I've been casing your joint for the best years of my life: The Stone Roses - Second Coming poll

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Love Spreads

I'm concluding that this record is not all that great, tbh. That's the only track from it I would be interesting in hearing again. How Do You Sleep is sort of nice, I suppose

i love this album, though it can't touch their debut it's still a great album. so hard for me to even get my head around these songs that i have no idea what to vote for.

"Ten Storey Lovesong" is about a zillion times better than anything else on this otherwise very disappointing album.

I bought it on LP at the time, didn't like it that much.

Eventually, bought it on CD, and liked it.

I don't know why that is..

Anyway, in summary:

1) I liked the debut a bit less than everyone else seemed to
2) I liked "The Second Coming" a lot more than most people seemed to.
3) I don't know which album I like more, but I suspect it might well be "The Second Coming"

Voted track 1.

Voted How Do You Sleep, just ahead of Ten Storey Love Song and after all this time I never knew of the existence of The Foz - will go home & check it out. I just remember those extra tracks used to piss me off. Put there to discourage random/shuffle I guess or is there a proper explanation?

Voted Begging You, which still feels epochal to me. Also love Breaking Into Heaven, Love Spreads. Quite like How Do You Sleep. Always enjoyed the musicianship of Daybreak.

Don't bother checking out The Foz, your life will not be improved.

Begging You is pretty great, but I heard it in a dance club once and it sounded terrible. I like Tears and Breaking Into Heaven in patches, and the playing can be excellent elsewhere, but this is Love Spreads by a distance.

your star will shine is the only song here i've heard and it is a fucking seminal song of my high school days.

Breaking into heaven was the soundtrack to one of the best sexual encounters I've had in my life... so that one.

lol

http://noputhyfooting.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/big-papa-brando-apocalypse-now.jpg

who is that?

also love Moka's story, that song is over 11 minutes long...lol.

that's moka's sexual encounter

haha

man, 1 SB for the poll and a second SB for "who is that?"

i really have no idea who that is?

ok, figured it out. i think it was the no hair thing that threw me for a loop.

nothing wrong with this poll, btw.

that's true anyway, it's probably me who should gtfo of ilm rather than the lamer indie preservation society who've murdered it.

that was serious btw

"the horror"

^^^

Begging You. But I haven't heard this in centuries.

Working from home today so have just stuck this on the big living room hifi for the first time in an age. God it sounds good. They could fucking groove.

Voted The Foz.

"My suggest ban sister..."

i found this in my ticket book, it never happened:

Stone Rose garden: Stone Roses, the highly acclaimed English band that piqued the interest of Americans in the Manchester sound two years ago with its debut album, plans to play juge arenas on its first American tour. Manager Gareth Evans told the British pop magazine NME that the group wanted to hedline 15,000-plus seaters including New York's Madison Square Garden and LA's Great Western Forum. NME quoted "an inside source" as saying a previously scheduled Roses tour, including a date at Hollywood Hight School, was nixed "because America didn't deserve them." The Roses will need luck to put bodies in those seats. Because of ligal wrangling with its label, RCA-distributed Sivertone, its second album has been delayed and the group's profile has been low. Other Manchester bands, such as Happy Mondays and Charlatans U.K. have grabbed tghe spotlight. The Hollywood office of RCA Reconds knows nothing about the proposed tour Cary Darling/The Register

i finally saw The Stone Roses on Monday May 29,1995 at the Hollywood Palladium which has about 4000 person or so capacity.

key part of that spiel is 'Gareth Evans..'. nothing he ever promised came to much.
saw them at at Bridlington Spa in '95, an astonishing 5 years and a few months after the last English gig at Spike Island. was incredible, like a religious thing; grown men in tears all over the place, never seen anything like it.

anyway...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpFSyXLMgEI

Ugh why did they take that approach? A bit of arrogance works well in Britain where they need you; try the same thing in America, unless you're already Guns N Roses, and you get squashed.

I saw them at Whitley Bay on that tour. Obviously Squire was good, but I remember Robbie Maddox being excellent.

And I saw them at Reading Festival......(dots to infinity)......

so i decided to vote for "Breaking into Heaven."

Voted Tears; yes, its a zeppelin rip, but a darn good one

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great album. would've voted Your Star Will Shine if I'd seen it - totally great acoustic Zep homage. actually most of this album is a totally great Zep homage, with the exception of the blatant Stairway to Heaven bite (that would be "Tears" who voted for that shit)

still love this album.

really hope one day it gets appreciated

46 total votes with every song getting at least one vote. i had a feeling that votes would be spread out as it seemed everyone in this thread had a different song that they were going to vote for.

laughing that the bonus song got two votes.

"Vote Spreads"...

I think (I could be wrong) that "Good Times" is the only one I dislike, it seems too much an obvious "can guess how it goes from reading the title" type song, and once past 2 mins, it's done really.

The only good song on the album was robbed.

Yeah, I agree with Geir. Straight To The Man deserves a bit of respect.

Y'know, I think I listen to this one far more than the debut these days... also feel Turns Into Stone holds up as a decent album in its own right.

I've heard "Breaking Into Heaven"by twice now at Fuddrucker's, and that kind of freaks me out.

Listened to this last night. Musicianship = top notch, but my god, the lyrics are an unredeemable pile of cliched hoary rock bollocks, especially after the debut album. It's like a satire on rock cliches. Sadly I don't think that's what they were aiming for.

And the songwriting is... patchy.

Aye it's bloated, but goddamn, Squires' solo around the 10-minute mark in Breaking into Heaven is one of my absolute favourite things.

I still think there's some good stuff on this - I love the groove on 'Daybreak' even if Brown's vocal makes me wince.

I like Begging You a lot

This is 30 years old this month.

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/the_worst_sophomore_slump_in_rock_history_30_years_later_was_this_album_really_that_bad-172689

I probably haven't listened to this since this poll.