Their debut LP was and still is a perfect pop record. Looking back now I can see it combines jangly guitar pop with a bit of funk, great songwriting and perfect production.
But at the time it was just so new, fresh and different to everything else - even the other Madchester/Baggy acts.
I get goosebumps listening to this now...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfzQLZtCZSY
Not going to see them though. Been burned too many times before.
Radcliffe and Marconi were discussing this at lunchtime - in between the stammers and pauses they did come out with the reunion worth anything would be an Abba reunion, anything else is just going thru the motions for cash.
How true it is is hard to say.
If you want to hear their songs played well live I can recommend the 'Complete Stone Roses', really good!!
pmsl that is SOOOOOOOOOOOO true!
Remember a mate stealing a cassette of their first album the day it came out.
That night, we camped out, built a fire, got drunk and stoned and listened to that album over and over
I was 15 - THe Stone Roses are that band that got me into music - THe fact that they might not be the best musicians (apart from Reni) and Ian Brown isn't a great singer is neither here nor there - they're awesome: fact!
So its on then,agree with above bit mixed feelings
but listening to the reports on 6music all seem pretty
good humoured between them
BBC reckon it's on; we'll be going 
Stone Roses to reunite for tour **
Influential Manchester rock band The Stone Roses announce the end of a 15-year split to stage a world tour and record new material.
< http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15348374 >
From a gigsandtours email earlier today. I will be perfectly honest here and admit I never, ever thought it would happen. I'm not a fan as such, I bought the first album from Fopp just for two tracks, and I'm not that bothered by them getting back together, for whatever reason. Money? So what? Everyone has to make a living, and if they can make a few bob, and possibly maintain it to get a new album out of it, well, lots of people will be thrilled to bits and I'm glad for them. As I said, a great deal of that period's music failed to move me, but I don't consider it rubbish either. I would be ecstatic if Talking Heads got back together, and Talk Talk too. Maybe now 'Roses have reformed against all odds, it's perhaps not beyond the realms of possibility that the 'Heads might get over their differences and tour and record again.
anything else is just going thru the motions for cash.
You mean they're only in it for the Mani?
arf arf
hope they don't record any new material, it's not likely to turn out that well is it?
No one really captured the zeitgeist quite like the Stone Roses. I think there's been many a true word said on the thread regarding their shortcomings, I'd even go further in some regards but none of that really matters. What they came up with first time around was magical - in that moment.
I wouldn't really expect them to come up with anything that I'd want to listen to now though, the moment has been and gone.
Yep, all over the news today. I must say I've gone to see one reformed band and they were bloody brilliant, but I'm far more interested in discovering new music.
However, there is a MASSIVE market for nostalgia these days, I sort of understand it, so they'll make a few bob.
Nice to hear them lumped in with Steps and f*%^ing Take That in the BBC news story though! The lads must be so proud... 
Dez, did you also catch Fiona Bruce saying "I used to love that album"?!
I never thought this would happen. It really shouldn't. It will murder the legacy even more than reading. So why do i still want tickets.
nice poster though.
Dez, did you also catch Fiona Bruce saying "I used to love that album"?!
Ha! No, I missed that
No one really captured the zeitgeist quite like the Stone Roses. I think there's been many a true word said on the thread regarding their shortcomings, I'd even go further in some regards but none of that really matters. What they came up with first time around was magical - in that moment.
Agreed. In my mind they only ever made one album.
I didn't even hear Second Coming until a few years ago because people told me how crap it was and I couldn't bring myself to.
Looking forward to this. I saw the Wonder Stuff recently in Melb while i was working there and they were magic.
Second Coming contains some gems IMO
I like Second Coming now... Wasn't all that keen when it was released.
The STW consensus appears to be that the stone roses were actually crap and/or a reunion is a bad idea so all the bloody sheep start bleating about how they feel the same way. That’ll be why they (the stone roses) will sell out Heaton Park x2 in quarter of an hour at some vastly inflated price.
Second Coming contains some gems IMO
Yeah, I realised that when I finally got round to listening to it.
There is a god after all, and he spends his spare time dancin like a monkey. Love to see then live and cant wait for the new music.
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