tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4120059320714810761.post8224148270088011665..comments2024-03-22T09:19:10.481+00:00Comments on THE FANTASTIC HOPE: THE MAGIC OF TEAMSAlex Nivenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05525684766446729078noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4120059320714810761.post-19562639848479584062011-10-21T20:49:35.895+01:002011-10-21T20:49:35.895+01:00there's nothing laddish about the stone roses ...there's nothing laddish about the stone roses as people<br /><br />(or indeed as performers - they were never rowdy or boorish onstage)<br /><br />as individuals they are all really intelligent, well and widely read<br /><br />in interviews they've always spoken about politics, history, the Kinder trespasss i think it's called when masses of people walked across a private estate, crimes of the british empire etc<br /><br />way more in common with manic street preachers than they do with OasisSIMON REYNOLDShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4120059320714810761.post-75447790074645286092011-10-19T14:54:39.307+01:002011-10-19T14:54:39.307+01:00Yeah I mean they undoubtedly were partly responsib...Yeah I mean they undoubtedly <i>were</i> partly responsible for laddism and britpop, but then lots of influences fed into that - like, say, The Beatles, punk, football - and not all of these things are easily dismissable. The Stone Roses were a pretty political proposition, largely because of Ian Brown, in a way that would recede in the mainstream of British indie in nineties and die in the noughties. And I can't agree about the music being mediocre: there's plenty of middling jangle pop in the canon but the best stuff (Fools Gold, Waterfall, I am the Resurrection) is utterly unique.Alex Nivenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05525684766446729078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4120059320714810761.post-39689067276993965792011-10-19T13:50:53.649+01:002011-10-19T13:50:53.649+01:00Never understood the adulation this band has recei...Never understood the adulation this band has received over the years. A couple of songs are nice enough I suppose, but to my ears totally mediocre. I kind of partly hold them resonsible for britpop and laddism. Just go on about how great you are 24/7 and people will be gullible enough to agree with you.<br /><br />"Idiot groups with no shape or form<br />Out of their heads on a quid of blow<br />The shapeless kecks* flapping on the storm<br />Look at what they are: a pack of worms"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com