Stones, or Queen

Couldn't agree more.  Still sad I never got to see Freddie perform live. 

No contest, The Rolling Stones--the "World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band".

When you look at the bodies of work, it is literally no contest. When I think of Queen, I think of the stadium music--"We will rock you", "We are the champions", "Another one bites the dust". Good songs, sure, but hardly what I would call great song writing. The Stones wrote some GREAT songs.

Queen, just by a hair, though.  

Saw Freddie and the boys in 1977 and 1986.     Two very different shows that I enjoyed immensely.

Never got to see the Stones.    Alas......

ecozenmama - 2012-06-08 11:29 AM Why must you make me choose???  

I'm not gonna!

DanielG - 2012-06-08 12:32 PM

crowny2 - 2012-06-08 12:26 PM

DanielG - 2012-06-08 10:37 AM No contest, Queen.

Couldn't agree more.  Still sad I never got to see Freddie perform live. 

I did Also John Bonham and Keith Moon. I'm glad I did, too.

Dude, you're old.

I saw Bonham, but none of the other referenced.

x2.  Freddy Mercury was a genius.

Queen would never have existed had the Rolling Stones not been there first.

alltom1, where you been man? Great to hear from you.

Thank you rlysi!

The Rolling Stones are one of the five most influential recording artists of the rock era, behind Elvis, The Beatles, Dylan, and the Velvet Underground.

Queen, by comparison, is a third tier band at best. (Better than Rush, though!)

Music is very personal. If you like Queen, there's nothing wrong with that. I like Queen myself. But a comparison to the Stones is ludicrous.

Want a more objective measure?

If the Stones came out of nowhere, recorded Exile on Main Street, and disappeared, their artistic output would have easily outstripped that of Queen. And nearly every other band of the rock era, for that matter.

But they also released Let it Bleed. and Beggars Banquet. and Sticky Fingers. That's four albums (Nos. 7, 32, 57, and 63) in the first hundred of Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 Albums of All Time. You can find five more Stones albums before you get to the sole Queen album on the list, A Night at the Opera, at #239. Stones have 13 total albums on that list. I would defy most casual fans to name even two Queen albums.

How can Queen even be mentioned in the same breath?

I weep for your blasphemy.

ride_like_u_stole_it - 2012-06-08 7:58 PM This is truth.Read it.

3rd tier.. no way.  But gotta agree with you on Rush.  Never understood the fascination with them.

Each band (even Rush) was revolutionary in their own way and each have influenced many, many bands that have come after them. 

Brilliant.  Nothing else to add.  

Stones still rock but Keith Moon used up his lives years ago. Nor was he ever a Stone. Partied with them I'm sure, but you're probably thinking of the other Keef, Richards. Lot of mileage on that one.