Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs the Drums
3. Waterfall
4. Don't Stop
5. Bye Bye Bad Man
6. Elizabeth My Dear
7. (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister
8. Made of Stone
9. Shoot You Down
10. This is the One
11. I Am the Resurrection
DISC 2:
1. Elephant Stone [12" Version]
2. Full Fathom Five
3. Hardest Thing In the World, The
4. Going Down
5. Guernica
6. Mersey Paradise
7. Standing Here
8. Simone
9. Fools Gold [Full Length]
10. What the World is Waiting For
11. One Love [Full Length]
12. Something's Burning [Full Length]
13. Where Angels Play
DISC 3:
1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs the Drums
3. Waterfall
4. Bye Bye Badman
5. Sugar Spun Sister
6. Shoot You Down
7. This is the One
8. I Am the Resurrection
9. Elephant Stone
10. Going Down
11. Mersey Paradise
12. Where Angels Play
13. Something's Burning
14. One Love
15. Pearl Bastard
16. [Untitled]
17. [Untitled]
18. [Untitled]
19. [Untitled]
20. [Untitled]
DISC 4:
1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs the Drums
3. Waterfall
4. Don't Stop
5. Bye Bye Bad Man
6. Elizabeth My Dear
7. (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister
8. Made of Stone
9. Shoot You Down
10. This is the One
11. I Am the Resurrection
DISC 5:
1. Fools Gold
2. What the World is Waiting For
3. One Love
4. Something's Burning
5. Where Angels Play
DISC 6:
1. Elephant Stone
2. Full Fathom Five
3. Hardest Thing, The
4. Going Down
5. Guernica
6. Morsey Paradise
7. Standing Here
8. Simone
DISC 7:
1. Blackpool Empress Ballroom Live - (live)
2. Waterfall [Video]
3. Fools Gold [Video]
4. I Wanna Be Adored [Video]
5. One Love [Video]
6. She Bangs the Drums [Video]
7. Standing There [Video]
DISC 8:
1. Stone Roses: the Stone Roses, The
2. Stone Roses: Extras, The
3. Stone Roses: the Lost Demons, The
4. 5 Previously Unheard Backwards Tracks: Untitled 1/Untitled 2/Untitled 3/Untitled 4/Untitled 5
5. Videos: Waterfall/Fools Gold/I Wanna Be Adored/One Love/She Bangs the Drums/Standing Here
6. Up At Sawmills: the Making of Fools Gold
7. Wallpapers
8. 4 X Brand New Ringtones
9. 48 Page Digital Booklet
| Details | | Producer: | John Leckie | | Distributor: | Sony Music Entertainment | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Ian Brown (vocals); Alan Wren (drums, background vocals).
Audio Remasterers: Ian Brown ; John Leckie.
Liner Note Authors: Tom Hingley; John Robb; Rob Harvey; Tim Healey; Mark Morriss; Graeme Park; Caroline McKay; Jon McClure; Steve Adge; Robin Turner; Pete Garner; Paul Moody; Nick Repton; Martin Coogan; Mark Moore; Luke Bainbridge; Liam Fray; Kyle Falconer; Kevin Cummings; Keiren Webster; Jon Savage; Jon DaSilva; Jimmy Mudriczki; Jeff Barrett; James Endeacott; Ian Tilton; Gary Aspden; Emily Eavis; Clint Boon; Andy Burnham; Alan Wren; Damon Gough; Daryl Smith; Gary Mounfield; Geoff Travis; Guy Garvey; Ian Brown ; John Leckie; Johnny Jay; Liam Gallagher; Alex Paterson; Mark Ronson; Matthew Priest; Mike Joyce; Mike Pickering; Miles Hunt; Nigel Clark; Noel Gallagher; Paul Ryder; Pete Wylie; Peter Hook; Richard Ashcroft; Richard Norris; Stella ; Terry Christian; Aziz Ibrahim; Tim Burgess; Tony Wilson ; Will Sergeant; Yan; Bob Stanley; Dave Simpson; Bobby Gillespie; Danny McNamara; Greg Wilson; Captain Sensible; Brian Cannon.
Recording information: Peter Hook's Studio; John Squire's Ports-Studio; Stockport; Manchester; Coconut Grove (1988-1989).
Photographers: Kevin Cummings; Ian Tilton; Ed Cowburn; The Stone Roses.
Routinely named as the greatest British album of the past 20 years in British music mag polls, sometimes rivaling such sacred cows as REVOLVER whenever those publications decide to do a Greatest Albums Ever list, THE STONE ROSES remains one of those classic albums that somehow defies translation across the pond. To be sure, it's not that the British overrate the Stone Roses. Rather, it's that the U.S., apart from some anglophiles and Gen-Xers, missed the golden moment when the Stone Roses were the best band in the world, capturing a crystalline moment where nostalgia for the Summer of Love refracted through the prism of burgeoning acid house. Unlike the Happy Mondays, the Stone Roses weren't really immersed in the pulsating E-underworld of raves, but their music was certainly informed by this new thumping psychedelia as much as it was by the '60s jangle, which is why THE STONE ROSES can feel somewhat out of time even as it thoroughly, undeniably is about its moment.
That timelessness is one of the chief reasons THE STONE ROSES endures as a modern classic and why it's been given this spectacular 20th Anniversary reissue. There are multiple editions, all of interest: a basic remastered single-disc, an extensive two-disc/one-DVD set that pairs the original album with a "Lost Demos" CD and video of a live show from Blackpool Empress Ballroom, then finally, a gargantuan set that has all this, plus another disc that rounds up the non-LP singles and B-sides as well as more extensive liner notes, art prints, and a USB disc with unreleased backwards tracks, music videos, and other collector's treats. All this is a fanatics treasure, and there is quite a bit of musical worth here too, especially on the B-sides, which may have already been reissued on Made of Stone but is nice to have paired here. Still, the main revelation of the "Lost Demos" is how perfect John Leckie's production of The Stone Roses is. On these demos, the songs are firmly intact but the colors are muted, and Ian Brown's notoriously wobbly vocals are quite shaky; they are clearly a blueprint, not a final product. Listening to the full album after the demos, THE STONE ROSES seems even more wondrous: Leckie coaxed the right performances out of all four members, letting Mani and Reni lock into a muscular, fluid groove, encouraging John Squire to paint as vividly with his guitar as he did in his artwork, finding a way for Ian Brown to seem swaggering and spectral simultaneously, a resurrection whose adoration was an inevitability. For longtime fans, this is reason enough to dig into this deluxe anniversary edition, and for those who have never known, there's no better place to get enchanted
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