Stone Roses - Stone Roses: C/D?

'Elephant Stone' is my fave off the Turns Into Stone comp. great bass and drums on that one too

Turns into Stone is phenomenal. I think The Complete Stone Roses is slightly better because it has a couple other great songs that aren't on Turns into Stone, like "Across the Sands" and "Sally Cinnamon." Also, some copies came with what I think is their best backwards track, "I am Without Shoes," which genuinely sends shivers down my spine.

favourite non-Roses Mani moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5P3xQeN2YA

that version in particular.

John Leckie not being involved with the new album is a major red flag

I don't think the production is the problem

actually can't think of a fanbase more likely to swallow any old load of turgid shit and get agro with detractors than roses obsessives

― the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow)

Beyonce

otm

Back of the net.

shhhh you cant say that on ilm

actually can't think of a fanbase more likely to swallow any old load of turgid shit and get agro with detractors than roses obsessives

― the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow)

Beyonce

― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Wednesday, May 25, 2016 1:53 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im not touching that with a bargepole

They got to you too?

Which is the most cunty beyonce thread and i will c&p the above to it

What's she done that qualifies as a "load of turgid shit", tho?

Not itt

I bet you'd make a cracking guest on Desert Island Discs:p

Id do my best to entertain but id imagine youd do a fair bit of damage yourself!

I just heard All for One now. More plodding and uninspiring than a 3rd single from an 00s Oasis album.

The Beyonce example doesn't work as a lot of her fans think her first and third albums are really weak and the new material on the self titled reissue was poorly received too. It's only really her latest three albums that have been hugely popular. The Stone Roses qualify as the comments to this new single range from bizarre acts of loyalty, "it's the best song I've heard in 22 years" to finding ridiculous reasons why people are against it, "people are slagging it off before they've even heard it" and "where's your band if you think you can do better?". I've never seen any Beyonce fans search for reasons like that.

so their shows at the Etihad have Public Enemy on the bill

Ian's a massive fanboy.

The Beyonce example doesn't work as a lot of her fans think her first and third albums are really weak and the new material on the self titled reissue was poorly received too. It's only really her latest three albums that have been hugely popular. The Stone Roses qualify as the comments to this new single range from bizarre acts of loyalty, "it's the best song I've heard in 22 years" to finding ridiculous reasons why people are against it, "people are slagging it off before they've even heard it" and "where's your band if you think you can do better?". I've never seen any Beyonce fans search for reasons like that.

― Kitchen Person, Friday, 27 May 2016 01:28 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is the stone roses thread

i know i can smell it from here

Wake up, boo

This whole argument makes absolute sense because both Stone Roses albums are indisputably held in equally high esteem.

I remember meeting Bob Stanley at Spike Island, he was a friend of a friend. I had to ask him three times what the name of his new band was, and finally just nodded and pretended I had understood. "Sainytain" or something like that. The day was a bit underwhelming, I wandered around on my own for hours on end, slightly stoned and dehydrated, and by the time the band was finally on, had developed a full on migraine. I enjoyed the gig, but it's not a great memory.

Seeing quite a few Avalanches fans in denial this week.

So, last week it was number 17, this week..

they're doing a show with Public Enemy.

all for one is better than frankie Sinatra

one of the only complimentary things you can say about all for one

has anyone heard if they might do a gig or tour with Public Enemy?

that seems like such a weird bill.

It might figure it might be easier for PE to book a tour with old late 80s and 90s rock bands in bigger halls than somehow tour with modern hip hop groups. The fans of the Stone Roses etc. probably bought a big portion of Public Enemy's records.

new single tonight at midnight

what are the odds that it sounds like a trashbag

can it repeat the barnstorming chart success of uh whatever the last one was called

This one is called "Beautiful Thing"

really happy to see you guys preemptively hating on this

no you're right we should give this band who have done nothing of worth in more than 20 years and whose last single was a quarter-arsed ripoff of a fall song a fair hearing - this one could be an earthshattering return to form

I hope it's a U2 pastiche

'where the steals have no shame'

Promising title.

I don't disagree that the last song wasn't spectacular, but it kind of just seems like you have a chip on your shoulder about this band. i think it's entirely possible for them to have a good song.

it's allegedly 7 minutes long...

I don't expect it to be anything great, but I'll still give it a listen.

7 minutes long? Hmm.

It's a bit much to ask of anyone.

it kind of just seems like you have a chip on your shoulder about this band

i do! they had a few years nearly three decades ago when they produced a one album and a handful of b-sides which were genuinely really good. in an ideal world, that should have been their legacy but instead they're crawling back 20 years after a disappointing second album with a massively diminished rhythm section, a guitarist who has forgotten everything he ever learned about restraint and taste, and a singer whose greatest contributions to music has turned out to be teaching liam gallagher to walk like a chimp.

Hear hear.

I'll still download the new one.