If the Stones had quit after releasing Let It Bleed > Sticky Fingers > Exile On Main St they would be remembered as being better than The Beatles and it wouldn't even be close.
If the Stones had quit after releasing Let It Bleed > Sticky Fingers > Exile On Main St they would be remembered as being better than The Beatle...
Nah. They are better, but the people who think the Beatles are better wouldn't change their minds if post-Exile Stones never happened. Stones peaked in the 60s anyways. Sticky Fingers and Exile are overrated.
Maybe in terms of comparing their overall discog but I think is right. Beatles would still appeal to the normies who want soft mellow pop ditties while Stones would appeal to the more rocker crowd
The Beatles are usually considered better because they were more innovative (true) and also because the quit before they could decline (also probably true). But I don't think any Beatles albums match LIB-SF-EOMS just in terms of sheer quality. It's better to do one thing extremely well than to make all the filler on The White Album.
The next half century of the Stones killed the genius narrative pretty thoroughly though.
I mean people still compare the freaking Beach Boys to The Beatles and they only really had 2-3 albums that could compare with the rest of their career mostly being basic surf songs
beach boys and stones have a somewhat comparable career trajectory in terms of quality, although the stones early albums were better than the beach boys surf rock stuff and their 70s period was better than the beach boys 70s period. the stones deserve to be compared to the beatles more than the beach boys imo, i think they just get brought up because of the mystique around wilson's schizophrenia and they wanted an american band to compare to the beatles. pet sounds is good and all but 90% of their discog is closer to trash like kokomo and surfin usa
Don't talk trash about Surfin USA
Yeah that's a weird take. Beach Boys had tons of great singles, they just aren't on the Beatles' level overall.
Stones had some mediocre late career stuff after Tattoo You but it never got as bad as the Beach Boys worst
Wrong. The Beach Boys are compared to the Beatles because all their "simple surf songs' Aren't simple at all and have amazing vocal harmonies.
The last time anyone seriously compared the Beatles to the Beach Boys was 1966, that's not a serious position (even if we pretend Kokomo never happened).
Nah, a lot of people really love The Beach Boys. It’s the contrarian choice but once you get past their kind of cringey sound they have four or five amazing records after Pet Sounds.
the beach boys are better than the beatles
Kek no they aren’
This and The Byrds being better than The Beatles are weirdly popular contrarian takes despite being completely untenable.
unironically they are, pet sounds and SMiLE completely destroy any beatles album, and there's many high quality albums of theirs that did not get the attention the beatles had, although they were less consistent as a band
the byrds arent better than the beatles but they did influence the beatles more than the beatles influenced the byrds
>Nah. They are better
Lol, lmao even. Rofl if you will
I’ve honestly come to believe that exile is underrated. I know people sing its praises but the flip side of that is that many people do not give it the time it needs to open itself up to them. It’s not an album you can grasp on first listen.
It has no obvious singles but it's just a super solid album, even as a double album there are no weak tracks. It almost works as a concept album, the sequencing is really good.
>Stones
Singles band
This is true to an extent. Hot Rocks is the best release to ever come from either the Beatles or the Stones.
For me, you can't be the best rock band if you aren't playing live. The Beatles never played any of their best material live while The Stones are the best live band of all time so the choice is simple.
First to break through always most highly rated. Look at Nirvana, probably third or fourth best of the major grunge bands, but still rated #1 because they were first through.
SNL another good example. First batch were objectively dogshit comedians, but tend to be rated best because they were 1st to do late night TV sketch comedy.
Nobody except teenagers and homosexual journalists rank Nirvana #1 you retard.
The majority of people rank Soundgarden and Alice In Chains over them all of the time.
I find it funny how they were already being viewed as a dinosaur band by the mid 70s.
why do they look like hobbits from lotr?
because you have funkco pop brain
They could have stretched it to Goat's Head, or even Tattoo You. Imaging bowing out on Start me up.
kek
>Let It Bleed
actual dogshit album hard-carried by Gimme Shelter and Can't Always get what you want
don't tell me you like "Country Honk"
Every song on that album is a certified organic banger you weird zoomer
Nobody would be remembered as better than the Beatles unless they, too, managed to release 40+ genuinely iconic songs known and loved by any random person on the street from kids to grannies. There are many great bands out there but nobody competes with the Beatles on sheer scale and universal appeal.