Friday, August 10, 2007

Stone Roses - Waterfall - live on OSM

there is another edit of this clip that has tony wilson talking about how he wasnt convinced about the stone roses until ringo starr suggested he check out there new single. hence the introduction reading "the excellent stone roses" this edit has better sound. clem thinks the la's are better because they only made one record and werent compromised by club culture. in my book the la's run at most 3rd with the rose's second and the mondays on top. the stone roses could probably play the best but the mondays took a bag of influences swallowed them whole and completly made their own thing. the la's have too obvious of the velet underground via frankie valli vibe. which is fine i adore both those bands. but the mondays took sly and the family stone, the fall, the beatles, dancehall, whatever and made it cool. a harder bit i say. the stone roses fall similar to the la's too arch, too coifed. but they could really play and really if you only base it on one record. (their comeback ten years later was mostly abysmal) you could say with a straight face they made one of the greatest debut records ever. on par with the pistols and the velvet underground. the la's more on par with galaxie 500. good just not groundbreaking.

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