History Music / TheStoneRoses

* LongRunnerLineup - Type 5: The band's best-known lineup of Brown, Squire, Mani, and Remi has existed for ten non-consecutive years.

* LongRunnerLineup - Type B: The band's best-known lineup of Brown, Squire, Mani, and Remi has existed for ten non-consecutive years.

The band was formed in 1984 by Brown and John Squire, its initial lineup including Reni and [[ThePeteBest two other dudes who aren't important]] (guitarist Andy Couzens, bassist Pete Garner). [[BlatantLies They initially wasted time]] as a gloomy, synth-heavy goth-rock band inspired by JoyDivision, but permanently changed their sound in 1987 by firing the unimportant dudes and bringing in Mani, which led to them discovering their SignatureStyle, "PsychedelicRock you can dance to".

Now signed with Silvertone Records and working with producer John Leckie, their debut album ''The Stone Roses'' was released in 1989 to massive critical acclaim and huge commercial success, and is still regarded today as one of the best albums ever created by a British band. The record spawned several successful singles, such as "I Wanna Be Adored", "She Bangs the Drums" and "Waterfall", all major hits on both the UK Singles Chart and the newly implemented Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States. The Stone Roses embarked on a successful tour of England, which culminated in a huge outdoor gig on Spike Island attended by 27.000 people on 27 May 1990 (plagued by bad organisation and sound problems), and continued to release singles.

Ian Brown has since continued with a solo career, Squire carried on for a while with his new band The Seahorses before retiring from music in favour of painting, Mani's in PrimalScream now and Reni... kinda fell off the face of the planet or something.

While The Stone Roses' moment in the sun only lasted about two and half years and Madchester collapsed very quickly, their music remains critically acclaimed today, and their combination of Sixties-style guitar riffs and dance rhythms proved to be highly influential on {{Britpop}}. {{Oasis}} frontmen Noel and Liam Gallagher in particular are self-professed fans of the Stone Roses. The bandmembers themselves liked Oasis in return (Squire showed up at one of their concerts to play additional guitar on "Champagne Supernova" and Oasis borrowed Stone Roses equipment during the recording of ''Definitely Maybe''), but disliked the rest of the Britpop scene, calling them "Kensington art-wankers".

* 1989 - ''[[SelfTitledAlbum The Stone Roses]]''

* EchoingAcoustics - Hey, check out the eighties gated reverb on the drums on ''The Stone Roses''.

* NiceHat - Reni frequently wore bucket hats while with the band, to the point that they're now nicknamed "Reni hats".

-->--'''The Stone Roses''', "She Bangs the Drums"

* ChorusOnlySong - "I Wanna Be Adored".

* CreatorKiller - The sales and critical indifference to ''Second Coming'' did not help the band, and they broke up few years afterwards after an ill-fated tour.

* ExecutiveMeddling - Silvertone Records' attempt to get more money by re-releasing singles and trying to stop the band from moving to another label. It arguably ruined their career due to the forced hiatus.

* NoExportForYou - The band canceled a plan tour of the USA in 1990 saying "America doesn't deserve us yet." That bit them in the arse later on when they toured the USA in support of ''Second Coming''.

* ThePeteBest - Andy Couzens and Peter Garner.

* ShortLivedBigImpact: They managed only two albums and yet were a big influence on many rock bands of the Nineties.

The sessions for a new album finally commenced in 1993 but were repeatedly hampered by personal turmoil, culminating in Leckie's departure and the relocation to Wales with engineers Simon Dawson and Paul Schroeder. The album, entitled ''Second Coming'', was finally released in 1994, seeing the Stone Roses break from their colourful, psychedelic dance-rock and moving towards a heavy blues-rock sound patterned after Music/LedZeppelin and Music/JimiHendrix. The album drew a lukewarm reception with critics (a main criticism towards it being "endless soloing" on Squire's behalf) and only moderate commercial success, although first single "Love Spreads" became the band's highest charting single in their entire career.

The Stone Roses were an AlternativeRock band from [[FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps Manchester]], known primarily for being the TropeCodifier for the Madchester movement in the late [[TheEighties eighties]] and early [[TheNineties nineties]], despite the fact that they [[BlatantLies did not consider themselves members of the Madchester scene]].

The band was formed in 1984 by Brown and John Squire, its initial lineup including Reni and two other dudes who aren't important (guitarist Andy Couzens, bassist Pete Garner). [[BlatantLies They initially wasted time]] as a gloomy, synth-heavy goth-rock band inspired by JoyDivision, but permanently changed their sound in 1987 by firing the unimportant dudes and bringing in Mani, which led to them discovering their SignatureStyle, "PsychedelicRock you can dance to".

The band was formed in 1984 by Brown and John Squire, its initial lineup including Reni and two other dudes who aren't important (guitarist Andy Couzens, bassist Pete Garner). [[BlatantLies They initially wasted time as a gloomy, synth-heavy goth-rock band]] inspired by JoyDivision, but permanently changed their sound in 1987 by firing the unimportant dudes and bringing in Mani, which led to them discovering their SignatureStyle, "PsychedelicRock you can dance to".

The band was formed in 1984 by Brown and John Squire, its initial lineup including Reni and two other dudes who aren't important (guitarist Andy Couzens, bassist Pete Garner). They initially wasted time as a gloomy, synth-heavy goth-rock band inspired by JoyDivision, but permanently changed their sound in 1987 by firing the unimportant dudes and bringing in Mani, which led to them discovering their SignatureStyle, "PsychedelicRock you can dance to".

* Mani [[hottip:*:real name: Gary Mounfield]], bass (first, looking vaguely contaminated)
* Reni [[hottip:*:real name: Alan Wren]], drums and backing vocals (fourth, fella with the NiceHat)

!Tropes related to The Stone Roses:

** "Elizabeth My Dear" is a SimonAndGarfunkel-style ballad (with the melody even borrowed from the old English folk tune 'Scarborough Fair' ) about wanting to dethrone the Queen.

* ThePeteBest - Andy Couzens and Peter Garner.

* ItGotWorse: The band's history after their debut album was released.

Their style is largely [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly a mixture of indie rock, psychedelic rock and dance music]]. Its defining traits are bright, catchy [[TheSixties sixties]]-style guitar riffs, a very funky rhythm section supplying good beats that you can dance to, slightly [[TheBeatles Beatlesque]] vocals, frequent [[EpicRocking extended songs]] and a heavy influence from PsychedelicRock.

On the 18th of October 2011, the band announced they were reuniting, and going on a world tour. [[AndTheFandomRejoiced Oh, how the fandom rejoiced]]

* NotChristianRock - A good question, since Brown and Squire tend to use religious imagery a lot. [[http://www.thisisthedaybreak.co.uk/ This fan site]] manages to make a pretty good argument that most of their songs contain at least a few references, intentional or not, to the Bible or Christianity in general. "I Am the Resurrection" is pretty overt when it comes to religious overtones. "Breaking Into Heaven" criticises the concept of Heaven and states that waiting to die is unnecessary since "the Kingdom's all inside". And perhaps the most famous, "Love Spreads" reimagines Jesus Christ as [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation the narrator's black sister]].

The sessions for a new album finally commenced in 1993 but were repeatedly hampered by personal turmoil, culminating in Leckie's departure and the relocation to Wales with engineers Simon Dawson and Paul Schroeder. The album, entitled ''Second Coming'', was finally released in 1994, seeing the Stone Roses break from their colourful, psychedelic dance-rock and moving towards a heavy blues-rock sound patterned after LedZeppelin and JimiHendrix. The album drew a lukewarm reception with critics (a main criticism towards it being "endless soloing" on Squire's behalf) and only moderate commercial success, although first single "Love Spreads" became the band's highest charting single in their entire career.

-->'''The Stone Roses''', "She Bangs the Drums"

-->''"The past was yours but the future's mine''
-->''You're all out of time"''
-->The Stone Roses, "She Bangs the Drums"

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-->''The past was yours but the future's mine''
-->''You're all out of time''

Soon, the band decided to capitalise on success by moving to a major label, but Silvertone refused to let them out of their contract. An injunction filed in September 1990 prevented the band from recording with another label and started a long legal conflict between the band and Silvertone. The band eventually won in court and moved to GeffenRecords, but the conflict blocked their activity at a critical time and slowed down their career by forcing them out of public view. In the meantime, Silvertone released the compilation ''Turns into Stone'' in 1992, containing all the non-album singles released until that point mixed with B-sides and new material, and [[MoneyDearBoy re-released the band's previous singles as well]].

Soon, the band decided to capitalise on success by moving to a major label, but Silvertone refused to let them out of their contract. An injuction filed in September 1990 prevented the band from recording with another label and started a long legal conflict between the band and Silvertone. The band eventually won in court and moved to GeffenRecords, but the conflict blocked their activity at a critical time and slowed down their career by forcing them out of public view. In the meantime, Silvertone released the compilation ''Turns into Stone'' in 1992, containing all the non-album singles released until that point mixed with B-sides and new material, and [[MoneyDearBoy re-released the band's previous singles as well]].

* StopAndGo - "I Am the Ressurection". During the aforementioned epic 5-minute funky improv, at one point the band stop playing. There's a few seconds of silence before they start again as if nothing had happened.

* MagnumOpus - ''The Stone Roses''.

* {{Narm}} - Ian tragically misjudges his skills in "Standing Here", confusing ''I could park a juggernaut in your mouth'' with a compliment.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: They spent a lot of time apparently watching football instead of working on their second album, which is why there was a five-year gap between their debut and ''Second Coming''.

* ThePiratesWhoDon'tDoAnything: They spent a lot of time apparently watching football instead of working on their second album, which is why there was a five-year gap between their debut and ''Second Coming''.