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. . . [url= http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/12/stone-roses-to-release-new-single-on-wednesday-night ]released tonight[/url].
Don't be crap, don't be crap, don't be crap, don't be crap . . .
It must've leaked by now!
It'll be crap.
Really crap.
Sorry.
😐
It'll either be crap or sound like every other stone roses track, so it'll be crap either way 🙂
Where the Stone Rose anything other than crap?
At best one hit wonders.
[i]At best one hit wonders[/i]
You're thinking of the Venga Boys.
Where the Stone Rose anything other than crap?
Harsh.
New single will be crap simply because of the wave of expectation. It'll never live up to the promise/hype, because things never do!
I'm really hoping that it is good but have a horrible feeling that it won't match the lofty expectations.
Fingers crossed for the former
Oi!
Don't diss the Vengaboys!
Never got on board with the whole Stone Roses thing, but it seems to be the one band most people of my age (40) seem to identify with
I did like Ian Browns solo stuff though and the tracks he did with Unkle
Fingers crossed!
I'd be really surprised if it wasn't crap. People who still wear bucket hats and say 'aah kid' will buy it though.
I hope it is decent though, I liked the Stone Roses first album and Fools Gold.
I hope it's not massively over produced idea free zone like an Browns late stuff. I hope it's not a plodding indie idea free zone like all of squires post roses stuff. I have a faint hope that with Reni on drums it'll at least have some drive. It's the hope that kills you isn't?
They should just release the full length version of I Am The Resurrection and be done with it.
I don't think it'll be [i]crap[/i], just not very interesting. I find it's damn rare for over 50s to make interesting music.
Don't care if it's shite. It's new shite and shall be listened to til it is liked. One love peeps.
LOL! Nice on, Scoob!
They've had long enough to make it brilliant, let's hope they've worked hard and it's awesome. I'm secretly very hopeful.
Jekkyl +1
Where the Stone Rose anything other than crap?At best one hit wonders.
I bought a Stone Roses album on CD just for one track. It was three quid in Fopp, back before downloads, otherwise I'd have just bought the one track.
I've never understood the fanatical adulation for this band, but then I'm bemused by the fanatical obsession with the Manics as well.
And Oasis.
I don't think it'll be crap, just not very interesting. I find it's damn rare for over 50s to make interesting music.
Leonard Cohen's on the phone, he wants to have a word...
Even though I don't find him remotely interesting, I'd tell him he's [i]damn rare[/i].
I'm not expecting anything. It's rare for anything to live up to the hype these days. Musical releases just aren't the event they once were (in my life anyway, not necessarily everyone else's). I remember being underwhelmed by Love Spreads but equally realise how much it grew on me subsequently, as did the whole of The Second Coming over time. Indeed, I'd say now that Love Spreads is one of their finest tracks. So there you go, listen, like it, don't like it, but don't listen to self-proclaimed musos telling you how uninteresting it is...some of them even before they've heard it, they're [i]that[/i] sure.
Oh, and I'll be in the Etihad in June, singing away to my heart's content remembering times with less worries, when we didn't really give a **** about important stuff, when "I Am The Resurrection" seemed like one of the greatest songs ever written (I realise it's not, but it was of its time) and music could never get any better than this. I'll probably text binners to check just how much of a haze he's in too. 😀
Leonard Cohen's on the phone, he wants to have a word...
It'll be a long, dreary word, though.
Another one hoping for something good!
I tell you, it is utterly amazing.
Not the song - the fact that they've managed to keep it from being leaked!
Makes it quite exciting to wait for release time 🙂
I fear it will be a disappointment. How can it not be after all these years?
The roses' first album was THE soundtrack to my days at uni and I was one of the faithful at spike island. Also got a ticket for the etihad in June. However I'll be taking the wife and teenage kids so it won't be quite the same experience as the last (only) time I saw them live. The new music will be great I hope, but it can't possibly mean as much to me as Sally cinnamon to fools gold did.
Second coming was shit though.
I'll be *ed out of my head Bravisimo. If you find me, I'll give you a massive hug! 🙂
You have to view the Roses through the context of the time, and through a haze of weapons grade MDMA. They marked the end of a decade of Thatcherism, miserable post-industrial decline, mass unemployment, football hooliganism and night clubs called Rumours, stacked full of nobheads out for a fight, and playing absolutely *ing awful mainstream 80's shite!!! And they became the poster boys for what came next. The antithesis of all that soul-destroying bollocks! And Manchester briefly became the absolute bestest place on the planet to be! Though the details of the next few years are a bit sketchy! 😉 I seem to recall that generally it was all a frightfully wizard wheeze
They can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. Best musicians and songwriters of their generation, and unfeesably cool!
So there! 😛
Annie Mac is playing waterfall on R1 right now... First play before 8 [u]apparently....[/u]
Not sure I can manage listening to Radio 1 until they come on...
It's a tough ask....
lol
It's an absolute stinker
I love a cliché, me 🙁
Yup. It's awful.
Let's hope it's a grower as I am distinctly underwhelmed.
Dear god. I hate being right sometimes 🙁
Just playing it on 6music.
Hmmmm.... Don't mind it instrumentally but not not keen on the lyrical content. Still better than second coming / led zeppelin sound alike stuff
As good as anything on 2nd coming
Can't help thinking of the muskerhounds and now I have the theme stuck in my head. Your welcome.
muskerhounds
bastard.
I'd like to just retract my previous 'they can do no wrong' statement.
That really is bloody awful! It sounds like a gang of sixth formers have recorded it in one of their bedrooms! 😥
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Since 8ish, the thread's turned a bit ugly. 😆
Those lyrics are deep, really cut to the bone. 🙂
I iz dissapoint.
I quite like it...
IGMC
If I was a muso, I might say how uninteresting it is 😆
You can listen here if you have a proxy/vpn thingy
(and not-easily-offended ear'oles)
It's a tad repetitive.
Pile 'o bobbins that
I've just put the first album on, and had a little cry.
I'm hoping I'll wake up tomorrow and it'll have just been a bad dream
It's not great, but, and I should have realised given that I'm reading a music thread on STW, it's nowhere near as bad as I was expecting. 🙂
Well, I thought it was pretty decent really. Slightly odd arrangement at the start with the triple chorus repeat thing but after that it definitely held its own. I reckon it'll be a grower and hoping that it'll be part of a decent album. Musically I liked it but the lyrics are a little sing-a-long
Mostly I'm relieved as it is nowhere near as bad I feared it might be.
Binners, you wrote exactly what I was thinking. The Stone Roses years coencided with my formative years. There's a fair chance we may have man hugged during the "briefly cool years".......possibly complimenting, in an inane, utterly off our faces way, on each other's stupidly flared jeans and hilarious haircuts whilst still, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, knowing full well that we were at the epicentre of cool. At least, that's what I keep telling myself.......
Outtake from the lost Seahorses album. Poor.
Quite frankly, owing to a winning combination of family mayhem and catering and bedtime: have managed to avoid it so far. Judging by the thread, I may continue do do so. 😕
It's alright.
Bodgy, listen to it and make your own mind up
It's a mash up of Waterfall meets Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds
aww, cheers Matt H. Will do. 🙂
Be interesting to see how that goes down when I see them at the Ethiad. They're THE band from my yoof so I'll love 'em unconditionally, but they shouldn't have put that out. It wasn't necessary.
Its OK. Its like all music now, over produced. Live it would be great.
It'll grow on me. I'll await the album.
Bobbins. Derivative, lazy. Jo Whiley was gushing all over it and I was thinking "Really?? Come on.."
Spike island was [b]26 years ago[/b]
the last thing isn't any indicator of the next thing, creativity is a cruel mistress
Ripe for a good remix.
The lyrics are ropey, but it has good rhythm & catchy chords.
Hhhmmmm . . . yup; bobbins. I shalln't be cancelling my membership of the 'Ride Appreciation Society' any time soon. Dammit.
And, Munkeyboy, you are so right.
I love the Stone Roses. Radio X have played the new one at least 7 or 8 times tonight. It's absolutely bobbins. I'm sad to say that I didn't have particularly high hopes.
As above. It wasn't necessary.
Shadowcaster 😥
I Think I need a dose of [url=
to get over the shock.
Its better than every track on the last Charlatans album. Just.
Listening now...
not their finest work and over produced, be interesting to hear it live
Should that have been played on 45, rather than 33 1/3
Should that have been played on 45, rather than 33 1/3
A huge portion of the forum will have no idea what that means!
It was just OK really. Nothing too great, nothing too poor. Never really been interested in them. An old mate dragged me to see them at the Ritz in the mid-80s. They all had flat-top hair styles. That's the only thing I remember about the gig. Says it all really. That's the first time I've chosen to play a track by them...
Aww, that was pretty poor, I'm not even going to bother playing it again. I'll stick with the older stuff and surf the wave of nostalgia. As was said above, why did they feel the need to bring this out?
well....
pub band. (if I'm being generous) Not a great single, someone said it wouldn't have been out of place on one of their albums, but it would've been a track you'd skip over to get to the good stuff.
I love Stone Roses! I'll buy their album or download it online. hihi
For the lazy...
Squires is still a good guitarist
Ian BRown is still the man most in need of auto tune in the known universe.
Lyrics sound like a 17 tear old wrote it when pissed
FWIW I was/am a fan and saw them live back when they were first at it
Brown cannot hold a note. ...actually to be fair he can hold any note as long as its the wrong one.
I will agree that it is musically pretty pleasing, really let down by the cliched lyrics. It isn't any where near as awful as many are trying to make out, but is missing the magic of their past.
That was sh*t. I can see that being used as the soundtrack to Edywn's School Rugby Tour 2016 ,
[i]Lyrics sound like a 17 tear old wrote it when pissed
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Thing is, that's what their live crowds want isn't it... you know, the la la la la-nah ner nanana singalonga riff at their gigs.
Ian Brown, clearly from his solo output, can write interesting and different lyrics, so maybe they're just pandering to their audience.
How very dare you!
Actually... the Heaton Park gig was like a great big pub karaoke session for bald fat blokes wearing Adidas Gazelles
^^ Heaton Park was fantastic. And yes it was like a karaoke session for middle-aged men!
As for the single, it is over-produced and lyrically very simple. I do like the fact they have put out an energetic, positive song though. Also even if I could have written the lyrics aged 15, maybe a song about unity is quite powerful when all the ****ers are trying to be divisive to get power.