The Year The Rolling Stones BEAT The Beatles 🥊

Check out why the Rolling Stones' "Beggars Banquet" might just outshine The Beatles' "White Album." Both dropped in the last six weeks of 1968, but only one truly defined the era. In this video, we dive into why the Stones nailed their sound and how they pulled off a better '68 album without even glancing at what the Fab Four were doing. Curious? Hit play to find out how a horse farm in Southern California became the birthplace of rock history.

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[kimgoesthere]

Came for the video, staying for the comments section 🍿🍿

[mccarthyd]

My Dad use to tell me and my brothers growing up...."Boys sometimes the truth hurts" Stones better all the way...have argued this with friends over the years many many times. Rolling Stones were the best of all time and BB was one of their classic albums that would start the greatest run in Music History! Great video....just subbed👍

[robertxbox]

I disagree, I think that while the White Album may not be great because of it's context, it certainly transcends it. When I bang my head to Helter Skelter or dance to Ob-La-Di, I'm not thinking about when the album was produced or what was going on in that moment. A time will come when we forget what the 60s felt like, but those more fundamental emotions will never be alien to us. It's the reason why my dad chose Rocky Racoon as the first song I would hear in my mother's womb. I don't think anything is more "important" than that: creating music that is filled with emotion, whatever that emotion may be. Scrutinizing how it fails to evoke the cynicism of the time period sort of defeats the purpose, especially considering that you can't boil any one chunk of time down to a single feeling.

But regardless, I think that saying the album is completely devoid of that late 60s dissillusionment is kind of disingenuous; as you alluded to most of the John songs (the Revolutions, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Sexy Sadie) have some bite to them, but there's also Back in the USSR and Why Don't We Do it in the Road and Helter Skelter and Piggies and all those. The record tackles some really potent themes, even if they're masked by a bit of camp.

That being said I do prefer Beggar's Banquet lol, No Expectations is too fucking good

[albertosanchez]

my favorite beggars banquet song is "no expectations", it seems that Mick recited Brian's decline in this song.
The best time for rolling stones for me is ...
with Brian Jones and Mick Taylor.
Ron Wood is very good but it arrived when the machine already showed decaying wear

[BoynamedMagnus]

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I just love your The Rolling Stones videos of all off my heart and there`s no other youtuber in the world that have better videos about music, So

[charlessteenburgen]

I like The Beatles but I LOVE THE ROLLING Stones

[michaeldavidson]

I'm Glad to hear someone else understands this.
This was the height of this bad boy band. SOME Girls was great, too.

[jeff]

BEGGARS BANQUET is my favorite Stones album. My favorite Lennon Beatles material is the White Album

[pontush.]

I'm still waiting for Abbey Road vs Let it Bleed, these videos are really addictive.

[tcz]

Imposible. White Album is double and still better.

[fabiogobbato]

It's a shame because the Beatles are always overrated, while the Stones were never rated when they made hits!! STONES FOREVER ❤️🎶

[nygelmiller]

Not only "better than the Beatles" but yours is the first factual review of the Stones, and not just sicophantic (is that how you spell it?) about the Beatles!

[cronggamer]

The White Album is my favorite album, but Beggars is also my favorite Stones album (and one of my favorite albums too). I’m kinda conflicted, but I definitely see the points you’re making.

Beggars is definitely a more concise album, start to finish. A lot of its songs hit harder than many on White, either lyrically, musically or both. Many of the songs felt like a reaction to how the world was going at that time, as well as Let It Bleed I’d say. Even the single off Beggars, “Street Fighting Man, ” talks about the infamous Bloody Monday protest in France.

To be fair, White has some songs like this such as “Revolution 1, ” “Blackbird, ” and “Piggies.” And Beggars does have “Dear Doctor, ” a more jokey song (which I still love). But it did feel like Beggars had a lot more power and meaning behind it than the White Album as a whole.

[eoinmcgrath]

This channel needs more subscribers, im gonna watch every video

[grimtraveller]

2/3
Firstly, its musical style is very much gleaned from the ska music of the West Indies, music that was a forerunner to reggae. In fact, 4 years earlier, the Beatles had been at the vanguard of introducing the music into the UK with that middle 8 break in “I Call Your Name, ” a piece of music that virtually no one has ever picked up on and which is as revolutionary as anything that came from George Harrison’s 12-string on “A Hard Day’s Night” or his sitar, John’s Dylan-esque introspection from “Beatles For Sale” or Paul’s classical stylings on “Yesterday.” Or, for that matter, anything that appeared on “Revolver.” The song “My Boy Lollipop” had actually been a major hit in 1964 and the Beatles picking up on its ska rhythms and incorporating it into a song of theirs was a huge nod to the West Indian community that had been slowly making its presence felt in England. Everyone and their Mother knew about UK bands incorporating their “white-boy” version of the blues into their music, but although the blues was viewed as Black music, it was American black music. The Beatles also helped popularize the Motown sound in the UK. Motown and its various offshoots had been releasing singles in the UK for years and getting nowhere. Once the Beatles said they loved Motown {and backed it up by covering 3 Motown songs on “With The Beatles”}, Motown groups became popular in the UK and started racking up the hits. And so by the time of “Obladi Oblada, ” it wasn’t in any way unusual for the Beatles to mine musical forms from other countries like India and Jamaica and popularize them, or at least expose them to British and American audiences.

“Obladi Oblada” sports a ska-like rhythm and if that were its only virtue, it would still be doing more than a lot of other bands were thinking of doing, although the Hollies had featured a steel drum {very much a West Indian instrument} on their hit “Carrie Anne.” It was an afterthought, their producer getting in a street busker that he’d seen on the streets, to do it. But steel drums rarely went on to turn up in reggae.

Anyway, it’s really the lyrics and the title of the song that really point to the song’s significance. The lyrics are clearly about a Black couple {Desmond and Molly} as anyone growing up in England might tell you, almost every Desmond one meets is Black. There is a connection between the music and the lyric and as such, it is an important piece of social commentary in a country that was going through huge cultural changes in the late ‘60s. It’s taken for granted now, because Black people are so much a part of many major cities in England, but this wasn’t the case in 1968. Indeed, some months before this song was recorded, a member of the Conservative Party {history’s most successful election winning machine}, Enoch Powell, shook a hornet’s nest with his infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech about immigration, and it was at least another 15-20 years before race relations in the UK approached anything close to being able to be spoken of again in even half-civil tones. So McCartney’s song was a courageous pushback against what many English people were openly voicing. He went on to do the same thing the following year in early versions of “Get Back.”

[idanwillenchik]

The Stones will always be second to the Beatles. That's a given!

[jacksonskogg]

you forgot to play all the great songs on the white album also talking about the dark times around, everything you say in this video is wrong

[johnwilliams]

My position on this is the same. My response to many Beatles songs is often one of emotional detachment compared the the visceral reaction to Rolling Stones songs, especially Sympathy for the Devil or Gimme Shelter. I'd take No Expectations over any Beatles song from the White Album But I agree, The Beatles were very clever. The first music of my very own was St, Pepper and the Rolling Stones compilation, Rolled Gold. I played the latter far more and my feelings about the two bands was set at a very young age.

[grimtraveller]

I’ll say this on the two albums. Sympathy For The Devil and Street Fighting Man are two of the greatest songs written and recorded by anyone, anywhere. Jagger and Richards in their best work in the ‘60s, stand up easily with the best that Lennon, McCartney and Harrison came up with. But there is one dept that the Beatles always had the Stones beat in – not their quantity {although they did beat them there}, but in the quality of their quantity. Having 3 superb writers bred its own competition within the Beatles and the Stones only had Mick and Keith {although I love Bill’s “In Another Land.”}. So there was always a somewhat unfair advantage in the Beatles’ favour. Which is why I don’t think of the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks and the Who as competing against each other for some imaginary coveted position at the top of the tree of some mythical league table; rather, I see all of the artists of the ‘60s adding incrementally to what was going on. Some added a lot more than others but were no less important to the overall picture.

[Scotttyist]

For me The White Album is like a trial run for each individual Beatle's solo career. You can hear the styles they would adopt when they went their own ways IMHO.