Stone Roses - Stone Roses: C/D?

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i thought the thread revival was for this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18774522

@thestoneroses
THE STONE ROSES WILL RELEASE A NEW SINGLE TONIGHT AT 8PM

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I'm seeing people on Facebook who are genuinely excited about this.

Sad!

I kind of like The Second Coming.

Yeah, I do to

Sad!

― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, May 12, 2016 12:57 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Second Coming is OK apart from the lyrics to Squire's songs, which ore often extraordinarily terrible hoary rock cliche bollocks.

how can this be anything other than atrocious, really

is there enough time for ilx to pre-cover this?

Give us a title and we can do it.

Actually, if they announce an album, we really should ...

ore often extraordinarily terrible hoary rock cliche bollocks.

.. You thinking The Seahorses? Or was this "step one" towards it?

the lyrics to drivin' south are total rock bollocks iirc

hey it's either that or homophobic faux toasting

IIIIIIIII'M GONNA BREAK RIGHT INTO HEAVEN

*generic heavy riff*

"I'm on a tightrope baby, nine miles high, striding through the clouds on my ribbon in the sky"

It's just fucking awful. Love Spreads is OK, Begging You is OK, How Do You Sleep is OK, Daybreak is kind of weird ad-libbed cod-funk but not awful despite that description, but the rest is just awful, awful, awful.

just realised i'd never knowingly heard the reformed roses playing anything and i was morbidly curious whether ian brown still sounded like he'd undergone a laryngectomy

all i could find on youtube was footage where the crowd's singing was louder than his, so it'll be interesting to hear what he sounds like on the new single

http://www.nme.com/news/the-stone-roses/92935

"I am very excited, for them mainly," Gallagher told NME of the band's return. "They're going to play some new songs. I bumped into Ian in a supermarket recently. He was buying chocolate flavoured shower gel. This is not a joke. He leant and said 'have you tried this?' and I said of course I hadn't. He swears by it, says it's amazing. And before it turned into a photoshoot with everyone and their cameraphones, he was telling me how excited they are by it all. He said it was like they were making their first record again."

although the rock bollocks on the second coming is indeed terrible, i'd still rather have that than the seahorses' 'Strap on Sally chased us down the alley / We feared for our behinds / Oasis was a shop with shoes so hot / They were sure to blow your minds'

you realise those lines are a direct quote from Auden, right?

pete auden, john squire's dealer?

I really do like 'Breaking into Heaven.' It's a shame it drops off after that.

I am sure this record will swagger

under the weight of its own swollen, portentous cobblers

I dont expect much but im still excited that there's new music by one of my fave ever bands. I loved the second coming, they should let Ian do the lyrics though.

Ian let John do most of the lyrics and songwriting on Second Coming because he thought there'd be plenty of chance for him on other albums. And there was! His solo albums.

Dave Haslam ‏@Mr_Dave_Haslam 54m54 minutes ago
Exclusive - the new Stone Roses single sounds like 'Tomorrow Never Knows' by the Beatles, esp. the guitar & drums...

a bold leap into the future by one of britain's most innovative bands

sounds promising

ah, that 'tomorrow never knows'

Don't be downloading this off soulseek. #Support

#SupportDumpy's Rusty Nuts Stone Roses

I'm kinda curious as to what this is going to sound like, whether it'll be an extension of Second Coming or self-titled album retread. I'll be very surprised if it sounds more like Golden Greats.

So, I'm guessing this is to be released to make number one next week?

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.

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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.

I never, ever get tired of the s/t album.

i was listening to the SR debut over and over in the car for a few days last month and it still sounded just as great as ever. i've always had the weird US version that ends w/ "fools gold" and i kinda can't imagine it not ending that way. i might love "what the world is waiting for" even more though.

U.S. version has 7" version "elephant stone" too which is crucial

NO LOCKDOWN NO TESTS NO TRACKS NO MASKS NO VAX #researchanddestroy

— Ian Brown (@ianbrown) September 5, 2020

Fool's Old

can't even remember this fool, is he from Shed 7?

The plot thickens:

Wear a mask. stay safe. Look after yourself and others#morecambeandwise

— JohnSquire_Artist (@JohnsquireA) September 5, 2020

has Bez weighed in lately?

So, half an hour later then?

xp

he needs to get in the queue, it's Dermo from Northside's go next!

Wonder what Talbot makes of this

So im a Conspiracy Theorist HA! a term invented by the lame stream media to discredit those who can smell and see through the government/media lies and propaganda #researchanddestroy

— Ian Brown (@ianbrown) September 14, 2020

tbf he was always a buffoon and this hasn't ruined his terrible band for me

great band, idiot singer. Its quite common.

"not a conspiracy theorist"

You're not a conspiracy theorist, you've joined an ever growing group of people that believe in researching and thinking for yourself. Covid is about control and compliance and mandating the vaccine that will use nano technology for mass surveillance. The Great Reset they call it

— Karl Watchtay7 (@kvwatchtay7) September 14, 2020

Idiot bassist too

Mani strode on stage and dedicated the first song to Serbian warlord Arkan, who was, apparently, “rubbed out by the CIA and MI5”.

they were worthless shitty no-marks back then that inexplicably got lucky and nothing has changed. But lol at "lame stream media"!

I never got the Sex Pistols references with this band until I heard Garage Flower and it all made sense

yada yada IMPLEMENTING MASS SURVEILLANCE!!!!!

. . .says the man through his piece of technology he willingly holds in his hand that has a microphone, two cameras, a network connection, and countless bytes of personal data contained in it.

but yeah, it's "the vaccine" that's going spy on you.

I’m throwing stones at you man

I’ve got bad intentions!

this is a great live version of 'waterfall'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt3Hnu66sbo

Awesome drumming

had forgotten all about Cressa, wonder what happened to him

Just read Simon Spence's excellent book on the band... Wilson had them on OSM only because someone else had dropped out.

that rules, thanks for posting that, swanswan

hug, I had no idea they had their own dancing dummy.

yeah, had to share, the live drumming, particularly the outro make it a fresh as a daisy take on the song, fierce and dreamy at the same time. I wish I saw them starting out

Reni is so great. I love the story about how Pete Townshend tried to hire him after his first Stone Roses gig.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII’ve got bad intentions

The new album (Liam and John) has some great moments. The last two songs are wonderful. I suppose (some of) these are what would have been the Roses album? Who knows, I just love hearing RRRRAAAAAAYYYYNNNNBBBBAAAOOOWWWWWW

If only Mani or Pedi were involved

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Personal history may bias my opinion of the Stone Roses.

Tapes...yes tapes...of the debut album, as well as Disintegration and a ridiculously overpriced After The Gold Rush (which I bought in a gas station in Spain), made a bus tour of Europe in 1989 tolerable from a musical point of view.

Still a 4 1/2 star album for me.

ps. Neither Fool's Gold nor Elephant Stone were part of that original release. A compilation of these songs, as well other b-sides from that era make Second Coming seem like a bad joke.

Tbh this is a dud. Half of it's shit and the other half I perhaps unfairly blame for a lot of stuff I hate about the UK indie scene and even the good stuff is so overplayed I don't really need to hear it again

itt I tell the Stone Roses to fuck off in 2024. Finger on the pulse mw

My apologies Colon Poo.

You have much better taste in music than I do...

haha I definitely don't

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!