What fascinates me most about The Stone Roses was where they were in the Manchester scene. In Manchester in the 80's and 90's people were taking psychedelics and euphorics and going to clubs for music. By the late 80's and early 90's this scene became extremely superficial because of the simplicity of DJ's playing dance music for people on drugs. The Stone Roses bridged this gap. They played 60's influenced psych-pop-alt-rock that worked for these dance crowds. Wanting to feel the music and have drug induced experiences to it has sadly been reduced to trance music created on a lap top, and the Stone Roses remain one of the last actual bands to be able to gain the attention of the dance-club generation while still remaining innovative and creative (they wrote songs!). What happened? We lost our attention span, and like everything else in this world, people demand instant generic pleasure provided by mindless DJ's. This is an ecstasy album just as much as it is an acid album and maybe that's why it worked. But like many others I'm sure, I long for the day that the drug crowd once again can appreciate ambitious creative music created by musicians and not just computers.
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