is four good songs plus an hour of tiresome half-written rubbish, like ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road’.
Is this really the work of the best band in the world ever? Nope…it’s just rubbish from a bunch of self-indulgent millionaires.
When you’re five or six years old, ‘Yellow Submarine’, ‘When I’m Sixty Four’, ‘Here Comes The Sun’ and the like are fantastic songs. In pretty much the same way as ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ is fantastic poetry.
The fact is, though, that The Beatles novelty songs are, frankly, embarrassing. They’re generally awful music hall pastiche with – in far too many cases – the tone deaf Ringo singing.
The Stones avoided this trap and thank God for that.
Ringo Starr is an amiable, likeable scouser. Unfortunately, what he is not is a good drummer. In fact, he wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles.
I’ve heard all the revisionist nonsense about Ringo’s abilities over the last few years, but that’s all it is: nonsense.
By contrast, Charlie Watts is a fantastic drummer. His minimalist style in The Rolling Stones often hides his natural jazz style, but what he does in the Stones is always, always perfect.
arrrhg come on who talks about a winner... Fack of and listen the music i like both, great bands and they are friends... That's what music is all about...
Wow, hellterskelher literately spammed this comment section with beatles sucks comments...We get it blah blah blah. Such comparison on both is utter bullshit anyway especially when the stones and the beatles collaborated with each other and they were friends to begin with.
@GibsonLord1 The Beatles Wrote The Worst Song Ever…Official
In 2004, a BBC released poll voted Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da the worst song ever. That’s because it is. Although Octopuses’ Garden runs it close…and Hello, Goodbye isn’t exactly the work of genius either.
@OlaNaTungee6 The Beatles Wrote The Worst Song Ever…Official
In 2004, a BBC released poll voted Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da the worst song ever. That’s because it is. Although Octopuses’ Garden runs it close…and Hello, Goodbye isn’t exactly the work of genius either.
@OlaNaTungee6 The Stones, of course, are still going. While, admittedly, they haven’t done anything worthwhile in the last twenty years, they continued growing as a band way after The Beatles split and put out great album after great album well into the 1970s and even one (Tattoo You) in the 80s as well.
@hellterskelher ...were you aware that the Beatles had to show the Stones how to write a damn song..the Beatles wrote the Stones' first song..was called 'wanna be your man'..and yeah the Beatles broke up long ago, but their songs stand up to the test of time far better than the Stones..dont get me wrong, i enjoy some Stones too..but hands down, the Beatles own the title of THE best rock and roll band ever
@jillzi7 : Unless you are a 'pop' music junkie who thinks that poppycock like 'Maroon 5' or 'The Fray' is Rock music, would you make a statement like "The Beatles own the title of The best Rock and Roll band ever." Come on bro., seriously, it only takes a few objective listens to any of the vast array of Stones' repertoire to realize that the Rolling Stones are the epitome of Rock and Roll!
@Lunatic4Bizcas STONES ARE GREAT,,BEATLES ARE BETTER...MY OPINION, YOU DONT HAVE TO AGREE,,BY THE WAY, MAROON 5 AND THE FRAY OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT ARE RIDICULOUS JOKES..NICE TO HEAR FROM SOMEONE WITH SOME PASSION ABOUT GOOD MUSIC..THANKS
The Beatles lasted about six years, giving us a few good albums and lots of great singles. And then, well, they just gave up because they couldn’t really be bothered anymore. Listen to ‘Let It Be’ and you’ll hear the sound of a band who can’t be bothered.
@OlaNaTungee6 By contrast, The Stones helped kick start the musical career of Marianne Faithful and the bands that followed them from the London r n’b scene included The Kinks, The Who and The Yardbirds.
@OlaNaTungee6 In The Studio…No One Can Hear You Scream
The Beatles may have been a fairly good live band, but they threw a strop somewhere around 1965 because the screaming was too loud and they couldn’t hear themselves properly.
The Stones would have just bought bigger amps. Let’s face it, from the footage available, it’s clear that The Beatles weren’t anywhere near in the Stones league as a live band. The Stones were, probably even still are, the greatest live act in rock n’ roll.
@OlaNaTungee6 The Stones, however, always had an authentic touch when playing differing styles of music as their career developed. They could do blues, country (‘Wild Horses’, etc.), reggae, rock…everything they did sounded right. Largely because Keith Richards just has a natural affinity for music in a way that McCartney and Lennon didn’t.
The Beatles, by contrast, just played pop music and, um, music hall.
@OlaNaTungee6 The Stones were little more than a derivative blues band, while The Beatles were innovators.
The thing is, at the outset of both bands career, both were little more than copyists. The Beatles just played the latest pop hits (Twist and Shout, etc.) while The Stones played the blues.
The Stones recorded ‘Beggars Banquet’, ‘Sticky Fingers’, ‘Exile on Main Street’, ‘Goats Head Soup’ in succession.
The Beatles made only one really consistent album – ‘Sargeant Peppers..’. The rest were pretty ropey (Let It Be, The White Album, Revolver…some good, some bad on all).
While The Stones are responsible for the execrable ‘Satanic Majesties Request’, there is nowhere near the level of self-indulgent rubbish as that churned out by The Beatles.
‘The White Album’, for example, is four good songs plus an hour of tiresome half-written rubbish, like ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road’.
Is this really the work of the best band in the world ever? Nope…it’s just rubbish from a bunch of self-indulgent millionaires.
When you’re five or six years old, ‘Yellow Submarine’, ‘When I’m Sixty Four’, ‘Here Comes The Sun’ and the like are fantastic songs. In pretty much the same way as ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ is fantastic poetry.
The fact is, though, that The Beatles novelty songs are, frankly, embarrassing. They’re generally awful music hall pastiche with – in far too many cases – the tone deaf Ringo singing.
The Stones avoided this trap and thank God for that.
Ringo Starr is an amiable, likeable scouser. Unfortunately, what he is not is a good drummer. In fact, he wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles.
I’ve heard all the revisionist nonsense about Ringo’s abilities over the last few years, but that’s all it is: nonsense.
By contrast, Charlie Watts is a fantastic drummer. His minimalist style in The Rolling Stones often hides his natural jazz style, but what he does in the Stones is always, always perfect.
technically speaking, the rolling stones have toured and recorded consistently for those past 49 years. the Beatles entire career almost fell short of a decade ,midway they stop touring and became rich pretentious assholes. good music but as frank zappa said "they were only it it for the money!"
@OlaNaTungee6 then do you dont meet Stones...sorry...But the true is: Stones is alive!! aaaaallll band for what? 49 years....'n July 13th is the day of the rock...But July 12th is the Stones birthday....o///
@OlaNaTungee6 Music is not determined by the amount of people who listen to it, but the way it flows. If it was you had to listen Justin Bieber every day. I love the Stones i love Beatles - Let's fucking enjoy it!
The Stones are the greatest band in the world. The Beatles are (or were, whichever you prefer) the greatest band in the world. Stop arguing Jesus and enjoy the video! Also, Metallica blows.
EvilAnticsLive 1 month ago
Stones, Best band of history...
FelipeCA92 1 month ago
lol this was stupid. And the Stones are better, which is saying a LOT, since the Beatles are just epic. Like my mom said... people only like the Beatles better because they were like the first real band. Doesn't make them the best.
Yellow4494 1 month ago
@Yellow4494 First or Last real band, I think the Beatles are the Best and they will always Be.
MentaFragolaPanna 1 month ago
ummm ok whatever....
whipzter2 2 months ago
i find it wierd that these two band get compared so much, there sound is so different, both great but different.
trevor8930 2 months ago 5
@trevor8930 Timing.....and the BATTLE was publicity. THey liked each other.
Mftjan2000 1 month ago
thumbs up if you like te beatles better
zombiewalrus666 2 months ago
-_- something wrong here
winkstoned 2 months ago 5
beatles are untouchables ...
mrrodpatrick1 2 months ago
the stones all the way
skealoha91667 2 months ago
I thought that was ricky martin
T55Storm 2 months ago
0:49 somebody please tell me where ive heard that before
chilibro 3 months ago
HAHAHAHA TROLOLOLOLOL
profsquidy 3 months ago
what was the point of this shit video?
rootbound420 3 months ago
you're all fucked in the head...both bands are good...listen to what you like and not what...fuck it im done.
tauntingfrenchman1 3 months ago
Jajajaja Excelent congratulationssssssss
Guipar48 3 months ago
Stones don't leave, but beetles just get stomped
=)
TheFunkeys 3 months ago
Hey Dude,
The Stones sill tour. Mick has won more Grammeys than any Beatle. They didn't bail on their fans. Maybe it's because they really love what they do. Everyone likes money but thier still here because they love music and their not politians. They don't need political votes to sell out Football and basebaseball stadiums. They love music not what political party you are.
DANGELOSOLD 3 months ago
THE DOORS
angelmusicsi 4 months ago
metallica vs ricky marton stole the show
chriselsworthy 4 months ago
bullshit you cant beat the stones okay atleast jagger didnt act like an asshole all the time the only cool beatle member was paul so OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO john lenon is a midget
MrTOMMYKILLS 4 months ago
Great editing and synching!
Monkofmagnesia 4 months ago
The Beatles music - except for a couple rockers- mostly sounds like a bunch of computers creating music. Sterile, overpolished, safe. The Stones sound like humans creating gritty, sweaty rock.
steveconn 4 months ago
@steveconn fuckheads like you dont know what the fuck theyre talking about LOLOL
fucking loser
listen to yer blues for example
asianwhitenigger 4 months ago
@asianwhitenigger READ MY COMMENT SHITHEAD. I said 'except for a couple rockers' meaning yer blues and helter skelter. the rest is care bears bullshit like hey jude, rocky raccoon, we can work it out, etc.
HaHa served, you fuckin moron.
steveconn 4 months ago
asianwhitenigger 4 months ago
@asianwhitenigger Old folks home HONEY PIE A ROCKER?!? Slower than shit I'M SO TIRED A ROCKER?!? You're hilarious.
Muzak for elevators and JCPenny's. Beatles were made for it.
steveconn 4 months ago
@steveconn you know who else said the beatles were elevator music
REM
shows how cool you are
LOLOL loser
plus I could guarantee that I could kick the shit out of you
asianwhitenigger 4 months ago
@asianwhitenigger REM is a great group, and they were right.
And I could whip your faggot ass before you knew what happened, shithead.
steveconn 4 months ago
@steveconn Where do you live? Roadtrip is coming your way
just to bang your chink ass out
asianwhitenigger 4 months ago
@asianwhitenigger I'm not a chink, you stupid piece of shit. Las Cruces, NM - see you there, honey.
steveconn 4 months ago
@steveconn whata fucking dork you are. A disgusting spick im sure
dyou ever notice how much the stones are influenced by the beatles you fucking psychedelic gypsy?
Beatles wrote their first to chart - which basically puts the stones on the map
paint it black has a sitar in it because norwegian wood does ( thats not debatable)
and im sure songs shes a rainbow have no beatles influence whatsoever
Fuck I would love to meet you - youre lucky this is a "youtube chat"
asianwhitenigger 4 months ago
@asianwhitenigger Yeah, just like the Stones wore matching suits, sang dippy songs about peace and holding hands, and sang in perfect chipmunk harmony. Good call, you stupid piece of shit.
No one's afraid of you, asshole, so stop deluding yourself about that already.
steveconn 4 months ago
@steveconn The stones never wore suits? Write in " I wanna be your man - Stones" and youll see that your SPICK brain is mistaken
and after watching that video - If youre even gonna pretend that the Stones were not influenced by the Beatles - Just fucking kill yourself
And thats the first time I ever heard someone diss a band by saying they sing in perfect harmony. LOLOL fucking dumb ass southern Spick American faggot who wears a T shirt with lips on it every third day
asianwhitenigger 4 months ago
@asianwhitenigger Is "Conn" a latino surname? Put it together, you dumb motherfucker. Or get someone smarter than you (just about anyone) to help you out with it.
Were the Stones wearing matching suits and singing in castrated chipmunk harmony? The only thing the Stones had in common with the Beatles was both were white and played music. Back to the shortbus, you mindless, pointless cocksucker.
steveconn 4 months ago
si Lars Ulrich y James Hetfield vieran est, te busca y te muelen a patadas, XD ke buena...
atam845 4 months ago
HAHAHAHA that last part made me laugh , great vid man xD
MBGiorz 5 months ago
"when you actually hear the backing track of the beatles without their voices they`re flippin lousy"- Pete Townshend
brandonlace 5 months ago
@brandonlace now i know pete townshend was an idiot. thanks
rhcp500 5 months ago
@rhcp500 Pete Townshend said that even The Who had no musical integrity. Pete is a great musician and song writer, as is John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. He was sort of right, but notice how he said "without their voices". the beatles had great harmonies, and it made up for their "alright" ability to play their instruments (though I think George Harrison is a brilliant guitarist). The
Stones didn`t have near as good vocals, but had great all round musicians.
brandonlace 5 months ago
@brandonlace I dont get where the argument against their talent with instruments comes from. The only time they didnt play well was at the end of their touring career when they couldnt hear themselves over the crowd. Their songs sans vocals sound *lacking* but its not the same thing. Its lacking because the songs were written with a strong vocal element in mind. Its an instrument in itself. You could say "take out the guitar and it sounds lousy" too. listen to The End and tell me theyre mediocre
rhcp500 5 months ago
@rhcp500 I don`t think that it was necessarily lack of skill, in retrospect. Now that I think about it, It probably had more to do with the circumstances in which the Beatles early albums took place in (being recorded in short amounts of time under pressure from the record company). I just gave a listen to The End, as well as some other abbey road stuff and the White Album too. They were much better then in the later years (my opinion). I think that`s what Pete Townshend meant.
brandonlace 5 months ago
I freaking love the end! it builds up to be an immature beatles vs. rolling stones video but in the end, all it's doing is bashing on metallica. GOLD
MrEspenBakke 5 months ago
I love these both bands so fuckin' much... But I figure that Beatles were better writers than The Stones (Jagger himself has said it) but the Stones had a better sound (Lennon himself has said it). :)
Pandemonium44 5 months ago
@Pandemonium44 Better writers if you like LCD hyped songwriting...the Stones took drugs but that never effected their lyrics. Meaning that the Beatles wrote songs about holding hands then out of no where said they were walrus'
EvilAnticsLive 5 months ago
@EvilAnticsLive I really don't understand your reasoning... Stones are IMO pretty much as great as Lennon or McCartney but you say drugs never even effected their lyrics?! Hello! Brown Sugar, Mother's Little Helper, You Can't Always... , Sister Morphine and the entire Satanic Majesties. And the Beatles might sung they were walrus' but Stones sang about being monkey. (Monkey Man)
Pandemonium44 5 months ago
@Pandemonium44 You totally don't understand what I ment. The Stones sung about drugs (sometimes) but drugs never effected the way they wrote meaning the were writing crazy stuff from day one. The Beatles however, were some sugar pop band who suddenly started singing about Strawberry Fields Forever and acid-inspired things, not just singing about taking acid.
EvilAnticsLive 5 months ago
@EvilAnticsLive Ah, right, okay. Yeah I agree, The Beatles were the nice boys that turned into drug addicts. Mostly, I think that the Dylan meeting they had in 1964 was the reason for the drugs but of course Beatles wanted to experiment and be different too, they just didn't want to settle with rock/pop songs about love. But on the whole what does it matter what you sing about as long as it's good music, right? :)
Pandemonium44 5 months ago
@Pandemonium44 Lennon bashed everything he ever did for most of his life. He bashed the entire Beatles catalog, as well as the solo work of George and Paul. The fact that he said the stones had a better sound doesn't really mean much (he also bashed the stones on several occasions. .towards the end of his life he began retracting much of what he had said though. I'm sure with a little more time to live he would have began gushing about the beatles as much as we do
rhcp500 5 months ago
Ricky Martin? Wtf?
li90lb 5 months ago
that was synched better than a lot of godzilla films.
wallofvideo 5 months ago
What happened to the Beatles Apple Studio on Saville Row ? it's now used as what ?
jsteelman1000 5 months ago
This is well made.
EclecticSceptic 5 months ago
Molto divertente !!!
1952japan 5 months ago
This is stupid.
rsnyder95 6 months ago
LMFAOOO. ricky martin X metallica. that made my day
rose7art 6 months ago
SHUT UP BEATLES ARE TOO MUCH BETTER
zombiewalrus666 6 months ago
MR SOUL BY NEIL YOUNG IS COPIED BY JUMPIN JACK FLASH damn copycatz
zombiewalrus666 6 months ago
the beatles suck! the rolling stones are better!!
CrAzyUT00BP00P5 6 months ago
@CrAzyUT00BP00P5 Nice opinion bro... The fact is, The Beatles are better. Haha
JohnLennoninmyGuitar 6 months ago 8
@JohnLennoninmyGuitar i agree mate
zombiewalrus666 6 months ago
@zombiewalrus666 I agree with JohnLennoninmyGuitar too! ^_^ lol
JohnLennoninmyGuitar 6 months ago
You wish. The stones outlasted the beatles by decades. By the way they have written more number 1 songs. By the way they still tour. By the way they are having another tour. By the way your beatles quit being a team. By the way THE ROLLING SNES ARE TH GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND IN THE WORLD AND I DIDN'T SAY THAT.
DANGELOSOLD 3 months ago
@DANGELOSOLD Too many by the ways... The Beatles accomplished more than the Stones have in 10 years. They aren't THE greatest, but one of the best. The Beatles came back together for a short period around 1994-1995 to make possibly their best tracks yet. The Beatles are also more famous/ infamous...
JohnLennoninmyGuitar 3 months ago
@DANGELOSOLD by the way the beatles are the most sold act in musical history.by the way the beatles are no.1 in rolling stone and vh1's list of 100 greatest artists of all time. the stones are the FOURTH (ha) most sold band after beatles,zeppelin and queen.by the way the beatles wrote the stones' first hit for them(i wanna hold your hand)
so, im sorry but i dont see any possible comparison, the beatles are more succesful even though they had a very small time together.
iiissssbbb 1 month ago
@CrAzyUT00BP00P5 if not for the Beatles opening the door for the rest of the British bands nobody would know who the stones are, now I can understand you have your favorite band but be open minded about the history of music
partyspecialists 6 months ago
@CrAzyUT00BP00P5 and if your such a stones fan go look up their first hit in england it was called I wanna be your man lol lennon and mccartney song
partyspecialists 6 months ago
@CrAzyUT00BP00P5 the beatles are much much much better than the stupid rolling stones they copied every beatle thing
let it be(beatles song early 1969)^^^let it bleed(album late 1969)
its up to you but i am just telling you
zombiewalrus666 6 months ago
@zombiewalrus666 you do know that the beatles and stones were really great friends and planned shit like that for a joke right? And also the musical styles of both albums are completely different.
brandonlace 5 months ago
@brandonlace i know actually they are not bad i was angry
zombiewalrus666 4 months ago
The beatles became a band before the rolling stones and the rolling stones played beatles songs and played around and changed bites and made it there own and they can't be bothered to make anything from scratch .
MsSamian 6 months ago
The beatles are better then the rolling stones in every way but the rolling stones are good .
MsSamian 6 months ago 6
@MsSamian how do you figure the beatles are better then the stones you can't compare the two the beatles were good boys and the stones were bad boys but to each there own just remembers the greatest rock and roll band in the world are the rolling stones
ROCK1910 6 months ago
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The Beatles Wrote The Worst Song Ever…Official
In 2004, a BBC released poll voted Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da the worst song ever. That’s because it is. Although Octopuses’ Garden runs it close…and Hello, Goodbye isn’t exactly the work of genius either.
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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OK, We Give Up
The Beatles lasted about six years, giving us a few good albums and lots of great singles. And then, well, they just gave up because they couldn’t really be bothered anymore. Listen to ‘Let It Be’ and you’ll hear the sound of a band who can’t be bothered.
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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really hate the beatles music but come on ! the stones did more in fourty six years than the beatles in 7
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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By contrast, The Stones helped kick start the musical career of Marianne Faithful and the bands that followed them from the London r n’b scene included The Kinks, The Who and The Yardbirds.
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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They Influenced Who ?
OK, it’s undeniable that The Beatles have been a huge influence on popular music for, well, ever.
However, let’s have a quick look at the bands that followed the Beatles as part of the Merseybeat sound they popularised.
Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Searchers, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas and The Swinging Blue Jeans. Rubbish, one and all.
Not to mention the fact that they helped kick start the musical career of Cilla Black.
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
That George Martin Was Good, Wasn’t He
Let’s face it. Lennon and McCartney were good with a melody, but certainly weren’t the musical geniuses everyone thinks.
A large percentage of the arrangements and innovative instrumentation was down to their producer, George Martin.
Strip away a lot of that stuff and many of the songs don’t stand up anywhere near as well as the best of The Stones.
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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Where Did They Hide The Good Albums
The Stones recorded ‘Beggars Banquet’, ‘Sticky Fingers’, ‘Exile on Main Street’, ‘Goats Head Soup’ in succession.
The Beatles made only one really consistent album – ‘Sargeant Peppers..’. The rest were pretty ropey (Let It Be, The White Album, Revolver…some good, some bad on all).
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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Self-Indulgent Rubbish
While The Stones are responsible for the execrable ‘Satanic Majesties Request’, there is nowhere near the level of self-indulgent rubbish as that churned out by The Beatles.
‘The White Album’, for example, is four good songs plus an hour of tiresome half-written rubbish, like ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road’.
Is this really the work of the best band in the world ever? Nope…it’s just rubbish from a bunch of self-indulgent millionaires.
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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The Novelty Songs
When you’re five or six years old, ‘Yellow Submarine’, ‘When I’m Sixty Four’, ‘Here Comes The Sun’ and the like are fantastic songs. In pretty much the same way as ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ is fantastic poetry.
The fact is, though, that The Beatles novelty songs are, frankly, embarrassing. They’re generally awful music hall pastiche with – in far too many cases – the tone deaf Ringo singing.
The Stones avoided this trap and thank God for that.
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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The Drummer
Ringo Starr is an amiable, likeable scouser. Unfortunately, what he is not is a good drummer. In fact, he wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles.
I’ve heard all the revisionist nonsense about Ringo’s abilities over the last few years, but that’s all it is: nonsense.
By contrast, Charlie Watts is a fantastic drummer. His minimalist style in The Rolling Stones often hides his natural jazz style, but what he does in the Stones is always, always perfect.
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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From I Can’t Get No Satisfaction :
“When I’m watchin’ my TV
And a man comes on to tell me
How white my shirts can be
But he can’t be a man ’cause he doesn’t smoke
The same cigarrettes as me”
Lots more great
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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By contrast, The Rolling Stones were pretty accomplished lyricists. Here’s a few excerpts:
From Salt of The Earth :
“Raise your glass to the hard working people
Let’s drink to the uncounted heads
Let’s think of the wavering millions
Who need leaders but get gamblers instead”
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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From Strawberry Fields Forever:
“No one I think is in my tree,
I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can’t you know tune in.
But it’s all right.
That is I think it’s not too bad. “
There’s much worse than this
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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The Lyrics
The one thing that rarely gets mentioned about The Beatles is their lyrics. This is because, with only one or two exceptions, they are awful.
Here’s a few excerpts:
From Hello, Goodbye:
“You say goodbye and I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t know why you say goodbye when I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t why you say goodbye when I say hello.”
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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The Wives and Girlfriends
The Beatles wives were partly responsible for their breakup. The Stones kinda shared and shared alike (Anita Pallenberg and all).
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
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The Stones looked cooler
What’s this got to do with music? Everything. Keith and Mick were just cool – McCartney was a lovable, cheeky Scouser and Ringo was even worse.
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
rolling stones #1
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
@lennon2starkey7 the stones are amazing
beatles SUCK ! beatles members wouldnt have went to great stones concerts more like
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
JEALOUS beatles Fans thats the problem
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
@FormelyKaT guys the beatles gave the stones a second hit no first come on chuck berry was their first
Prestonpiemincher 6 months ago
@clague52 They did, sorta. The Beatles hooked`m up with a record company and wrote I Wanna Be Your Man and gave it to them, along with another song later on.
MrGlassoniongirl 6 months ago
Nice job. That's not an easy edit.
With Beatles in mind, I've posted the video, "40 years in 3 minutes", which is a music video containing the Beatles' rooftop performance, historical events over the last 40 years and 8mm film antics from the period, all cut tightly to GET BACK and GLASS ONION. Hope you enjoy!
keetongeer 6 months ago
@thejukesmusic Ahem. What was the record that made the Stones big? Oh yeah, a Beatles cover. Whoopsies
cloclocupcake7 6 months ago
This was quite amusing
greggb777 6 months ago
The Beatles did more the music then the rolling stones ever did. If it wasn't for The Beatles writing the rolling stones first hit, the rolling stones might not have made it.
FormerlyKaT 7 months ago
the Beatles are amazing.
if it weren't for them, the Stones wouldn't have made it,
lennon2starkey7 7 months ago 14
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The Stones 'made it' after their performances on the London rhythm and blues circuit were recognised. Their orginal recorded material is a homage to the greats of blues, rock and roll and rhythm and blues. They didn't need cheesy manufactured pop rubbish and pretty boy looks to 'make it' - they were able to through musical ability and innovation.
thejukesmusic 7 months ago
@thejukesmusic
sigh. pop rubbish? really? was that necessary? the Beatles are and always wll be the greatest band in the world. so y'know what? bugger off thanks. i could care less about what you think sorry
lennon2starkey7 6 months ago
@lennon2starkey7 How?...do explain...
EvilAnticsLive 5 months ago
@EvilAnticsLive
they gave them the song, I wanna be your man, and that's when people started to notice them
lennon2starkey7 5 months ago
@lennon2starkey7 Total bullshit. The Stones were growing in popularity without them. In the above clip the Beatles finally sound like they have balls.
steveconn 4 months ago
@lennon2starkey7 In what way.
xDeadMisfitsx 4 months ago
I gotta say the top comment is retarded, The beatles aren't a contest to the stones why do you think they still play today. beatles are trash and history.
TheSpongebobfan5 7 months ago
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@jillzi7 The Beatles Wrote The Worst Song Ever…Official
In 2004, a BBC released poll voted Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da the worst song ever. That’s because it is. Although Octopuses’ Garden runs it close…and Hello, Goodbye isn’t exactly the work of genius either.
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
@jillzi7 The Stones, of course, are still going. While, admittedly, they haven’t done anything worthwhile in the last twenty years, they continued growing as a band way after The Beatles split and put out great album after great album well into the 1970s and even one (Tattoo You) in the 80s as well.
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
@jillzi7 OK, We Give Up
The Beatles lasted about six years, giving us a few good albums and lots of great singles. And then, well, they just gave up because they couldn’t really be bothered anymore. Listen to ‘Let It Be’ and you’ll hear the sound of a band who can’t be bothered.
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 I really hate the beatles music but come on ! the stones did more in fourty six years than the beatles in 7
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
@jillzi7 By contrast, The Stones helped kick start the musical career of Marianne Faithful and the bands that followed them from the London r n’b scene included The Kinks, The Who and The Yardbirds.
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
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@jillzi7 They Influenced Who ?
OK, it’s undeniable that The Beatles have been a huge influence on popular music for, well, ever.
However, let’s have a quick look at the bands that followed the Beatles as part of the Merseybeat sound they popularised.
Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Searchers, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas and The Swinging Blue Jeans. Rubbish, one and all.
Not to mention the fact that they helped kick start the musical career of Cilla Black.
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
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@jillzi7 That George Martin Was Good, Wasn’t He
Let’s face it. Lennon and McCartney were good with a melody, but certainly weren’t the musical geniuses everyone thinks.
A large percentage of the arrangements and innovative instrumentation was down to their producer, George Martin.
Strip away a lot of that stuff and many of the songs don’t stand up anywhere near as well as the best of The Stones.
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
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@jillzi7 Where Did They Hide The Good Albums
The Stones recorded ‘Beggars Banquet’, ‘Sticky Fingers’, ‘Exile on Main Street’, ‘Goats Head Soup’ in succession.
The Beatles made only one really consistent album – ‘Sargeant Peppers..’. The rest were pretty ropey (Let It Be, The White Album, Revolver…some good, some bad on all).
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
@jillzi7 Self-Indulgent Rubbish
While The Stones are responsible for the execrable ‘Satanic Majesties Request’, there is nowhere near the level of self-indulgent rubbish as that churned out by The Beatles.
‘The White Album’, for example, is four good songs plus an hour of tiresome half-written rubbish, like ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road’.
Is this really the work of the best band in the world ever? Nope…it’s just rubbish from a bunch of self-indulgent millionaires.
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
@jillzi7 The Novelty Songs
When you’re five or six years old, ‘Yellow Submarine’, ‘When I’m Sixty Four’, ‘Here Comes The Sun’ and the like are fantastic songs. In pretty much the same way as ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ is fantastic poetry.
The fact is, though, that The Beatles novelty songs are, frankly, embarrassing. They’re generally awful music hall pastiche with – in far too many cases – the tone deaf Ringo singing.
The Stones avoided this trap and thank God for that.
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
@jillzi7 The Drummer
Ringo Starr is an amiable, likeable scouser. Unfortunately, what he is not is a good drummer. In fact, he wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles.
I’ve heard all the revisionist nonsense about Ringo’s abilities over the last few years, but that’s all it is: nonsense.
By contrast, Charlie Watts is a fantastic drummer. His minimalist style in The Rolling Stones often hides his natural jazz style, but what he does in the Stones is always, always perfect.
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
@jillzi7 From I Can’t Get No Satisfaction :
“When I’m watchin’ my TV
And a man comes on to tell me
How white my shirts can be
But he can’t be a man ’cause he doesn’t smoke
The same cigarrettes as me”
Lots more great
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
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@jillzi7 By contrast, The Rolling Stones were pretty accomplished lyricists. Here’s a few excerpts:
From Salt of The Earth :
“Raise your glass to the hard working people
Let’s drink to the uncounted heads
Let’s think of the wavering millions
Who need leaders but get gamblers instead”
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
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@jillzi7 From Strawberry Fields Forever:
“No one I think is in my tree,
I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can’t you know tune in.
But it’s all right.
That is I think it’s not too bad. “
There’s much worse than this
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
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@jillzi7 The Lyrics
The one thing that rarely gets mentioned about The Beatles is their lyrics. This is because, with only one or two exceptions, they are awful.
Here’s a few excerpts:
From Hello, Goodbye:
“You say goodbye and I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t know why you say goodbye when I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t why you say goodbye when I say hello.”
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
@jillzi7 The Wives and Girlfriends
The Beatles wives were partly responsible for their breakup. The Stones kinda shared and shared alike (Anita Pallenberg and all).
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
@jillzi7 The Stones looked cooler
What’s this got to do with music? Everything. Keith and Mick were just cool – McCartney was a lovable, cheeky Scouser and Ringo was even worse.
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
@meatloaf982 man of many bullshite words
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
@GibsonLord1 no blues no stones or beatles
Prestonpiemincher 7 months ago
arrrhg come on who talks about a winner... Fack of and listen the music i like both, great bands and they are friends... That's what music is all about...
ConservativeDK 7 months ago
blasphemy having Metallica sing something as ridiculous and cheesy as Ricky Martin...lol
jillzi7 7 months ago
This sucks la cola
sirwolfgang 8 months ago
lol I love this
toocheaptobuyatripod 8 months ago
Well done.
YngwieWhodat 8 months ago
Wow, hellterskelher literately spammed this comment section with beatles sucks comments...We get it blah blah blah. Such comparison on both is utter bullshit anyway especially when the stones and the beatles collaborated with each other and they were friends to begin with.
Yayo015 8 months ago
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@GibsonLord1 The Beatles Wrote The Worst Song Ever…Official
In 2004, a BBC released poll voted Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da the worst song ever. That’s because it is. Although Octopuses’ Garden runs it close…and Hello, Goodbye isn’t exactly the work of genius either.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
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@OlaNaTungee6 The Beatles Wrote The Worst Song Ever…Official
In 2004, a BBC released poll voted Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da the worst song ever. That’s because it is. Although Octopuses’ Garden runs it close…and Hello, Goodbye isn’t exactly the work of genius either.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 The Stones, of course, are still going. While, admittedly, they haven’t done anything worthwhile in the last twenty years, they continued growing as a band way after The Beatles split and put out great album after great album well into the 1970s and even one (Tattoo You) in the 80s as well.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@hellterskelher Did your mom forgot to feed you again?
Yayo015 8 months ago
@hellterskelher ...were you aware that the Beatles had to show the Stones how to write a damn song..the Beatles wrote the Stones' first song..was called 'wanna be your man'..and yeah the Beatles broke up long ago, but their songs stand up to the test of time far better than the Stones..dont get me wrong, i enjoy some Stones too..but hands down, the Beatles own the title of THE best rock and roll band ever
jillzi7 7 months ago
@jillzi7 : Unless you are a 'pop' music junkie who thinks that poppycock like 'Maroon 5' or 'The Fray' is Rock music, would you make a statement like "The Beatles own the title of The best Rock and Roll band ever." Come on bro., seriously, it only takes a few objective listens to any of the vast array of Stones' repertoire to realize that the Rolling Stones are the epitome of Rock and Roll!
Lunatic4Bizcas 7 months ago
@Lunatic4Bizcas STONES ARE GREAT,,BEATLES ARE BETTER...MY OPINION, YOU DONT HAVE TO AGREE,,BY THE WAY, MAROON 5 AND THE FRAY OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT ARE RIDICULOUS JOKES..NICE TO HEAR FROM SOMEONE WITH SOME PASSION ABOUT GOOD MUSIC..THANKS
jillzi7 7 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 OK, We Give Up
The Beatles lasted about six years, giving us a few good albums and lots of great singles. And then, well, they just gave up because they couldn’t really be bothered anymore. Listen to ‘Let It Be’ and you’ll hear the sound of a band who can’t be bothered.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 By contrast, The Stones helped kick start the musical career of Marianne Faithful and the bands that followed them from the London r n’b scene included The Kinks, The Who and The Yardbirds.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 They Influenced Who ?
OK, it’s undeniable that The Beatles have been a huge influence on popular music for, well, ever.
However, let’s have a quick look at the bands that followed the Beatles as part of the Merseybeat sound they popularised.
Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Searchers, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas and The Swinging Blue Jeans. Rubbish, one and all.
Not to mention the fact that they helped kick start the musical career of Cilla Black.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 In The Studio…No One Can Hear You Scream
The Beatles may have been a fairly good live band, but they threw a strop somewhere around 1965 because the screaming was too loud and they couldn’t hear themselves properly.
The Stones would have just bought bigger amps. Let’s face it, from the footage available, it’s clear that The Beatles weren’t anywhere near in the Stones league as a live band. The Stones were, probably even still are, the greatest live act in rock n’ roll.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 The Stones, however, always had an authentic touch when playing differing styles of music as their career developed. They could do blues, country (‘Wild Horses’, etc.), reggae, rock…everything they did sounded right. Largely because Keith Richards just has a natural affinity for music in a way that McCartney and Lennon didn’t.
The Beatles, by contrast, just played pop music and, um, music hall.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 The Stones were little more than a derivative blues band, while The Beatles were innovators.
The thing is, at the outset of both bands career, both were little more than copyists. The Beatles just played the latest pop hits (Twist and Shout, etc.) while The Stones played the blues.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
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@OlaNaTungee6 That George Martin Was Good, Wasn’t He
Let’s face it. Lennon and McCartney were good with a melody, but certainly weren’t the musical geniuses everyone thinks.
A large percentage of the arrangements and innovative instrumentation was down to their producer, George Martin.
Strip away a lot of that stuff and many of the songs don’t stand up anywhere near as well as the best of The Stones.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 Where Did They Hide The Good Albums
The Stones recorded ‘Beggars Banquet’, ‘Sticky Fingers’, ‘Exile on Main Street’, ‘Goats Head Soup’ in succession.
The Beatles made only one really consistent album – ‘Sargeant Peppers..’. The rest were pretty ropey (Let It Be, The White Album, Revolver…some good, some bad on all).
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 Self-Indulgent Rubbish
While The Stones are responsible for the execrable ‘Satanic Majesties Request’, there is nowhere near the level of self-indulgent rubbish as that churned out by The Beatles.
‘The White Album’, for example, is four good songs plus an hour of tiresome half-written rubbish, like ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road’.
Is this really the work of the best band in the world ever? Nope…it’s just rubbish from a bunch of self-indulgent millionaires.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 what the stones did in 49 is alot more than beatles ever did
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@GibsonLord The Novelty Songs
When you’re five or six years old, ‘Yellow Submarine’, ‘When I’m Sixty Four’, ‘Here Comes The Sun’ and the like are fantastic songs. In pretty much the same way as ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ is fantastic poetry.
The fact is, though, that The Beatles novelty songs are, frankly, embarrassing. They’re generally awful music hall pastiche with – in far too many cases – the tone deaf Ringo singing.
The Stones avoided this trap and thank God for that.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@GibsonLord The Drummer
Ringo Starr is an amiable, likeable scouser. Unfortunately, what he is not is a good drummer. In fact, he wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles.
I’ve heard all the revisionist nonsense about Ringo’s abilities over the last few years, but that’s all it is: nonsense.
By contrast, Charlie Watts is a fantastic drummer. His minimalist style in The Rolling Stones often hides his natural jazz style, but what he does in the Stones is always, always perfect.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@GibsonLord From I Can’t Get No Satisfaction :
“When I’m watchin’ my TV
And a man comes on to tell me
How white my shirts can be
But he can’t be a man ’cause he doesn’t smoke
The same cigarrettes as me”
Lots more great
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@GibsonLord By contrast, The Rolling Stones were pretty accomplished lyricists. Here’s a few excerpts:
From Salt of The Earth :
“Raise your glass to the hard working people
Let’s drink to the uncounted heads
Let’s think of the wavering millions
Who need leaders but get gamblers instead”
hellterskelher 8 months ago
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@GibsonLord From Strawberry Fields Forever:
“No one I think is in my tree,
I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can’t you know tune in.
But it’s all right.
That is I think it’s not too bad. “
There’s much worse than this
hellterskelher 8 months ago
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@GibsonLord The Lyrics
The one thing that rarely gets mentioned about The Beatles is their lyrics. This is because, with only one or two exceptions, they are awful.
Here’s a few excerpts:
From Hello, Goodbye:
“You say goodbye and I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t know why you say goodbye when I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t why you say goodbye when I say hello.”
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@GibsonLord The Wives and Girlfriends
The Beatles wives were partly responsible for their breakup. The Stones kinda shared and shared alike (Anita Pallenberg and all).
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@GibsonLord The Stones looked cooler
What’s this got to do with music? Everything. Keith and Mick were just cool – McCartney was a lovable, cheeky Scouser and Ringo was even worse.
hellterskelher 8 months ago
@GibsonLord yeah AND ITS THE STONES WHO ARE BETTER WITH LYRICS CONCERTS ALBUMS AND DEFO SONGS
hellterskelher 8 months ago
i really love the stones' music but come on! the beatles did more in six years than the stones in 49...
OlaNaTungee6 9 months ago 27
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technically speaking, the rolling stones have toured and recorded consistently for those past 49 years. the Beatles entire career almost fell short of a decade ,midway they stop touring and became rich pretentious assholes. good music but as frank zappa said "they were only it it for the money!"
bplumser 8 months ago
@bplumser actually, Mick Jagger once said in an interview that he was only in it for the money
TASLOCO702 8 months ago
@bplumser the beatles split in their glory and didn't become old wizened gaffers!
OlaNaTungee6 8 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 then do you dont meet Stones...sorry...But the true is: Stones is alive!! aaaaallll band for what? 49 years....'n July 13th is the day of the rock...But July 12th is the Stones birthday....o///
seavoyagerful 7 months ago
@OlaNaTungee6 Music is not determined by the amount of people who listen to it, but the way it flows. If it was you had to listen Justin Bieber every day. I love the Stones i love Beatles - Let's fucking enjoy it!
ConservativeDK 6 months ago