Originally Posted by
unchainedguitars
The Stones, for me, by a wide margin.
The Who were kinda the Deep Purple of those classic bands (Zep, Stones, Beatles).
The Who were great musicians, but kinda came up short in relation to the others.
Like 1234 mentioned, they weren't physically appealing, and they didn't have the same
caliber of song's as the others (though The Who had awesome tunes, in their own right).
The Stones just seem untouchable.
They were bad boys, effortlessly cool, but such deep songwriters.
"Let it Bleed" still blows my mind, to this day.
There's a looseness to everything they do.
The music is sexy, sometimes dark or serious, but also full of humor.
"Skittles" lent me the Rock 'n roll circus DVD, which i hadn't seen, and i could
not take my eyes off Jagger.
That version of "Sympathy for the devil," the chicks are losing their minds.
I'm thinking, "This guy invented all this shit," in a lot of ways, at least for the bands i
listened to later on.
I love hearing The Who, but i can't watch them.
From Daltrey to Townshend, they just look so goofy.
The Stones, though, sounded exactly like they looked.