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.
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