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Second Coming (CD - 1994)

Second Coming (CD - 1994)

( UPC: 00720642450321)
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Artist: The Stone Roses

Label: Geffen Goldline

Genre: Rock & Pop - Brit Pop

Album Description: The title is a joking reference to the messianic anticipation that built up in the years between the Manchester, England rock band's 1989 debut--which Britain's New Musical Express magazine ... Read More

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Album Description
The title is a joking reference to the messianic anticipation that built up in the years between the Manchester, England rock band's 1989 debut--which Britain's New Musical Express magazine ranked as the greatest album of the '80s--and this 1995 follow-up. It's also a description of the Stone Roses' sound, a sort of second coming of '60s and '70s blues-rock, re-born 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. Lenny Kravitz is among the Americans who owes a debt.

SECOND COMING consolidates that sound with a see-sawing mix of hard-rock 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 Dylan-esque 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 big-beat numbers, and although it starts out sounding like a very blue Eric Burdon, it builds into a classic shouted-out blues-rock chorus, the kind on which FM radio thrived in the 1970s. "Tears" follows a Zeppelin-esque arc from acoustic to electric folk. Which, no doubt, is the exact route a lot of hard-rock devotees think any second coming should follow.

Track Listing
1.Breaking Into Heaven
2.Driving South
3.Ten Storey Love Song
4.Daybreak
5.Your Star Will Shine
6.Straight to the Man
7.Begging You
8.Tightrope
9.Good Times
10.Tears
11.How Do You Sleep
12.Love Spreads
13.Foz, The - (bonus hidden track)
Album Information

UPC:
00720642450321
Release Date: Nov 17, 1998
Type: Performer
Genre: Rock & Pop - Brit Pop
Label: Geffen Goldline
Distributor: Universal Di
Country of Origin: USA
Original Release Year: 1994
# of Discs: 1
Studio / Live: Studio
Mono / Stereo: Stereo
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