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THE STONE ROSES
'THE STONE ROSES'
LIMITED, COLOURED, NUMBERED, 180GRAM VINYL  HOUSED IN SILVER FOIL SLEEVE REMASTERED FROM ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES

Some albums hold the blueprint for something bigger than can be contained on twelve inches of vinyl; the self-titled debut album by The Stone Roses is one of them. Despite clocking in at less than fifty minutes long, it’s a record that shaped the next two-and-a-half decades of British music.

Released in 1989, The Stone Roses was a fusion of rock music and the nascent rave scene in the group’s native Manchester. For a period of a few years, the industrial English city that gave us Joy Division, The Fall and The Smiths was home to a drug-fueled, club-based scene that earned the town a new nickname - Madchester. Falling squarely in that point of transition, The Stone Roses created guitar music that made people dance, fostering the baggy scene that paved the way to Britpop and Manchester’s next mega band, Oasis.

The Stone Roses were the full package: they had the tough demeanor and insular mentality of any group of friends from a rugged city, they had a unique look comprised of bucket hats, Adidas sportswear, baggy jeans, and oversized T-shirts, and they talked a mean fight in interviews. But musically they were groaning with talent - Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfied (bass) and Alan ‘Reni’ Wren (drums) made complex rhythms seem effortless, guitarist John Squire could give his beloved Jimmy Page a run for his money, and frontman Ian Brown balanced punk sensibility and hippy mentality.

In the UK, the Stone Roses' debut album is the stuff of legend, its cover still seen on T-shirts in any given gig venue. Around the world, its influence was less tangible, most likely due to the fact that the group was hamstrung by a legal wrangle with the Silvertone label following the record’s original release.

Musically, it’s a mix of the grandiose and the intimate, containing songs so forceful and emotive they’ve become terrace anthems (“This Is The One” is Manchester United’s walk-on music) alongside introspective tracks like the anti-monarchy madrigal "Elizabeth My Dear.” In “Waterfall,” there are cascading guitar lines that describe its title like musical onomatopoeia, and in “Made Of Stone” and “She Bangs The Drum,” there are perfect pop songs too. Most significantly, there are songs in which the band etch their own myth in earth-rumbling basslines and grandiose statements: “I Wanna Be Adored,” which opens the album, and “I Am The Resurrection,” which closes.

Reissued by Light In The Attic on deluxe double-vinyl, this is your chance to discover the iconic album for the first time or to own it in its most beautiful presentation yet!

Features:

• Deluxe colored 180 2LP-set

• Remastered from the original tapes

• Deluxe edition first pressing includes hand numbered Stoughton gatefold “tip-on” jacket with album title in gold foil

• Tracklist is the same as the original 1989 UK Edition

The Stone Roses The Stone Roses Track Listing:

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