THE STONE ROSES - s/t 1st press LP from 1989 NM classic

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27

 Vinyl is Near-Mint and Cover is excellent (would be Near-mint but has a cut-out notch on top left). Comes with original custom inner sleeve. 1st press on Silvertone records without Fool's Gold from 1989. US pressing which is hard to find.

NOTES:

Originally a mod combo known as English Rose (a Jam reference), Stone Roses galvanized their city's — and, by media extension, nation's — Ecstasy-driven post-punk subculture with an utterly brilliant 1989 album of chiming, atmospheric and winningly arrogant folked-up rock. Where others joined the shuffling beat dance patrol or the more explicitly psychedelicized acid-rock guitar fiesta, Stone Roses found their métier in sumptuous songwriting and announced their arrival with an embarrassment of tuneful riches. (As devoted to hubris as to melody, the band reached some sort of a religiously detailed ecstatic peak with "I Am the Resurrection.")

"I Wanna Be Adored," "She Bangs the Drums," "Elephant Stone" (a Peter Hook-produced single added, in a short version, to the album's US edition) and "Waterfall" open The Stone Roses with sublimely potent pop, sung with alluring, echo-drenched enervation by pinup face Ian Brown. Stylishly produced by John Leckie and dressed in a Jackson Pollock-styled splatter cover painting by guitarist John Squire, the album is a stunningly well-realized debut, a record-as-cultural-identity one-off as cataclysmic as The Smiths or Ziggy Stardust.

The album elevated Stone Roses to the head of the Manchester class, and nearly made them US stars when it hit the charts here. But the group retired into a mesh of lawsuits and other self-induced calamities. Evidently more intent on driving associates around the bend than reaping a commercial harvest, Stone Roses produced only a couple of singles (the first, "Fools Gold," was added to a second US version of the first album) during its lengthy hibernation period.

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