The Stone Roses 20th Anniversary [Original recording remastered, Special Edition]

Stone Roses | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 8, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Special Edition
• Label: Sony Legacy
• ASIN: B002DKGWVQ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,140 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #13 in Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Shoegazing
  • #58 in Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative > Britpop

Track Listings

1. I Wanna Be Adored

2. She Bangs the Drums

3. Waterfall

4. Don't Stop

5. Bye Bye Badman

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. Fools Gold [*]

Editorial Reviews

Meshing simple, exceedingly catchy hooks with rhythmic beats, The Stones Roses led the UK's so-called "Madchester" scene straight into the U.S. with their eponymous debut. The Stone Roses achieved one of the most successful fusions of classic pop songwriting and acid house culture, and managed to snare fans from both genres. By the end of 1989, their debut had landed on many a top-ten list for that year; NME even declared it "The Greatest Album Of All Time."

Twenty years from the moment when four Manchester musicians stepped onto the stage of the Blackpool Empress Ballroom for what would become a legendary gig, Silvertone/Legacy is set to re-release the classic album that is THE STONE ROSES in 4 new formats. Over two decades, the impact of the band's debut album has increased exponentially, inspiring musicians to form bands, marking a re-engagement of guitar music with the mainstream, and creating a youth culture that retains its influence across music, fashion, politics and art to this day.

THE STONE ROSES: SPECIAL EDITION features the remastered original UK album plus the full-length version of "Fool's Gold" as a bonus track (1 CD)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Madchester's Finest, November 13, 2011

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This review is from: The Stone Roses 20th Anniversary (Audio CD)

Raw and churning and aggressive, (the) Pixies' "Doolittle" emerged on this side of the Atlantic as yet another ancestral focal point for the grunge movement in 1989. Subversively poppy, hook-laden, and with big stinky grooves, The Stone Roses' eponymous full-length debut that same year in Great Britain emerged as the spear-carrier of the Madchester scene, combining psychedelically-tinged rock with heavily danceable rhythms. Both CD's received a significant amount of airplay on truly alternative radio stations (before "alternative" came to mean corporately- sponsored modern rock programmed by super computers). Both CD's are considered to be masterpieces of post-punk pop, yet The Stone Roses benefited from a stateside release in 1990 that allowed them to shift many more units just as "Doolittle" was playing out, suddenly embraced by newly-emerging modern-rock stations and seen as heralds of The Next Big Thing.

I can't really qualitatively compare "Doolittle" with "The Stone Roses"; they represent two different sub-genres of music. But I think I can qualitatively compare "The Stone Roses" with the rest of the Madchester scene, and based on what I heard then and continue to hear to this day I can tell you that out of all of the music released from that era, this one is the most enduring. If you're just coming to The Stone Roses, know this; the band knew how to sell a groove. So heavily integrated together that they might well have been linked through telepathy, drummer Reni and bassist Mani consistently created supple, heavy, complex interlocking rhythms that set the band apart from the rest of the Madchester pack, allowing texturally-driven guitarist John Squire to overlay his muscular, sinuous, arpeggiated, and, at times, aggressively funky riffing over a heavy spine that nevertheless bent into all sorts of elastic positions.

Some of the tracks have an almost anthemic feel, building immediately toward crescendo or sustained explosive release ("Don't Stop" and "This Is The One")while others reach that plateau in a more gradual build-up of dynamic tension ( "I Wanna Be Adored","Made Of Stone", "Waterfall" , "I Am The Resurrection") while others simmer heavily or percolate ("Fool's Gold", "Elephant Stone" and "Shoot You Down"). No track seem to have more of a ubiquitous presence on modern rock airwaves in `90 than "Fool's Gold", which seemed to be a universal feature on every playlist. Several other cuts also received quite a bit of exposure; "I Wanna Be Adored", "She Bangs The Drums", "Elephant Stone", "Waterfall", and "Shoot You Down" all retain presence as classics today as a result.

And I'm not really an audiophile, so while this review is appearing under the re-mastered version, its primary purpose is informative w/r/t/ the relative strength of the content, rather than whether or not the sound has been definitively improved (or not), and this was (and remains) a muscular release. I strongly recommend buying it.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER PLACE, August 16, 2011

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This review is from: The Stone Roses 20th Anniversary (Audio CD)

When this album was a big deal I didn't even know it existed. Our first child took up any music time that used to be. Now she's in graduate school and the Stone Roses play around here quite a bit. Even being from another time and another place this music is powerful stuff. This remastered edition is the straight record with one bonus track--Fool's Gold. Granted, the Deluxe version has an extra disc of recordings and a 3rd disc dvd of their famous concert. Much more fun I'm sure. Lately though, I've purchased a couple of remasters without all the bonus historical theater and been quite happy with a better version of the album I knew so well. As far as being "the greatest album of all time" (NME) I personally don't think that recording is here yet, but it is thoroughly amazing. I love listening and dancing with it--it chases away all the geezeritis--for a while. Then I put it on again. Fool's Gold was made for dancing.