Most overrated band ever - The Stone Roses

HurlingRanker wrote: »

So pretty much any band that's ever had a modicum of mainstream success is overrated according to this thread. Thread should be renamed "Bands you don't like that many other people do"

Couldn't agree more. I like the stone roses, but I wouldn't say that they were underrated. I don't think they were big enough to to be overrated to begin with. Back on track, It feels sometimes like I'm the only person on the planet who can't stand Bob Dylan but I could hardly say he's overrated.

I have to say of the two of them I actually prefer Liam. Noel has this reputation of being Mr. Straight Talk, but I think there's a bit of playing to the gallery in it: Liam always seems a bit more honest to me - and that might mean a lot of the time he's honestly stupid, but I find it a bit endearing.

As for the current musical output of the two of them - they both suck, hard!

Stone Roses, did have great tunes, music & songs around the time of their first LP, most of the 2nd LP sucks, just a Led Zeppelin copy. :mad:

However although many say Ian Brown is a great front man, the fella can't sing which defeats the whole point, his solo material has a few decent songs but his voice still hasn't improved, evidenced over the last few years on their comeback tours.

30 years plus as a singer & he still sounds ****e,why doesn't he get some signing lessons he can afford it! Yet his fans, including some of my friends try to say it doesn't matter because all the crowd sings along anyway at the reunion gigs. You're paying to see them & you do the singing because the singer is bad?

Even Bobby Gillespie, Primal Scream & Shaun Ryder, Happy Mondays, neither of whom are great singers sing better than Ian Brown & have backing singers to beef up the vocals. Plus they actually have improved over the years.

Couldn't agree more. The Stone Roses were a seminal band. Absolutely fantastic musicians. Ian Brown wasn't the greatest singer in the world but he oozed style and charisma.
The Second Coming is a masterpiece and they inspired a whoie new genre of music.
People dressed like them and it sparked a whole movement. Anybody who doesn't appreciate their music must be deaf!

The Golden Miller wrote: »

Not sure the Stone Roses were even that good in general tbh, they just had that moment in time where it all came together, they reached that zenith without even knowing. They couldn't even get close to repeating it themselves.

But when they had it there was a magic there, that I can't quite put my finger on. I'm a big Who, Blur, Stones, Kinks, Oasis, Pink Floyd etc fan, but something about the Stone Roses first album surpassed anything before or since imo, just magic. Never get tired of the album, not one weak moment, and the b-sides just add to the albums brilliance, not drag it down. Not one weak song over that period, don't think any band can say they never had a weak song, even at their best. That album is the pinnacle of contemporary music imo, and stands alone at the top by a distance

You're preaching to the choir Golden, I never tire of that album either. I can think of two other bands who hit the same musical heights for me and they are Radiohead and Blur.
Genuis. Radiohead have hit every note it's possible to hit and have created and thrown some new ones into the mix while they're at it.
Unbelievable talent.
When i was a teenager I first heard Parklife (hence the username), and it made me sit up and pay attention. They had such a huge impact on my life. Damon Albarn can do no wrong in my eyes from his Blur days to the Gorrilaz to his solo work. Unreal.

PTH2009 wrote: »

Saw The Stone Roses a few years back, it was a great show more or so for the atmosphere then Ian Brown's live vocals which are terrible but the rest of the lads were great

They say the studio makes some people sound great and this can be very much said for Ian Brown

If you want to go to a concert to listen to a great singer go to Michael Buble.

If you want to go to a concert to watch a ballsy, mouthy, don't-give-afcuk-i'll-fight-you character then go to see Ian Brown. A throwback to the good old days.

I was lucky enough the catch the (woeful) end of them at Feile 95 and went on the nastalgia tours with them in 4 different countries when they came back.

I've spent my night watching Glasto from 1999. Compare the bands then - wear whatever they had in the van, yellow crooked teeth, no massive background visuals - to what there is now. Middle class, University educated, perfect skin, perfect teeth, bland, colour by numbers bands, PRd to the nth degree who have the ear of the youth now.

Give me Brown's flat crowing voice any day of the week.

Erik Shin wrote: »

James were arguably the most hyped and overrated band of the last 30 years

"If I hadn't seen such riches, I could live with being poor"

James were an excellent band

Was going to try and say something funny about stone roses but Ian Brown banned the puns!