[destroyed your notion of circular time] [i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage]

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I don't know, internets, it's Monday and it took me forever to fall asleep last night even though I was exhausted, and then I had really weird creepy dreams about vampires -- you lie, Gerard Way! They wanted to hurt me! AND YOU WEREN'T IN MY DREAM TO SAVE ME -- and it took me twice as long as it should have to run my errands because I kept doing stupid things like forgetting my wallet and this is about all that I can cope with.

[Poll #1213721]

You can tell me why I'm a bad person for making you choose in the comments, or tell me why you voted how you voted, if you want. No being mean to anybody for their choice, though. I'm too tired to cope with mean.

(For me it's that I don't dislike the Beatles, I respect them and what they did for rock and roll, but I just vastly prefer the Stones. And also dudes I love covering the Stones. Also also, Trompe Le Monde is totally my favorite Pixies album, which has nothing to do with the Stones or the Beatles but I thought I should share.)

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There are 35 comments on this entry. (Reply.)

I can't help it! I heard the Beatles before the Stones, and my preference was already firmly fixed. I also admit to not having heard much of the Stones' music, barring their big hits.

and i fell for the stones before i really knew the beatles, as a very early teenager (my folks listened to a lot of bob dylan and joan baez when i was a kid, very little of anything else), so i think it may just be early imprinting. :)

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If this is the debate, i choose The Stones. You know i don't think this is a fair deathmatch. But, yes, if this is the question, The Stones are the answer.

also thanks for the up! Between that and the Truckers fic that i'm about to read AGAIN this can't be a bad day.

i still owe you "it's all over now baby blue", but i figured for a post about the stones, a soundboard of jason doing "sway" was appropriate.

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we've had this discussion. more than once.

guess what i'm doing today! it involves a mouse and possibly a zefron. *flails*

IF YOU SEE THE ZEFRON BRING HIM HOME FOR SHEP., OKAY?

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It is official "forget you wallet" week? I had a fantastic fiasco yesterday when I left mine in an i-go car yesterday.

at least i just left mine at home -- it was just a lot of extra driving, alas. did you get yours back?

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I'm boycotting yr poll! Truthfully I love early Stones more but the Beatles knew when to split up, that's a skill few bands have. True fact: my mum didn't let us listen to the Stones until we were eleven because she thought they might corrupt our young minds with all that semi-ironic lyrical misogyny etc.

ps i hate the pixies!! i hate the pixies like i hate PAVEMENT¹. actually no that's unfair, i just resent the pixies because i have tried very hard to get into them at various times from age fifteen on and it never worked.

¹ i.e. a LOT.

i think for me it's just that i imprinted on the stones early in my teenage years -- it's not nostalgia, per se, but it's an early influence.

it makes me sad that you hate the pixies (and pavement, too, tbh -- crooked rain crooked rain is such a beloved album to me), but to each their own. if i didn't have an ex who'd hooked me on the pixies when we were in high school, i know i wouldn't love them like i do now.

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I had a really strong Stones phase when I was about twelve and obsessed with my parents' vinyl collection, but it was pretty much limited to their 1960s singles, since we had so many 45s: there's not a song on 'high tide and green grass' I don't love fiercely and completely. Anything after that, though, I barely know exists.

Critically-acclaimed American indie rock of the 90s is my kryptonite! (uh bar sonic youth and sleater-kinney) (and some other bands) (whatever) I've never been able to work out why. One of my best friends tried really hard with the Pixies when we were fifteen or sixteen - made tapes, taught me to plav 'here comes your man' on the guitar, the whole works - but it just wouldn't take. Hopeless case, me.

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I choose neither! Give me Elvis any day!

WRITE-IN FOR ELVIS, CHECK.

the beatles are still winning, alas. :)

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A lot of the Beatles' stuff still sounds brand new to my ears. In fact, my (preteen) niece heard a few of their songs and wanted to know who the new group was, and now she has all of their CDs. I love the Stones, the time I got to see them in concert in the 80s is one of the few times I've loved every second of a concert I've attended, but the sound of any given Stones song is firmly of whatever era the song was written in.

but the sound of any given Stones song is firmly of whatever era the song was written in.

and that's a huge part of their appeal for me. i love early stones for totally different reasons than i love later stones, sometimes i want let it bleed and sometimes i want 12X5 but it's always the stones.

but then again, i imprinted on the stones early early early in my teenaged years and never really imprinted on the beatles at all. so it really may be what you loved first.

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Whereas, you see, for me it was almost neonatal. My dad played Beatles records constantly throughout my childhood to the point that, when I got my first CD player in 1989 and started buying Beatles records, it was really disturbing to realize that I already knew all the words to every song.

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there's worse things that you could be filling your brain with, rocket! :)

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Trust me, I know. I was tested on the tax code last week.

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They're apples and oranges for me. My interest in the Stones is completely separate from my love of the Beatles. But if I had to choose albums to have forever, it'd be the Beatles, hands down. However, Mick Jagger and his underpants had a huge effect on my burgeoning sexuality:) I may have been obsessed with the zipper on Sticky Fingers.

It is also unfair to have to choose a favorite Pixies album:) Doolittle is probably still my favorite, although it's a matter of miniscule degrees:)

and for me, if i had to pick one album from other catalog for ever and ever amen, i wouldn't even think twice before choosing let it bleed, which is one of my top ten best beloved albums of all time and space. :)

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the Rolling Stones are what rock'n'roll is all about. Abd the Beatles can be funa nd quirky and stuff, but they just ain't rock'n'roll. ;) *has a big tongue t-shirt* Also, no songs about cock-sucking rent boys.

:)

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Dude, the Beatles are nice boys. Boys you'd marry. But rock'n'roll is about sex, drugs, and pissing off your parents. Thus the Stones win.

I suggest starting a Kirk-or-Picard fight for your next LJ poll.

I suggest starting a Kirk-or-Picard fight for your next LJ poll.

Well, at least I'll know what side

jkirk comes down on before I even post the poll! *g*

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fact: i love the beatles so much that i sometimes start to cry when i think about them breaking up, even though it all happened before i was born.

i do love the stones a lot -- they fucking rock -- but i have always had a softer spot in my heart for the beatles.

this is a very clear divide, lady! people have OPINIONS on this subject. :)

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Tough poll, min, tough poll. Gun to my head, I would pick the Beatles. I heard both at the same time when I was a kid (my stepdad loves him the classic rock) and there are certain songs of both bands that I love but I feel like the Beatles almost always made good music. There are some Stones albums that are better forgotten. It's a consistency thing for me.

The Believer had an article that posed this same question sometime in 2007. I don't remember when and I don't have my old issues anymore but they explored the gap between the two bands in the 1960s. It was a good read.

this article (http://www.believermag.com/issues/200706/?read=article_mcmillian)! looks interesting, i am looking forward to reading.

i am impressed by how many people have opinions on this subject. best poll i have posted in ages! :)

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I have two words: Gimme Shelter.

let it bleed is one of the perfect albums out there, trufax.

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I have grown into the Stones, I think, which makes me appreciate them more. Being able to listen to them and Dylan and Neil Young and all of my mom's other music without getting cranky and fidgety is probably my favorite thing so far about getting older.

i am also a huge dylan fan, though neil young doesn't do much for me. maybe that should be the next poll! :)

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I seriously can't stand the Stones. I don't like a single one of their songs and pretty much all of the guys in the group creep me out. My MIL loves, loves, LOVES the Stones...so much so that she paid outrageous sums of money to see them in concert in Austin last year. So when we bought her a Zune for Mother's Day I loaded it up with every Stones song I could find before we gave it to her. And then deleted them from my computer, because I felt tainted. *g*

I adore The Beatles though. Me and my husband both, and we've passed that love onto our 18 month old son. He'll run into the room any time he hears one of their songs (Target commercials are very popular around these parts) and just dance his little behind off until it's over.

Okay, that was an easy quiz. :D

it's very simple. the beatles were a great band, no doubt. but see, wild horses > 99.9% of the songs ever written, ergo, stones > beatles.

If I had only heard the records, I would have probably gone with the Beatles for a more varied body of work (although emotionally, the Stones songs I like best are way more powerful to me than the Beatles songs I like best).

But I've seen the footage of both bands onstage throughout the 60s and I've seen and heard Stones bootlegs from the past 45 years, and I've been to five (I know, right?) Stones concerts. And it's no contest.

PS: "Sway"--is it or is it not about Altamont?

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