Willie Simpson

Tag: Battle of the Bands

Battle of the Bands, Part 4, Beatles & Stones, For No One vs. She Smiled Sweetly

I love these two songs. It’s practically a crime to have the two fight for glory, but fight they must. “For No One,” from Revolver, is one of Paul McCartney’s most brilliant break up songs, and “She Smiled Sweetly,” from Between the Buttons is perhaps Mick and Keith’s most beautiful and mature love song. Let’s…

March 27, 2012
Battle of the Bands, Part 2, Beats & Stones, Day Tripper vs. Satisfaction

Welcome to part 2 of the epic slug-fest between Britain’s greatest musical exports, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Part 1 was a close contest, in which we found the Beatles barely squeaking by in a battle as to who could rock “I Wanna Be Your Man,” more proficiently. That was just kid stuff however,…

March 23, 2012
Battle of the Bands, Part 1, The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones, I Wanna Be Your Man

I was sitting around my new apartment, feeling kind of directionless and antsy, when a genius idea struck my temple. Get this, you take bands, and you pit them in some sort of competition, almost like a battle. Then, after all the notes are sung, and the riffs are all licked, you determine a winner,…

March 22, 2012