Music fan Spin-off: The Kinks vs The Beatles

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I'll start.

I prefer the Kinks, because they've recorded lots of songs about life in London. A lot of their early recordings have good Guitar Riffs, their songs from later on in the sixties have a nice melody to them, and their from "Routemaster Country", which is a fancy Nickname for London, that I've made up.

I like them both, but I prefer the Kinks, they have had some great catchy songs, that you just cant get out of your head...lol. The Beatles have done extremely well for themselves & they seem to be more popular with the younger generation.

oh, hard choice.... but i would also say the kinks. even just for dead end street, tired of waiting, days and waterloo sunset. but they had so many good songs.

Any band who call an album "The Village Green Preservation Society" in an age where nuclear weapons, concrete, supersonic flight, LSD and space exploration were "all the rage" (the "white heat of technology" as one deluded fool put it), simply deserve respect.

But they didn't write "Paperback Writer", so it's a draw.

Love both, but Beatles for me!

Love both, but Beatles for me!

Gonna have to go with the Beatles here... The Kinks are a classic group. They wrote some great stuff and had a big impact on the rock world, but I don't see how you can compare the two, really. Pretty much every Beatles song from Rubber Soul on is perfection. The Beatles did everything... they had no limits, no rules. The shattered all previous views of what was possible in rock music. I mean, if you just look at an album like Revolver... The Beatles would be considered one of the best bands in history of they had only released that one album. Thankfully they released several others just as earth-shattering. No one's melodies are more beautiful, no one pushed the studio technology to its limits more. On any given album, one song might be total gibberish, meaningless wordplay psychedelica, the next gut-wrenchingly personal, followed by some of the best straight forward rock of the era. They did anything and everything. Three singers with completely different yet all magnificient voices, the two best songwriters of the twentieth century as well as another competing for a spot in the top ten... They were not only the biggest band in the world from their first album til their last, they were the biggest band of all time from their first album til their last. They took the world by the hand and led it through one of its greatest cultural revolutions. Note the cover of Revolver vs. that of Disraeli Gears... from the Stones to Cream, every musician in the world brown-nosed The Beatles beyond belief, because there was no doubt in anyone's mind that they were the leaders, they were the force that was propelling this great moment in music and cultural history.

That said, the Kinks kick ass. Still, no comparison.