Stone Roses - Stone Roses: C/D?

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.

It'll be a 7 minute guitar solo, you know, not a rare groove thing.

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.

you left out insulting mani

do you know what a rhythm section is

yeah, but i assumed you were just talking about how Reni's drumming is allegedly subpar now. I haven't heard anyone rip on Mani's bass playing specifically. Do you have a specific complaint about his bassery?

Mani's great on those Primal Scream records

He's not a miracle worker though.

http://louderthanwar.com/stone-roses-halifax-live-review/

i ready to believe there is still a chance ..

(just .. )

true.

I don't really understand the impulse to say people shouldn't make music anymore because they made some good music 20 years ago and shouldn't "tarnish their legacy" or whatever. musicians gotta play music, it's a thing they do.

xp

Good that they got someone who is in no way a Stone Roses fan to review the gig.

Browns vocals are too-often criticised by those who don’t get the reality of Madchester revivalism

dear lord

I wouldn't write a review that breathlessly orgasmic about sex, let alone a concert

@djp : harsh.
the reviewer was clearly overcome with the experience.
i totally understand that emotional excess re a gig.
in fact i would love to feel that rush again.

feel bad for posting the link now.

Oh no, I enjoyed reading it!

I... did not.

i read that in Tommy Wiseau's voice.

...and it's out!

It's very Love Spreads.

Right, let's give this rubbish a listen...

not available over here yet :(

It needs less John Squire and the chorus gets a bit annoying after the 10th time but it is an improvement over All For One.

It's so Love Spreads we were sitting here singing the lyrics to Love Spreads over the top of it.

It's better than the last one.

It is like Love Spreads but even more like Breaking Into Heaven.

ah here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCk34IVVgcc&app=desktop

much better, yeah. all for one wore off after a few days for me

feelin this one

It's nothing like 'Love Spreads', IMO, more like a less excessive 'Breaking Into Heaven'

Anyway, after being sorely disappointed with 'All For One', I liked this one - probably because it sounds like The Stone Roses and doesn't sound like a Seahorses cast-off.

makes me realize how much I miss good guitarists

I saw people saying how they were relieved how they haven't repeated the formula of the first album but how do they feel about them repeating the formula of The Second Coming as that's what they've done here.

breaking into heaven is a good call. I loved the second coming so im all for that kinda sound mixed with fools gold.

love the guitar sound on this song too (the best thing about all for one) but the rhythm section im feeling a LOT more on this one.

Unsurprisingly i love it when the roses do funky

I love the Second Coming

It sounds like a halfway house between the post-S/T groove stuff and Second Coming's Zeppelinisms. There's much less guitar wankery here.

yeah this feels more restrained than Breaking Into Heaven for ex., but there's a lot of little details in the guitars

listening now and picturing loads of bucket hats on their way to the bar/bogs

Brown's voice sounds better on this track than on any track of Second Coming, too!

(x-post to Shakey)

will need a few listens to judge but im not sure how it works as an actual single might be more of a good album track?

Brown's voice sounds better on this track than on any track of Second Coming, too!

Technology has come on leaps and bounds since whenever that was.

It has a kind of "back half of side 2" vibe to it, yeah, but this has at least got me feeling optimistic for the album.

xpost Yeah, it's interesting that I've seen so many people proclaim them as the return of real music to save us from all this manufactured pop rubbish (not on here obviously), but his voice will have been auto-tuned as much as any pop band, if not more.

I'm hoping for more of the groove/funk oriented stuff on the LP. I'm guessing Shakey and Cosmic Slop are too.

it's a thing they're good at, but I like all their sides tbh. for ex. my favorite thing on Second Coming is probably "Your Star Will Shine"

the only songs i dont care for on the second coming are the 2 shitty ballads in the middle of it

i wonder if there will be a 3rd single before the album that is more like the debut album? that would ensure great sales i reckon.
Remember a lot the 1st album fans only liked ten storey love song as it was 60s pop not funk or led zep/hendrix/funkadelic rock

for all the love fools gold gets im pretty damn sure an album like that instead of what the second coming was wouldve still went down like a lead balloon with some of the 1st stone roses album lovers I know.