BEATLES or STONES strut?
Mr. Casual
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IMHO ... THE BEATLES..I remember as child listening to each album and having a new favorite each month. As the later albums go I felt they told a long story. I would listen front to back, just beautiful songs. a lot of my friends are Stones fans, and I love the Stones as well, but I have always stayed strong to my love of the Beatles. What say you all?
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Don't know why it always has to be one or the other, but if I had to choose.
But to me that's a bit like asking if one prefers Miles Davis over John Coltrane, and I can't get enough of either.
If it's raw Stones you like, these are the two:
Stones LP's of the 60's, not the most "raw."
I see what is meant by raw.
By your definition then, I'd say December's Children.
It depends what you define as raw. Some like the band when Brian Jones was still around, some preferring everything they did before 1967, some hating Their Satanic Majesties Request[/b], others going for what they did during the "Jumping Jack Flash" and Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out[/b] album, some just going for 1971-1978, and then... who knows.
For me, I'd go for:
Got Live If You Want It[/b]
Aftermath[/b]
Their Satanic Majesties Request[/b]
Beggars Banquet[/b]
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out[/b]
Let It Bleed[/b]
Sticky Fingers[/b]
Exile On Main Street[/b]
Goats Head Soup[/b]
Black & Blue[/b]
Some Girls[/b]
Emotional Rescue[/b]
Love You Live[/b]
Comp-wise:
Through The Past Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)[/b]
Hot Rocks[/b]
More Hot Rocks[/b]
Sucking In The Seventies[/b]
Rewind[/b]
If you want to just explore their early (pre-Sticky Fingers[/b]) singles, I would definitely pick up Singles Collection: The London Years[/b], which on vinyl was a 5LP set.
With them, you have to go through a lot of different time periods to enjoy. I think the Singles Collection[/b] is great for the bulk of the early stuff, and as you know, what they did on their singles and what they did for albums were often two different entities, especially as they moved through the late 60's. Then you can pick up Sticky Fingers[/b], which will eventually lead you to Exile On Main Street[/b], originally a double LP and the one that continues to get a lot of praise (as most double albums did back then). Reading on the album's history is enough to take up a few days, but it does live up to the hype and is one hell of an album. Then you can jump around throughout the 70's and 80's, and go from there.
Beatles all the way!!!!!!!!
i'll take em both.
however i think i could listen to the beatles forever and the stones might get old after a bit. beatles stuff is more lush and interesting.
If we're gonna talk about raw Stones, don't sleep on the self-titled first album! Garage-rock goodness, all the way.
Why would you ever listen to a bunch of
Stones singles with crowd noise dubbed on top?
The idea of something being made for the sake of contractual obligation turns me on. I find the process of overdubbing as a means to sell a quality product quite funny, especially when the public thinks it's genuine.
I like it for that reason.
*Trivia: I won a radio contest to see the Rolling Stones in 1989, where I had to guess 10 songs in an audio collage. Just to say that I could, I also spotted the crowd noise during the audio collage as being from Got Live If You Want It[/b], and I put that as my 11th answer. When my name was selected, they called me and the DJ goes "how in the hell did you figure out the crowd noise? Even I didn't know it was that until I read your answer, and out of curiosity I had to see if that's what it was. Even the staff at the radio station were baffled."
I had an answer all planned, but I basically said "in case there was a tie, I wanted that to be the tiebreaker, just in case." What I was going to tell them that I knew what point in the record it was because of the few chords the band was playing before they started to play, and I knew it was that song.
BTW - the crowd effect used was from the intro to "The Last Time".
- spidey
Yes you can!
Then I'll bet you must love Chuck Berry On Stage. Or that B.B. King live album on Kent/United.
Mock albums are great.
Don't blame ya.
Especially when the MC and audience sound 10x more excited than the performer. Those two albums I mentioned above have the greatest stage intros in the history of history - and the guy they were introducing wasn't even in the same room!
I just find them funny. The Moments live album from the black beauty pageant, the crowd sounds on that are a mess. There's also a Three Dog Night one that sounds bothced up too.
Joe Tex's Live & Lively had overdubbed crowd noise too, but at least he knew how to WORK with it. Towards the end of "That's Life," he's going on and on about how he loves it here in Detroit and how he'd let the show go on longer, but the Musicians' Union won't let him!!! And in the meantime, here's this dubbed crowd in a Nashville studio clapping like crazy...
I ride for the Stones ability to live on nothing but coke, booze and VD.