Oh Danny Boy |
09-29-2012 09:02 AM |
Doolittle i find is one of the finest albums of its era. Better than Surfa Rosa in my opinion but that was still an amazing album. The Stone Roses is a classic album but they were no Pixies, they will forever be known as a one album wonder and they never had the legacy which Pixies left behind, so many bands after the Pixies wanted to be the Pixies and they have to be credited with having an influence what was a golden era in American alternative music. Then Kim Deal went and formed the Breeders, another amazing band, POD is up there with Doolittle imo.
Stone Roses just never had that legacy, they have been in recent years seen as the cool thing to listen to and have been given too much credit for influencing a golden era of british alternative rock which they were merely part of. By the early 90's the marketing men had jumped upon the bandwagon and rebranded it 'Britpop', a name which always makes me cringe. Oasis, Suede, dodgy, space, pulp and countless other instantly forgettable bands followed, it was in my mind a poor era for British alternative music and so far away from the golden years of the 80's.
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