[cometogether]

Originally Posted by loyatemu

the best you can say about it is that it's not as bad as its reputation.

There isn't a single song on it that's as good as anything on the first album (or on "Turns into Stone" for that matter).

Love Spreads is up there with their best

[Chazz Michael Michaels]

Originally Posted by loyatemu

the best you can say about it is that it's not as bad as its reputation.

There isn't a single song on it that's as good as anything on the first album (or on "Turns into Stone" for that matter).

A staggeringly silly statement. If it were up to people like you, they never would have broken up and churned out the same old Byrdsy style music over and over and over and over and over...

SC is an awesome album, great mixture of funk and Zep-rock.

[Chazz Michael Michaels]

Originally Posted by cometogether

Love Spreads is up there with their best

Yup, as good as anything they've done. Also great is Tears, Driving South, Breaking into Heaven, Good Times, Ten Storey. Great album. The media said it was bad, therefore some people can't see beyond what the papers tell them to think, but if one listens to it impartially, you can hear a quality piece of work.

[cometogether]

Originally Posted by Chazz Michael Michaels

Yup, as good as anything they've done. Also great is Tears, Driving South, Breaking into Heaven, Good Times, Ten Storey. Great album. The media said it was bad, therefore some people can't see beyond what the papers tell them to think, but if one listens to it impartially, you can hear a quality piece of work.

Supposedly the media were pissed off that the Roses never gave an interview at all for the time between the last gig in 1990 and the album coming out, and the first interview they did was with the Big Issue.

[Chazz Michael Michaels]

Originally Posted by cometogether

Supposedly the media were pissed off that the Roses never gave an interview at all for the time between the last gig in 1990 and the album coming out, and the first interview they did was with the Big Issue.

That's true.

[flasher0030]

I was probably in the more unusual position where Second Coming was the album that got me into the Stone Roses. I thought it was fabalous. About 3 fillers, and they were very listenable.

I listened to the album last night again, and I think it was ahead of it's time with some of the multi-layered instrumentals on it.

I then got the self-titled debut, which obviously is a classic. I don't think the SC is better than the debut, but there is something more "listenable" to it over the passing of time. SC doesn't have stand out classics like Adored, Resurrections, Elephant Stone. But Love Spreads makes up for that.

Anyway, 2 incredible albums from the band which I consider are almost on par with each other.

I have heard many critisisms on how could a band gain such credibility with just 2 albums. But I would much rather listen to (approx) 20 excellant songs and not get sick of listening to them, than listening to a large catelogue of a band like AC/DC which have some good songs but a hell of a lot of mediocre tunes.

[Chazz Michael Michaels]

Originally Posted by flasher0030

I was probably in the more unusual position where Second Coming was the album that got me into the Stone Roses. I thought it was fabalous. About 3 fillers, and they were very listenable.

I listened to the album last night again, and I think it was ahead of it's time with some of the multi-layered instrumentals on it.

I then got the self-titled debut, which obviously is a classic. I don't think the SC is better than the debut, but there is something more "listenable" to it over the passing of time. SC doesn't have stand out classics like Adored, Resurrections, Elephant Stone. But Love Spreads makes up for that.

Anyway, 2 incredible albums from the band which I consider are almost on par with each other.

I have heard many critisisms on how could a band gain such credibility with just 2 albums. But I would much rather listen to (approx) 20 excellant songs and not get sick of listening to them, than listening to a large catelogue of a band like AC/DC which have some good songs but a hell of a lot of mediocre tunes.

I read a review of the Dublin concert where he wrote that it felt like a greatest hits collection from a band with several albums, not just two and some b-sides. Their quality of work was so high.

[Prettyblack]

SC always reminds me of Christmas, cos I got it at Christmas when it came out, so happy memories and I listen to it ever year at that time of the year.

It does have some great stuff - Breaking Into Heaven, Daybreak, Love Spreads, Begging You - if they did stuff like that on their third album that would be great.

There's no reason why it wouldn't be a good album - you've got good songwriters and lyricists in Brown and Squire, Reni on the drums and I'm sure it'd be produced to sound huge.

I can imagine the artwork being similar to the recent gig / website artwork, the big letters, would be very cool!

I'm looking forward to it.

[loyatemu]

Originally Posted by cometogether

Love Spreads is up there with their best

when I heard it after 5 years of waiting I thought "FFS this sounds like the Black Crowes". I love Led Zep - I listen to them frequently, I never listen to "Second Coming". Its not terrible, it just mediocre, but obviously that's just, like, my opinion, man.

[loyatemu]

Originally Posted by Chazz Michael Michaels

A staggeringly silly statement. If it were up to people like you, they never would have broken up and churned out the same old Byrdsy style music over and over and over and over and over...

SC is an awesome album, great mixture of funk and Zep-rock.

If it were up to people like you they wouldn't have broken up in '96 and their next record would've been the Seahorses album with Brown on vocals...

I'm not saying they should've kept doing the same thing, but second-rate Zep knock-offs was not a good direction to go in.

[Cienciano]

Originally Posted by Seedy Arling

....possible tarnish their back catalogue by releasing a potential turd of a new album?

I don't agree with that. If the new album is crap, i'll still enjoy the the old ones just as much.

At first I though "don't do it!!", but now I'm thinking, go for it, what have they got to lose?