Track Listing
1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs the Drums
3. Elephant Stone
4. Waterfall
5. Don't Stop
6. Bye Bye Bad Man
7. Elizabeth My Dear
8. Sugar Spun Sister, (Song For)
9. Made of Stone
10. Shoot You Down
11. This Is the One
12. I Am the Ressurection
13. Fool's Gold
| Details | | Playing Time: | 48 min. | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
The Stone Roses: Ian Brown (vocals); John Squire (guitar); Gary Mounfield (bass); Reni (drums, background vocals).
Producers: John Leckie, Peter Hook, Paul Schroeder, Garage Flowers.
Manchester's most likely to, who escaped independent status after a lengthy court battle, signed to Geffen and then promptly disappeared for five years. They came back, and then went pop. Quite simply, their debut album is a superlative record. A Byrds-like listlessness caused listeners to swoon in wonder and slip quietly beneath the surface. 'Waterfall' and 'She Bangs The Drums' were sublime and quietly brilliant, 'I Wanna Be Adored' teased with its epic intro, and, of course, created incredible and impossible pressure for that all-important second album. A classic album, already seen as one of the finest records of the '80s.
Editorial Reviews
Ranked #1 among the 50 Greatest Albums Of The '80s - ...a shining embodiment of everything rock music should be: arrogant, elegantly crafted and imbued with a rare ability to make its listener feel mighty...
NME (09/25/1993)
Ranked #5 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
NME (10/02/1993)
Ranked #49 in AP's list of the 'Top 99 Of '85-'95' - ...The album that sent devotees of the baggy trouser (not to mention a number of others) into delirium. For once, all the hype was right; this is a record that lasts...
Alternative Press (07/01/1995)
Ranked #29 in Q's 100 Greatest British Albums
Q (06/01/2000)
5 stars out of 5 - ...pure pop alchemy....[it] still fascinates....it remains clear that here was a band - and an album - in a million.
Q (12/01/1999)
...Set the tone for rock music in the '90s; nostalgic and unable or unwilling to communicate any message except feed your head, question nothing, look elegantly vacant....this really is a record you need to own...
Mojo (12/01/1999)
Ranked #7 in Q's Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime
Q (10/01/2001)
Ranked #49 in AP's list of the 'Top 99 Of '85-'95' - ...The album that sent devotees of the baggy trouser (not to mention a number of others) into delirium. For once, all the hype was right; this is a record that lasts...
Alternative Press (07/01/1995)
[T]his was '60s psychedelia shot through with tight, muscular tunes.
Spin
4 stars out of 5 -- It's a tremendous debut....It's unlikely to replicate the mercurial flash of time and place that still glitters from this record.
Q
4 stars out of 5 -- The debut album by the Stone Roses remains a blast of magnificent arrogance, a fusion of Sixties-pop sparkle and the blown-mind drive of U.K. rave culture.
Rolling Stone
Combining bowl cuts and dance beats, these neo-psych Mancunians dropped one of rock's greatest debuts in '89...
Spin
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