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Search: The first album, everything from "Sally Cinnamon" to "One
Love." Totally classic pop, up there with the Beatles. Well, "Fools
Gold" is overrated and unnecessarily long, but still better than
anything the Happy Mondays ever did.
Destroy: Ian Brown, the Seahorses, Second Coming, the really early
stuff (ever hear "Tell Me" or "So Young"?), and actually Stone Roses
fans in general. The liner notes to the Complete Stone Roses
compilation alone are the most nauseating sycophantic nonsense
written about a band ever and the whole quasi-religious aura that
surrounds them is almost enough to make me hate them. But I can't
argue with "Made of Stone" or "Sugar Spun Sister." If ever a band
needed to spontaneously combust after its 'moment' had passed, this
was the one.
― Justyn Dillingham, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
''I like the Roses. I was there when it happened in more ways than
the usual. They were important because they paved the way for modern
rock in this country, they were a joy to us as they produced music
that didn't make you want to hang yourself and pulled the whole of
the british music scene out of the terrible eighties.''
Sorry but this is utter crap! They had terrible riffs, a singer who
couldn't fucking sing. Also, can you tell me what is 'modern rock',
how different is it from old rock?
And were the 80s terrible? What about the SST label, Homestead plus
at the time we had spaceman 3, MBV, SY (many other good american
bands).
''It's hard to think of another band that has had such a profound
effect on music for the better in the last fifteen years, there
certainly isn't anything that has changed music in the last five. I
find some of the comments here quite funny, especially the american
ones. Musically america is stuck in the eighties and looks like it'll
stay there for years now with rubbish rap and banal white rock
(shred).''
They had a profound effect in this country. Just like Thatcher
destrying the country, the Roses destroyed music in britain. And I'm
english.
''Britain has had multiple new styles since the early nineties and is
paticularly rich musically. We're in a terrible state at the moment
because American record companies have bought our record companies
and closed them and turned instead to making a quick buck rather than
nurturing bands - and there are plenty of good bands about.''
Like what exactly? Britpop! (which is just a rehash of 60s pop, after
all). You must be also thinking abt Jungle and UK Garage. Gimme a
break!
Lets start by naming some bands here (which you haven't). And thanks
for the report on the music industry. You don't need corporations
to 'nurture' bands. Music (whatever its forms) must exist outside
corporations. It must not be funded by the government or
any 'industry'.
''Put roses fans in their place by mentioning the second awful album
and then tell them that the Monday's second album was a masterpiece
They were good though - you had to be there.''
Destroy it! Destroy it all!
― Julio Desouza, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
twelve years pass...
Yanks cannot get The Stone Roses. It's too precious, and thank fuck for that, they're a national treasure - leave the Americans to Fred Durst.
― Calum Robert, Saturday, 27 April 2002 01:00 (12 years ago)
the stone roses were absolute 100% dogshit & every time a song of theirs* comes up on my shuffle i resolve to delete them from my mp3s, before forgetting to because they're so inconsequential
*beggin' you excepted
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Dunno. The Stone Roses, and Oasis as well I guess, are so mainstream that they probably have loads of perfectly decent fans. From the outside, I'd say Kasabian probably have a higher ratio, but really I bet neither of us knows enough about this culture. There will be a guitar band none of us has heard of with 100% arsehole fans. We will never know the band. We will never know the fans.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link