People often ask, 'who do you like the best - the Beatles or the Stones?', to which my reply is always 'the Stones', which is then met (nine times out of 10) with horror or disbelief. But I do. The rock and still do. The Beatles rarely rocked, though they've obviously a canon of great tunes. So that's that.
That rock rivals thing, eh? Why do you have to like one over the other? No one asks if anyone prefers Dylan over Donovan (probably because it's a silly question, but I atually prefer Donovan's accessible folk pop and sinister autumnal feel to Dylan's cheese grater vocals and teeth-jarring harmonicas).
Is it not alright to like two bands the same once you're of a certain age? When you're a teen you always take sides, but you don't have to carry on doing that. Not in public anyway.
So who do you prefer? Flintlock or the Rollers? Duran or Spandau? N'Sync or the Backstreet Boys? Or both?
