Let's face it, they are better than The Beatles. Now I can hear you Teenage Fanclub lovers screaming, but if you take the top 5 stones songs, and best stones album, best stones live show and add together how fucking cool they are. They beat The Beatles. The Stones are visceral, dark, sexy, cool, danceable, stunning. The Beatles may have been more influential or whatver. But let's put 'Yesterday' up against 'Gimme Shelter' and I think we can see that there isn't much of an argument. The Beatles took all the black of their music and all the wore the same gear, the stones kept in in and were the first band to look different. They had better lyrics too, compare 'Sympathy For The Devil' to some twee Paul McCartney shit. Keith Richard was a better guitar player than any of them, Charlie Watts a better drumer and Jagger was a better frontman. Stones are just, better.