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mickscarey
And the "sugar"songs all suck
Stones easily the best
Care to offer any substantive reasons as to why you think so? Thus far your rhetoric has done little to lend weight to your argument...Quote
mickscarey
Not even close. The Stones!
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skipstone
Ha ha - almost responses. The hilarity is the sugar songs matched by an evil song.
Ticket To Ride...Stupid Girl
Revolution...Jumpin' Jack Flash
Hey Jude...You Can't Always Get What You Want
Taxman...Under My Thumb
With A Little Help From My Friends...Jigsaw Puzzle
Across The Universe...Salt Of The Earth
Lady Madonna...Parachute Woman
I Am The Walrus...Sympathy For The Devil
All You Need Is Love...Midnight Rambler
Hello, Goodbye...Live With Me
The Fool On The Hill...Monkey Man
Magical Mystery Tour...2000 Light Years From Home
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da...Let's Spend The Night Together
Let It Be...Let It Bleed
The Long And Winding Road...Gimme Shelter
While My Guitar Gently Weeps...Street Fighting Man
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squando
This is as no brainer as it gets.
The Beatles influenced a generation (and ergo beyond) in the West and even moved in partially on the East. Music, attitude and fashion along with the way products were marketed and a number of other things - some of which most of us will never fully (or even partially) come to realize. They captivated and changed the world in some very minor ways that some of which inevitably become major.
The Stones changed nothing. Let's face it - they were an advert Oldham conjured. It just so happened that they were able to back up the nothinglessness of the myth/advertising with brilliant music that captured the public to some extent. Granted it was a large public - but to compare it to the Beatles is pointless.
I do not own a crystal ball but it's a fair bet that the name "Beatles" will be kicking around in society as a known in a few hundred years where as the Stones will be playing Salieri to their Mozart.
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Palace Revolution 2000
One thing I was thinking about today; I think no one even comes close to what the Beatles gave to popular music, and their influence. I say this as a diehard Stoner. But I don't agree at all that the Stones really did not give anything besides fashion, attitude and look (which is HUGE in itself).
What I am talking about is how instrumental and vital the Stones were in giving back the US musical history, the tradition, the roots to this very US. I am watching them do "Prodigal Son" and "You Gotta Move" in 69, and it hit me how monumental this was. There is this clichee that it took a bunch of Brits to show the Americans what they were really sitting on, and it's true.
Sure, now everyone is all versed in Robert Johnson, Blind Willie, Muddy and Bo. The Stones carried the word. This can not be taken from them.
I think that wiki quote is referring to the naming of an album after a colour. Those four artists released albums entitled The Black Album, or more commonly known as that.Quote
skipstone
You gotta love the brilliance of wikipedia. For instance, a statement like this: "The Beatles (AKA "The White Album"winking smiley was imitated by Boyd Rice, Prince, Metallica, and Jay-Z,..."
So...having an album be self-titled is imitating The Beatles?