Beatles or Stones?

[DaxxKahn]

Beatles but the Stones are good as well

[mrbig1]

I like the Stones as well. My problem with them is that they never grew up. Their music is the same old thing year in and year out. The Beatles did not change with the times they change the time they were in. The Beatles of 64 were not the Beatles of 66. People grow up and change. That's what I love about them. great artist, great song writers. The Stone are good song writer themselves but not on the same level as the Beatles.

[CGM]

This is probably considered heresy, like criticizing God or something, but.. The Beatles had a lot of very popular songs, hence the great songwriter label. But as lyricists I'm not that impressed, there were and are plenty who are better with the words. Lennon was pretty good, Harrison had his moments, just not that many. McCartney when it came to words was and still is pretty banal for the most part. But they had some great melodies and vocal harmonies and lots of catchy tunes.

George Martin doesn't get nearly as much credit as he should for the Beatles musical creativity and instrumentation in later years.