Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Reassess.

I've just listened to The Stone Roses - Second Coming for the first time in years. Its a really good album, I sat and listened to it straight through. They fell victim by getting bound up in crappy law disputes, and to the expectation that their second album would be a welcome dose of more of the same. It isn't, its a move towards something new.
This is not uncommon, The Beastie Boys second album was very different to the first, and was duly ignored. Like this album, it turns out it was really good, and time proved them right. The difference is that the Stone Roses didn't survive the reaction to their long awaited second album. Take another listen. 21 years on, they were right.

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