Stone Roses - Stone Roses: C/D?

can it repeat the barnstorming chart success of uh whatever the last one was called

This one is called "Beautiful Thing"

really happy to see you guys preemptively hating on this

no you're right we should give this band who have done nothing of worth in more than 20 years and whose last single was a quarter-arsed ripoff of a fall song a fair hearing - this one could be an earthshattering return to form

I hope it's a U2 pastiche

'where the steals have no shame'

Promising title.

I don't disagree that the last song wasn't spectacular, but it kind of just seems like you have a chip on your shoulder about this band. i think it's entirely possible for them to have a good song.

it's allegedly 7 minutes long...

I don't expect it to be anything great, but I'll still give it a listen.

7 minutes long? Hmm.

It's a bit much to ask of anyone.

it kind of just seems like you have a chip on your shoulder about this band

i do! they had a few years nearly three decades ago when they produced a one album and a handful of b-sides which were genuinely really good. in an ideal world, that should have been their legacy but instead they're crawling back 20 years after a disappointing second album with a massively diminished rhythm section, a guitarist who has forgotten everything he ever learned about restraint and taste, and a singer whose greatest contributions to music has turned out to be teaching liam gallagher to walk like a chimp.

Hear hear.

I'll still download the new one.

It'll be a 7 minute guitar solo, you know, not a rare groove thing.

i do! they had a few years nearly three decades ago when they produced a one album and a handful of b-sides which were genuinely really good. in an ideal world, that should have been their legacy but instead they're crawling back 20 years after a disappointing second album with a massively diminished rhythm section, a guitarist who has forgotten everything he ever learned about restraint and taste, and a singer whose greatest contributions to music has turned out to be teaching liam gallagher to walk like a chimp.

you left out insulting mani

do you know what a rhythm section is

yeah, but i assumed you were just talking about how Reni's drumming is allegedly subpar now. I haven't heard anyone rip on Mani's bass playing specifically. Do you have a specific complaint about his bassery?

Mani's great on those Primal Scream records

He's not a miracle worker though.

http://louderthanwar.com/stone-roses-halifax-live-review/

i ready to believe there is still a chance ..

(just .. )

true.

I don't really understand the impulse to say people shouldn't make music anymore because they made some good music 20 years ago and shouldn't "tarnish their legacy" or whatever. musicians gotta play music, it's a thing they do.

xp

Good that they got someone who is in no way a Stone Roses fan to review the gig.

Browns vocals are too-often criticised by those who don’t get the reality of Madchester revivalism

dear lord

I wouldn't write a review that breathlessly orgasmic about sex, let alone a concert

@djp : harsh.
the reviewer was clearly overcome with the experience.
i totally understand that emotional excess re a gig.
in fact i would love to feel that rush again.

feel bad for posting the link now.

Oh no, I enjoyed reading it!

I... did not.

i read that in Tommy Wiseau's voice.

...and it's out!

It's very Love Spreads.

Right, let's give this rubbish a listen...

not available over here yet :(

It needs less John Squire and the chorus gets a bit annoying after the 10th time but it is an improvement over All For One.

It's so Love Spreads we were sitting here singing the lyrics to Love Spreads over the top of it.

It's better than the last one.

It is like Love Spreads but even more like Breaking Into Heaven.

ah here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCk34IVVgcc&app=desktop

much better, yeah. all for one wore off after a few days for me

feelin this one

It's nothing like 'Love Spreads', IMO, more like a less excessive 'Breaking Into Heaven'

Anyway, after being sorely disappointed with 'All For One', I liked this one - probably because it sounds like The Stone Roses and doesn't sound like a Seahorses cast-off.

makes me realize how much I miss good guitarists

I saw people saying how they were relieved how they haven't repeated the formula of the first album but how do they feel about them repeating the formula of The Second Coming as that's what they've done here.

breaking into heaven is a good call. I loved the second coming so im all for that kinda sound mixed with fools gold.

love the guitar sound on this song too (the best thing about all for one) but the rhythm section im feeling a LOT more on this one.

Unsurprisingly i love it when the roses do funky

I love the Second Coming

It sounds like a halfway house between the post-S/T groove stuff and Second Coming's Zeppelinisms. There's much less guitar wankery here.

yeah this feels more restrained than Breaking Into Heaven for ex., but there's a lot of little details in the guitars

listening now and picturing loads of bucket hats on their way to the bar/bogs