THE STONE ROSES DEBUT LP UK SILVERTONE 1st PRESSING

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THE STONE ROSES DEBUT LP UK SILVERTONE 1st PRESSING!!!!
RARE 1st EMBOSSED SLEEVE & INNER, OUTSTANDING AUDIO!!


THE STONE ROSES
The Stone Roses

HERE WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT!!!, UK Silvertone (ORE LP 502) ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING (May 1989) OF THE STONE ROSES' SEMINAL, EPONYMOUS DEBUT LP - COMPLETE IN THE ORIGINAL, AND NOW PRETTY RARE, EMBOSSED SLEEVE!!! AND GLOSSY INNER SLEEVE!!


1989 UK Silvertone (ORE LP 502)
Matrix: ORE LP 502 A2 / ORE LP 502 B2


Since the Stone Roses were the nominal leaders of Britain's "Madchester" scene -- an indie rock phenomenon that fused guitar pop with drug-fueled rave and dance culture -- it's rather ironic that their eponymous debut only hints at dance music. What made the Stone Roses important was how they welcomed dance and pop together, treating them as if they were the same beast. Equally important was the Roses' cool, detached arrogance, which was personified by Ian Brown's nonchalant vocals. Brown's effortless malevolence is brought to life with songs that equal both his sentiments and his voice -- "I Wanna Be Adored," with it's creeping bassline and waves of cool guitar hooks, doesn't demand adoration, it just expects it. Similarly, Brown can claim "I Am the Resurrection" and lie back, as if there were no room for debate. But the key to The Stone Roses is John Squire's layers of simple, exceedingly catchy hooks and how the rhythm section of Reni and Mani always imply dance rhythms without overtly going into the disco. On "She Bangs the Drums" and "Elephant Stone," the hooks wind into the rhythm inseparably -- the '60s hooks and the rolling beats manage to convey the colorful, neo-psychedelic world of acid house. Squire's riffs are bright and catchy, recalling the British Invasion while suggesting the future with their phased, echoey effects. The Stone Roses was a two-fold revolution -- it brought dance music to an audience that was previously obsessed with droning guitars, while it revived the concept of classic pop songwriting, and the repercussions of its achievement could be heard throughout the '90s, even if the Stone Roses could never achieve this level of brilliance again.


Track Listing:
SIDE 1: I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drum / Waterfall / Don't Stop / Bye Bye Badman
SIDE 2: Elizabeth My Dear / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sugar / Made Of Stone / Shoot You Down / This Is The One / I Am The Resurrection

LABELS: CLEAN and FRESH with NO unwanted marks/writing and very few evident spindle traces that I can see!! The black, side two label is slightly scuffed but it is not damaged - very minor (see pics)
VINYL Visual: The record has a DEEP, GLOSSY SHEEN. There are a few marks on the surfaces but these have little audio consequence!! (see audio). Visually VERY GOOD
VINYL Audio: OUTSTANDING audio delivery!! - Beautiful rich, clean, crisp audio reproduction!! There are NO scratches, NO jumps, NO sticks and just a little surface noise/crackle between a couple (not all) of the tracks/quiet passages. The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO groove-wear and NO distortion!!!! Must be very strictly graded EXCELLENT(-) for audio!!!! Plays BEAUTIFULLY throughout!! NOT over-graded in ANY way as I use STRICT RECORD COLLECTOR grading standards!!!
SLEEVE: The fully laminated GLOSSY cover is in BEAUTIFUL condition!! This is the very first cover issued with the the bands name and the lemons on the front of the sleeve being EMBOSSED!!!! Only the very earliest copies had this feature and these covers are now pretty hard to find!!! The sleeve has very little wear to speak (just some light creasing around the edges) and on the spine all the text is CLEAR and SHARP!! VERY NICE SLEEVE!!
INNER SLEEVE: The glossy inner is in virtually MINT condition!! - CLEAN, BRIGHT and FRESH - apart from a small split to one of the sides but this really is hardly noticeable. The LP will be posted in a new inner sleeve, along with the original, of course, to avoid any more 'knifing' damage!!!


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THIS REALLY IS AN EXCELLENT COPY OF AN ALBUM CONSISTENTLY VOTED THE BEST BRITISH LP OF ALL TIME!!!
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