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  GED24503CD  £6.00

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  53385162 x Long Player  £18.00
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  2012 Back to Black Vinyl Reissue

Label

Geffen / Geffen Goldline

The Stone Roses

Second Coming

exact reproduction of original lp artwork to retain authenticity but now on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl with download the title is a joking reference to the messianic anticipation that built up in the years between the band's 1989 debut which nme ranked as the greatest album of the '80s and this 1995 followup it's also a description of the stone roses' sound a sort of second coming of '60s and '70s bluesrock reborn with a funk beat back in '89 it sounded like a revolution and it was crossing led zeppelin and bob dylan with club music it helped set the template for all british alternative rock to follow from blur to the revamped u2 'second coming' consolidates that sound with a seesawing mix of hardrock driving songs with chunky electric guitar riffs and big beats and acoustic anthems that immediately sound like they've been on the radio for a dozen years or more the latter group includes 'ten storey love song' a devotional ballad with a dylanesque melody and 'your star will shine' a psychedelic folk ditty that would have fit on an early bee gees album 'good times' is one of the bigbeat numbers and although it starts out sounding like a very blue eric burdon it builds into a classic shoutedout bluesrock chorus the kind on which fm radio thrived in the 1970s 'tears' follows a zeppelinesque arc from acoustic to electric folk which no doubt is the exact route a lot of hardrock devotees think any 'second coming' should follow