The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (LP)
- Artist:
- The Stone Roses
- Title:
- The Stone Roses
- Label:
- Silvertone Records
- Catalog#:
- 88843041991
- Format:
- 1 x Vinyl LP, Album, Reissue, Repress
- Country:
- Europe
- Released:
- Apr 2014
- Media Condition:
- Mint (M)
- Sleeve Condition:
- Mint (M)
- Comments:
- Brand New And Factory Sealed. Unable To Assure Release Without Breaking The Seal. Save On Shipping By Combining Two Or More Items.
- Stock Images:
- Images are stock images, actual item may differ.
The Stone Roses is the debut studio album by English rock band The Stone Roses. It was recorded mostly at Battery Studios in London with producer John Leckie from June 1988 to February 1989 and released later that year on 2 May by Silvertone Records. Despite not being an immediate success, the album grew popular alongside the band's high-profile concert performances, which also helped establish them as fixtures of the Madchester and baggy cultural scenes.
The record's critical standing also improved significantly in later years, with The Stone Roses now considered to be one of the greatest albums of all time. It was voted number 11 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). It has sold over four million copies worldwide. The Stone Roses was acclaimed by critics and musicians in subsequent years, being viewed as an even more important album than when it was first released, as reflected by its high ranking in polls of the greatest albums of all time.
Reassessing it for NME upon its 1991 re-release, Mary Anne Hobbs deemed The Stone Roses "the most fluent crossover album of the last decade", and on its cultural impact, wrote: "Indie-dance was activated, its underground sister the rave scene outed and Britain went Baggy". Rolling Stone's David Fricke later called it "a blast of magnificent arrogance, a fusion of Sixties-pop sparkle and the blown-mind drive of U.K. rave culture", while BBC Music's Chris Jones said it served as a peerless testament to the fusion of rock and dance music inspired by "working class hedonism" at the end of the 1980s.
Mojo reviewer Pat Gilbert strongly recommended its 1999 reissue to listeners and stated that the album "set the tone for rock music in the '90s", while in Q, Ian Gittins wrote that with the album's "mercurial, timeless anthems", the band became "spokesmen for their generation". Bernadette McNulty of The Daily Telegraph believed the 2009 reissue polished the band's bold mix of discordant psychedelic sounds and clever dance beats, but that its legacy as a fabled debut album was enhanced more by the darker, masculine music that followed in Manchester during the 1990s.
A1 | I Wanna Be Adored | 4:49 |
A2 | She Bangs The Drums | 3:52 |
A3 | Waterfall | 4:39 |
A4 | Don't Stop | 5:19 |
A5 | Bye Bye Bad Man | 4:01 |
B1 | Elizabeth My Dear | 0:55 |
B2 | (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister | 3:26 |
B3 | Made Of Stone | 4:14 |
B4 | Shoot You Down | 4:13 |
B5 | This Is The One | 4:57 |
B6 | I Am The Resurrection | 8:10 |
Genre | Rock, Indie Rock |
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Notes | ℗ 2009 Silvertone Records Limited © 2014 Silvertone Records Limited. |
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