Stone Roses - Stone Roses: C/D?

5 LTW articles on it by tomorrow lunchtime.

^ Ha! Yeah, totally!

Just heard it. It's a cross between "Something Burning" and something off of Second Coming.

Definitely not the chiming, Byrd-sy thing... was hoping for something more melancholy like "Mersey Paradise" but seemed alright. Definitely sounded like them.

playing right now:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wqdc

I'm hearing something by Beaty Heart? which was not what I wanted to hear

ah, they played it twice in a row a minute ago

Lyrically and musically, kind of had the "One Love" / "What the World is Waiting For" vibe. The riff was a little Beatle-y though I can't pinpoint exactly which song, but tone was heavier, and had more noodly guitar, like stuff off Second Coming.

I wouldn't put it among their best songs, but it probably would have been in the top half of Second Coming.

Oh, it's on Spotify already.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiR0ttCXIAACeXz.jpg

rather displeased with the lyrics, honestly... in their prime, they were able to straddle this delicate line between earnest positivity and sublimated contempt... but lyrically, this seems a little on the cheesy side.

I felt a mix of enjoyment and just plain relief it wasn't as terrible as it could have been. The lyrics are terrible, the riff's pretty good. I do have expectations for the album now.

Yeah, Ian totally dropped the ball here, not that anyone was expecting some Bob Dylan shit, but still...

New Radiohead, Stone Roses and Super Furry Animals within a week... sorely tempted to check my calendar to see what year this is.

and Misfits reunion. LOL.

i still love this band though, and regardless of how bad this song could have been, i'd still be excited for a new album

Pretty decent single tho its not Love Spreads level good. Its at least not a retread of the 1st album which is what I was dreading.

Haslam's got cloth ears, it's 'I Want To Tell You' not 'Tomorrow Never Knows'

it's The Bluetones covering the theme from 'Going For Gold'

lol

People have made this comparison https://youtu.be/P-xO72s5EBY

it's The Bluetones covering the theme from 'Going For Gold'

^^ first thing I've read that actually makes me want to listen to this

xp ok, doubly so after Kitchen Person's link

this song is a prank, right

no wait, the tweet that compares it to "Tomorrow Never Knows" is the actual prank? it must be

I've just heard it and PaulTMA's description isn't actually that far off the mark.

People have made this comparison

the character on the right bears a resemblance to Ian Brown, but aside from that, I'm not seeing it. Presence of the words "all for one" is not sufficient.

http://i.imgur.com/Fawqioj.png

Also, weirdly, it's probably the best Ian Brown's ever sounded. Shame the song sounds like mid-table mid-'90s Britpop.

Heard the 30s clip on Spotify. Oh dear. I'm saying that as someone who wanted it to be good.

Boy this is bad.

I've seen a lot of people saying it sounds way more like the return of The Seahorses than The Stone Roses.

more like the current line-up of Hurricane #1 meets the cast of Jossie's Giants

though its not even fit to stand on their shoulder

its nothing like either

It's fucking horrible. Like a really really really weak Shack. Uergh.

It sounds like a pub rock version of Donovan basically

feel like you guys are just making up x ___version of y combos now

if Love Spreads was their Hash Pipe, then this must be Back To The Shack

I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO HEAR THIS

Please don't. It's awful.

THIS SOUNDS LIKE ARGENT COVERING BELLE AND SEBASTIAN

NO WAIT, JEFF BUCKLEY DOING AN EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS B-SIDE

its nothing like either

― Odysseus,

Hurricane #1's single from last year https://youtu.be/Rj-lcOfJuw0

ON ACID

its like beyonce meets embrace

tho the chorus is a bit front line assembly meets en vogue

Heavy Stereo covering Genesis 'Calling All Stations' prod. by Pete Stanley & Paul Wiggs

Neu! crossed with M People

It really does sound like The Bluetones, The Seahorses and Hurricane #1 though. It's not as if those bands all have really different styles. They mainly made music that sounded like a poor man's Stone Roses and that's exactly what All For One is.

I first heard this album in high school about 1999 and man I was completely totally 100% obsessed. “OMG! Best album ever!”, etc. As an American I missed all the cultural baggage associated with it and all the shitty music it influenced. I think that helped a bit. And of course the version I bought had “Elephant Stone” and “Fools Gold” tacked on, so I got more of a greatest hits album. Now it’s 25 years later and I am listening to it now and it still sounds pretty goddamn perfect. John Squire is the star of the show: the chiming arpeggiated riffs just keep coming at you over and over again and yet the guitar never overpowers the songs - easily one of the best rock guitarists I’ve heard. Shame that he obviously used up his entire bag of tricks on this one album. Didn’t they spend like eight years in between the time they formed and the time they released the album? Perfectionist bastards.

Agree that the album still sounds good and I also think that Fool's Gold/Something's Burning were a great next step forward which was totally forgotten by the time of the disastrous second album. I'm still surprised that Oasis are taken seriously as something amazing as opposed to this. Marr's autobiography (he is a huge hometown booster) totally ignores them (and the Mondays too I think).

Yes it’s still a fucking great album and anyone who doesn’t like “fools gold” is not to be trusted

the second coming is quite underrated. Take out 2 of the acoustic tracks in the middle and it'd be great.

Second Coming had great b-sides as well, particularly the ones that were recorded after the album was completed. Would love a deluxe reissue

thread that makes me realise I shouldn't be trusted!