Stone Roses Remastered

[withahip]

Wow! What a rip off.


If you spend 30 bucks you get the lost demos including this half baked tune:

http://stoneroses.skyroo.com/se/view/music/index.html

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxVUe2WV6cM[/youtube]

[Lancashire Fusileer]

complete waste of money

[fat cherry]

a bit ago, when i started my 'since theres nothing much around these days i can get into why not try listening to some stuff i missed from yesteryear' campaign (and between you and me alot of that is the stuff you lot bang on about half the time), anyway, I missed the stone roses through being preoccupied with babies and the like at the time so only knew them by reputation really, i.e., as the next big thing that didn't really happen. so anyways i picked up the first album in some local bargain bin and i'd say, four tracks probably deserve the plaudits (and funnily enough three of them are first up on the album so i can only guess those ar ethe ones journos ever listened to) and the one at the end with the drum riff lifted straight from 'under my thumb'. the rest is dire, shite, crap and anyhting else bad you'd care to chuck at it. the only thing is now, their meagre output but legendary status would mean that if they did reform, loads of people would swarm to see them and they'd be hailed as the geniuses they clearly are not. i suppose the clip of them blowing the noise level fuse on newsnight review is quite funny though. and brown is another one who can, generally, just stand there and look cool. doesn't necessarily come across on record though that does it.

[kook]

He'd be better off if he just stood there on stage because live, he's absolutely catastrophic.

[withahip]

drunk rambling about hating the full length debut

I think it is a great album that has stood the test of time.

[fat cherry]

tee hee tee hee.

[Mr. Brian]

I've tried to get into the Stone Roses but aside from a few songs I just find them really boring. Maybe it's one of things that I didn't live through so I don't know the context or something. I feel gypped that I don't get it.

[Dave Smith]

Well if you were there before the gigs got too big you would think differently.Not just the music,the whole vibe ,fashion,culture was majestic and lifted the whole music scene that was on a downer.The debut album is superb and I've been playing it for the last twenty years practically non-stop.

[withahip]

I've tried to get into the Stone Roses but aside from a few songs I just find them really boring. Maybe it's one of things that I didn't live through so I don't know the context or something. I feel gypped that I don't get it.

I think you summed it up. If you heard them in your teens, it was a real surprise to hear a guitar based band that was also dance music at times. And the major chords were really fun. If the album were that great, you two and kids year after year would discover it and be blown away.

[fat cherry]

yep, cant beat the major chords. was just saying to mrs cherry the other day "mrs cherry, m'dear, cant beat those major chords'.

[Dave Smith]

Well on top of the album is....Elephant Stone,Hardest Thing,Going Down,Mersey Paradise,Standing Here,What the World etc....not just the album FC.John Squire was godlike at the time.

[Lancashire Fusileer]

Standing Here was absolutely brilliant, and yes, you had to be 19-20 at the time.
Saw them at Preston in July 1989 and it was tremendous, no doubt, but there was something in the air that (and the previous) summer, the Stone Roses just defined it albeit for a brief moment

[fat cherry]

oh well, in that case i was well over the hill by then - so no change there then i suppose. though i think those enormous flares probably put me off. they were crap enough in the 70s and making them even bigger didn't help at all.

[happy_loss]

Hmm, the remaster a rip off, yeah. That first album still stands up pretty well though. I can understand not being as moved by them "after the fact". It's probably the same thing with the Bunnymen for a lot of people. Without a doubt, none of the them were as good without the other. Brown, always a shit voice live, but carried it off with attitude. Squire WAS a good guitar player, but it appears excessive chemicals have turned his brain to mush. Manny (bass) seems to be the only one doing anything of note (music wise), he's been with Primal Scream for quite a while. And the best for last, Reni, that fucker can drum. Of his generation, probably the best drummer hands down. While he had a website up for a while, he named Pete as one of his fave drummers. Once he left the band, it was never the same, compare the songs with him vs his replacement. Exact same deal as Pete, no one ever even came close.

[fat cherry]

just listened to that song on the tube thing. quite jolly, bit of a rolling stones vibe going on.