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from my experience talking about this topic americans percentage wise prefer the stones and europeans (w/o uk) the beatles as their favorite. maybe i just asked too few people. please let me know your continent with your decisions.
it might have been the pop influence, that degraded brains in europe .
i'm european, but i definitely prefer the stones and i am only able to list to a very few beatles songs.
I'm pretty sure most of the posters here put the Stones a bit above the Beatles, regardless of country
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from my experience talking about this topic americans percentage wise prefer the stones and europeans (w/o uk) the beatles as their favorite. maybe i just asked too few people. please let me know your continent with your decisions.
it might have been the pop influence, that degraded brains in europe .
i'm european, but i definitely prefer the stones and i am only able to list to a very few beatles songs.
I'm pretty sure most of the posters here put the Stones a bit above the Beatles, regardless of country
And outside this forum and other spheres of die-hard Rolling Stones, The Beatles would be preferred regardless the country....
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from my experience talking about this topic americans percentage wise prefer the stones and europeans (w/o uk) the beatles as their favorite. maybe i just asked too few people. please let me know your continent with your decisions.
it might have been the pop influence, that degraded brains in europe .
i'm european, but i definitely prefer the stones and i am only able to list to a very few beatles songs.
I'm pretty sure most of the posters here put the Stones a bit above the Beatles, regardless of country
And outside this forum and other spheres of die-hard Rolling Stones, The Beatles would be preferred regardless the country....
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My sentiments exactly
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from my experience talking about this topic americans percentage wise prefer the stones and europeans (w/o uk) the beatles as their favorite. maybe i just asked too few people. please let me know your continent with your decisions.
it might have been the pop influence, that degraded brains in europe .
i'm european, but i definitely prefer the stones and i am only able to list to a very few beatles songs.
I'm pretty sure most of the posters here put the Stones a bit above the Beatles, regardless of country
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from my experience talking about this topic americans percentage wise prefer the stones and europeans (w/o uk) the beatles as their favorite. maybe i just asked too few people. please let me know your continent with your decisions.
it might have been the pop influence, that degraded brains in europe .
i'm european, but i definitely prefer the stones and i am only able to list to a very few beatles songs.
I'm pretty sure most of the posters here put the Stones a bit above the Beatles, regardless of country
Of course that's true on this Forum. Stones fans are in that group of people worldwide that like blues-based rock groups - the biggest are the Stones, Led Zeppelin, and AC/DC. However, the rest of the "general public" worldwide would probably prefer more pop-oriented acts like the Beatles, Abba and Madonna. My wife and her friends probably can't name more than one or two Zep or Stones tracks, but they know most of the Beatles and Abba's hits.
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from my experience talking about this topic americans percentage wise prefer the stones and europeans (w/o uk) the beatles as their favorite. maybe i just asked too few people. please let me know your continent with your decisions.
it might have been the pop influence, that degraded brains in europe .
i'm european, but i definitely prefer the stones and i am only able to list to a very few beatles songs.
I'm pretty sure most of the posters here put the Stones a bit above the Beatles, regardless of country
And outside this forum and other spheres of die-hard Rolling Stones, The Beatles would be preferred regardless the country....
- Doxa
My sentiments exactly
Probably Spice Girls as well....
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from my experience talking about this topic americans percentage wise prefer the stones and europeans (w/o uk) the beatles as their favorite. maybe i just asked too few people. please let me know your continent with your decisions.
it might have been the pop influence, that degraded brains in europe .
i'm european, but i definitely prefer the stones and i am only able to list to a very few beatles songs.
I'm pretty sure most of the posters here put the Stones a bit above the Beatles, regardless of country
And outside this forum and other spheres of die-hard Rolling Stones, The Beatles would be preferred regardless the country....
- Doxa
My sentiments exactly
Probably Spice Girls as well....
Still both bands will stand the test of time.
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from my experience talking about this topic americans percentage wise prefer the stones and europeans (w/o uk) the beatles as their favorite. maybe i just asked too few people. please let me know your continent with your decisions.
it might have been the pop influence, that degraded brains in europe .
i'm european, but i definitely prefer the stones and i am only able to list to a very few beatles songs.
I'm pretty sure most of the posters here put the Stones a bit above the Beatles, regardless of country
And outside this forum and other spheres of die-hard Rolling Stones, The Beatles would be preferred regardless the country....
- Doxa
My sentiments exactly
Probably Spice Girls as well....
Still both bands will stand the test of time.
Indeed, take any hot acts of the last 20 years who have sold more albums than those two bands and ask if they are remembered and comparable to the hot acts of the day in 30 to fifty years time like those two bands still do today.
Besides, the fundamental question - The Beatles or the Stones? - is one of those idioms that is stick to the cultural consciousness which is much more important and telling than whatever is any personal answer to it. As long as people are asking that question - after 45 years of its actual relevance - tells how huge and important those two bands were and how huge impact they once made to the whole pop world. Like with any good questions - this is a philosopher speaking in me - there is more involved in the very act of asking the very question, than in the accidental and contingent answers to it. The question itself says more than what our answers do.
The fact that popularwise and impactwise The Beatles always have been so much bigger than the Stones, and still The Stones are compared to them 'equally', tells that the 'fundamental question' flatters the Stones (or, if you like, shows how 'big' The Stones also are being the only relevant act to be compared to those big cultural icons who seem to nowadays symbolize anything associated to the mind-blowing decade of musical and youth revolution, the 60's). Even Mick Jagger recognized this once, and said something to the effect that no one can understand what it was trying to compete with the Beatles at the time - they were just so damn big. But the Stones did a damn fine job in that! The only act in the world.
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from my experience talking about this topic americans percentage wise prefer the stones and europeans (w/o uk) the beatles as their favorite. maybe i just asked too few people. please let me know your continent with your decisions.
it might have been the pop influence, that degraded brains in europe .
i'm european, but i definitely prefer the stones and i am only able to list to a very few beatles songs.
I'm pretty sure most of the posters here put the Stones a bit above the Beatles, regardless of country
And outside this forum and other spheres of die-hard Rolling Stones, The Beatles would be preferred regardless the country....
- Doxa
My sentiments exactly
Probably Spice Girls as well....
Still both bands will stand the test of time.
Indeed, take any hot acts of the last 20 years who have sold more albums than those two bands and ask if they are remembered and comparable to the hot acts of the day in 30 to fifty years time like those two bands still do today.
Besides, the fundamental question - The Beatles or the Stones? - is one of those idioms that is stick to the cultural consciousness which is much more important and telling than whatever is any personal answer to it. As long as people are asking that question - after 45 years of its actual relevance - tells how huge and important those two bands were and how huge impact they once made to the whole pop world. Like with any good questions - this is a philosopher speaking in me - there is more involved in the very act of asking the very question, than in the accidental and contingent answers to it. The question itself says more than what our answers do.
The fact that popularwise and impactwise The Beatles always have been so much bigger than the Stones, and still The Stones are compared to them 'equally', tells that the 'fundamental question' flatters the Stones (or, if you like, shows how 'big' The Stones also are being the only relevant act to be compared to those big cultural icons who seem to nowadays symbolize anything associated to the mind-blowing decade of musical and youth revolution, the 60's). Even Mick Jagger recognized this once, and said something to the effect that no one can understand what it was trying to compete with the Beatles at the time - they were just so damn big. But the Stones did a damn fine job in that! The only act in the world.
- Doxa
I totally agree Doxa, and besides you voice the dominating mood of the sixties quite well! It was all Beatles and Stones, they were usually both mentioned in one sentence. The two of them were simply hors catégorie. Far behind them there were 'the other bands'.
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from my experience talking about this topic americans percentage wise prefer the stones and europeans (w/o uk) the beatles as their favorite. maybe i just asked too few people. please let me know your continent with your decisions.
it might have been the pop influence, that degraded brains in europe .
i'm european, but i definitely prefer the stones and i am only able to list to a very few beatles songs.
I'm pretty sure most of the posters here put the Stones a bit above the Beatles, regardless of country
And outside this forum and other spheres of die-hard Rolling Stones, The Beatles would be preferred regardless the country....
- Doxa
My sentiments exactly
Probably Spice Girls as well....
Still both bands will stand the test of time.
Indeed, take any hot acts of the last 20 years who have sold more albums than those two bands and ask if they are remembered and comparable to the hot acts of the day in 30 to fifty years time like those two bands still do today.
Besides, the fundamental question - The Beatles or the Stones? - is one of those idioms that is stick to the cultural consciousness which is much more important and telling than whatever is any personal answer to it. As long as people are asking that question - after 45 years of its actual relevance - tells how huge and important those two bands were and how huge impact they once made to the whole pop world. Like with any good questions - this is a philosopher speaking in me - there is more involved in the very act of asking the very question, than in the accidental and contingent answers to it. The question itself says more than what our answers do.
The fact that popularwise and impactwise The Beatles always have been so much bigger than the Stones, and still The Stones are compared to them 'equally', tells that the 'fundamental question' flatters the Stones (or, if you like, shows how 'big' The Stones also are being the only relevant act to be compared to those big cultural icons who seem to nowadays symbolize anything associated to the mind-blowing decade of musical and youth revolution, the 60's). Even Mick Jagger recognized this once, and said something to the effect that no one can understand what it was trying to compete with the Beatles at the time - they were just so damn big. But the Stones did a damn fine job in that! The only act in the world.
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I totally agree Doxa, and besides you voice the dominating mood of the sixties quite well! It was all Beatles and Stones, they were usually both mentioned in one sentence. The two of them were simply hors catégorie. Far behind them there were 'the other bands'.
I love the Beatles!
I love the Stones...more!
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Indeed, take any hot acts of the last 20 years who have sold more albums than those two bands and ask if they are remembered and comparable to the hot acts of the day in 30 to fifty years time like those two bands still do today
Don't think you can compare record sales the last 20 years compare to the 60's and 70's
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You mean new acts of the last 20 years, Doxa?
Or are guys like Prince and Michael Jackson still in?
The two latter will probably keep on selling and be right near the top of people's stream of consciousness, imo.
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It's hard to tell how artists like Jay Z or Kanye West will be remembered.
Personally, I think you're spot on, but this rap thing seemingly goes through thick and thin and stays
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It's hard to tell how artists like Jay Z or Kanye West will be remembered.
Personally, I think you're spot on, but this rap thing seemingly goes through thick and thin and stays
Surely rap culture has shown its lasting power, but I am skeptical that people will talk in 2058 of Kanye West as you and I and do here about the Stones (and taken that we haven't even born yet when the band was the most current thing in the world and made its biggest impact on culture... and we are not even any excentric nerds looking for historical curiosities but following one of the most popular bands still in the world).
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It's hard to tell how artists like Jay Z or Kanye West will be remembered.
Personally, I think you're spot on, but this rap thing seemingly goes through thick and thin and stays
Surely rap culture has shown its lasting power, but I am skeptical that people will talk in 2058 of Kanye West as you and I and do here about the Stones (and taken that we haven't even born yet when the band was the most current thing in the world and made its biggest impact on culture... and we are not even any excentric nerds looking for historical curiosities but following one of the most popular bands still in the world).
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If they still are popular and perform in 45 years, they'll probably still be big acts. I dunno..
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It's hard to tell how artists like Jay Z or Kanye West will be remembered.
Personally, I think you're spot on, but this rap thing seemingly goes through thick and thin and stays
Surely rap culture has shown its lasting power, but I am skeptical that people will talk in 2058 of Kanye West as you and I and do here about the Stones (and taken that we haven't even born yet when the band was the most current thing in the world and made its biggest impact on culture... and we are not even any excentric nerds looking for historical curiosities but following one of the most popular bands still in the world).
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If they still are popular and perform in 45 years, they'll probably still be big acts. I dunno..
Don't see Kanye or Jay Z in same league as the Stones or Beatles anyplace....
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I remember all the Beatles hitsingles. They were all released when I was a teenager.
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I remember all the Beatles hitsingles. They were all released when I was a teenager.
If you were 12 in 1967 that's impossible.
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When the Beatles are involved one doesn't nitpick. Besides I was a teenager before the age of ten. It's a mental thing, you know.
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When the Beatles are involved one doesn't nitpick. Besides I was a teenager before the age of ten. It's a mental thing, you know.
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It's hard to tell how artists like Jay Z or Kanye West will be remembered.
Personally, I think you're spot on, but this rap thing seemingly goes through thick and thin and stays
Surely rap culture has shown its lasting power, but I am skeptical that people will talk in 2058 of Kanye West as you and I and do here about the Stones (and taken that we haven't even born yet when the band was the most current thing in the world and made its biggest impact on culture... and we are not even any excentric nerds looking for historical curiosities but following one of the most popular bands still in the world).
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If they still are popular and perform in 45 years, they'll probably still be big acts. I dunno..
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It's hard to tell how artists like Jay Z or Kanye West will be remembered.
Personally, I think you're spot on, but this rap thing seemingly goes through thick and thin and stays
Surely rap culture has shown its lasting power, but I am skeptical that people will talk in 2058 of Kanye West as you and I and do here about the Stones (and taken that we haven't even born yet when the band was the most current thing in the world and made its biggest impact on culture... and we are not even any excentric nerds looking for historical curiosities but following one of the most popular bands still in the world).
- Doxa
If they still are popular and perform in 45 years, they'll probably still be big acts. I dunno..
Don't see Kanye or Jay Z in same league as the Stones or Beatles anyplace....
Neither do I