The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses [Box]

Artist:

Stone Roses (The)

UPC:

886974303022

See Also:

Brown, Ian

Description:

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.
Personnel: Ian Brown (vocals).
Audio Remasterer: Ian Brown.
Liner Note Authors: John Robb; Ian Tilton; Ian Brown.
Photographers: Kevin Cummings; Ed Cowburn; Ian Tilton; The Stone Roses.
Routinely named as the greatest British album of the past 20 years in British music mag polls, sometimes rivaling such sacred cows as REVOLVER whenever those publications decide to do a Greatest Albums Ever list, THE STONE ROSES remains one of those classic albums that somehow defies translation across the pond. To be sure, it`s not that the British overrate the Stone Roses. Rather, it`s that the U.S., apart from some anglophiles and Gen-Xers, missed the golden moment when the Stone Roses were the best band in the world, capturing a crystalline moment where nostalgia for the Summer of Love refracted through the prism of burgeoning acid house. Unlike the Happy Mondays, the Stone Roses weren`t really immersed in the pulsating E-underworld of raves, but their music was certainly informed by this new thumping psychedelia as much as it was by the `60s jangle, which is why THE STONE ROSES can feel somewhat out of time even as it thoroughly, undeniably is about its moment.
That timelessness is one of the chief reasons THE STONE ROSES endures as a modern classic and why it`s been given this spectacular 20th Anniversary reissue. There are multiple editions, all of interest: a basic remastered single-disc, an extensive two-disc/one-DVD set that pairs the original album with a "Lost Demos" CD and video of a live show from Blackpool Empress Ballroom, then finally, a gargantuan set that has all this, plus another disc that rounds up the non-LP singles and B-sides as well as more extensive liner notes, art prints, and a USB disc with unreleased backwards tracks, music videos, and other collector`s treats. All this is a fanatics treasure, and there is quite a bit of musical worth here too, especially on the B-sides, which may have already been reissued on Made of Stone but is nice to have paired here. Still, the main revelation of the "Lost Demos" is how perfect John Leckie`s production of The Stone Roses is. On these demos, the songs are firmly intact but the colors are muted, and Ian Brown`s notoriously wobbly vocals are quite shaky; they are clearly a blueprint, not a final product. Listening to the full album after the demos, THE STONE ROSES seems even more wondrous: Leckie coaxed the right performances out of all four members, letting Mani and Reni lock into a muscular, fluid groove, encouraging John Squire to paint as vividly with his guitar as he did in his artwork, finding a way for Ian Brown to seem swaggering and spectral simultaneously, a resurrection whose adoration was an inevitability. For longtime fans, this is reason enough to dig into this deluxe anniversary edition, and for those who have never known, there`s no better place to get enchanted

Track Listing:

DISC 1: 20TH ANNIVERSARY REMASTER:

1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs the Drums
3. Waterfall
4. Don`t Stop
5. Bye Bye Bad Man
6. Elizabeth My Dear
7. (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister
8. Made of Stone
9. Shoot You Down
10. This is the One
11. I am the Resurrection
12. Fool`s Gold

DISC 2: THE EXTRAS:

1. Elephant Stone [12" Version]
2. Full Fathom Five
3. Hardest Thing in the World, The
4. Going Down
5. Guernica
6. Mersey Paradise
7. Standing Here
8. Simone
9. Fools Gold [Full Length]
10. What the World is Waiting For
11. One Love [Full Length]
12. Something`s Burning [Full Length]
13. Where Angels Play

DISC 3: THE LOST DEMOS:

1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs the Drums
3. Waterfall
4. Bye Bye Badman
5. Sugar Spun Sister
6. Shoot You Down
7. This is the One
8. I am the Resurrection
9. Elephant Stone
10. Going Down
11. Mersey Paradise
12. Where Angels Play
13. Something`s Burning
14. One Love
15. Pearl Bastard
16. [Untitled]
17. [Untitled]
18. [Untitled]
19. [Untitled]
20. [Untitled]

DISC 4: BLACKPOOL LIVE:

1. I Wanna Be Adored - (live)
2. She Bangs the Drums - (live)
3. Waterfall - (live)
4. Don`t Stop - (live)
5. Bye Bye Bad Man - (live)
6. Elizabeth My Dear - (live)
7. (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister - (live)
8. Made of Stone - (live)
9. Shoot You Down - (live)
10. This is the One - (live)
11. I am the Resurrection - (live)
12. Waterfall (Video)
13. Fool`s Gold (Video)
14. i Wanna Be Adored (Video)
15. One Love (Video)
16. She Bangs The Drums (Video)
17. Standing There (Video)

DISC 5: 20TH ANNIVERSARY REMASTER:

1. Fools Gold [Full Length]
2. What the World is Waiting For
3. One Love [Full Length]
4. Something`s Burning [Full Length]
5. Where Angels Play
6. Elephant Stone [12" Version]
7. Full Fathom Five
8. Hardest Thing in the World, The
9. Going Down
10. Guernica
11. Mersey Paradise
12. Standing Here
13. Simone

DISC 6: THE EXTRAS:

1. Elephant Stone [12" Version]
2. Full Fathom Five
3. Hardest Thing in the World, The
4. Going Down
5. Guernica
6. Mersey Paradise
7. Standing Here
8. Simone
9. Fool`s Gold (Full Length)
10. What The World Is Waiting For
11. One Love (Full Length)
12. Something`s Burning (Full Length)
13. Where Angels Play

DISC 7:

1. Waterfall
2. Fools Gold
3. I Wanna Be Adored
4. One Love
5. She Bangs the Drums
6. Standing There

DISC 8:

1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs the Drums
3. Waterfall
4. Don`t Stop
5. Bye Bye Bad Man
6. Elizabeth My Dear
7. (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister
8. Made of Stone
9. Shoot You Down
10. This is the One
11. I am the Resurrection
12. Elephant Stone [12" Version]
13. Full Fathom Five
14. Hardest Thing in the World, The
15. Going Down
16. Guernica
17. Mersey Paradise
18. Standing Here
19. Simone
20. Fools Gold [Full Length]
21. What the World is Waiting For
22. One Love [Full Length]
23. Something`s Burning [Full Length]
24. Where Angels Play
25. I Wanna Be Adored
26. She Bangs the Drums
27. Waterfall
28. Bye Bye Badman
29. Sugar Spun Sister
30. Shoot You Down
31. This is the One
32. I am the Resurrection
33. Elephant Stone
34. Going Down
35. Mersey Paradise
36. Where Angels Play
37. Something`s Burning
38. One Love
39. Pearl Bastard
40. [Untitled]
41. [Untitled]
42. [Untitled]
43. [Untitled]
44. [Untitled]
45. Untitled 1
46. Untitled 2
47. Untitled 3
48. Untitled 4
49. Untitled 5
50. Waterfall
51. Fools Gold
52. I Wanna Be Adored
53. One Love
54. She Bangs the Drums
55. Standing Here
56. [Bonus Material]

Album Information

Release Date:

01/01/2009

Type:

Boxed Set

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Alternative

Label:

Legacy

Catalog Number:

430302

Original Release Year:

1989

# of Discs:

8

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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