10 Reasons Why The Rolling Stones Were Better Than The Beatles (lyrics, pop)

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea · 12-08-2013, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

4. Songs about sex , drugs , deprevation , heartache , rejection , revenge & decadence are better than kiddie love songs & mystical bollocks.
Beatles - Wrote chart friendly pop songs & ballads. Stones wrote gritty hard rock songs

This attitude always bugged me. It's actually a form of snobbery ("Ewww, I don't want to listen to any pop music. Make me gag!"). What's wrong with pop songs and ballads? Are you just too cool to enjoy something happy sounding?

Coolness is lame, and it isn't even really very cool. It tells me you're interested only in being dispassionate and repressing any emotion about happiness or contentment.

I don't mind the Stones, but I've noticed this streak in a lot of their fans, and have called them "Rock 'n Roll snobs" at times.

Writing songs about the full range of human emotions - the happy ones as well as the sad and mad ones - is a strength, not a weakness IMO.

The Batlord · 12-09-2013, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea

This attitude always bugged me. It's actually a form of snobbery ("Ewww, I don't want to listen to any pop music. Make me gag!"). What's wrong with pop songs and ballads? Are you just too cool to enjoy something happy sounding?

Coolness is lame, and it isn't even really very cool. It tells me you're interested only in being dispassionate and repressing any emotion about happiness or contentment.

I don't mind the Stones, but I've noticed this streak in a lot of their fans, and have called them "Rock 'n Roll snobs" at times.

Writing songs about the full range of human emotions - the happy ones as well as the sad and mad ones - is a strength, not a weakness IMO.

You know this was a tongue-in-cheek thread right? I'm pretty sure he just wanted to goad Beatles fans.