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Track Listings
| 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 |
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Their debut made them the new Beatles and Stones rolled into one, and Second Coming was five years in the making. Accordingly, the anticipation was immense, and when the product seemed on first listen to be a very long, very protracted Led Zeppelin guitar solo--courtesy of the excessively well-practised John Squire--The Stone Roses convincingly punctured their own myth. Nevertheless, some of Second Coming is quite good: "Breaking Into Heaven" is appealingly pompous, showing that the Roses at least had a handle on the nature of their own import, and better still, had the ability to pull it off. "Love Spreads" and "Ten Storey Love Song" are imbued with the arrogance--and thankfully the tunes--of old. And the rest? Well, if you've ever heard John Squire's next band, The Seahorses, you'll know what to expect. Seldom has the guitar solo been so accomplished, or so dull. --Louis Pattison
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STONE ROSES Second Coming (Deleted 1994 French 12-track picture CD album includes Love Spreads and Ten Storey Love Song picture sleeve! GED24503)
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ignore The Critics Make up your own Mind,
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This review is from: Second Coming (Audio CD)
When this came out it had very mixed reviews so when I bought it shortly afterwards having only heard Love Spreads and Your star Will Shine I was prepared for dissapointment.
However sitting in a darkened room with this on the headphones certainly told me all I needed to know about this great LP. From the very start of Breaking Into Heavens weird and wonderful middle of a swamp intro the Roses have your attention. Breaking into Heaven is a totally different sound to the Byrd like sound on the first album it's darker heavier but by no means poorer. After a tantalising 11 minute beginning you go into Driving South which has been used many a time on TV as background music, Soccer am ,Top Gear etc perfect driving guitar music with ian Brown rasping vocals telling us that he sure as hell aint pretty and he sure as hell can't sing-bit harsh but a nice twist on the usual self confidence. From here we get the sublime Ten storey Love Song which as many have said could have been slotted easily onto the debut LP. The track after this Daybreak changes the feel of the CD yet again fronm almost poppy to almost funky-love the slow down speed up tempo change and simplistic name checking of destinations 'from new york city to addis ababaaaa'. Nice tune which takes us onto the slower more thoughtful Your Star will Shine which is nice without blowing you away. Straight to the man is a bit more up tempo and is again nice without pulling up any trees, what it does do is keep the flow of the LP going. Now the Roses being the Roses they don't settle for letting the whole package peter out they come back with a real blaster the high tempo technoesque Beggin You another track heard a lot outside the confines of the Cd. The next track Tightrope is a lovely acoustic number which you find yourself singing a lot after a few plays. After this we get back to the Guitar Rock with john squire proving why he was held in such high esteem as a guitarist. Firstly Good Times picks up the tempo again followed by my personal favourite the awesome 'Tears' which starts slowly with a nice bit of acoustic guitar in the background and then goes all electric on us. "Ive seen the future in the tracks of your tears' sings a wise sounding Ian forseeing the end of many a relationship! 'I've seen your severed head at a banquet for the dead all wrapped up for dinner looked so fine' How Do You Sleep is classic Stone roses with a fantastically acidic lyric that grabs you by the nads right from the start. Great song and fairly close to the style of the first album but yet a bit darker and less optimistic. That's brings me onto the last track the majestic Love Spreads which was released as a single prior to the album release. The first time I heard this on Radio 1 (i think) I had tears in my eyes because i had waited so long for new material from these guys and they came back with something so different yet still so 'them' and yet so amazingly good. In short (if you can't be arsed to go through my rambling review) if you liked the first CD or if you half like the idea of the Roses, their mystique and great guitar music buy this CD and treat it as a complete work not as individual tracks. You will not be dissapointed.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Critically and criminally underrated,
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This review is from: Second Coming (Audio CD)
`Ten Storey Love Song' and `How Do You Sleep' aside, which hint at the pastoral beauty much loved on the Roses debut album, what we have for the most part here is a surprisingly varied and eclectic record.
`Second Coming' was largely critically dismissed when it came out, due to certain writers inability to compute the thundering Led Zeppelin riffs on here with the band who had made the likes of `Fools Gold', `Waterfall' and `She Bangs The Drums'. But John Squire's apparent hard rock obsession is only a part of the story. `Begging You', a thundering techno influenced juggernaut of a song that appears halfway through this record, is `One Love' on steroids, probably the most forward looking track on this album. Clearly influenced by emerging acts like Underworld and The Chemical Brothers, it doesn't quite sound so exciting now, but nonetheless, rubbishes the idea that the Roses were `just another rock band' by this point. Ian Browns only writing credits appear as a co-writer on `Daybreak', a blues based jam, and `Straight To The man', a JJ Cale-esque shuffle that wouldn't have sounded out of place on his first solo album, `Unfinished Monkey Business'. We're treated to a minute or so of jungle noises at the start of the record before the lolloping funk bassline to `Breaking Into Heaven' kicks in, and we indulge ourselves in over eleven minutes of what can only be described as glorious, swampy funk rock, still one of the finest introductions to an album I've ever heard. `Driving South' follows, with it's gargantuan blues riffs riding on a cavalcade of enormous drums, before `Ten Storey Love Song' and its soothing, seductive tones take us back to the heady days of their debut. These three tracks are amongst the finest in the bands canon, yet things take an inexplicable dip with`Daybreak', which would have been fine and better appreciated as a b side. Indeed, `Ride On', which appeared as the b side to `Ten Storey Love Song', is far superior and it's baffling to contemplate it's exclusion at the expense of this jam. `Your Star Will Shine' didn't do much to win favour with the critics, lambasted as a pastiche of a Zeppelin ballad. It still sounds like a pastiche of a Zeppelin ballad, but it's a good one. A better variation on this theme, however, is `Tightrope'- a strangely wonky sounding campfire song that actually sounds like it was recorded around a campfire, and the kind of thing you can imagine a nascent Beta Band listening to inbetween copious amounts of spliff. `Good Times' is a rollicking, raucous old fashioned rock n roll tune that was recorded live, in one take, and you can hear it as the song speeds up as the band literally let rip and go for it. `Tears' may or may not be an autobiographical tale of Squire's coke addiction, but it's a majestic piece of work, as two minutes or so of folksy lament give way to Squire at his self indulgent best. The beautiful `How Do You Sleep', and `Love Spreads', a tune Bobby Gillespie commented on as `the greatest comeback single of all time' finish off what is, for me, one of the most criminally critically underrated albums in the modern era of rock n' roll.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
the most criminally under rated album ever, no contest, pure class,
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This review is from: Second Coming (Audio CD)
Because The Roses did an exclusive with the Big Issue the critics gathered like sheepish vultures, this album is majestic, "tears" alone is worth a tenner of anyone's money.
Personally, this'll put the cat among the pigeons, I think it's as good as their debut, I ain't kidding. ESSENTIAL KIT!
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