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08-19-09, 10:09 PM
I'm a Beatles nut. My all-time favorite band is either The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, not sure yet. I like how The Stones have more of a cocky swagger and their songs often delve into the "dirtier" subjects, but it's hard to argue that The Beatles were more talented as a whole and they as a whole made better albums than the Stones did.
I've been a Stones fan for longer, but when I got into the Beatles, I really got into them. My first album was the White Album, which I got back in April for my birthday. I've listened to that album 54 times thru and thru since then. There isn't a Stones album that's come close to that...not even Exile or Sticky Fingers. Those are both great albums, but they don't come close to Abbey Road or The White Album in terms of depth, grandiosity or general harmonic excellence. IMO. Then after the White Album, I got all the Beatles albums from 1965-70 in quick succession....every week for the most part. I've still gotta get their early stuff
Four of my five favorite albums are from the Stones or The Beatles, the last is Pink Floyd, and three of the five are double albums.
The White Album
Abbey Road
Sticky Fingers
Exile On Main Street
The Wall
Some Of My Favorite Beatles songs include:
- You Never Give Me Your Money
- She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
- Let It Be
- In My Life
- A Day In The Life
- I Am The Walrus
- Yer Blues
- Maxwell's Silver Hammer
- Girl
- Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Some Of My Favorite Stones songs include:
- Brown Sugar
- Sister Morphine
- Jigsaw Puzzle
- Moonlight Mile
- Rip This Joint
- Let It Loose
- Star Star (Starfu**er)
- Happy
- Turd On The Run
My favorite Stones Album is Sticky Fingers....although it's not a double album like it's successor was, it's much tighter sounding and easier to process....all the songs have some sort of a dark reference to drugs in them, and the lot of them have some sort of a country/honky tonk influence as well. Exile is great, but it's much more disjointed and cobbled than Sticky Fingers was, and so much of the music is rather hard to decipher...it sounds like Mick was singing into the mic as it was 25 feet away. The vocals are much raspier and more hoarse than on anything else they ever did. Exile does have a much bigger variety in it's music though...everything from fast and hard (Rip This Joint, Rocks Off, Happy) to slow and somber (Let It Loose, Sweet Virginia) and everything in-between.
My favorite Beatles album, as said earlier, is The White Album. It's SO broad and SO encompassing that it takes about 5 listens to really start to understand the whole thing. There are 30 songs (Exile only has 17), mainly because nobody in the group could agree on which songs to put on the final cut, so they all got thrown in! McCartney tries to out-rock The Who with "Helter Skelter" (and succeeds grandly) by making the hardest, nastiest, fastest rock song out there (the Stones didn't come close to this by '68). Lennon is at his most lonely and desperate ever (Yer Blues, I'm So Tired, Julia). The first two are about Yoko and the last is about his mother, whom he never had a good relationship with (listen to Ticket To Ride). Ringo adds in the bouncy "Don't Pass Me By" and Harrison adds the classic "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" to the mix. All in all, 30 classics.
Abbey Road is great as well, but that isn't a double album like The White Album is, and I love double albums, so that's partially why TWA gets my #1 spot. Abbey Road is much more harmonic and flowing though. It feels much more like one band working with it's self than four members working pretty much individually on an album. The side B "Abbey Road Medley" is fantastic though....quite possibly the best thing to ever accompany to ever get slapped on the back side of an record. Ever.
So yeah, what about you? What do you think?
I've been a Stones fan for longer, but when I got into the Beatles, I really got into them. My first album was the White Album, which I got back in April for my birthday. I've listened to that album 54 times thru and thru since then. There isn't a Stones album that's come close to that...not even Exile or Sticky Fingers. Those are both great albums, but they don't come close to Abbey Road or The White Album in terms of depth, grandiosity or general harmonic excellence. IMO. Then after the White Album, I got all the Beatles albums from 1965-70 in quick succession....every week for the most part. I've still gotta get their early stuff
Four of my five favorite albums are from the Stones or The Beatles, the last is Pink Floyd, and three of the five are double albums.
The White Album
Abbey Road
Sticky Fingers
Exile On Main Street
The Wall
Some Of My Favorite Beatles songs include:
- You Never Give Me Your Money
- She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
- Let It Be
- In My Life
- A Day In The Life
- I Am The Walrus
- Yer Blues
- Maxwell's Silver Hammer
- Girl
- Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Some Of My Favorite Stones songs include:
- Brown Sugar
- Sister Morphine
- Jigsaw Puzzle
- Moonlight Mile
- Rip This Joint
- Let It Loose
- Star Star (Starfu**er)
- Happy
- Turd On The Run
My favorite Stones Album is Sticky Fingers....although it's not a double album like it's successor was, it's much tighter sounding and easier to process....all the songs have some sort of a dark reference to drugs in them, and the lot of them have some sort of a country/honky tonk influence as well. Exile is great, but it's much more disjointed and cobbled than Sticky Fingers was, and so much of the music is rather hard to decipher...it sounds like Mick was singing into the mic as it was 25 feet away. The vocals are much raspier and more hoarse than on anything else they ever did. Exile does have a much bigger variety in it's music though...everything from fast and hard (Rip This Joint, Rocks Off, Happy) to slow and somber (Let It Loose, Sweet Virginia) and everything in-between.
My favorite Beatles album, as said earlier, is The White Album. It's SO broad and SO encompassing that it takes about 5 listens to really start to understand the whole thing. There are 30 songs (Exile only has 17), mainly because nobody in the group could agree on which songs to put on the final cut, so they all got thrown in! McCartney tries to out-rock The Who with "Helter Skelter" (and succeeds grandly) by making the hardest, nastiest, fastest rock song out there (the Stones didn't come close to this by '68). Lennon is at his most lonely and desperate ever (Yer Blues, I'm So Tired, Julia). The first two are about Yoko and the last is about his mother, whom he never had a good relationship with (listen to Ticket To Ride). Ringo adds in the bouncy "Don't Pass Me By" and Harrison adds the classic "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" to the mix. All in all, 30 classics.
Abbey Road is great as well, but that isn't a double album like The White Album is, and I love double albums, so that's partially why TWA gets my #1 spot. Abbey Road is much more harmonic and flowing though. It feels much more like one band working with it's self than four members working pretty much individually on an album. The side B "Abbey Road Medley" is fantastic though....quite possibly the best thing to ever accompany to ever get slapped on the back side of an record. Ever.
So yeah, what about you? What do you think?