From the opening track, "I Want To Be A Dog" to the blasphemous finale - "I am an erection", this album struts along the dandy-lions like butter dripping on lead.

Absolute rubbish if I was being honest, I'd rather eat a can of worms than listen to this nonsense again. The 2nd track "He who bangs the drums" was awful, it reminded me of everything that was bad about the 80s: shiny guitars, reeling drums, and a singer who sounds like a cross between Ricky Steve and Bobby Carlton.

Don't waste your time lads. Go and check out those heady early days when E.L.O. lit Lucy in the pie with diamonds. Spiffing! In a word.

If you're at all curious about the Stone Roses and their refreshing brand of britpop, I say go for it. Their 1989 debut is a really worthwhile record, though I must admit it took me longer than I thought to get into it. It really conjures up a certain time and a certain place, and yet its pretty timeless. Personally, it takes me both to the grey streets of cities like Manchester and to the wide English countryside (which I always imagine, listening to this, with stray hay floating through the air).

I've heard this band being called psychedelic. Though they add a couple of minor artsy touches reminiscent of psychedelia (backwards guitar in "Don't Stop", flanged guitar in "Bye Bye Badman", etc), I wouldn't really call them that. They're just catchy English rock songs, guitar, bass, drums, gentle but strong vocals from Ian Brown, and while some can be moody (like "I Wanna Be Adored" and the short, blunt "Elizabeth My Dear"), most of them are delivered joyously, particularly some of the choruses. There's even a jam to finish things off at the end of "I Am the Resurrection")

I'd recommend this record to fans of Blur, The Smiths, Suede, Oasis and the like. It's quality. The Stone Roses are monolithic flowers indeed.

As all the five star reviews will tell you, this is quite an amazing CD. If you like jangly guitar pop rock, not the frustratingly simple pop rock of today but one that have layers of sound on it. You will love this album. There isn't a lot to complain about this album, it has very catchy guitar, well timed rhythm section and absolutely amazing vocal. There is one track you want to skip on this CD, and that's Don't Stop(and please skip?). The rest of the songs are masterpieces.

A seminal album that laid the foundation for the later Manchester bands , like Oasis, that ultimately shaped the Britpop movement. This album still sounds as fresh and interesting in 2008 as it did in 1989. If only they would remaster it......

i fell in love listening to i wanna be adored.
completly beautiful.
listen and love.