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slowmotion

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The Rolling Stones should've jacket it in years, maybe even decades ago. I saw them twice in 1982. They were ok(ish) then, but not now. Old men prancing around like Mick Jagger and old men smoking while playing guitar, like Richards and Wood, with the ciggie tucked under the guitar strings is so cringe worthy.:stop:

They should have stopped after Beggars Banquet. They've been dreadful ever since (except Mick Taylor's guitar, briefly).
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
They should have stopped after Beggars Banquet. They've been dreadful ever since (except Mick Taylor's guitar, briefly).

I'd go quite a few years later and say Tattoo You was the last 'very good' one. After Beggars Banquet they released Brown Sugar and It's Only Rock and Roll which are/were the first Stones singles I can remember hearing when released. I love both recorded on vinyl tunes, but if they were to perform them now on stage I think they'd sound er, not too good!:rolleyes:
 

slowmotion

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I'd go quite a few years later and say Tattoo You was the last 'very good' one. After Beggars Banquet they released Brown Sugar and It's Only Rock and Roll which are/were the first Stones singles I can remember hearing when released. I love both recorded on vinyl tunes, but if they were to perform them now on stage I think they'd sound er, not too good!:rolleyes:

Sorry, I can't agree. It all went horrible when Keef started getting into Jamaica, a lot of heroin and not a lot else.
 

slowmotion

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And yet he's still here! Didn't he fall out of a tree or something like that?🤔 One day, in his 100's he'll write a book about how to reach 100, not having read the bible every day and never been a never touched alcohol type.:okay:

He fell out of a tree somewhere but he also fell off a ladder in the library of his house, I think. I read his ghosted biography. It was fun for the first hundred or so pages but then the "edgy" tales of guns, groupies and opiates started to grate. He's a teenager that never grew up and he's a pretty crap guitarist ( witness all the records since Beggars Banquet :okay:)
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
I heard on James Whale's Talk Tv show an hour or so ago that Robbie Williams fronted The (former Ian Dury & the) Blockheads, along with Paul McCartney, albeit a few years apart. Robbie Williams maybe, but Paul McCartney?🤔
 
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ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Mmmmy Gggenerationnnn
A man born in 1944 still enthusiasticly singing "I hope I die before I get old"!!! :laugh:
 

Gunk

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Cliff was passed it 40 years ago.
He has no relevance to modern music and gets cross that he doesn’t get air play.
He has a loyal but dwindling fan base, I wish him no ill and hope he is enjoying himself.
But the terrible hair has to go.

He’s only getting air play on the BBC because they reported on his flat being raided by the Police. when his new stuff pops on on R2 it’s completely out of place compared with what else they play.
 

Jameshow

Veteran
He’s only getting air play on the BBC because they reported on his flat being raided by the Police. when his new stuff pops on on R2 it’s completely out of place compared with what else they play.

Not when you listen to Tony Blackburn!!!
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Similarly every married singer singing about first loves and girl friends.
I felt creeped out watching a recording of the aged members of Caravan revisiting Winter Wine...! :whistle:

Old vocalist singing... said:
Bells chime three times, naked dancers enter slowly
Smoky room, scented gloom, audience eating, fat men drinking
Candles burn, a dull red light illuminates the breasts of four young girls
Dancing, prancing, provoking - dreams are always ending far too soon
Life's too short to be sad, wishing things you'll never have...
Maybe I misunderstood what they were getting at there, but... :eek:
 

tyred

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I was an abused child. My mother is a big fan of Cliff so I was often forced to listen to him. xx(

To be fair, Move it, and some of his other early rockabilly type stuff was acceptable but he lost the plot somewhere in the 1960s. Clearly the Beatles had access to better drugs:laugh:
 

Dogtrousers

Kilometre nibbler
It has crossed my mind that "Mistletoe and Wine" putting more emphasis on the pagan, Yuletide, aspects of Chistmas than I would expect from a Christian singer such as Cliff. I wonder whether he should be burnt at the stake for heresy?
 
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