I wanna be adored (The Stone Roses) (LP 4574 - 4576)

The Stone Roses  The Stone Roses (Vinyl and CD, Silvertone Records, 1989) *****  

The Stone Roses  Turn Into Stone (CD, Silvertone Records, 1992) ****  

The Stone Roses  The Second Coming (CD, Geffen Records, 1994) ****  

Genre: Indie rock

Places I remember: Marbecks Records, Fives, JB Hi Fi 

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: I Am The Resurrection (The Stone Roses)

Gear costume: (Song for my) Sugar Spun Sister, I Wanna Be Adored (all on The Stone Roses), Going Down (Turn to Stone), Driving South (Second Coming).

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7

Active compensatory factors: I first heard The Stone Roses at Roger and Deirdre Marbeck's place when we over for dinner one night. It was I Am The Resurrection that made me pay attention and then I later heard I Wanna Be Adored in a pub and I had to own the album. Once I had the album I was an instant fan.

The band comprised Ian Brown – vocals, Mani – bass guitar, Reni – drums, John Squire – guitars. As AllMusic says -'the key to The Stone Roses is John Squire's layers of simple, exceedingly catchy hooks and how the rhythm section of Reni and Mani always imply dance rhythms without overtly going into the disco'. 

Their debut album is a five-star classic with every song a winner (yes, even the backwards version of Waterfall). It's such a cool sound and there is space for each musician to explore and excel.

Other things I love about it: there's the stylish/cool cover and the way that the album instantly brings 1989 back into focus for me, and memories of dinner at the Marbecks with our babies in carry cots. A magic memory.

Turn Into Stone is a compilation that came out between their first and second album. It consists of singles - A and B sides -none of which was on the debut. As such it's a valuable alternative universe of the debut and I love it, even though it's not as consistently brilliant like The Stone Roses. The extended versions of songs are terrific.

I'm also a big fan of Second Coming. It's not as uniformly brilliant but the best songs on it are superb. Driving South for instance is amazing. In fact John Squire's guitar work throughout the album is inspired. The other songs that also rank with the band's best are the opener Breaking into Heaven, Ten Storey Love Song, Begging You, Tightrope, How Do You Sleep, and Love Spreads.

Where do they all belong? A seminal band of the late eighties/ early nineties.