1 July 2025
Ian Brown about that second and final Stone Roses album that took 5 years
to record/release because of ongoing legal battles between record labels
Not as bad as he says, to my ears.
(Image on top: cover of his album ‘Unfinished Monkey Business’)
13 January 2025
Band: THE STONE ROSES
1983–1996, 2011–2017.
Their self-titled debut LP still is one
of the best debuts ever to TUTV’s ears.
Track: DRIVING SOUTH
Album: Second Coming
A monster riff that Jimmy Page
could have made up for Led Zep.
Top singles from the past
21 November 2024
Band: THE STONE ROSES
Who: Manchester’s indie heroes who made one
of the best-ever debut LP’s (1989) in my book.
Active: 1983–1996, 2011–2017 / 2 studio LPs.
Single: LOVE SPREADS
5 years (because of legal label battles, drugs, too much money, etc)
after their debut longplayer the lazy bastards came up with this new
rad single as the harbinger for their sophomore album Second Coming.
Its lyrics are a telling of the Passion of Christ, reinterpreting
Jesus as a black woman. The song peaked at #2 in the UK.
Let the love spread.
TSR: Story – Discography
20 September 2024
Band: THE STONES ROSES
Track: DRIVING SOUTH
Album: SECOND COMING
Their 2nd and final LP, released in 1994.
Guitarist John Squire always was/is a Jimmy Page fan.
This smoking steamroller is solid proof.
Daily electricity to load your batteries
27 May 2024
Photo by Bart Verhelst
Belgian singer-songwriter WOLF VAN WYMEERSH released his excellent solo debut album The Early Years two years ago. A couple of singles followed and now with new track SECOND COMING he offers his first music of the year.
‘Second Coming’ is a hauntingly powerful anthem that delves deep into the shadows of the human psyche. “Sick like a whore, mad like a dog,” Wolf exclaims, capturing the despair of a world on the brink of the abyss. But amid the chaos, there is a glimmer of hope, a refusal to succumb to the darkness that threatens to consume us all.
TUTV: One of the most poignant compositions Vanwymeersch ever wrote. Capricious, bone-chilling, emotionally intense and vocally stirring. The evocative acoustic first part swells slowly but surely into a wall-of-sound eruption that emphasises the dark dynamics at play here. Second Coming is an erratic mind-twister, a striking stroke.
In the 5 of the morning
In the 6 of the moon
is where your 7 died
’cause the 7 lied
I was a morning child
and now I’m a night
howling at the moon
not a second too soon
’cause the beast has arrived
we all know his name
it’s getting very vile now
it’s getting really late
I’ve sick like a whore
mad like a dog
oh my love, I know that the time is short
oh my love, I know that your sun is bound to fade
The beast has arrived
His number we all share
In the code of the money
In the bankers’ mistakes
The beast has arrived now
we all know his name
It’s turned out very sick now
it’s getting really late
sick like a whore
mad like a dog
oh my love, I know that the time is short
sick like a whore
mad like a dog
oh my love, the rumours grow that your sun is bound to fade
for your friends are arriving but at the wrong gate
where the priest are conspiring for a new money fate
The beast has arrived
in the industry of war
in the industry of poverty
In the bankers’ mistakes
The beast has arrived
we all know his name
it’s getting really vile now
it’s getting really late
.
WV: Instagram
Top singles from the past…
27 February 2020
Band: The Stone Roses
Single: Ten Storey Love Song – written by John Squire
B-sides: Ride On on 7″ and Ride On
and Moses (an instrumental) on CD
Released: 27 February 1995 – 25 years ago today
Album: Second Coming
Score: The single reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart
Here’s the original clip…
THE STONES ROSES: Facebook
5 December 2019
Today 25 years ago, on 5 December 1994, Manchester’s legends THE STONE ROSES released their second and final album titled biblically’ SECOND COMING‘. It came more than 5 years after their sensational self-titled debut LP, their magnum opus, all killers no fillers. The delay was due to a lengthy legal dispute with their first record label Silverstone Records, the fact that they were too busy spending the big advance money they got from their new, major label Geffen Records, but most of all there was the immense pressure
on the band to make another masterpiece.
Despite top tracks such as ‘Driving South’, ‘Ten Storey Love Song’, ‘Love Spreads’, ‘Your Star
Will Shine’ and ‘Begging You’ the longplayer failed to meet the high musical expectations and the critics weren’t impressed. Yet the record peaked at #4 on the UK Chart and sold over 1 million copies worldwide.
Here are the three singles…
– LOVE SPREADS –
– TEN STOREY LOVE SONG –
– BEGGING YOU –
Album in full…
Back sleeve
From ‘Love Spreads‘ by The Stone Roses
Here’s the cracker in full…
From their 1994 ‘Second Coming’ album. You can stream it here
