The biggest fucking news you’ll hear this week: THE STONE ROSES ARE REUNITING according to thetripwire.com. Of this weekend’s second annual Manchester v. Cancer, gig organizer Andy Rourke, bass play for the Smiths, tells the Weekly News: “… Mani’s going to be doing something with Ian Brown, and the grand finale’s going to be quite special.” Does this mean Ian Brown and John Squire are gonna make up long enough to play some songs? We’ll have to see.
thetripwire.com is also reporting that the Happy Mondays have written a new album with a single to be released in June. Could it be worse than anything from “Yes Please” which took Factory records to a place where it’s never been before… Bankruptcy? We’ll have to see.
It’s a happy monday indeed.
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Just wait until Christine reads this.
now if only i had some faith that i would actually be able to SEE one or all of these reunited madchester bands in the near future, my joie would be complete.
Well, the Mondays are essentially Ryder and some other dudes who weren’t in the first incarnation (from what I understand) - not sure about the Roses thing… In the end it was just Mani and Brown who were still from the original lineup… I’d be interested to see if Squire and Reni show up.
OH MY GOD I CAN\’T BREATHE EITHER
Erm…not to rain on a Madchester parade, but…given the drop-off between the first Roses album and the rest of their output, I’m not expecting a lot out of this.
How I feel about Second Coming can best be summed up by that scene from Shaun of the Dead where they are throwing records in an attempt to kill zombies:
“Wait, don’t throw that one! It’s the Stone Roses!”
“But it’s Second Coming!”
“But I *LIKED* Second Coming!”
I remember reading (though I could be trippin’) that the stylistic change that occurred with the latter album occurred because Ian Brown was in prison or somesuch for an extended period of time and made John Squire do all the work. In the past few years Brown’s only been jailed sporadically, so even for you s/t purists, there’s still hope!
The Second Coming was crap. The Seahorses were worse. Brown’s solo work has been great. All of that said, I’d love the chance to see the Roses play together - even now. Recording is a different story…
they need to just play the s/t album in order from beginning to end. then i could die happy, you see.
The Roses put out some cool and interesting stuff before the S/T (see the import Garage Flowers, Sally Cinnamon) and after (See the single “One Love” and it’s B-Side “Something’s Burning”). But by the time the “Love Spreads” single came out… they were done. The Bluetones were a far better Stone Roses than the Roses were.
I have Garage Flower, and I don’t particularly like it–much prefer the (albeit somewhat generic) guitar solos of Second Coming to having my ears totally bleed during, say, that song “Trust a Fox.” But Sally Cinnamon is terrific, and I do love the B-sides collection as well.
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Comment by joiezabel — March 26, 2007 @ 10:44 am
oh. my. god. stone roses reuniting. the same year as james. i can’t breathe.