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So 20 years ago The stone Roses stepped out of Manchester
and took the music scene by storm with their brand
of tribal indie rock, the band released their self
titled debut album on the 10th August 1989 and from
the second the album was released everyone was jumping
on The Stone Roses band wagon, everyone was rushing
out and by the album as well as fighting to get
tickets to the bands tour.
After a very long wait The Stone Roses signed
to major label Geffen after a long battle with
their old label Silvertone Records who tried their
best to not allow The Stone Roses to record, work
or even release material with any other label,
this worked for a while but The stone Roses finally
managed to break away from the label to release
their second album ‘The Second Coming’
on Geffen Records in 1994, the album did well
for the band, but after a number of line up changes
The Stone Roses broke up, with front man Ian Brown
now at the top of the world in the indie solo
league with his sixth studio album weeks away
from being released and an massive arena tour
to finish off his year in December.
Now to be honest I have never been a big Stone
Roses fan, in fact I have never really heard many
of the bands tracks, I do remember The Seahorses
the band that John Squire went on to form after
The Stone Roses split and I do remember that their
debut album was fantastic but the band shortly
faded away, so yeah it’s now time for me
to catch up on what people have been banging on
about for the past twenty years.
To mark the 2oth anniversary of The Stone Roses
they have re-released their debut album The Stone
Roses, on the 10th August 2009, which is exactly
20 years on after they originally released the
album, the album has been digitally remastered
and features two CD’s, the first CD is the
digitally remastered version of the original album,
whilst the second CD features many different re-mastered
B sides and non album A sides for the band’s
Silverton singles, now this disc is something
that the average listener is not even going to
bother to listen to but is something that the
hardcore fans will snap up just to add to their
Stone Roses collection.
From listen to the debut release from ‘The
Stone Roses’ the album doesn’t sound
as special as everyone has been banging on about
for years, but if you do rewind 20 years you can
tell that the album was seriously before it’s
time, it’s more than just four guys starting
off the whole Brit pop era, it’s music to
get wasted to and to have the time of your life.
From the opening rumbling soundscapes of ‘I
Wanna Be Adored’ right through to the final
guitar riff and drum beat of ‘I Am The Resurrection’
there is excitement to be had and classic songs
to be listened to that were very much before their
time, some of the highlights on the album for
me has to be the opening groovy bassline of ‘She
Bangs The Drums’, the song then morphs in
a free flowing upbeat song that is just their
waiting to grab you attention, other highlights
are the dark eerie sounding ‘Made Of Stone’
which starts off sounding that they have borrowed
Tony Iommi for the opening part of the song, whilst
Ian Brown shows who’s boss with his vocals
catchy vocals which bright the chorus to life.
It’s easy to say without The Stone Roses
brief stay in the music industry we wouldn’t
have bands such as Oasis, Blur, The Enemy and
even Late Of The Pier so you have to respect The
Stone Roses for doing what they have done and
influencing many different bands and as mentioned
above this release will be snapped up by either
the hardcore fans or the new kids on the block
who missed The Stone Roses first time around and
what to see what all the fuss is about.
4/5
Review by Trigger |
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Ian Brown (vocals)
John Squire (guitar)
Mani (bass)
Reni (drums, vocals) |
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1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs The Drums
3. Waterfall
4. Don't Stop
5. Bye Bye Bad Man
6. Elizabeth My Dear
7. (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister
8. Made Of Stone
9. Shoot You Down
10. This Is The One
11. I Am The Resurrection
12. Fool's Gold (Full Length Version) |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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