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Funny...found my Stone Roses cd and put it on. Has a nice groove...forgot all about this band.

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Not sure how deeply you got into them, but the B Sides on the early singles are great. Most of the best ones are collected on Turns Into Stone.

The first album is a classic for sure. I was really into them when I was late teens/early 20s...I wonder if I still remember the guitar parts.

I also have a soft spot for their first single "So Young".

zhivago wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 04, 2021 1:16 pm

The first album is a classic for sure. I was really into them when I was late teens/early 20s...I wonder if I still remember the guitar parts.

I also have a soft spot for their first single "So Young".

Love So Young, probably the song that got me into them. I still dig out the first album and learn a bit of it every once in a while when I feel like i'm in a rut.

The second album's great too.

It's just impossible to follow the first one, the release of which must surely be considered one of the defining moments in modern British music history.

I was too young for the early 90s Manchester scene. Should read more about it as the fusion of dance & indie seems so unique for the time.

I’m a heathen- always preferred the best of to either of the albums.

i like some of the singles and the second album, but that first album is mostly unlistenable 1980s chorus pedal'd dross if you ask me.

MechaBulletBill wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 05, 2021 7:12 am

i like some of the singles and the second album, but that first album is mostly unlistenable 1980s chorus pedal'd dross if you ask me.

You’ve got a real thing about chorus pedals havent you? would you like these bands if they removed the modulated guitar tones?

I didn’t like them much when they came out…never understood the hype over the first album. To me it was completely dated and backward looking since I was gong to MBV and Sonic Youth shows in the years before this..to me that was the future and The Stone Roses were regressive. Saying all that 'Ten Storey Love Song' is one of my favourite songs..

I get the chorus objections, but only to a point. There’s a swagger to John Squire’s playing that’s missing in a lot of the more bland 80’s stuff. On the first album and those B-Sides his playing is somewhere between Hendrix and Marr. Later he just decided to be Jimmy Page full time.

Love or hate the guitar playing and singing Mani and Reni are one of the great rock rhythm sections of all time IMO.

eggwheat wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:56 am

You’ve got a real thing about chorus pedals havent you?

there are a lot of guitar sounds i don't like! chorus just seems to come up more than others.

They were really important to a lot of people in Manchester back then. So much so I ended up hating them by default, because they were one of those bands that people over 45 kept trying to shove down your throat every occasion they got. Which was the case with many other bands from the area (Joy Division / New Order, the Happy Mondays, the Smiths, godawful Marion, etc.) and in retrospect I guess it's not a bad thing that people are proud of their local musical heritage. I was more into The Fall and Magazine, I thought they had a better sense of humour, despite their being from before my time. I ended up replying 'The Bee Gees!' every time I was asked what my favorite Mancunian band was, just to annoy people. They started out in Chorlton before shooting off to Australia!

The first record is on my shortlist of favorite albums. (Side note: my other browser tabs are currently open to hunting down more chorus pedals / jazz chorus amps, so I like that effect more than a little bit).

Worth noting that the US version adds additional tracks (such as the single “elephant stone” at track three and “fools gold” at the end), and I think the album benefits from it and the surplus of hooks. I try to give the second one a chance every few years, but just can’t stand it.

Nostalgia corner (pre-CDR era): First semester of college, I traded a friend the Minor Threat complete discography cd (I had the records at home) for the first stone roses. We were both happy. (I also traded another friend Pixies Doolittle for Fields of the Nephilim - I stand by both trades even today, although the second one is a harder case to make)

i would definitely rock a JC but that chorus knob would stay at zero!

weird thing - someone told me that, in japan, they abbreviate "jazz chorus" to "JaCo", and now i can't help calling them that !

Their first album is overrated; their second is underrated...

Apparently Ian Brown is an anti vaxxer because of course he is.