Band: The Stone Roses (Manchester, UK) Active: 1983–1996, 2011–2017 Single: One Love – non-album single B-side: Something’s Burning Released: 2 July 1990 – 30 years ago today Score: #4 in the UK
1. ‘Play Safe’ by IGGY POP Let’s play safe / I never knew how / How to play safe / You told me how
2. ‘Safety Dance by MEN WITHOUT HATS We can dance, we can dance everything out control / We can dance doing it wall to wall
3. ‘If You Tolerate This Then You’re Children Will Be Next’ by the MANICS If you tolerate this then your children will be next, will be next, will be next, will be next
4. ‘Back Home’ by GOLDEN EARRING People wonder why I’m going back home / Just the place where I belong / Back home
5. ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ by THE VERVE I never pray / But tonight I’m on my knees / I need some sounds that recognize the pain in me
6. ‘Home’ by EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS Home, let me come home / Home is wherever I’m with you
7. ‘Come Home’ by JAMES This is a testing time when the choice is mine / Am I a fool for love or foolish with desire
8. ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ by LIVERPOOL FANS When you walk through a storm / Hold your head up high / And don’t be afraid of the dark
9. ‘All For One’ by THE STONE ROSES All for one, one for all / If we take a stand, we shall not fall
10. ‘Let There Be Love‘ by OASIS Who stole the soul from the sun in a world come undone at the seams? / Let there be love
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
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.
It was the Madchester era. It seemed like all great bands at the time came out of that buzzing city up north, called Manchester, the town of 24 Hour Party People.
Two of the biggest bands on the scene, THE STONE ROSES and HAPPY MONDAYS even performed on the same edition of the legendary BBC music programme Top Of The Pops. It happened on 30 November 1989, 30 years ago.
The Stone Roses played their greatest single success, the awesome trippy ‘Fool’s Gold’
and Happy Mondays, with surprising special guest, the late great Kirsty MacColl played ‘Hallelujah’ from their Madchester Rave OnEP. Time to watch some cool moves…
Band: The Stone Roses Song: Fools Gold / Although It wasn’t perceived
that way by the public this was a double A-side single
with What The World Is Waiting For as the second track Released: 13 November 1989, 30 years ago today via
their first, independent, label Silverstone Records Note 1: There were 2 versions available of ‘Fools Gold‘.
A 4.15-minute one and an extended version of 9.53 Note 2: It was a stand-alone single, but appeared on
certain non-UK versions of their self-titled debut LP Note 3: ‘Fools Gold‘ stayed in the UK Singles Chart
for fourteen weeks, peaking at #8