Guesting on the soon-to-be-released new Rolling Stones album…
Robert Smith. 
Loads in common. Old blokes with hair and nothing to say.
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Weren’t the Stones the punk equivalent of the 60s?
Neither the Stones or the Cure were punk (Post Punk). Both had something to say and were rebellious in their times.
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Musically both had periods of interest to music fans but in terms of saying something they confined anything interesting to the music press rather than lyrics.
The Cure were persistent rather than rebellious. Decided who they were and largely stuck to it. Kudos for that but definitely not rebellious.
The Stones were never rebellious in any way. Reasonably well off kids playing at being working class. As soon as the establishment attached them they didn’t entrench their position but retreated from it as fast as they could.
While the Stones rebelliousness might have been false and promoted by Loog Oldham, it was what they presented themselves as, rather than a blues or rock band.
Yes, perhaps I should have said rebellious rather than punk as I know neither were punk, though I don’t know the Cure’s music enough to comment further: it was just my thought that perhaps they’re not as chalk and cheese different as the OP’s comment seemed to imply.
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Oh yeah. Absolutely. Musical and performance twins. 
Could have been worse. Might have been Paul Weller. 
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What? That well known late life innovator whose every album sounds like a watered down version of Paul Weller?
How very dare you 
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Does anybody really care about a new Stones Album?
The same old riffs and postures. Wash and repeat.
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Remind me to order a new wig lol
Martin
Bunch of old men snarky about a few other old men….
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I’m thinking, I can’t play anything myself and I’m not remotely creative, that creative people just gotta create, even if it’s not very good. It’s not like a job you’re desperate to retire from. At their peak The Stones were superb.
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Well I can’t speak for all of them but Charlie Watts went to my school, a NW London secondary, and his extended family lived in the next street, and working class, as would have been defined at the time, they most definitely were. I still occasionally hear from his cousin Phil.
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An anecdote, in the early 60s when they were a touring band in a transit they would sometimes turn up on a Sunday PM to have tea with Uncle Pete (who drove the local Corona drinks lorry) and Auntie Winnie (a bit of a local legend was Winn!). Apparently when Winnie passed a few years back all were waiting to enter the crematorium, another old school friend was there, and a limo turned up and out got Charlie, Mick and Keef and wives, and went to the wake afterwards, very respectful, polite and sociable. It’s nice to know stardom has its levellers.
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