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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
Drugs were 'mainstream' even before the beatles , the teddy boys used to swallow uppers & shoot speed in the late 50s early 60s just as much as the punks did in the 70s. Yes you are right , the Beatles did sing about drugs , but they dressed them up with so many metaphores they ended up sounding like childrens nursary rhymes. Just listen to Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds & then go listen to Sister Morphine & tell me which song has the more realistic portrayal of drugs.
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Well if realism is what you're looking for, then yes, the stones win. However, I like the meaning behind the lyrics to be more subtle, at which the beatles were masters, basically sll of their lyrics were a metaphor for something else, which is something I really admire. A lot of the stones' lyrics on the other hand had more more of a hit-you-over-the-head-with-a-blunt-object kind of message. It's incredibly easy to figure out what the stones are singing about, and personally I think it's better to have more subtle lyrics like the beatles, which is why I place them above the stones in that respect, well actually, in every respect. Although, I do love the stones, their riffs and solos are mindblowing, but overall, I think the beatles had more going for them. None of us are right, because we both have very different views of what's good, so it's no wonder that you find the stones better and I prefer the beatles. As well, the beatles wrote about a lot of subjects that were far deeper than "sex and drugs", eleanar rigby, let it be, tons more were about comments on society, huge moments in their personal lives etc, the list goes on and on.