I can help here
The first Stone Roses album was NOT more than four or five sublime guitar based pop songs glued together with a bunch of weakly produced filler tracks. It was infinitely less.

A limpid, badly-produced weedy sub-60s beat group pastiche at best. 'The best UK album ever' according to The Observer: Jesus fucking Christ, what an insult to this nation's output.

Dribbly, uninspiring and wholly unoriginal, like an even-gayer version of the fucking Hollies or the Merseybeats - it did NOT capture the spirit of the time - unless you happened to be a wet middle-class student who also liked the Inspiral fucking Carpets.

Oh, they put a looped James Brown beat over some wet indie pop - whoah there! Revolutionary and grounbdbreaking! At that time there was a real musical revolution going on and it was in the world of rave. Like it or not (and most of it was shit) it was genuinely new and was to my mind the last real innovation in popular music.

Insipid twaddle for benders.

I HAVE SPOKEN.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 9:55, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Jesus man
don't hold back.

pretty well summed up though. I particularly agree with your point on this "The best UK album ever' according to The Observer: Jesus fucking Christ, what an insult to this nation's output. "

that sort of comment gets bandied around by idiot muso journalists far too often
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 9:57, Reply)

Oh dear...
All too familiar.
I was DJing a "Classic British Rock And Metal Night", and someone came and requested The Libertines.
Really? "Classic"?
*sighs*
( Cawl, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 9:59, Reply)

That
is hilarious.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:05, Reply)

Almost.
It's just pretty sad really.
He then poured scorn upon Led Zeppelin. How to make friends and influence people, eh?
( Cawl, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:08, Reply)

And was he, perchance, one of those fucking ponces with overly tight jeans and hair that was delicately coiffured to make it look like he'd just got out of bed?
(The sort I'm inclined to start labelling as pugs: Punchable Under-Graduates)
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:31, Reply)

This was about five years ago.
So he was wearing ripped jeans and one of those stupid old red military tunic things.
( Cawl, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:41, Reply)

What
a twat.

I think I'd have fished the Libertines LP out of the box and smashed it over his nob.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:43, Reply)

I hope you played some Saxon
one of the most underated bands I feel.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:10, Reply)

I played "Wheels Of Steel",
If I remember correctly.
( Cawl, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:11, Reply)

something
I did only last night.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 13:11, Reply)

Indeed so.
It tells you nothing about British music and everything about the demographic of Observer writers/readers.

Arseclap.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:01, Reply)

A very good point
And a very good use of the word "Arseclap."
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:41, Reply)

Stone Roses
are shite. That is all
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:02, Reply)

I got bored and fell asleep when I found out
that this wasn't about The Clash..
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:19, Reply)

They are the most overated band ever
I like some of their stuff, but so much of it was utter wank.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:24, Reply)

Just don't listen to anything after London Calling because absolutely everything before is sublime.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:46, Reply)

*cough*
Noitsnot *cough*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 13:12, Reply)

SSSSSssssssssonofabitch!

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 16:27, Reply)