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Rating: In hindsight, it's clear why the Stone Roses struggled to release a follow-up to this album and eventually came out, after years, with the disappointing "Second Coming," followed by a swift breakup.
Indeed, the normal path for any band, even the best ones, is to create a debut album that hints at their potential and then mature slowly. The Stone Roses defied this norm. They were both blessed and cursed with creating a debut album whose perfection and maturity are still astonishing today.
How was it possible that their career didn't begin and end with this album? "Stone Roses" is impressive both in its individual parts and as a complete work.
No song is below a certain - remarkable - level, but it's particularly essential to at least mention the magical harmonies of "Waterfall" (one of the best songs ever written?), the whispered sweetness of "Shoot You Down," the lengthy "I'm The Resurrection" (with an instrumental coda where the Stone Roses demonstrate that they are not only masters of vocal harmonies but also of the rhythm section).
Every sound naturally flows into the next with no conceivable alternative. Everything is exactly as it should be.
"Stone Roses" is an epoch-making record not because it inaugurates a new sound or explores new frontiers but because it brings to completion a musical thread that began in the '60s with the Byrds and has influenced much of British indie music. As such, as a perfection and completion of a current in rock history, it is also the final moment, the concluding point of an era.
After "Stone Roses," beautiful albums in the same direction are still possible, but only as reverberations, echoes of this towering peak.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 I Wanna Be Adored (04:54)
I don't have to sell my soul
He's already in me
I don't need to sell my soul
He's already in me
I wanna be adored
I wanna be adored
I don't have to sell my soul
He's already in me
I don't need to sell my soul
He's already in me
I wanna be adored
I wanna be adored
Adored
I wanna be adored
You adore me
You adore me
You adore me
I wanna
I wanna
I wanna be adored
I wanna
I wanna
I wanna be adored
I wanna
I wanna
I wanna be adored
I wanna
I wanna
I gotta be adored
I wanna be adored
03 Waterfall (04:42)
Chimes sing Sunday morn
Today's the day she's sworn
To steal what she never could own
And race from this hole she calls home
Now you're at the wheel
Tell me how, how does it feel?
So good to have equalised
To lift up the lids of your eyes
As the miles they disappear
See land begin to clear
Free from the filth and the scum
This American satellite's won
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
See the steeple pine
The hills as old as time
Soon to be put to the test
To be whipped by the winds of the west
Stands on shifting sands
The scales held in her hands
The wind it just whips her and wails
And fills up her brigantine sails
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
04 Don't Stop (05:22)
Don't stop
Isn't it funny how you shine?
Don't stop
Isn't it funny how you shine?
Hear the sea spray give
I was with her
We're under the ship so get me over
Now that was me
Listen
Now she fishes now
Listen
There was no one out there we used
There is the news for me useless
Now so much waste
How we'll be teased
Don't stop
Isn't it funny how you shine?
Don't stop
Isn't it funny how you shine?
Oh won't you just ask me
You're an imbecile
What's the matter for everyone I feel
Pain blues singer
He's playing just a guitar
From the top
I wake I still look I feel loose
We're all here now who's the first
Ease into my heart
He must be one of us
Don't stop
Isn't it funny how you shine?
Don't stop
Isn't it funny how you shine?
05 Bye Bye Badman (04:08)
Soak me to my skin
Will you drown me in your sea
Submission ends and I begin
Choke me smoke the air
In this citrus sucking sunshine
I don't care you're not all there
Every backbone and heart you break
Will still come back for more
Submission ends it all
Here he come
Got no question got no love
I'm throwing stones at you man
I want you black and blue and
I'm gonna make you bleed
Gonna bring you down to your knees
Bye bye badman
Ooh bye bye
Choke me smoke the air
In this citrus sucking sunshine
I don't care you're not all there
You've been bought and paid
You're a whore and a slave
Your dark star holy shrine
Come taste the end you're mine
Here he come
Got no question got no love
I'm throwing stones at you man
I want you black and blue and
I'm gonna make you bleed
Gonna bring you down to your knees
Bye bye badman
Ooh bye bye
I've got bad intention
I intend to
Knock you down
These stones I throw
Oh these french kisses
Are the only way I've found
I've got bad intention
I intend to knock you down
These stones I throw
Oh these french kisses
Are the only way I've found
06 Elizabeth My Dear (01:00)
Tear me apart and boil my bones
I'll not rest
Till she's lost her throne
My aim is true
My message is clear
It's curtains for you
Elizabeth my dear
11 I Am the Resurrection (08:17)
Down, down, you bring me down
I hear you knocking down my door
And I can't sleep at night.
Your face it has no place
No room for you inside my house
I need to be alone.
Don't waste your words I don't need anything from you,
I don't care where you've been or what you plan to do.
Turn, turn, I wish you'd learn
There's a time and place for everything
I've got to get it through.
Cut loose 'cause you're no use
I couldn't stand another
Second in your company.
Don't waste your words I don't need anything from you,
I don't care where you've been or what you plan to do.
Stone me why can't you see
You're a no one nowhere washed up baby
Who'd look better dead.
Your tongue is far too long
I don't like the way it sucks and
Slurs upon my every word.
Don't waste your words I don't need anything from you,
I don't care where you've been or what you plan to do.
I am the resurrection and I am the life,
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like.
I am the resurrection and I am the life,
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like.
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