The Stone Roses (Album)
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49:02 |
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The Stone Roses is the debut album by British rock band The Stone Roses and was released on Silvertone Records in May 1989. It is considered to be one of the most important British albums of all time and pioneered Britpop of the 1990s.
background
The Stones Roses were founded in 1983, but the debut album of the same name wasn't released until six years later. The band had already released a few singles before .
The album reached number 32 in the British charts in 1989 after its release , number 19 in early 1990 and when it was re-released in 2009 it even reached number five. In the USA the album rose to number 86.
The cover of The Stone Roses features a work by John Squire .
reception
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The album is considered to be one of the ignitions of the Madchester boom, with which not only The Stone Roses but also bands such as the Happy Mondays , The Charlatans and the Inspiral Carpets became well known, especially in Great Britain. The album also influenced the Britpop movement around Oasis and Blur , which peaked in the mid-1990s.
In the best lists, especially in Great Britain, the album regularly achieved top positions. It was voted the best British album of all times by the New Musical Express , in 1997 it came in second place in the Music of the Millennium and in 1998 the readers of Q magazine voted it in fourth place. In its March 2006 edition, the German Musikexpress counted the album among the 50 best debut albums of all time, and in the March 2003 edition the album was voted seventh of the 50 best albums of the 1980s . The music magazine Rolling Stone lists The Stone Roses at number 498 of the 500 best albums of all time . The album is one of the 1001 albums You Must Hear Before You Die .
Liam Gallagher from Oasis as well as Robert Levon Been of the California Black Rebel Motorcycle Club name the album as their favorite record and attribute the beginning of their own musician careers to it.
Track list
- I Wanna Be Adored - 4:52
- She Bangs The Drums - 3:42
- Waterfall - 4:37
- Don't Stop - 5:17
- Bye Bye Badman - 4:00
- Elizabeth My Dear - 0:59
- (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister - 3:25
- Made of Stone - 4:10
- Shoot You Down - 4:10
- This Is the One - 4:58
- I Am the Resurrection - 8:12
All songs written by John Squire and Ian Brown.
In the USA the album was also released with Elephant Stone (Track 3) and Fools Gold (at the end).
In 1999 the album was re-released as the 10th Anniversary Edition with an additional CD (four additional songs, videos and various information).
Web links
- The Stone Roses (Album) at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/the%20stone%20roses/
- ↑ Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on AllMusic.com (accessed August 27, 2015)
- ↑ Review by Danny Kelly on Uncut.co.uk (accessed August 27, 2015)
- ↑ Review by Sven Kabelitz on Laut.de (accessed on August 27, 2015)
- ↑ Review by Amy Granzin on Pitchfork.com (accessed August 27, 2015)
- ↑ nme.com: NME's best British album of all time revealed , January 26, 2006
- ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (# 498) on RollingStone.com, accessed August 27, 2015
- ↑ VISIONS 250, December 2013, p. 37.