I was a theater kid in high school I think you can guess which band I voted for
Queen or Aerosmith?
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Queen took 3 out of your 5 criteria and you give the edge to Aerosmith? Lol.... Just kidding. I love both, but I voted for Queen.
Growing up in the 70's I listened to both and liked them both a lot. It's a hard comparison as they are very different styles from each other. But I went with Aerosmith because I like their music as a whole better. I guess I'm more of a hard rocker at heart.
Best band is The Who. Better than the Stones. Won't get Fooled Again, Baba O'Riley, Pinball Wizard, Who Are You. and Tommy.
The Stones are INCREDIBLY overrated.
I like them both, have seen Queen live (with Adam Lambert but still was a great show) -I haven't seen Aerosmith live but a cousin who I trust has seen them multiple times and says they just aren't a great live band sadly.
The Stones win.
Not trying to trash Zeppelin there... Houses of the Holy is one of my favorite albums.
The Stones just have more and more consistent output for longer.
Stones is just punk-pop Beatles. Zep changed everything.
The Stones are the greatest rock and rock adjacent band of all time. You can show me every ****** album they've made in the last 40 years, and it doesn't matter. What they did between 1968-1972 contains the DNA for all rock music that came after it. Somewhere in there.
Rock music did not get any better.
Led Zeppelin is amazing. They absolutely ******* rock. In all ways. But the Stones win.
Rock music did not get any better.
Led Zeppelin is amazing. They absolutely ******* rock. In all ways. But the Stones win.
Did they...?
Again, not calling them a bad band or anything.
But plenty of bands were doing the whole hard blues-rock thing before Led Zeppelin took off...
Paul Butterfield
Canned Heat
Clapton/Cream
Fleetwood Mac (the Peter Green version long before Buckingham/Nicks)
Jethro Tull (their first album especially, before they went in more a folk/prog direction)
And of course Hendrix. Page has been consciously imitating Hendrix his whole career.
A few hard rock bands' classic period coincides with Led Zeppelin's classic period (e.g., Deep Purple or Black Sabbath). The Who did the whole "golden-haired rock god" thing way before Plant did.
I know everybody steals old blues riffs, but, my oh my, Zep got sued for it an unusual amount...
http://www.warr.org/zep.html#Thieves
Zep is a great listen to this day. But it's not on the S-tier of the classic rock pantheon.
And by the way, I think the Stones suffered early on for their conscious imitation of the Beatles. It was when they broke out with their distinct, rootsy sound they truly took off with these albums...
Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Joe Walsh at 54 and Prince at 33 pretty much invalidates that list.
As long as we acknowledge The Beatles being a world of their own...
That being said, it's the Stones once they found their own sound.
Not really comparable, imo. If you asked me who I thought had the better ensemble of musically talented musicians I'd say Queen. Better voice, better songwriters, and more adventurous. Aerosmith was more of a straight up rock band with the occasional ballad. They made their name on going for the jugular and going up tempo.
I do have to say Back in the Saddle is probably my favorite song from either group.
I do have to say Back in the Saddle is probably my favorite song from either group.