The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Music Video)

Like the Beatles.

Don’t care for the song.

 

Haven't listened but found this read engaging

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The Rolling Stones have and always will be the greatest rock and roll band of all time.

Only solidified by the release of “Sweet sounds of heaven” THIS YEAR. I can’t get over how good that song is. Mick’s vocals. Keith’s guitar. Gaga’s vocals. Stevie Wonder’s keys.

Best original song the stones have released since Start me up.

 

The Beatles were before my time, but I admire the respect that they get

 

I won’t argue that the Beatles are a better “band.” Not the best “rock & roll” band. They are pop rock. I give zero shits what any of the billboard records show.

 

It’s hard to fathom now how truly dominant they were in the ‘60s

 

I agreed until I see what I currently happening with Talyor Swift. She's the modern version of it.

 

I recognize your personal qualifiers. There certainly is an argument to be made without such a narrow definition of “Rock and Roll” music, however. There is no band in history that has the quality of songwriting, musicianship, vocal ability, and just overall diversity of songs as The Beatles. It’s not even close imo. The Beatles are the absolute gold standard.

 

As a follow-up to my post above, my examples also leave out The Beatles being on the forefront of music production & recording techniques. The cumulative is just overwhelming imo.

 

To me, it's really impossible to try to compare the Beatles and the Stones, primarily because of difference in longevity. I'm not sure when the 'world's greatest rock and roll band' label was put on the Stones, but I don't think I heard it until a big tour sometime in the early '70s. And they kept going. And going.
The Beatles barely made it into the '70s before breaking up. They didn't play a concert after 1966. Think about that.
It seemed to me that in the '60s, the Stones were huge. But they weren't the Beatles. Everything the Beatles did, everything they released was news. They were the innovators.

 

Amazing band. But they just aren’t real rock and roll, IMO.

 

I think a significant number of music historians would disagree with that opinion. The term “Rock and Roll” wasn’t always so narrowly defined. In fact, The Beatles sound was absolutely considered rock and roll, and at the very forefront of the sound. I can appreciate your opinion on that matter. And, certainly, as music has evolved, and more diversity has been introduced into the system, rock and roll has become more narrowly defined. There are simply more subcategories to place music into now. But, by what I think are historically, widely recognized standards, The Beatles are absolutely rock and roll.
I love these type of debates, though. I would give up exposure to any other mediums of artistic expression in a heartbeat, as long as I could always listen to music.

 

I’m with Bob on this one.

 

Note that was before he heard the stones. He said this about the stones and I couldn’t agree more.

There is little surprise that to Dylan, the Stones are “the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be”.