The Strolling Bones (4) – Start Me Up, Please!

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The arse-crawling over their new album ‘Hackney Diamonds’ has been horrible to witness.

Yes, they once were great. But 1978’s ‘Some Girls’ was their last really great album.

Of course, everything they have put out since then gets the knee-jerk accolade ‘Their best since Some Girls’.

Only thing is, it isn’t. Hackney Diamonds is mostly crap. But cunts are falling over themselves for it. Some – hipsters and millennial cunts – are doing it to appear ‘cool’ and to make out they have a knowledge of real rock ‘n’roll. Others are praising it out of sentimental sympathy, because of the death of Charlie Watts. All that crap,’Awww! Isn’t it great that they are still together?’

Well, no, it isn’t. It’s very sad and almost pathetic to see Mick and Keef still doddering around hoovering up the moolah with the Rolling Stones ‘brand’ when all the other members are either long since departed or dead.

This is a band that really was great and who put the fear of God into the press and the authorities in the 1960s. A reminder of what they once were…

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Nominated by: Norman

102 thoughts on “The Strolling Bones (4) – Start Me Up, Please!”

    • They’ve been an embarrassment for the last 30 years at least.
      The last relevant album they made was Some Girls in 1978.

  2. Fuck me.
    Like it’s going to be Sticky Fingers?!!
    Gerry and the hat tricks.

    The Stones haven’t done anything since the 70s of any merit.

    Bands have a period of creativity that once burnt out…… gone.

    They can try whatever they want, gones gone.

    Sometimes that streak lasts a decade (Bowie)
    Or just a single .

    They can shove Hackney diamonds up their puckered dusty old millionaire arseholes.

    Here’s the stones last decent tune

    https://youtu.be/hic-dnps6MU?si=HVRgagZQrdsJz5kg

    • Agree, MNC. ‘Beggar’s Banquet’ is my favourite. ‘Let it Bleed’ and Sticky Fingers also cool. Many like ‘Exile on Main Street’ but I think it starts a decline despite some strong tracks – “Rock’s Off”, “Sweet Virginia”. Jagger wasn’t really happy with it by all accounts.

      ‘The Last Time’ is a brilliant single.

      Voodoo Lounge is fucking tat.

      I will give the ‘new’ album a miss as I think it is sad.

    • Queen and Zeppelin had a good ten years apiece at the top.

      Others – like the Pistols and Joy Division – burned bright but short.

      And The Smiths were untouchable for the five years they existed. But I think Johnny was right to call time in 1987.

      When the Stones finally do all cark it, I reckon U2 will be the next antique rip off rock attracton. I can easily see that cunt Bonio and his diddymen doddering around at 80 creaking out their ‘classics’.

      • Less Elevation, more Stannah Stairlift, although they are getting that way anyway. People stilk fall over each other to brag about seeing them.

        Who gives a fuck?

  4. I often wonder if they can remember how to play or sing all the music they’ve produced. It is time to give up.
    My favourite album of their’s is the much slated Their Satanic Majesties request.
    A superb foray into psychedelia, I prefer it to their blues rock.

  7. It certainly seems that ego trumps money every time.

    FFS why do they bother?

    I assume it must be sheer boredom.

    After Goats Head Soup I’m not arsed.

  8. Sympathy for the Devil.

    I have never seen them live.
    I think that this tour will be my last chance.

    The Stones ROCK!

    • Don’t bother. They’re too old to perform.

      If they were comedians then perhaps, but they’re live shows are a different type of comedy.

    • Bill Wyman was a nice fella. Helped Mandy Smith with her homework.
      Then passed her along to his mate Gary Glitter.

      • Alright Thomas!👍

        Bill was shagging Mandy Smith when she was 13yrs old.
        Her mam knew.
        Rolling stones knew.

        He’s one of them,
        Whatchacallems?

        A peterfile.

      • Fucking disgusting.
        He was a similar age to you and I when he shagged a 13 year old!
        Utterly appalling; how wasn’t the dirty bastard charged with statutory rape?
        She was nowhere near old enough to give consent.
        Who does he think he is? A Rochdale muzzıfilth?

      • Mandy Smith’s the same age as me Thomas.
        At 13 I was too busy gluesniffing and listening to Diamond Dogs
        Never got into shagging pensioners craze😆

      • Wish Marianne Faithful had fucked me when I was 13.
        I would even have supplied my own Mars bar!

      • That one of RTC’s?
        Don’t remember where I got it from but certainly left an impression.

      • Evening MNC.
        I were 8 in 1967, when Marianne were famous.
        I should have substituted Debbie Harry.
        My era.
        I were 15 when she was in the Stilettos.
        Before Blondie.
        Would have been well up for it!

      • Evening pal 👍

        Another of Ruffs was

        ” well it a opinion of sorts I suppose”

        Think he nicked it from Tony Hancock 😁

        I miss him on here

      • Lyrics from Wyman’s only solo hit ‘Je Suis Un Rock Star’…

        ‘We can go on the hovercraft, across the water.
        They’ll think I’m your dad, and you’re my daughter…’

        As Clinton Baptiste might say.
        ‘I’m getting the word…..’

      • I think he is penning his IsAC memoirs MMCM. He was great at archiving who said what to whom from months before and didn’t mind going against popular opinion. Hope he returns.

    • You know Keef is a great bibliophile and book collector. When he was young he wanted to be a librarian.

  12. I think the truth is they have led such dissipated lives that people marvel that they are still alive. They remind me of the late George Burns who said on his 100th birthday Ïf I had known I would last this long, I would have taken better care of myself¨¨

    They should get that other pair of incontinent old rockers to join the band – Uncle Joe and Mandy (fings can only get bett-arr.

    Biden and Petie in skin tight leather trousers – thereś an image to bring your high tea back!. At least you wouldnt see the shit and piss stains on them.

    They should grow old gracefully. They are older now than Max Jaffa and his Palm Court Orchestra were when they were doing Grand Hotel on the Light Programme.

  13. Dear Mr. Jagger,
    I,m an O.A.P living in a freezing cold and damp flat, any chance you could help me out with a few quid so that I can turn on the central heating?……………
    No, well there’s a surprise.

    • He could at least have visited you and jumped about doing the St. Vitus’ dance to warm the place up.

  14. What is it with these old cunts, can’t be the money. So it’s either a massive ego that needs massaging or the twats have nothing in their lives that satisfies them..!

  15. When I was introduced to the Rolling’s they were the proverbial breath of fresh air, until I realised the only decent stuff they perform was their rendition of old Blues numbers, but made a pig’s ear them, which lead me to prefer the originals. That meant the the burst tyre lipped gyraing Jagger got kicked into touch.

  16. They certainly have flogged the proverbial “dead horse” to death.
    Still, better than 30 years in a coal mine….🌚

  17. Rock and roll bands should die gracefully when they are at the top of their game. Then they can look forward to a nice long retirement in Bermuda drawing off the royalties from their back catalogue.

    The Strolling Bones have been going so long it’s obscene. The first thing Mick and Keef plug in when they enter a studio is their catheter tubes, not their electric guitars.

    Grow old gracefully you geriatric cunts.

  18. The only memorable song of their post 1980s when they turned to stone, was “Start Me Up”, not least because it was used as part of Microsoft’s introduction of Windows 95, its first fully functional GUI operating system.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AJM6HMYjM&ab_channel=CumbrowskiCom

    Best album of theirs that I played to death on my music centre back n the 70s was the seminal “Exile on Main Street.”

    But ever since the mid 80s they’ve been rolling down hill into a river of shite!

    • 100% agree re Exile on Main Street.

      But if I never hear Start Me Up again it won’t be soon enough.

  19. What’s mystified me, is how all the of the remaining Stone have stayed alive this long, after the intake of drugs that’s seen off umpteen groups previously on the long road of pop.

  20. What’s mystified me, is how all the remaining Stone have stayed alive this long, after the intake of drugs that’s seen off umpteen groups previously on the long road of pop.

  22. There is the 27 Club with musicians like Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison so maybe Jagger and co are aiming for the 127 Club.

    • I never liked either of them. Publicity hungry fuckers. Musically they had little to offer me.

    • And the knicker wetting over this ‘last’ Beatles track is unbearable already. It sounds like John Lennon backed by Oasis.

  24. Well I’m going to call out against this cunting. I like the stones but I’m not an avid collector so to speak. I decided to have a listen to hackney diamonds and it’s fucking excellent. Proper music from a proper band . If a new up and coming band had released this album, everyone would be all over it saying how great it is.
    They are pushing 80 and are still rocking it hard as ever. “ Bite my head off” is the bollocks. Try it, you never know.

    • Except for Charlie Watts, of course…mind you, he looked dead 25 years ago! Not enough shagging, presumably.

      • Back in 1990 – during their Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle tour – a bird I was seeing went with me to Maine Road to see them.

        I’ll never forget what she said when she saw Charlie.

        ‘Their drummer looks like Norman Bates’s mother.’

        I spat my beer out laughing.🤣

  25. Old, worn out and long past its best.

    Could be the Rolling Stones, could be Elton Johns ring piece.

    • Evening SV…imagine (or maybe not) the diameter of Reg’s ring after literally decades of furious incorrectl direction activity.
      It must look like the Sarlaac pit and just as dangerous.

      • Paddy Considine is a fine actor👍
        Gary stretch the boxers good in it too.

        Small budget,
        Better film than these multimillion dollar yank films.

        I like the scene when he’s spiked them,

        “You know who I am don’t you?”

        “Yeah. Your the devil”

        In my film top ten👍

      • Ho ho, that bit when they’re high on hallucinogens…I like that bit.
        Looks like one of my Friday nights!

      • You remember when Riber Castle was a wildlife park Chris?

        Spent a lot of happy days there as a kid.

    • A cracking film but a disturbing, powerful and upsetting ending when you see what those bullying cunts did to the lad’s disabled brother. This put the whole plot into context.

      • Evening Paul 👍

        Yeah, it certainly makes you understand his mission and need for revenge.

        Toby kebbel plays a great part as his disabled brother.

    • I remember almost stumbling on that film one night many years ago.

      I’d never heard of it and it came on quite late on a week night.

      I watched for about one minute and became absolutely engrossed thus staying up until well past 2 am.

      One of the best films you will ever see.

  28. Hackney diamonds, what we used to call the broken glass scattered all over the pavements after some thieving cunt had done a car window to nick the stereo or something.. Back in the day of course late 70s early 80s. Had a mate renting a flat in Hackney gave him a parking meter for his birthday.
    Thought the Rolling Stones had kicked the bucket

    • Pity they hadn’t.
      A fatal crash in one of their private jets to Monaco tax haven in 1973 would have been ideal!
      Like Buddy Holly.
      Would’ve done wonders for their legacy.
      Instead they trashed it.
      Narcissistic cunts.

  29. never understood the obsession with music and how it changes people’s lives by the message it conveys, to me its either a nice tune or not but then again I am a fucking philistine of the first water, dont or cant appreciate art or drama and the supposed deeper meanings that the intelligentsia and following sheep perceive in it all. I am a grunt a Knuckledragger culturally dead, fucking brilliant.

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