The Beatles or The Rolling Stones??

[Paladin1950]

I love a lot of American bands, but I also love a lot of British bands.
Here's how I would rank the British ones.

1. The Beatles
2. The Rolling Stones
3. The Animals
4. The Dave Clark Five
5. Herman's Hermits
6. Gerry and the Pacemakers
7. The Zombies
8. The Searchers

Never was a fan of Led Zeppelin or The Who. Although I did buy The Who's Live at Leeds album. I don't remember any songs on the album, but I do remember there were copies of contracts and other paperwork. Never saw that included in album before.

 

[Bella]

We all know these two famous rock groups and many of us listened to them when we were younger. Who did you prefer? The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?

So which is your pick between these two?

Apples and oranges. I don't have to choose. I like them both. So there.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Was never into either.

 

[Devi]

Apples and oranges. I don't have to choose. I like them both. So there.

What @Bella said. Not an either-or thing.

 

[sailormann]

We all know these two famous rock groups and many of us listened to them when we were younger. Who did you prefer? The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?

I liked both but considered the Stones better educated and more interesting. Songs like Lady Jane and Sympathy for the Devil had historical references. Also the Stones saw what was wrong with society and complained more in their songs like Mother's Little Helper, Satisfaction, Gimme Shelter, and Heartbreaker. The Beatles early songs were mostly about love and love gone wrong. Later they became transcendental and later still completely vague. I never understood Helter Skelter at all but played the white album to death.

My slight preference was the Stones because I related to them better, but I do think the Beatles had greater impact on rock music as whole than the Stones, perhaps because they broke up before they became irrelevant.

So which is your pick between these two?

I like how you break it down, but isn't it a little like apples and oranges? I admire them both enormously but more as individual musicians than as a group, and for specific songs. And they wrote so many!