The Stone Roses (album)
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The Stone Roses is the debut album by The Stone Roses, released on March 13, 1989.[1] The album is consistently rated highly in "best ever" album lists,[2][3] often tops charts of the best British albums. It established the band as the most important band in their genre for the time.[4]
About the albumThe Stone Roses had been formed in 1984, yet 1989 saw their debut full length release (the band had released a handful of singles in the previous years, on a variety of labels). The band were from Manchester where the Madchester movement was centred. Despite not considering themselves as a Madchester group, with their eponymous début The Stone Roses found themselves riding a wave of nationwide success along with Madchester groups such as the Inspiral Carpets and Happy Mondays. The Roses recorded the album with John Leckie, a notable producer who had worked with Pink Floyd on Meddle and it was released by Silvertone, a division of Zomba Records created to work with what they called "new rock" acts. The Roses played a number of gigs supporting the album, including several now regarded as "legendary", including one at what was arguably the centre of the "Baggy"/"Madchester" scene, The Haçienda nightclub. Andrew Collins wrote in NME: "BOLLOCKS TO Morrissey at Wolverhampton, to The Sundays at The Falcon, to PWEI at Brixton - I'm already drafting a letter to my grandchildren telling them that I saw The Stone Roses at the Hacienda." The Roses' 1990 Spike Island gig also holds a formidable reputation, organised by the band themselves and attended by over 27,000 fans. On its tenth anniversary in 1999, a two-disc anniversary edition of The Stone Roses re-entered the British charts, reaching number 9. Cover artworkAs with most Stone Roses releases, the cover displays a work by John Squire. It is a Jackson Pollock-influenced piece titled "Bye Bye Badman", which makes reference to the May 1968 riots in Paris. The cover was named by Q magazine as one of "The 100 Best Covers of All Time"; in the accompanying article, Squire had this to say: "Ian had met this French man when he was hitching around Europe, this bloke had been in the riots, and he told Ian how lemons had been used as an antidote to tear gas. Then there was the documentary - a great shot at the start of a guy throwing stones at the police. I really liked his attitude." This story was also the inspiration for the lyrics to the song of the same name.[5] The background of the piece is based on the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. The band visited the causeway while playing a gig at the University of Ulster in Coleraine.[6] Critical responseIn 1989 the critical response was generally positive and today the album is widely considered to be one of the very best British albums released.[7] In 1997 it was named the 2nd greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998 Q magazine readers placed it at number 4, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 29 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2008, it was named the 5th greatest British album ever by a Q Magazine/HMV poll.[8] The music weekly NME, while initially giving it an unspectacular 7 out of 10 on its initial release, lavished praise on the album in later years: in 2000 it received the "greatest album ever" award at the NME Premier Awards show, and in 2006, the music magazine ranked the album number 1 in its "100 Greatest British Albums Ever" list.[9] In 2005 SPIN magazine ranked it 78 on its list of the 100 greatest albums of the past twenty years. In the same year, when revising "500 Greatest Albums" for book format, Rolling Stone included it as one of the eight new entries placing it at #497. In 2006, Time named it one of "The All-TIME 100 Albums".[10] In 2003, Pitchfork Media named it the 39th best album of the 1980s.[11] Track listingAll tracks are credited to Ian Brown and John Squire. 1989 UK release
1989 US Release
1999 10th anniversary releaseDisc One: Same as 1989 UK release. Disc Two
The second disc also included an enhanced portion with music videos, a discography, lyrics and a photo gallery. Songs from this album in other mediaIn the 2006/07 season English football club Manchester United played the tenth track, "This Is The One", at their Old Trafford stadium when United walk onto the pitch. Mani, John Squire and Ian Brown are on record as United fans.[citation needed] QuotesIan: "It's timeless. It still sounds fresh. I think if it came out this week, it would still make an impact. I remember finally finishing the LP and John Leckie saying to us, 'You're going to do really well, you know'. And we just said, 'Yeah we know'. And we did. We just felt it. He was taken aback by our confidence. But we did know we were good". Mani: "That LP sold something like three and a half million and I've never seen a fucking penny. But in the first place it was never about money. Still money fucked us up in the end. The best bands - Big Star, Love, the MC5 - never concern themselves with those things. But they never get paid either". Credits
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