the stone roses, i'm a convert

For once I agree. The second album got a panning in some quarters and it was a bit indulgent of Squires but there were some decent songs on that as well. The first album was magical though.

Loads more tracks as good as the ones on the first album will blow your mind,plus singles not on the album and b sides plus listen to the Richard Thomas covers on pianoall played by ear..

Agree with Ee

The first album (rightly) gets plenty of limelight, with 'The Second Coming' getting panned by many when it came out, probably because the expectation could never live up to the reality at the time.

Listen to it in isolation though and there's some absolute gems in there, with 'Tears' standing up to anything the band ever did.

Ian Brown still has the weediest voice of any lead 'singer' ever though!

Frightening that it's soon coming up to 30 years for the album.

Was fortunate to see them (although it was only just above average)

At the etihaad in june  , tickets on way should be cracking day

Second Coming has a lot of quality in there also , Tears , How do you sleep , Breaking into heaven , ten storey love song , your star will shine and thats a just a few of the top of my head.

Across the sands etc never even made the albums or ever released , 3rd album is m#being made though apparently

The Sun Still Shines not good quality sound but good

If you just started listening to them , enjoy finding all the hidden gems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mEZxaB4f18&ebc=ANyPxKrj9OCIHGULvVCQTfWcNGcqdgAmL-Wa5BMffgo3fM7y0WtxUHJK9qyQ5_ltrZPbp_qIcWFKTt1l0pAczLspleScKbZL6Q

For a demo and not even released this would p1ss over any band today

Elephant Stone fkc how did i not mention that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKDPv3ZLDjI

This version is the best imo

You know they refused to support the Rolling Stones in 1989

Rolling Stones knew how good they where but they got told to do one

"I am very excited, for them mainly," Gallagher told NME of the band's return. "They're going to play some new songs. I bumped into Ian in a supermarket recently. He was buying chocolate flavoured shower gel. This is not a joke. He leant and said 'have you tried this?' and I said of course I hadn't. He swears by it, says it's amazing. And before it turned into a photoshoot with everyone and their cameraphones, he was telling me how excited they are by it all. He said it was like they were making their first record again."
Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/the-stone-roses/92935#7kEuuoxSLXAtyvHR.99

TheChaser    19 Apr 16 10:53 
You know they refused to support the Rolling Stones in 1989

"They should be supporting us!" I actually saw the Stones on that (1990) tour at Wembley. The support was some w@nk Scottish band that I've thanfully never heard of since - Gun.

I was at Spike Island too!

Mersey Paradise
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http://youtu.be/8ZQ4HJPVoTw

Too young for Spike Island me i was 4 or 5

Then when they came back 4 year or so ago i was like i kwow song of they songs and then i found more and more and since then i don't think any band compares.Will be in Manchester this summer on the Saturday hopefully it lives up to expectations

Some of they songs

I thought Oasis brilliant but not a patch on these guys , was more into raves etc also when younger and never got to here The Roses anywhere.

mersey paradise another classic

knew a lawyer who was involved in the music business back in the day ,must have been mid eighties maybe 84/85 and he gave me a tape and asked me to listen to it ,phoned me and asked what I thort ,not really I said ,he says ...no listen again ,this band is going to be the next big sensation .Anyway did not listen again and told him ,let me tell the jokes .
Of course it was the stone roses
must of improved ,need to dig that tape out and listen again 

Sally cinnamon - Manchesters finest

Check out Roses B sides they are awesome. Could have been as big as The Beatles but got lazy - from 1989 -1990 they were best band since The Beatlers.

Where angels play another tune

Could have been as big as the Beatles but opted to go down the nowhere-near-as-big-as-Oasis route.

Let's not get carried away here. They made ONE truly exceptional album, fudged the follow-up, and hosted a train-wreck of a career-defining gig.

Btw, Brown may indeed have the 'weediest voice' of any lead singer ever, but some of his solo stuff is excellent too. Forget everything and remember.

EAR - Was a classic.

FEAR ^^^

Oh yeah definitely

There's more to being a lead singer than being Ronnie James Dio!

'Keep What You've Got' what a great unheralded single

always remember me

originally the roses were like a goth band in about 86

got a name when some fans sprayed graffiti around town around that time, town being city centre Manchester

Punk / Goth , Garage Flower album still good

originally the waterfront if you go way back to early 80s

3rd album is in the making also , so will only get bigger as years go on with the internet also

pandora wont be back on for a while , too busy listening to real music

I'm guessing we have different expectations of their new album, Chaser. I expect to be disappointed, which by definition means I won't be!

Mikael be hard to live up to older ones for sure , but i don't think they would be send something out that is not going to be different.Hope it's going to be good anyway , probably plenty old stuff in there that was never released in the 80s that will stand up today.

Mikael how did you think spike island was , all the interviews say it was sh1t becuas of the sound but was it still a good gig all round?

because*

Last album i bought was a beady eye one and probably wont buy another unless the roses do release a new one

The sound wasn't the only problem, even if it was the biggest offender. There was only one bar and it had a queue so long we thought 'fck it.' There was no support to speak of, just a bunch of MCs and DJs, which might have been fine if you weren't stuck there all day. Don't get me wrong, we had a great time - including initiating the game of 6-a-side footie that turned into about 23-a-side, ultimately ruined by crazy Leeds fans - but the gig has a semi-mythical status it doesn't really deserve.

, ultimately ruined by crazy Leeds fans

How much was beer at the bar back then or you not find out

It seemed an eternity from them being championed in Manchester as the next big thing and the album arriving.
Piccadilly Radio played them a lot before they broke big .

The first album is a belter .

so it its just me...
yeh the songs are good but the delivery (live) is poor , the band would have been a far better success with a lead vocalist who was worthy,
..
"expect to be shot down in flames.."

cant slate Ian brown everyone knows that your trolling

sorry, my opinion...
there sound /music is good but im not a fan of the delivery live....

I don't think your alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_rFuU7sz1k

^^ 30 years ago next year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDRz3H30NmY&ebc=ANyPxKqXNl1esh_iHsoDgsXP8Ovx...              Amateurs Amateurs :)

Were wasting out time lads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHoKm1vuWVY&ebc=ANyPxKroSsMKrng3D_qPJ51fexsY...

20 mins of them in the studio at work in the late 80s , they look quite fecked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbDtr5QxUDo

LSD maybe consumed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfMczK8JGO4

recording fools gold at saw millls , decent footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLser2OWa74