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NilsHolgersson
To be fair, in terms of songwriting, and being musical geniuses, I think The Beatles always owned the Stones big time when both bands existed.. and they helped them get started by writing I Wanna Be Your Man for them.
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Rockman
Rolling Stones raw .. ruthless power ...
Mop Tops color by numbers stuff ....
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NilsHolgersson
To be fair, in terms of songwriting, and being musical geniuses, I think The Beatles always owned the Stones big time when both bands existed.. and they helped them get started by writing I Wanna Be Your Man for them.
The Beatles started in 1956,and the Stones in 1962.So you really can’t compare them in 1964.A better comparison would be Beatles1957-1970 and Stones 1962-1978.Quote
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NilsHolgersson
To be fair, in terms of songwriting, and being musical geniuses, I think The Beatles always owned the Stones big time when both bands existed.. and they helped them get started by writing I Wanna Be Your Man for them.
This is true.
I agree, but Lennon and McCartney started writing in 1957.Jagger and Richards not until 1964.A better comparison would be 1964vs1971Quote
ProfessorWolf
both albums are great
however
stones win by quality of there performances
but the beatles had better original songs
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ironbelly
Technically, if you start with England's Newest Hitmakers, then you should put Introducing... The Beatles or Meet The Beatles! for comparison.
Otherwise the pair should be The Rolling Stones vs. Please Please Me.
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Taylor1I agree, but Lennon and McCartney started writing in 1957.Jagger and Richards not until 1964.A better comparison would be 1964vs1971Quote
ProfessorWolf
both albums are great
however
stones win by quality of there performances
but the beatles had better original songs
i guess what the beatles needed that the stones had was a shot of rhythm and bluesQuote
Rockman
In '63 both bands had a crack at an
Arthur Alexander song but Stones win
hands down with You Better Move On .....
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ironbelly
Technically, if you start with England's Newest Hitmakers, then you should put Introducing... The Beatles or Meet The Beatles! for comparison.
Otherwise the pair should be The Rolling Stones vs. Please Please Me.
I'm picking the US albums for the Stones and the UK albums for The Beatles as those are the most popular markets for them commercially.
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JordyLicks96
Just thought I'd start a friendly discussion/debate and pair up every Stones album with its Beatles counterpart. For example, the Stones' first album England's Newest Hitmakers against the Beatles' first album, Please Please Me. Going to go all the way up to the Beatles last album and won't be including the album Yellow Submarine. Will post the next matchup every other day or so. Remember, I am doing this to start a friendly discussion/debate for the holidays!!
So with that, the first matchup!!
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Rockman
The UK albums tower over the US releases ...
More tracks too ...
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Taylor1
7 best Stones albums, The big 4, Tattoo You, and 2 others compare favorably in terms of song writing with the best 7 Beatles albums.The Beatles wrote lots of dreck .Half of the White Album is crap:BungalowBill, Glass Onion, Piggies, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Honey Pie, Revolution 9 Sexy Sadie,,Rocky Raccoon.Sgt Pepper has crap like Benefit of Mr Kite, Good Morning, WhenIm 64, Lovely Rita… There’s plenty of other crappy songs on their other albums like Your Mother Should Know, Run for Your Life, Maxwells Silver Hammer, For You Blue, Good Day Sunshine