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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Exactly my point. We only had about a half dozen years of music from the Doors and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and if you compare year for year, they're as good as or better than the Stones.
But, the Stones kept it going for a long time, 15-20 years of great music, another 20 of often pretty good music. That's what gets them on the list ahead of, for example, the Doors.
You can also compare the first five years of Grace Slick and The Great Society/Jefferson Airplane to the early years of the Stones; then, of course, the Stones get even better and Airplane does what Airplane did. (Raising the question of the greatest crash and burn in Rock history?)
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Well, I used the 15-20 year time fram because you mentioned that they were only included because they were doing stuff 20 years after their contemporaries had quit. But, take a look at Hot Rocks, the 1964-71 greatest hits record:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...20974?v=glance
(graphic penis splitting photos)
By 1971, they were already a greater band than the Doors would ever be. I watched the Doors movie on Sunday night on Bravo - great music and, relevantly, a flamboyant and iconic rock group worthy of adulation, even scaling back Oliver Stone's hyperbolic rendition. But, not in the same category as the Stones. With the Jimi Hendrix Experience, you have a better argument, but they would have had to kick out some pretty great albums (had Jimi lived) to be in the same league.
