I've been listening to The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses. 🎵
I don’t have much of note to say about this. It was a side quest from my Still in a Dream shoegaze/dreampop/4AD listening project and I’ve been stuck on it since, listening to it in various iterations. I know, I know, this isn’t remotely shoegaze or dream pop but it is from the same time period and was mentioned throughout the liner notes and I just wanted to listen to it again, and I get to do what I want with this project.
I guess I do need to say that the best version I found is the 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition - 40-track version (song.link doesn’t seem to work well for this edition so here are direct Apple Music and Spotify links), which has the original British tracklist on “Disc 1” (not with “Elephant Stone” or a shortened “Fool’s Gold” like the US edition), then moves to “Disc 2,” which, yes, has the full versions of “Elephant Stone,” “Fool’s Gold,” and all the other singles and b-sides from the era, and finally, “Disc 3,” which has a bunch of demos of the songs that are fun.
Made a brief attempt at finding a physical copy of this edition to buy, but instead I just downloaded it from some classic blogger-era file-sharing music blog that miraculously still exists with live download links in 2025. I’ve missed those; want to write a whole post about them, find ones that I loved again in case they are still active. Maybe even want to start one myself.