The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses

Pros: A Landmark Debut Masterpiece from the Stone Roses.
Cons: They never made anything great after that.

Rock N’ Roll music in the late 1980s was almost dead. In America, ruling the rock world were the slew of hair bands like Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Poison, and Whitesnake were ruling the charts with their bombastic and indulgent brand of rock while the...

Pros: Flawless from start to finish
Cons: None

The Stone Roses are the band that probably made the biggest transition in my musical taste with the release of their eponymous album in 1989. I’d had tasters of good alternative music before that, but this was the one that really killed my ...

Pros: Catchy, accessible, experimental, versatile, cheerful, all around greatness
Cons: Dated style (very 80’s), dated production

I hate the 80’s. Let’s get that out of the way first. Everything from TV to fashion, movies to politics, popular sayings to popular hairstyles, dance-clubs to cocaine - as far as I’m concerned, no decade in the history of ...

Pros: It is simply one of the greatest albums of all time. Worship them!
Cons: Their Second Coming wasn't really up to much.

Rock was dead. No doubt about it. It had a great big mullet, possibly harboured a foil wrapped cucumber down its trousers and was lost, merely a speck on the stage of some mammoth stadium. And pop was dead too. Synth-pop had outlived its welcome and...

Pros: Jangling Pop´s Wunder Kids.
Cons: The Second Coming.

Things were never going to be the same after the release of this seminal album. The Smiths might have invented indie, but the Stone Roses showed everyone else how to do it. From the iconic cool of lead singer Ian Brown to the innovative stick handling of...

Pros: Quite simply, a pop masterpiece.
Cons: Zero

The Stone Roses; They were better than you, and they knew it. You can tell just by the way Ian Brown sings "I Wanna Be Adored", the first song from their self titled debut masterpiece. The songwriting team of John Squire and Ian Brown has yet to be ...

Pros: It'll change your life forever
Cons: nicht, nada, rien, niente, ingenting, nimic, nijako, bure, sifuri, niets

And it’s on…from somewhere way back there’s a sound coming from the speakers…it’s no sound you’ve ever heard before…like a thin mist snaking through the room…snow falling in the dark…fcuk me it’s more mystical than that…it’s a wisp of ghosts appearing...

Pros: Great mesh of musical influences from at least three decades.
Cons: The band never released a good follow-up to this amazing debut album.

This is one of the best albums that came out while I was in college. In 1989-1990, this thing was all over the place. I still remember watching the video for "I Wanna Be Adored" when a fella who was hanging out in my room in the dorm asked, "Hey, why...

Pros: Simply the greatest album ever
Cons: A couple of weak songs

Now once in a lifetime, there comes a band that means much more to you than just music.
From that band will come an album that beans much more to you than a collection of songs on a CD.
Both of these cases were true when I was a young 15 year...

Pros: one of the greatest albums of all time
Cons: that it's so good, few bands are able to come close to it

It begins with a low rumble of far off guitar noise before that unforgetable bass line, supplied by the so-called "rogue rose" Gary "Mani" Mounfield, gradually seeps through and sinks its hooks into you, as the guitar and drums slowly build up and the...

Pros: everything
Cons: nothing

I've always been somewhat partial to what I lovingly call the British Wan*er bands, which include The Happy Mondays, Supergrass, Radiohead, Blur, the Verve, Oasis, Primal Scream, the Charlatans UK, the London Suede, the Blue Aeroplanes, Catherine Wheel,...

Pros: quality in abundance
Cons: none

If anyone can tell me something that is wrong with this album, please do, because I see it as one of the few C.D.s that can be classed as being near perfect.
I was often baffled with The Stone Roses as they always just passed me by as "one of...

Pros: Brilliance. Pure unadulterated brilliance
Cons: That it's over.

You never forget the first time you heard "Elephant Stone". Between the swaggering, ultra-Englishness of the music (it was psychedelic and hippie but god, it was sassy and p*ssed off too, a working class youth sneer that American music has...