The Stone Roses - Released 30 years ago today

axisus

the_jaffa said:

axisus said:

A band I have never knowingly heard. I couldn't name one song of theirs. My perception of them was that they wouldn't interest me. 

And yet you came on a thread all about them just to say that. I’ve never understood this sort of post. 

I don't see the problem. I wasn't actually negative about them, and to be honest I feel that it's an album I should listen to. I was pretty much the same about Oasis during their time (although I did hear some singles). I didn't actually buy an album until years after they had wound up.

I'm now at an age where I think How did I totally miss that band? OK, I agree that my statement didn't actually say that! 

lovestrat74

I usually listen to stuff for the first time 30 years after release so I guess now would be a good time 

StageStruck

Can't deny that there wasn't a few decent songs on this album, but I didn't really get it then (I was 15 at the time) and still don't get the great obsession now

munckee

Weekend has included a loft clear out which turned up my last few vinyls. Only record player is my 14 year old daughters, so gave them to her. She really likes stone roses (proper version no fools gold) and soup dragons love god. 

She quite likes the jam  sound affects and elvis Costello.  Not keen on billy Bragg or ozrics?

robinbowes

Your daughter has good taste

tone1

I was more of an 80’s child in terms of going out and getting pissed.... so sorta missed 90’s hedonism of Rave/Madchester stuff.... but I absolutely love the Stone Roses. 

AlexC

I Am The Resurrection is one of the best pieces of British Pop/Rock ever. And the most influential. A whole decade of U.K. guitar bands seemed to use that as template.

meltedbuzzbox

the_jaffa said:

axisus said:

A band I have never knowingly heard. I couldn't name one song of theirs. My perception of them was that they wouldn't interest me. 

And yet you came on a thread all about them just to say that. I’ve never understood this sort of post. If there’s a band that I feel like that about I might, maybe, read the thread about them but I would ever feel the need to post because it would bring absolutely nothing to the conversation. 

FWIW, I like most of the Second Coming but it’s just not got the same appeal to me. It’s all a bit too obvious in my opinion whereas I really enjoy the subtlety of the first album. I think the guitar playing on the first album is far more interesting than on the Second Coming. The lyrical content is definitely better too. Then there’s the slight unfinished feel to the Second Coming; Daybreak in particular sounding like an unfinished jam (I actually quite like it but look forward to hearing the finished article someday). 

Less said about the godawful Straight to the Man the better. 

This is all just my opinion though obviously and I would never force that on anyone else. For me though, they hit their peak about August 89

I generally prefer the second coming but I know where you are coming from. 
The album feels very Led Zep inspired in places. The Seahorses album picks up from where second coming left off. 

drpbier

munckee said:

music was never the same again for me

Agree - this album blew my mind when it came out. I just listened on repeat for days

guitartango

Never a big fan of Stone Roses, thought Fools gold was a banging tune ,  I had stopped listening to music around 1986, don't think i listened to the radio or even followed TOTP. Then the Word came out on CH4....and indie britpop was born. 

Happy Mondays., Soup Dragons, Oasis, Blur, The Charlatans, The Farm, all good stuff

Trude

For some reason I didn't latch on to the album right when it came out, even though I was very much into that kind of stuff at the time.  Happily I got hold of it in '92 just before I went away to Salford Uni, so it became the soundtrack of my first explorations of Manchester.  It still reminds of walking around the rougher areas of Salford with long hair and a walkman, trying to avoid getting beaten up....

guitartango

Just spent the last two days playing the album in my car, forgotten that i liked Waterfall. 

thermionic

I remember buying the album after reading about them (they were hyped) in the NME. Two weeks later I was watching them play in the students' union. The next morning I went, coincidentally, on a road trip to Manchester with a couple of friends, where we got lost in Moss Side at 3am (that's another story...)

I play the album every now and then, but hardly ever listen to The Second Coming. My recollection is that it's aimless, rambling and full of indulgent blues-rock riffing. I remember years later being in a conference in the USA with a French colleague who was a big Roses fan, who argued with me over several nights in the hotel bar that the second album was much better than the first. Incroyable. I might give it a spin this weekend, but I doubt it'll change my mind.

ICBM

the_jaffa said:

Really doesn’t seem that long ago

If you want to realise how long ago it is - when it was released, 30 years ago at that time Buddy Holly had just died in a plane crash a couple of months back...

UnclePsychosis

I was always a bit split on the Roses.

Some absolutely glorious moments but some dreadful filler as well. I find myself hitting "skip" too often if I put on one of their albums.