Beatles or Stones?

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The Beatles played mostly Rock and Roll in their early years. Help! was almost entirely acoustic, pretty much folk music.

Rock and Roll is basically blues music, typically played upbeat. Rock music is what Rock and Roll evolved as, and Rock Bands typically feature guitar, bass, and drums, sometimes keyboards. Technically, that would be the musical arrangement. Rock and Roll almost always features lead and rhythm guitar, bass, and drums...

Rock Music encompasses a pretty wide range of music style. I would consider ELP/Yes/Floyd type music to be progressive rock or fusion - there's a lot of classical influence or jazz influence in their style. Led Zepplin played a shitload of blues and a lot of their music had an Indian/Hindu influence (fusion).

The 50s through 80s had a lot of variety. There was Punk Rock and Disco and Fusion and Rock and Roll and the only two kinds of music: Country & Western.

Very brief, but maybe enough to get the idea across.
 
Before I was around but there was the Big Band Era, the Swing Era...some genres are timeless and unending including classical, jazz, the blues, and rock and roll, although most current rock and roll is being written by bands from my youth. Today's youth has no particular music style calling to them and there has been very little in the way of new ideas from popular musicians lately, and that may be the answer to the question "why isn't today's youth demanding a better world?"

Can't march to a different drummer when they all pound the same monotonous beat.
 
Thanks, Denny and Maris. I think producers have too much training nowadays and that's why they can't put out a good song with both tune and beat. As an untrained listener, I bet I could come up with a whole new classification system for songs, if I spent time classifying about 5000 songs. That generation coming out of WW2 seemed to make great music, using our generation as their young public face. They had a controlled, orderly system to produce hits. But then writers rebelled and went independent.
 
I saw Charlie Daniels Band at UofI in the last 70s. Everyone was wearing cowboy hats, cowboy boots, big belts, etc.

I took my wife to Merilville Indiana to see him 2 or 3 years later. Everyone was wearing collared shirts with undershirts. The band played their usual stuff and had an intermission. After the intermission, they opened the curtains behind the band and there was a gospel choir and the rest of the evening was gospel music. Really good gospel music.

Another kind of fusion ;-)
 
Hmm, ice cream or burritos? Both have their place in my heart.

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"The Beatles are better because more people covered them and they had a good bass player"

:rolleyes:

Basically I don't want to know any of you except the 2 guys who voted for The Stones and the other guy who likes ice cream and burritos.
 
You can't always get what you want. I like Beatles AND burritos AND ice cream.
 
I prefer ice cream (Ben & Jerry's, or homemade) to burritos.

My iPod has about half a dozen Stones songs (to date, Angie, Ruby Tuesday, She's a Rainbow, Gimme Shelter, Sympathy for the Devil, Jumpin' Jack Flash) and I will probably add a few more . I have the entire Beatles remastered CD set uploaded.

It is hard, Maris, to put some things into a specific genre. I have a Classical play list, and another that started as "Rock" but finally got renamed "Rocks and Minerals" - I mean, by no stretch of the imagination are Judy Collins and Pete Seeger "rock". What the hell, it's good music, who cares what the category is?

BTW, here by the Bay the oldies/classic rock stations play lots of Beatles. And every Saturday morning is the weekly 2 hour Beatles special. Does any station have a weekly Rolling Stones special? That is one of their most popular shows?
 
Beatles were always my favorite band but I have really appreciate the Stones lately. So, I would vote Beatles but I do think the Stones are second.
 
crandc said:
I prefer ice cream (Ben & Jerry's, or homemade) to burritos.

My iPod has about half a dozen Stones songs (to date, Angie, Ruby Tuesday, She's a Rainbow, Gimme Shelter, Sympathy for the Devil, Jumpin' Jack Flash)
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Get Street Fighting Man and Stray Cat Blues in there (Was listening to Beggars Banquet this morning) :cool:
 
OddEnormous said:
Get Street Fighting Man and Stray Cat Blues in there (Was listening to Beggars Banquet this morning) :cool:
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Street Fighting Man is too macho. I don't recall Stray Cat Blues, I'll give it a listen. I'd like to add Salt of the Earth, for sure, and Let's Spend the Night Together still makes me giggle (how SHOCKED people were, and it sounds so tame nowadays!). I like their cover of My Girl.
 
I will say that, of the two, the Rolling Stones have the one song I like most: "Paint It Black."
 
Personally I think Led Zeppelin is the greatest band ever, but at Odds request I wont get into that.

I have to say Beatles although I own both bands entire discography. I would get more in depth with my answer but I'm currently serving on a jury at Maricopa County Court House. What ever happened to a "speedy trial"?
 
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