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Pete Townshend is another great songwriter, and while the Who might not be up there with the Beatles, they certainly are in the same league as the Stones - some would say a notch above.
Would you say the Who is a notch above? Or are you just trolling?
No trolling from me, just some food for thought. Having been on some Who forums the last year or so, many think they are the greatest - even above the Beatles.
Personally I wouldn't say they're above the Stones overall, but if I were to look at certain songs and/or certain albums individually and make comparisons, Pete Townshend definitely ranks up there as an equal if not better.
The Stones seemed to think the same thing, at least regarding their respective performances in Rock And Roll Circus. "A Quick One" is a brilliant song, brilliantly performed. That said, I think the Stones were too hard on themselves. The Who though...
If .... there would not have been the Rolling Stones ... I would very likely have become a fan of the Who. I have most of their music and they are truly a great band. However, since the Rolling Stones were there (ans still are, lucky me) the Who eventually became second, but well behind the Stones being a unique bunch.
By the way, there is nothing wrong about Who fans thinking their band are the best, so do Beatles fans, U2 fans, Queen fans and so on. Problem for all of them of course is that the Rolling Stones are the greatest of all ...
Don't shoot me ...
I seem to remember my thinking during a certain period in the '60s when I was gradually arriving at fanship with the Rolling Stones that if there was a rival group to the Stones, it was not the Beatles and none of the other mentionned groups or bands and neither the Kinks, but rather the Animals in case. ( And I was one who earlier on started out, still some time yet without my own recordplayer, liking the Beatles better than the Stones, despite certain Stones songs, without yet having become fan of any.)
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To me, the Beatles never made anything as good as Let It Bleed or Sticky Fingers.
Rollingfreak ….. ya cant help but like the boy …….
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Lennon completely stripped everything down and started over for that first Plastic Ono Band album, and never seemed to look back -- at least not until Double Fantasy.
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Compilation album by the artists who inherited BeatleDNA.
20. The Rutles/Cheese and Onions
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To me, the Beatles never made anything as good as Let It Bleed or Sticky Fingers.
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Cheap Trick (a great band) pretty much owes their whole career to the Beatles. That is not meant as a putdown.
Their live version of the whole Sgt. Pepper's album is spot on amazing. To quote Bono, "Even better than the real thing."
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To me, the Beatles never made anything as good as Let It Bleed or Sticky Fingers.
The Stones never made anything as good as SGT PEPPERS or ABBEY ROAD.
The Stones and Beatles never made anything as good as LED ZEPPELIN 2 and PHYSICAL GRAFFITI.
Led Zeppelin, The Stones and Beatles never made anything as good as AC/DC/s POWERAGE and BACK IN BLACK.
AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, the Stones and Beatles never made anything as good as DARK SIDE OF THE MOON and THE WALL.
Mandarins are a small orange. Grapefruit doesn't exist in nature. Bananas, avocado, gooseberry and watermelon are related as they are all berries.
If one can't hear how great some of The Beatles' albums are... there's something wrong with them.