Stone Roses - Stone Roses LP: What's your favourite track

nlgbbbblth

For space reasons I've left out Elizabeth My Dear....

Ro: maaan!

Made Of Stone

Voted for Sugar Spun Sister, but it really could have been any of 5 or 6 of them...

nlgbbbblth

Waterfall

1989 was such a great year for music and live gigs.

blu_sonic

She Bangs The Drums

i wanted the whole lot

Jonny Arson

Waterfall

She Bangs The Drums has always been my favourite song off that album.

I'm not denying that that album was hugely important at the time but I feel overall that the album is overrated to an extent. Great but not that great.

ghostdancer

She Bangs The Drums

I Wanna Be Adored.


greatest intro to an album ever.

casanova_kid

Shoot You Down

Made Of Stone

SprostonGreen

I Am The Resurrection

Tough one, it could change on a week by week basis. I've gone with This is the one, great song, great Man United anthem.

Nimrod's Son

She Bangs The Drums

ghostdancer wrote:

I Wanna Be Adored.


greatest intro to an album ever.

Nail on the head, old bean.

Earthhorse

Shoot You Down

Made of Stone.

There's something so atmospheric about this track that just makes it stand out. The subject matter is also a little more interesting than a lot of the other songs on the album.

county

Shoot You Down

all class tunes but went for made of stone

Rockee

Yep, all killer no filler! I went for 'I am The Resurrection' The chorus doesnt last too long but I love it...it builds and builds. As I said though, I love the whole album!

Nina_Angelica

She Bangs The Drums

ghostdancer wrote:

I Wanna Be Adored.


greatest intro to an album ever.

I second that!

jonny68

Greatest band and album ever if i had to pick a favourite id choose

I Am The Resurrection

Repli

I Am The Resurrection

This is the one + I am the resurrection - the 2 of them go so well together, amazing tracks
Ian Brown = God

ShriekingSheet

I Am The Resurrection

this is the one

probably one of my favorite songs

total favorite is love spreads though

Tanabe

Waterfall

I'm going for 'She Bangs The Drums'. It's pure perfection in it's entirety. From the very first second of that song, it blasts into your heart & soul & takes you on a wonderful voyage (absolutely incredible for a 3min song)!!

".....I hear my needle hit the groove...& spirals through another day....I hear my song begin to play...Kiss me where the sun don't shine, the past was yours but the future's mine......your all out of time"....

Brilliant lyrics that totally summed up where the Roses were at this point, a whole new wave of ecstacy inspired baggy jeans & t-shirt wearing youth, & all different types of music heads coming together to share the universal sound & language that is The Stone Roses.

You've heard The Beatles made history.
You've heard The Rolling Stones made history.

The Stone Roses made history.

They're up there with 'em, all of 'em.

nlgbbbblth

Waterfall

Tanabe - I see you're in Waterford.

I bought The Stone Roses LP in KG Discs, Waterford the week before my leaving cert started. June 1989.

kc66

Shoot You Down

Made of Stone.
I never got to see them live but it made my night when Ian Brown played loads of Stone Roses songs last year in Carlow (including Made of Stone).
Im surprised nobody has voted for Waterfall (yet). Great song but I suppose it just confirms how good this album is that it hasnt been voted for yet.

Tanabe

Waterfall

nlgbbbblth wrote:

Tanabe - I see you're in Waterford.

I bought The Stone Roses LP in KG Discs, Waterford the week before my leaving cert started. June 1989.

Well boy,

KG Discs - there's a memory! They're now BPM Records (owned by the same lads, Kevin & George)

Proud to say that I have this little gem on vinyl aswell myself, should be worth a few quid not that I will ever part with it!

Johnny_the_fox

She Bangs the Drums/This Is the One/I Am The Resurrection

had to go with these ^

fightin irish

Don't Stop

Waterfall, She bangs the drums, Made of stone.

I suppose waterfall because of the instant memories that come back everytime i play it.

But tbh i think it's a very hard question, Elephant stone i just love.
I first bought ''the stone roses'' in '91 i think, I could probably count on my hands the number of days im didn't listening to it.

It really pains me that they may never play again, Altho Ian brown's voice has deepened so much that even in '95 he struggled alot to capture the original sound(IMO).

nlgbbbblth

Waterfall

Tanabe wrote:

Well boy,

KG Discs - there's a memory! They're now BPM Records (owned by the same lads, Kevin & George)

Proud to say that I have this little gem on vinyl aswell myself, should be worth a few quid not that I will ever part with it!

KG Discs was a great shop back in the late 1980s/early 1990s. I spent a lot of money and time there. Kevin and George are from my hometown New Ross.

Tanabe

Waterfall

nlgbbbblth wrote:

KG Discs was a great shop back in the late 1980s/early 1990s. I spent a lot of money and time there. Kevin and George are from my hometown New Ross.

'Tis a small aul world all the same;) Yes BPM Records is a quality shop now, simply because they have EVERYTHING you want!

plastic membrane

Waterfall

Tanabe wrote:

I'm going for 'She Bangs The Drums'. It's pure perfection in it's entirety. From the very first second of that song, it blasts into your heart & soul & takes you on a wonderful voyage (absolutely incredible for a 3min song)!!

".....I hear my needle hit the groove...& spirals through another day....I hear my song begin to play...Kiss me where the sun don't shine, the past was yours but the future's mine......your all out of time"....

Brilliant lyrics that totally summed up where the Roses were at this point, a whole new wave of ecstacy inspired baggy jeans & t-shirt wearing youth, & all different types of music heads coming together to share the universal sound & language that is The Stone Roses.

You've heard The Beatles made history.
You've heard The Rolling Stones made history.

The Stone Roses made history.

They're up there with 'em, all of 'em.

Nicely put. She Bangs The Drum is still my favorite song of all time. The only problem is the version on The Stone Roses is not as good as the one on The Complete Stone Roses. I've never found out why that is, but the one on CSR is full of more verve and life then the tinny one on TSR. Wierd. love This Is The One too, and the last two minutes of IATR still give me goosebumps...

SprostonGreen

I Am The Resurrection

plastic membrane wrote:

Nicely put. She Bangs The Drum is still my favorite song of all time. The only problem is the version on The Stone Roses is not as good as the one on The Complete Stone Roses. I've never found out why that is, but the one on CSR is full of more verve and life then the tinny one on TSR. ...

Are you sure?

Is that the compilation where all the songs are radio edits?, ie, the hypnotic guitar break is missing from Waterfall. Adored's intro is wittled down by about 1 minute.

plastic membrane

Waterfall

Yeah im pretty sure. I thought it might have been just me until i pointed it out to another Stone Roses nut. He looked like his head was about to explode. It was funny.

retalivity

Waterfall

wtf? i thought elephant stone was on the stone roses. shows what i know. she bangs the drums all the way though

I am the Ressurection = Epic

cinnamon

retalivity wrote:

wtf? i thought elephant stone was on the stone roses. shows what i know. she bangs the drums all the way though

elephant stone was on the US version of the stone roses album as well as fools gold.

zAbbo

(Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister

Bye Bye Badman for some reason, all great though.

nlgbbbblth

Waterfall

cinnamon wrote:

elephant stone was on the US version of the stone roses album as well as fools gold.

The only version that counts is the original UK LP release of April 1989.

dmac8070

She Bangs The Drums

love the slow build up makes me smile every time i hear it

skye

Waterfall

She bangs the drum.....Deadly!!

blastman

Made Of Stone

I was actually living in Manchester when the album came out. Although I didn't appreciate them at the time, it's hard to imagine how important they were to the city at the time.

I voted for Sugar Spun Sister, but it's hard to pick one track.

green bunny

Waterfall

To all you stone roses fans,

The Complete Stone Roses are playing in Temple Bar Music Centre this Sat, May 27th

Beef

Ant they're playin Waterford on the Friday night (26th), in the forum...

http://www.whazon.com/waterford/livemusic.php

Voted for resurrection btw, Blackpool live '89 (DVD) - best version ever!

Omnipresence

"I am the resurrection"

Well thats my fave...

She bangs the drums... close second...

loyatemu

Bye Bye Badman

all great songs - I voted for Don't Stop because its such a cool idea, brilliantly executed. take the previous song, play it backwards and write a new melody over the top.

they tried the same trick a few more times on b-sides but didn't really pull it off.

aidan24326

This Is The One

Shoot you down is a cool song. a little different to their usual style.

Irish Wolf

She Bangs The Drums

nlgbbbblth wrote:

For space reasons I've left out Elizabeth My Dear....

Can I vote for them all........ twice! Hey, what about The Second Coming?! If it must me one, then... I Wanna Be Adored.... cause I do

matu

I Am The Resurrection
the song never seems to end and always leaves you wanting more.

ziggy

Shoot You Down

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GoldieBear

I am the ressurection is a real morning song to get you leaping out of bed!

Dudess

She Bangs The Drums

Impossible to pick, but if I really had to - I Wanna Be Adored. When that bass finally started up after an extra-long feedback break at Feile '95, my eyes filled with tears at the beauty of it.

nlgbbbblth wrote:

1989 was such a great year for music and live gigs.

1989 was the year I came of musical age! I was 11 and listening to Jason, Kylie, Bros and any ****e that Stock, Aitken and Waterman put out. Then, all of a sudden, The Cure released Disintegration. I heard Lovesong and Lullaby and realised, this is music! Then I started listening to The Pixies' Doolittle and The Smiths and New Order. Thank God for older brothers! Jason posters got replaced by Moz and Robert Smith.
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic by The Sundays came out that year also, as did Bona Drag by Morrissey, a great album, unlike some of his stuff afterwards.

Diamondmaker

I am the resurection..the outro being some of the best funk/rock/indie moments ever.. absolute bute!!:)

ianmc38

Repli wrote:

This is the one + I am the resurrection - the 2 of them go so well together, amazing tracks

Agreed. Both are superb.

Repli wrote:

Ian Brown = God

Stupid.

I voted for the resurrection, but I could pick any of 5 or 6 others on a different day. Fnukin great album.

fightin irish

Don't Stop

ziggy67 wrote:

Most underrated Roses song is Standing Here (the other part of the double A side single with She Bangs The Drums). Cracking song!

Absoutley agree with that. If released today it would go number 1 easily.

I remember years ago when i was in a band(kids stuff) I told my mate i wrote a song that i think is good (it was the lyrics to standing here, i knew he never heard it) He was like :eek: :eek: this is f**king amazing. Had to quickly tell the truth:D