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Whether your taste was shaped from your parent’s record collection, friend’s mixtapes, or the latest hits from the radio, these artists form important memories, they make you sing, laugh, cry and dance.
Talking About… podcast was formed from an idea by two lifelong friends, James Gentle & Phil Reynolds' love of the band REM and along with fellow friend Gareth Norman has evolved in to a regular look in to all music both old and new.
Each episode will take a deep-ish yet light hearted dive into the history of a different band or artist. We'll discuss our take on their footprint in history whilst discussing how they've played a part in our lives...or not.
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Talking About...The Stones Roses
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For our last episode of the series we're looking in to one hell of a band, The Stone Roses.
They're one of the greatest bands to come out of the UK. Brash, confident and with the talent to back it up, Brown, Squire, Mani and Reni gave us music that changed lives and shaped the musical landscape of the time.
We’re diving in to their career which gave so much before discovering what caused it all to implode in the most spectacular way!
There’s chaos, drama, and lots of history, as we delve into the 80s and 90s music of Manchester, we talk C86, Gareth's love of The Smiths, Phil's weird obsession with sticker albums, why James supports Hibernian, Neighbours, local nightclubs, not just one but two quizzes and so much more.
And here's our final playlist of the series. 15 absolute bangers from The Stone Roses to get you in the groove.
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SPEAKER_00I'll just knock mine out of the way, mate. That's how I run. If you don't like it, get someone else in, but I'll play by your rules.
SPEAKER_02You make rules up as you go up.
SPEAKER_00It's like a film, right? So that is it. What's that from? I don't play by your rules. White men can't jump? Probably. I don't play by your rules.
SPEAKER_02Shall we do some formal introductions? Really? Formal?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, why not? Okay.
SPEAKER_02I've been listening to podcasts and apparently they introduced themselves.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00They sound hideous. Hi. I am Gareth. I am Phil.
SPEAKER_02And I am James. And I'm Gareth.
SPEAKER_00And we are pretty. Yeah, let's not do that again. Let's never do that again.
SPEAKER_02Right, so we are doing the Stone Roses this evening.
SPEAKER_01We are. That was your choice, James, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_02That was my choice. Yes. Stone Roses. I'm gonna ask you, how do you both feel about the Stone Roses? Um, yeah, I like them.
SPEAKER_01I feel they've got quite a big place in the the musical history of this country.
SPEAKER_02And you feel? Um, yeah. So so did you get into them the first time around?
SPEAKER_00Nah no. See, I as we know I never kind of that whole Brit Pop, I know they weren't really Brit Pop way before that, but but even then I wasn't I mean when Stone Moses the first album came out, I wasn't really into music then anyway. 89. Yeah, it was too I was too not really appreciating music then. But no, that whole Madchester scene which they kind of created apparently. I didn't really like that either. I didn't appreciate it then anyway. But I do appreciate their music. I I was just never a fan when they were relevant or even when I was a bit older.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I guess us being the age we are. Yeah, we kind of missed it all, didn't we? I suppose they weren't relevant when we were getting into that sort of music, right?
SPEAKER_00Which kind yeah, which kind of I suppose, which we'll get into makes sense, doesn't it? They missed the boat really. I think they'd been and gone by the time I had.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I can't even remember a time where I can say, yeah, I got into them.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I think just by osmosis.
SPEAKER_00On the flip side of that though, does that work in their favour? Do they kind of come out as a bit legendary for that? I think they do. Definitely, similar to the Nirvana, only had three albums, short-lived, everyone loves them because of that, and we always what they'd done if they'd have carried on blah blah blah, they'd probably faded out and just become a band that did have a couple of good albums and not much. I I very much think that would definitely have been the case with the Stone Roses. Good jing. Yeah, I do. Because they've been around for quite a while.
SPEAKER_01Before before the first album, yeah, 84, was it or something? Yeah. Yeah, because it was a long time, wasn't it? Before because they they did record an album that never got released. Garage Flower.
SPEAKER_02Have you listened to it?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02It's rough, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, compared to the debut, yeah. It's got some good songs on there. Production.
SPEAKER_02No, but they were playing I Wanna Be Adored. Yes.
SPEAKER_01I see.
SPEAKER_02Back in 85, 80, yeah, really early.
SPEAKER_01But it was kind of because it was produced by, wasn't it, mine? Hannett, Hanett? Joy Division. Oh right. So all part of the whole like factory scene that was going on. And you when you listen to it, you can hear his kind of production style that's very similar to kind of like the Joy Division song. Yeah. Well yeah, it never got released, they scrapped it, didn't they?
SPEAKER_02Didn't come out until the 90s, mid-90s, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I do feel I do feel there's a bit of like a folklore legend about the Stone Roses. I think that's awesome. It's massive, it's it's it's like a greatest hits. I always see it as a great. I was never because I was never into Stone Roses, I never I never bought the album, so I don't know. So when I listen to it now, it's like I've just bought a Stone Roses Greatest Hits album.
SPEAKER_02I mean, my first recollection really was the brush. Listening to I Am the Resurrection as the last song at the brush on a Saturday night.
SPEAKER_00You weren't a big Stone Roses fan at first.
SPEAKER_02It's not that I wasn't a fan, I was just unaware of them.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Obviously, up north in Manchester they were massive, I'm guessing. I suppose we didn't hear about that.
SPEAKER_02I think they were massive everywhere after the first album. Although it didn't it took a while for people to warm to it. It didn't really do anything for the first five months. Okay. And then by the end of the year, it was kind of like everyone's favourite band were the Stone Roses. Yeah. They went through some shit to get to where they were they got to with that album. From what I hear, I don't think they were particularly liked in Manchester.
SPEAKER_01No, yes, right. At the start.
SPEAKER_02I think people like um Tony Wilson, Factory Records, and all that were like, get the fuck out. And then they got so fucked off with that that they actually decided to spray paint a lot of the like famous points in Manchester. And then from that, like Manchester hated them even more. Essentially, they were blacklisted.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they just spray painted stone roses over everything.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. And I think one of their first gigs was it a HIV concert hosted by Pete Townsend at the Marquee Club in London.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02So I think they basically sacked off Manchester and started playing in London.
SPEAKER_00So I owe us Southerners a lot. And they had the cheats calling Madchester.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but Manchester, I mean, it doesn't just include them, and I don't think it started with them. I think some of the research I've been doing, it's sort of I mean it goes back to like Northern Soul. That's where it all starts, really. And then I think the modern, I mean, when I say modern, but like the 80s and 90s, Manchester scene kind of starts with the Sex Pistols.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02Playing the Lesser Free Trade Hall in 1976 or something like that. And I think I've I've I've written this.
SPEAKER_01I've been who is in attendance. There's someone there that you absolutely love. Is that yeah?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so Manchester Scene timeline. Uh so Sex Pistols played Lesser Free Trade Hall 1976, watched by Tony Wilson, Pete Hook and Bernard Sumner, Morrissey, Mark E.
SPEAKER_01Smith, and come on, and shoved to the side. And come on, and red haired temptress.
SPEAKER_02Mick Hucknell.
SPEAKER_01Oh really? Yeah. He inspired Mick Hucknell.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he simply read a punk though, wasn't he? Early days, yeah. Yeah, I was quite surprised by that when I read that he'd um attended. But then obviously, all these guys, like you know, Marky Smith started to fall, Morrissey, along with Johnny Maher, started the Smiths, Peter Bernard Sumner then went on to form Joy Division. You've got Tony Wilson who then started up Hacienda and Factory Records. So from that one little gig, all these people started what became the Manchester scene, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think Manchester always seems to have gone through these stages, isn't it? Yeah. You had like the Buzzcocks and then you had Joy Division, yeah, and she had like Stone Roses, and then you had Oasis. It just it kind of seems to go on and on. Yeah. Where are the charlatans from?
SPEAKER_02They're all part of that same scene.
SPEAKER_00I always find Charlatans and Stone and Stone Rose very similar.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so Manchester you'd think charlatans, Happy Mondays, Happy Mondays, Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Oasis or James, are they Manchester? Yeah, and uh AOA State apparently was part of that same scene. Oh right. But what I learned in this research is how early all these bands formed.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I think James formed in 82.
SPEAKER_01James are early, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Like when you think of Stone Rose's first album, you think, oh, they've just come out. But actually they've had five or six years before that, right?
SPEAKER_01Doing the clubs and that, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Smiths, yeah. It was really a melting pot of you know, you describe the Smiths as what, jangle pop, jangly pop? It was it's jangly, right?
SPEAKER_01It's yeah, well, okay, yeah, fine.
SPEAKER_02And that sort of stretches back to the Northern Soul kind of thing. You'd even put people have a wedding present in there, I think.
SPEAKER_00I think the Stone Roses hours were quite jangly. Yeah. So you had Stone Roses, Smiths, obviously Stateside, you had a REM and then so I don't know if it was just a time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I th I think it is definitely a time, but it's a you'd come out of punk and all kind of like the heavier sort of sound. Maybe it was kind of like a anti-punk movement.
SPEAKER_02It was, but there's also like a post-punk as well, wasn't it? Television were a little bit not jangly as such, but like clean.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like Gang of Four or so, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_02I think the certain ratio were Manchester as well.
SPEAKER_01Yes, I think they yeah, they were Manchester, yeah.
SPEAKER_02And I think that influenced other bands like Orange Juice and you know, stuff like that. So there was this theme running running through Man the Manchester scene of this kind of jangly pop indie kind of thing. But at the same time, you had obviously the club opening up Hacienda in 82, which was important, like American House, you know, the the likes of Frankie Knuckles and Marshall Jefferson. So there's a big melting pot of like indie dance all going on. The reason why I'm talking about this is because I think that the dance scene and the jangly pop scene sort of eventually collide to form this kind of indie dance Madchester kind of scene that's going on. I mean, if you look at a lot of Stone Roses records, they're constantly being remixed by AOA State and I think Paul Oakenfield was one of the DJs that was playing at the Spike Island gig.
SPEAKER_01Oh really?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so there's a real crossover between dance and and indie at that time, you know. So much so you look at Happy Mondays, you know, Bez was that scene, right? His uh kind of energy then about a dancer as well, didn't they?
SPEAKER_01Who was he? They had a dancer for a bit. They had Stone Roses, did they? Yeah, they did one of the TV shows. But yeah, they had a dancer for a bit. I didn't know that. There you go, Stephen Cresser. Steven Cresser. Yeah, what's he doing now? Confident Rhodie. I also worked as John Squire's guitar technician as well as been dancer on stage and hype man.
SPEAKER_02Oh really, hype man.
SPEAKER_00He just hyped, slaps around the face and then, come on.
SPEAKER_02That's a fluffer, innit? Yeah. Now in my research, I realised Enemy doesn't have that sort of power anymore, but back in the 80s it did. Oh yeah, yeah. It released a mixtape called C86.
SPEAKER_01Yes. There's a whole book about that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, like a free tape on the front cover of a magazine. And that was all indie music, which was the bands like Soup Dragons, Pastels, Wedding Present, you know.
SPEAKER_00At the magazines when you got free tank or something.
SPEAKER_02But apparently it was legendary. It's really shaped indie music for like 10 years, and most of those were the jangly pop indie bands that were around at the time. It's such an interesting period. Uh I think it was 86, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So around time Mexico 86 and sticker album, my first one.
SPEAKER_02I had um Panini '86, like the football teams, and I always remember because I started supporting Everton in '86.
SPEAKER_00Garolinica, yeah? I think it was, yeah. Yeah, one and only season.
SPEAKER_02But then for some reason I needed to support a Scottish team as well. And I said to myself, the first Scottish team that I complete in Panini, I'll support.
SPEAKER_00You were a weird child.
SPEAKER_02I was.
SPEAKER_00And who was it? Who was your first?
SPEAKER_02Hibernian. Going back to the Stonebroasts who we're talking about, their first single absolutely crashed in '85.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So young tell me.
SPEAKER_02I mean, it's it's noisy garage, yeah, early underdeveloped.
SPEAKER_01Justified not making a hit. It's not terrible. I think you can see something in there. I don't know if it was like the early stuff was that well produced. No. I think it was kind of like trying to mimic a sound that was going on rather than trying to hone the sound that they wanted.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because then they got Peter Hooking, didn't they, to produce one of the singles?
SPEAKER_02Not Sally Cinnamon.
SPEAKER_01Not Sally Cinnamon, no.
SPEAKER_02I know he did Elephant Stone, didn't he? Elephant Stone, that's the one, yeah. Originally, nobody was willing to sign them. And then the manager of the time, Gareth Evans, pushed them towards a uh label called FM Revolver. Yeah, they're like a heavy metal label, which was a heavy metal label. And they're like, Yeah, yeah, we'll give them a go. And so they signed a deal and they released Sally Cinnamon on FM Revolver, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And watching watching this documentary on the whole legal battle with the contracts and stuff, uh Gareth Evans is interviewed quite a lot. I don't know, how would you describe him?
SPEAKER_01He's a car salesman, isn't he?
SPEAKER_02He feels like a car salesman, right?
SPEAKER_00You know, like a deal boy, like he knows it all, um selling the dream kind of thing.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and apparently he would he start he started off his career as a hairdresser.
SPEAKER_01That's it, yes. And Vidal Sassoon.
SPEAKER_02And he ended up owning uh something like 11 hairdressing shops in the Manchester slash Bolton Burnley area. But then he decided he wanted to go into music management. And then he bought yeah, right, and he bought a club called the International.
SPEAKER_01Yes, but I think he kind of thought it was gonna be like the Hacienda. He was like, I want to buy this. Yeah, do the Hacienda because of the kickback of Manchester with the Stone Roses, wasn't it? It was like, oh, I'm gonna buy this club and it'll be like the Hacienda.
SPEAKER_02And apparently he realize he suddenly realised actually the money to be made was in band management, so he put an advert in a newspaper and nobody really picked up. And apparently, um the only ones to pick up were the Stone Roses.
SPEAKER_00And uh was this the downfall from this the first mistake they made?
SPEAKER_01Was it cousins? Was the other members like, no, don't sign it? Don't sign it. I was gonna say, because from from what I've read on it, the whole legal thing, it sounds like they made a lot of mistakes. Yeah, because he he the contract basically said he was gonna earn a third of all their earnings or something ridiculous.
SPEAKER_02He was gonna earn a third of all pre-tax money.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because the cousins was like, no, don't sign it. He wasn't having any of it, and John Square and Ira were like no doing it, and then eventually they they instigated to get him kicked out, didn't they? Well, I think Evans instigated to get him kicked out, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. From these stories and from interviews and I've seen, I think it's a bit of a mixture of both. I think I think they weren't very intelligent in who they were signing with. No, I know. And I think their attitude didn't help it either. No, it just made things worse. I think it's just it's all of that combined. I don't think they were ever going to be destined to be a band that went on for a long time.
SPEAKER_01I feel like they just young kids got carried away and wanted to get somewhere and wanted to make it big, so just took whatever came along.
SPEAKER_00And then you think about it, you said they started in what 84, 85, so this is a good four years before. So you think your time's gone probably. You think four years, it's not like they were just up, they'd started and straight away they've got things. Then maybe they might be, no hang on. This if we could have been caught on this early, maybe we've got other things to come. So if they've been around four years, maybe they're thinking we're never gonna get this opportunity. They've just taken the first thing they can. In hindsight, it's turned out to be wrong. But I I I don't know, I just get the impression no matter who they would have gone with, it it would have spiralled out of control regardless. I think they were just that kind of band.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, maybe. What do you think of this type of music?
SPEAKER_00I like it, but you know what? I just find it very samey. That's what I don't like about it. It's really weird because I like the songs and they're very they've got great harmonies, great guitar work, great the drums, and I like it all. Yeah, but it's just every song sounds very similar. Yeah, they could all be the same band in a way. It's weird, like it is weird, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01I think bands by themselves can become a bit samey. I think across the whole scene there's quite a big difference, like with the Happy Mondays and a certain ratio and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So no, I mean I've never got that, I don't think. I think you know you're a Smiths fan, aren't you? Yeah. What is it about the Smiths that you enjoy? Uh misery. Is that it? Is that no? I just think they're they're such well crafted songs.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I'm just a big fan of Johnny Maher and his guitar playing.
SPEAKER_02Where do where does John Squire sit with you? Is he a bit one note?
SPEAKER_01He's got his thing. Yeah, he's got his thing. He's good at it.
SPEAKER_02He's good at it.
SPEAKER_01Very good.
SPEAKER_00Is he a bit showy offy though? Definitely on the second album. The guitar's pushed to the front, it's loud, and he's just doing his own thing. He's just going off there doing these little licks and riffs. And it's like, I don't know, it was a bit showy-offy, but yeah, he definitely liked to showcase his talent, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Especially on trucks like um Love Spreads.
SPEAKER_01I think the only one on the first one was probably on the Resurrection when it goes into that bit and kind of you know showcases him a bit. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02So yeah, in 1988, they signed a record contract with Jive Records.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_02Apparently, rough trade was sniffing around. Yeah. But Gareth Evans in his infinite wisdom thought that signing to Jive Records was the place to be. That was a place to be. Basically, Jive Records was the home to Billy Ocean, classic, Def Leopard, and some other drama.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But apparently, um they didn't have Stone Roses, so he thought that's where we need to be.
SPEAKER_01Right, okay.
SPEAKER_02And Jive Records were notorious for having really insane contracts. But Evans decided to get his property lawyer involved. That's right. Instead of instead of the music. And they changed barely nothing. And the deal basically tied the Stone Roses to Drive Records for life. For life? For life. And they signed it. And um they just started an an offshoot called Silver Tone. They put some of the Stone Roses music to Silver Tone where they said, Yeah, we'll take it on.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And do you know if they read any of the small print of anything like that?
SPEAKER_02No. And so I think I think that that in part sort of plays a downfall for the band. Because I think with the release of that first album, I think they were at the top of their game. They were the best of the best in that genre.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And I think the world was their oyster. I think if they if there was any contractual differences, I think they would have gone on to be m absolutely massive.
SPEAKER_00Maybe for a short period. Yeah. I I still think their characters in themselves would have spiralled regardless.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, maybe.
SPEAKER_00Regardless, if they could have had the best manager in the world, I still think they would have just imploded. Yeah, definitely.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. But then if you're not allowed to make music, if you're not allowed to do your job for however many years, then that's quite destructive, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, definitely, yeah.
SPEAKER_02And that in itself is going to create disruption within the band itself, right? If you're not allowed to express yourself as you have been doing so well up until that point, then there is going to be friction between the band.
SPEAKER_01It's going to be hard. Yeah. I mean, you say that it's the like they couldn't record music. There was nothing stopping them getting together and writing songs.
SPEAKER_02That's true. But they got to the very true.
SPEAKER_01They got to the point of doing the second album where they they literally wrote that in the studio.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So yeah, it probably caused tension the whole legal stuff. But if you're that tight a unit, you think you would have spent that time honing the stuff.
SPEAKER_00You could have used that as a form of coping with it and getting over it. Yeah, let's or even like middle finger to them. Alright, let's go and just create some songs and it's like we could they can still get together and write songs.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. We've got to discuss the Stone Roses, Stone Roses, right? Released in 8089 on the Silver Tone.
SPEAKER_00On the Silver Tone.
SPEAKER_02Um Arbor by Squire.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he had a thing for lemons as well, wasn't it? It was all to do with protests, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_02French uh the Paris riots in 68. Apparently, um Ian Brown had met when he was touring or something like that. He'd met some French guy who was a part of riots, right? Who still carried around lemons because apparently lemons were good to tear gas on that? Relieve you from the tear gas. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_02And so if you look on the front cover of the album, it's got the French flag, red, white, and blue stripe. It's got lemons on it. It's also based on a piece by uh Jackson Pollock, which made reference to the 68 Riots. So it's kind of Pollock style, but with some garnishes. And bye-bye, Badman. Which is track five off the album is written about those riots. Right. So yeah, released 2nd of May 89.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I was eight years old.
SPEAKER_02Eight years old? We've been eleven.
SPEAKER_00I was in probably Jason Donovan or something by that.
SPEAKER_02Kylie. Too many bro. Craig McLaughlin.
SPEAKER_00Hey morning. Now we're talking. I've changed my I've changed my artist next time it's Craig McCaughlin.
SPEAKER_02Because it's only got one single.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Look at that.
SPEAKER_02He was in Neighbours.
SPEAKER_00We could go for his neighbour's career though. Yeah. I bet it's a good career we're talking there. I bet it's full of drugs, women, scandals. Scandals of the mangles. I had the neighbour's sticker book. What? Playing Jane's super brain. That was always a hard one to get hold of. You had a neighbour's sticker book. Are you kidding me? I went for a phase of liking sticker books clearly. And you called him a weird child. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02When did you have a neighbour's sticker book?
SPEAKER_01Did it been around the Mexico 86 times? So 86, 87. Phil, I can buy you a complete neighbour sticker on my eBay for 30 quid.
SPEAKER_00I've seen it on P It's great, isn't it? I did add a fucking neighbour's sticker.
SPEAKER_02Do you have a look at this on the website?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02Right. Can I ask a quick question about sticker books?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02How many normal stickers was a silver worth?
SPEAKER_00Two.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Two. There's always two. So I want two.
SPEAKER_02That's like a universal rule. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Two. Had to be. Two for shiny.
SPEAKER_02No deviations. Not like a three.
SPEAKER_01Don't ask me again. It's two for shiny, alright? Well, did you have different rules?
SPEAKER_02No, no, I'm just wondering. Just wondering if anyone else had to be a big thing.
SPEAKER_00Did you get mugged off by a bigger boy?
SPEAKER_02No, I didn't.
SPEAKER_00No. I used to love sticker books though. And that was a time, wasn't it? When you come in, when you come into school with a big fucking rubber band around it. Yeah. And you had about 300 spare. Got, got, got, got, got, got, got. Oh. Never did it with the neighbours one. I was too embarrassed for that one. Yeah, I can imagine. I don't know how I got my stickers from there. Maybe on the black box posted from Australia. Did you ever not have any like odds other sticker albums apart from Pellini?
SPEAKER_02I had the Return of the Jedi.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's not that. Yeah, I had a Star Wars one actually, yeah. Uh I remember probably was around that.
SPEAKER_02I think I had a WWF one at some stage.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it was never interesting, but yeah.
SPEAKER_02Were you never used to perfect plex people on the bed? No, I never.
SPEAKER_00That's not like an emission of I never was into like WW.
SPEAKER_02Were you not? No, I never was. It's weird to think that whilst Stone Roses are making like one of the greatest albums of all time, we're just all sitting there watching WWF and talking about neighbours.
SPEAKER_00I'd take that I'd take my time over that anytime. They sound like I was going through hell. I was having a ball.
SPEAKER_02I thought uh well, according to Manny, um when they were making this album, it was an absolute joy. They were recording it at Battery Studios in London, which is in Wilston, I think it is. And they got a really interesting producer in called John Lecky.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02And Leckie is apparently a bit of a legend. Um he started off as a tape operator working with John Lennon Sib Barrett, worked with him, and then he was a balance engineer, I'm not sure what a balance engineer is, on Pink Floyd's Medal and Wish You Were Here. Nice. And then he produced stuff for The Adverts and Magazine.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_02And then when he went freelance, he went on to work with people like Um Public Image, Limited, Simple Minds, Radiohead. He did Benz.
SPEAKER_01He did do the Benz, that's right.
SPEAKER_02He did the Muse first two albums, Showbiz and Origins of Symmetry. Showbiz was a good album. Manny brought him in, apparently, um because he'd done some work with another band that Manny quite liked. Uh and they did the mix, and I don't think they were particularly happy with the mix, but it stayed anyway.
SPEAKER_01They originally talked about getting Peter Hook, didn't they, through the whole album? Yeah, but he was tea. He was too busy with New Order, right? Yeah, with New Order, yeah.
SPEAKER_02And I think their biggest complaint was it sounded a bit tinny. It didn't have enough woomph. Oomph. Oomph for actually one of the things I love best about that album is the fact that it's so unified, it has such a unique sound. Yeah. And apparently one of his greatest achievements, Mr. Leckie, they wanted to finish I Am the Resurrection, the way they finished it live, which was in a cacophony of noise and distortion and stuff. And he said, No, that's gonna sound rubbish. He needs to do something more melodic. Right, and that's where it and then that's where the triple ending came. So if it wasn't for him, you wouldn't have that eight minutes of absolute fucking joy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he's good in it.
SPEAKER_02It is, and uh yeah, I think it's one of the best albums ever.
SPEAKER_01No, it's great. It's yeah, so I think it's got a very high cultural point. And I think they're all just exceptional, aren't they? Musicians. I think it it really is the sum of its parts, you know.
SPEAKER_02And talking about great musicians, now a lot has been made about Ian Brown's singing not being the best.
SPEAKER_01No, I think when he hits it, he's very good at it. Yeah. But there has been times when he hasn't, and it sounds you know terrible. His solo queer was not very good because of his singing, though. But I like his I like his voice, but yeah, when you hear him when he's not on the form, it does sound really bad.
SPEAKER_02Every time I listen to that album, it just feels so unique and different from anything else that was being done at the same at that time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, I don't think there's anything else that really sounds the same, does it? And I think that's why it kind of stands out. Yeah. I think it's that a strong back line, didn't they? With Manny and Rennie. I think you could just as long as those two are keeping the groove going, it's yeah, I must admit, like I think the drumming is exceptional, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I really like the drumming on it.
SPEAKER_02I don't think there's another album like it. It's so powerful.
SPEAKER_01Even the slow ones, even like the waterfall. Yep. Watch uh what's your thoughts on the don't stop afterwards? Love it with the backwards, the backwards, backwards, yeah.
SPEAKER_02What I'm amazed about is they actually learned to play it live.
SPEAKER_01Oh, did they?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So apparently it is it's pretty much waterfall backwards, yeah, but the drumming didn't sound quite right, so they put some percussion to keep it going forward, and Ian Brown changed some of the words, but they learned to play it backwards.
SPEAKER_00Well, what was that, the origin of that song? Do we know if it because obviously he changed his lyrics to don't stop and that one was it just like them mucking around and him adding lyrics to it? Yeah, maybe someone just put it on backwards for a laugh and like. Yeah, I don't know. To me, it sounded like that. It sounded like a just mucking around in a studio demo and him just saying, Oh, don't like just changing lyrics going, Don't stop. And I don't know, that's what the impression I got from it. I'm not sure if that was the case.
SPEAKER_02It's quite beatlish in its like a technical approach, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, there's stuff on like revolver, isn't there, which sounds like yeah, like let us play backwards. It's it's a very strong album, isn't it? When you like scroll through the track listing. Oh, it's a best off, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00It's the best off. She bangs the drums, my favourite. Oh my god. That's my favourite. I think I love that song.
SPEAKER_02That bass work at the start, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's I think that's my favourite one.
SPEAKER_02And I think on that album, no instrumentation takes precedent, right? The bass kicks in like uh on some of the tracks, like you've got that little before the bass kicks in, before the you know, everything kicks in. It's like it's all shared, it's nothing overtakes anything else, which is completely different from the second coming.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well I think that's just kind of like how it was. These songs were all written before they went into the studio, and they'd obviously spent time honing them.
SPEAKER_02It's a confident brash album, isn't it? Yeah. Elizabeth My My Dear.
SPEAKER_01That's great, I like that. Which is a ripoff of uh the Simon Gough Uncle song Scarborough Fair.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01Yes, that's the one.
SPEAKER_02With a little weird record scratch or something halfway through. Sugar Spon Sister, I was wondering if that's like a a reference to drugs or whether it is as innocent as the lyrics suggest.
SPEAKER_01It's all about like um Candy Floss and I always kind of put those and uh that and Sally Cinnamon together for some reason.
SPEAKER_02Interesting story about Sally Cinnamon. Did you uh read about when that uh FM Revolver tried to release Sally Cinnamon after the release of this album? They did, didn't they?
SPEAKER_01They did pre-released it and made a video.
SPEAKER_02Which apparently was fine, but the band hated the video. Yeah. And so one day when the band were coming back from somewhere, they stopped off to get loads of paint and stuff, went to FM Revolver studio and said, This is for the video, and just fucking bombed everything. Bombed, smashed everything up. They ended up in court six thousand pound fine, but basically soaked the owner and his wife in paint.
SPEAKER_01Did the cars their cars?
SPEAKER_02Did the cars smash the cars up?
SPEAKER_00And you don't think they would have imploded if they'd have carried on made of stone.
SPEAKER_02How do we feel about made of stone? Uh which was another single.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, good one. Yeah, yeah, it's one of my top ones. I love Made of Stone. It always reminds me of the brush as well, which is pretty much.
SPEAKER_02It's dark as well, isn't it? There's sort of like darkness to that song.
SPEAKER_00Is that is that about rioting as well? Do do do. I don't know. Oh, is I don't know, the lyrics and that's I've always thought that's about rioting or something like that. I don't know. Burned out cards and things like that. It says about Yeah.
SPEAKER_02A bit western. Yeah, it's a Western river. Western.
SPEAKER_00I've always liked that song. I've always liked it at the brush, so yeah, it's one of my faves, I think.
SPEAKER_02Uh Shoot You Down's quite funky. That's definitely a baggy kind of Yeah, I really like Shoot You Down. Yeah, fat bass work on that, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, he's great.
SPEAKER_02I love his bass work so good. This is the one feels like an ending.
SPEAKER_01An end what issue?
SPEAKER_02Like it's an end track of the album. I did feel like that was like a natural ending to the album, and then you go into I Am the Resurrection, which, as I've probably mentioned already, is one of my favourite songs of all time.
SPEAKER_01Of all time.
SPEAKER_02It's the best song they've ever done. It's not a debate for me. This is just the best. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think I probably agree. It's the best song.
SPEAKER_02And apparently it started off as a joke. Uh Manny, he was playing the bass line to a Beatles song backwards. Right. As a joke.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02And they were like, oh yeah, this really fun. They were fucking pissing around as well. And then they thought, oh, actually, this is quite good. Let's try and actually do a proper song out of it. And out of them pissing around came I Am the Resurrection. There you go. Tax Man, I think it was.
SPEAKER_01Oh Tax Man. Might have been. Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02Isn't that interesting?
SPEAKER_01It evolved into a massive three-part anthem.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So between Manny and the producer Lucky, a joke song has turned into one of the best indie baggy Madchester tracks that was ever made.
SPEAKER_01I did not know that. That's another fact, James. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Interesting.
SPEAKER_01It is interesting. That's good.
SPEAKER_02So anyway, so that was um the first album, which obviously launched them into you know stratosphere. On chartered territory.
SPEAKER_00Now we're going all few good men, twelve angry men, what other court case dramas are there?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So they wanted to get out of their contract, didn't they, basically, and sign to a major label, right? That was the kind of the crux of it.
SPEAKER_00Is that what started it?
SPEAKER_02I think Gareth Evans thought it was the right time. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So who was sniffing around as in major labels?
SPEAKER_02Was everyone sniffing around? No one was at the time sniffing around.
SPEAKER_01I think he was approaching labels, wasn't he? And like uh schmoozing.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but I think what made them bigger was the fact that they were doing all these big gigs at the hacienda and stuff like that, which obviously culminated in Spike Island.
SPEAKER_00So you had the famous Spike Island gigs.
SPEAKER_02Spike Island, yeah, which was 27,000 people going to see them. What year was that? Was that 1990, wasn't it? Yeah, 90. And I have seen some footage of it, and it doesn't sound great. It's a bit ramshekled, and I think Noel Gallagher described the bill as shit. He said it's absolutely rubbish. It didn't go well, but I think it proved that actually they were absolutely massive because people from all over the world were going to this Spike Island gig. Um and I think Evans at this point were kind of like, we're gonna be massive, so we can't still stay with Silvertone anymore. I think he thought because the Silvertone Jive contract was so ridiculous that legally he thought he would be able to get out of it really easily. And I don't think it was that simple. And in 1990s, Silvertone put an injunction on the band, which meant they couldn't record for anybody else.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but hadn't didn't they end up signing to Geffen though, in the meantime?
SPEAKER_02No, not until late 90, early 91.
SPEAKER_00Right, okay. The court case went on for like two years, didn't it say?
SPEAKER_02No, about eight weeks. So why did they take so long to then well we'll get to that, but then Gareth Evans decided to sue them as well. That's right. So Silverton put that injunction on them, but Silverton realized that like the Silverton boss was kind of like, actually, we need to work with this band because we've done quite good, they've done quite good, let's try and make it work. So they offered a Christmas bonus for the band of about £10,000 each, but Evans actually took the majority of that bonus from for the court case, which was about to come up. And in between that, Evans met Geffen in America, and Geffen gave Evans £300,000 to fight Silverton to get out of the contract. So in March 91, the court case started, and Silverton's method of attack was to attack Evans and his behaviour towards the band. So the first thing they brought up was the £40,000 Christmas bonus. And when that was read out, apparently all the Stone Roses in court were like, What bonus? We didn't know anything about that. And then eight weeks later, the judge actually struck down the contract, uh saying that the difference was that there was a requirement to make too many albums, and there was no pressure on the label to release any stuff at all. Right. So they struck it down. Uh they signed to Geffen, gave a two million pound advance and then Evans was sacked a few weeks later.
SPEAKER_01That's what Nirvana and that were on, wasn't it? Giffen, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But it wasn't at that time that like Brown bought like mansions. Mansions, yeah, yeah. Posh area of Manchester.
SPEAKER_02Which I think led to the fracture between the band because I think Manny in that documentary sort of says, you know, we were the last band who were still in the houses, you know, still living locally, and then John and Ian went and fucked off to Rich Place. So yeah. And then in 92 they went back into the studio, but by that time they'd lost a lot of momentum in the fact that they hadn't been able to record for what two and a half years, and in that time, obviously a lot changed.
SPEAKER_00I think this is gonna be my question. Do you think that's probably the worst five years to lose that momentum that much more coming out? Because you think you went from you went from 80s to 90s for changing, and you went like Nirvana just knocked changed music completely, then you had Brit pop. So that it's probably it was probably the worst five years you could have imagined in any era of music for it to change so much, is what I'm saying. From the first album to the second album.
SPEAKER_02I think that's what I'm trying to say to you is if they had been able to continue as they were without that five-year gap, they would have been able to adapt more steadily with the times instead of being out of touch before they did it. Like the Stone Reservoir.
SPEAKER_00I know I don't know what you're saying, right? But I think if you're talking different people, maybe I just I just think I think I just think they wouldn't have been like that. But no, I get what you're saying. Yeah, they were they were playing catch-up. Yeah. They're that person who turns up to the party late, yeah, yeah, yeah. But knocking them back to try catch up and then just getting way too pissed and then just going home early. They were that that's what it was like.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I don't think it helped them that when they turned up at the studio, as we've talked about, they didn't have any songs and spent 347 ten-hour days recording the second album.
SPEAKER_01Write the music, write the lyrics. Yeah. Crazy. That's what I don't understand. There's nothing stopping them from doing that.
SPEAKER_02No. But I guess maybe with a disruption of the court cases and sucking Evans and Evans sued the Stone Roses, he won it. How did he win that? What did what what was he suing the Stone Roses for? For loss of earnings.
SPEAKER_00That's not their fault, that was it.
SPEAKER_02No, I know, but apparently he um How can he win that? He won it, apparently. Um, and he spent the money on a golf course.
SPEAKER_01Yes, that's right. He owns the golf course.
SPEAKER_00So then they've been stopped from making music, yeah. Releasing any, and he's suing them for all that, and it's their fault. How's that doesn't work?
SPEAKER_02Because they sacked him. And in in '96, uh The Rose is split. But before that, obviously, obviously, they came out with their second album.
SPEAKER_01Are we gonna mention the uh turns the stone?
SPEAKER_02Turn to Stone, yeah. The stone turns to Stone was uh a release of their like um singles and B sides, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's got some really strong songs on there.
SPEAKER_02Fucking Elephant Stone, man, is one of them.
SPEAKER_01But this was a bit similar to Oasis, it's like B-sides are strong, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you've got like Turn to Stone, which could be an album in itself, and then like Oracle's got Master Plan, which could be an album in itself.
SPEAKER_02So yeah, on on Turns Stone, which was released in '92.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, on Silver Tone still, went.
SPEAKER_02Silvertone. You've got Elephant Stone, which was originally released in '88.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02The hardest thing, which was the B side to that. You've got Fool's Gold and What the World Was Waiting For, which is double A in 89.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02One Love, which was released in '90, with something burning, which was a B side.
SPEAKER_01That was on Garage Fire as well, though, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Mersey Paradise, which I love, was a B side to She Bangs the Drums, along with Standing Here and Simone. Going Down was a B side of Made of Stone, and Where Angels Play was the B side of Wanna Beadored.
SPEAKER_01Strong. Crazy, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Should have saved them for our second album.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean they could have done, couldn't they, really?
SPEAKER_01Crazy.
SPEAKER_02But like the second album is a complete departure, isn't it? It's much richer. It's more of a rocky, blood.
SPEAKER_00It feels more of a rocky album, I suppose. Yeah, it's electric. The guitar's right at the forefront, isn't it? Yeah. That's the main instrument you hear all the way through it. I mean, it was brave, it was brave naming the album Second Coming as well, I must admit. I think it was clever.
SPEAKER_01I think after I am the Resurrection, then it's a good one.
SPEAKER_00It's a good play on the words, I get it, but it's a brave choice. It is. The first song, what's the first song, Breaking Into Heaven?
SPEAKER_02Uh Breaking Into Heaven, 11 Minutes. But it's still got great drums, hasn't it? Like the drumming. Drumming's really good.
SPEAKER_00Drumming and guitar are really strong on it. The guitar is just doing his own thing though. He's that's what I mean. It's very much his album muffle. He was trying to do his stuff. Can I just say as well though, is it me or did every song try to be Love Spreads? Every song sounded like yeah, I'm not sure about that. Oh, I did. I was just like, where I haven't heard this album, I was playing it and I was thinking, oh this is Love Spreads. Oh no, it's not. And then there's the next one I was going, Oh, this is Love Spreads. There must have been four, five, six songs really sounded similar to Love Spreads. So that's my that's my take on the like a first listen all the way through the album. I thought every song was very like they were trying to go to Love Spreads or the stuff.
SPEAKER_02I'll admit that I never really listened to the second coming when it came out. Right, no, I didn't know. Um it's actually a really rich album.
SPEAKER_01I think it's good. I think it's one of those ones that when it came out, everyone was like because there was so much love for the the debut, yeah, and the debut was so strong, and that's their downfall as well, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00Unfortunately, that's probably such a long goes against them, is they made such a strong first album. It's hard to do that, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02But I think it's time as well. Yeah, and like that.
SPEAKER_01Everything went against them, everything went against them, yeah. There's nothing in that photo, it's not like they could release a single or a couple of singles, just nothing. No, just turn to stone, which a lot of the diehard fans would have had on B sides anyway. But I think it's I think it's a good album. I mean, I don't listen to it and think, oh, this is awful.
SPEAKER_02Driving South is one of my favourite tracks. I like Begging You. I don't like begging you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I thought I liked that, I thought it was good.
SPEAKER_02I think that's one of the weakest songs on the album, actually.
SPEAKER_00I think I like the drums on that.
SPEAKER_02Did they used to play out the brush? Yeah, they did.
SPEAKER_00It sounded similar, it sounded familiar to me. I was just like, do I know this? But I liked that.
SPEAKER_02Ten-story love song is just so anthemic.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. It's a charlatan song.
SPEAKER_02No, it's not a charlatan song. It's not. No, it's not. The chorus is a I don't think the Charlotte's ever did anything like that. The chorus, I love the Charlons, but they they didn't do a ten-story love song. No, no, I do like the ten story love song. Uh my general thin on this album is it is really funky. Maybe it's the last hurrah of baggy and Madchester. Maybe it's like it's got that sort of do you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01Like a swagger bit, I suppose.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. It's probably it's very bluesy, yeah, yeah. I tell you what, it also reminded me of. A primal screen Manchester. Glove Scotland. It reminded me of um Give In but Don't Give Out. Yeah. Kind of reminded me because that's very bluesy jazzy, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01Similar sort of vein, yeah.
SPEAKER_02That's the other thing I learned doing this. How long Primal Scream?
SPEAKER_01They've got five years. 82, right? Yeah. I've done it. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Fucking all these fans.
SPEAKER_01I think they I think they had one or two albums before Screamer Delic, didn't they?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Insane.
SPEAKER_01And who did Bobby Gillespie used to be in? Hot House Flower. No, it's in Jesus and Mary Shane as a drummer. Didn't know that. Yeah, he's on Psycho Candy, he's a drummer on that one. There you go. They're all connected.
SPEAKER_02It's all connected. Um it's a trap. Can I just say about Daybreak, track four, which I thought was funky, lyrically really good because it's talking about Brazil Parks and loads of other world sort of issues. Sounds a bit spin doctors, though. Spin doctors.
SPEAKER_01You love the spin doctors, though. I used to love the spin doctors, yeah. Looking at you now, you still love the spin doctors.
SPEAKER_02What are you saying? Because I'm wearing my baggy hat.
SPEAKER_01Good job of not filming this one.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I know. But about halfway through, it turns quite folky. So I like it. But it's sort of sort of sixties folk tracks in there.
SPEAKER_00It goes, it strips it all down, and what's that one they sing? Tightrope. Tightrope, yeah, that's the one.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Jangly 60s harmonies with some harmonies in there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's a bit sea shanky, but it strips right down and sea shanty. Yeah, yeah, it's not sea shanky, sea shanty.
SPEAKER_02Just a load of sea urchin stabbing you.
SPEAKER_00Um I quite liked that. Yeah, that's a good one.
SPEAKER_02Quite a few tracks on this reminding me a bit of Led Zeppelin. Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah. Um Rolling Stones.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's just like 60s, 70s blues, in it.
SPEAKER_02R and R. Yeah. This album has some sad lyrics in it, or like um remorseful kind of like they knew it was the end, maybe.
SPEAKER_01Maybe, yeah, maybe. It must have been difficult, I think, to go in and not have anything.
SPEAKER_02Love spreads, though. Brilliant.
SPEAKER_01Foz, oh.
SPEAKER_02I I haven't finished with Love Spreads. You didn't start. But I mentioned I started it. Sharp.
SPEAKER_01Right, you finished.
SPEAKER_02This for me is again probably one of their greatest tracks.
SPEAKER_01It's a good one.
SPEAKER_02It's got everything you want from a band that is associated with the baggy scene, and you know, it's funky, it's like great drums, outrageous guitar.
SPEAKER_00It's a bit of choiries, chorus to it, isn't it? See, Love Spreads always reminds me of Club Art.
SPEAKER_02Does it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. On a Tuesday. Yeah, he used to play it. I never used to hear it at a brush, but I always used to hear it at Club Art.
SPEAKER_02Because I always remember it being much more of a grunge club than uh Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And I do remember Love Spreads always reminds me of that.
SPEAKER_02Really? You you mentioned Vog. It's just the hidden track. What's the point of it? I fucking love it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I think it's great. Proper jamming track, right? It's just like some people fucking around.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's them all like demo, and then they're all like ch it's like an instrumental.
SPEAKER_02It's fun. Yeah, it's fun. Yeah, it's great. Um, I really like this.
SPEAKER_00Um, should we mention the reunion in 2012? I'm guessing the 2012 reunion was not a success. But at least a couple of singles. Wasn't there angles? I read something that there was a very infamous Reading show in '94 or something like that, where they were terrible. Oh, yeah, that's John Squire had left at that point.
SPEAKER_01That was their first comeback, wasn't it? And they got in Abraham Izzy's. Was it Izzy's? Who was the guitarist for Simply Red? Simply Red, yeah. There was a lot of Simply Red and links today, isn't there? And yeah, it went terrible. So then that was it after that. They kind of just called it a day.
SPEAKER_02But they all went on to do some good things, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Ian Brown says, I thought so. Tilly went a bit weird. Uh Seahorses. Yeah, but didn't he have something else as well? He did the uh album with Liam Gallagher a few years ago, didn't he? So I went to see him at the tropic.
SPEAKER_02Oh fuck yeah. How was that?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it was a good gig, actually, it was good. Apparently they were in the middle of recording a new album as well. But yeah, the album's alright, you know.
SPEAKER_02Rennie retired. Obviously, Manny went on to join Primal Screen, and then he died in November 25. We can talk about the uh the legacy after a quiz.
SPEAKER_00Oh quiz. What quiz we're doing.
SPEAKER_02The quiz that you've lined up for us.
SPEAKER_00Oh I thought you would like had a quiz or something.
SPEAKER_02No, no, actually, no, I do have a quiz.
SPEAKER_00No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The way you worded it, it sounded different than we normally do. So I've got to go. Sorry.
SPEAKER_02So I was just thinking I I I was thinking there's actually quite a lot of bands that have stone in the title of their name.
SPEAKER_00Now see, you're you're ruining my part of the quiz, but go on.
SPEAKER_02Okay. So I've written a list of ten bands. Oh, ten Christ. Um that have stone in their name. So between the two of you, uh, let's see how many we can get.
SPEAKER_00Rolling Stones. Yep. Stone Temple Pilots. Yep. That's all I got. So I got it because that's my my lyrics thing is slightly different this week. Oh, okay. But I've I haven't got a stone stone Queens of the Stone Age. Uh yeah, Queens of the Stone Age, cool. Jost Stone. Oh. Yep, I got a Jost Stone. Oh, I thought you'd found one he hadn't then. Like the family stone.
SPEAKER_02And that's five.
SPEAKER_00Romance in the Stone.
SPEAKER_02That's film, but I mean there is a band that's kind of similar. I mean, they're a bit more obscure. Yeah, right. Yeah. I'm not gonna know any of these ones, I don't think. There's one big one, which I don't think you'll get, but the others you probably won't get because they're quite obscure.
SPEAKER_01Alright, go on then of what's going on.
SPEAKER_02So I'll give you obscure I'll give you obscure ones. So you did five, that's really good. Uh Rosetta Stone. Oh yes, there is a band, Rosetta Stone, yes. Stone Ponies are a band. Uh Angus and Julia Stone. No. And another band called Stone Sour.
SPEAKER_01Oh, Stone Sour, I know, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and there's one band which are massive, but I don't think you're gonna get them. Go on. No, go on. Ramstein.
SPEAKER_01Oh that's a bit, in it.
SPEAKER_02Which actually in German means Ramstone.
SPEAKER_01He's a bit dodgy anyway. Got some Ramstein, yeah. Is he cancelled already? There's a whole thing about him, yeah.
SPEAKER_02But anyway, that was my um.
SPEAKER_01I'm happy with 50%.
SPEAKER_0250% is good. How did you feel about that quiz? Was that a quiz that was, you know, was that worth it? Oh listeners that love it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it'll be like playing along going, oh, I know this. Or not, but yeah. Yeah, easy busy, let's get quizzy.
unknownNice.
SPEAKER_00Right, AI. AI, AI, AI. Okay, so yes. The AI game. What have you got for us tonight? Well, so slightly different. I thought I'd make this quiz harder tonight. You guys have had it way too easy with a choice of 50-50.
SPEAKER_02Uh oh.
SPEAKER_00Bollocks to that. Right. So tonight, you're gonna guess whether the lyrics are from the Stone Roses. Yep. The Rolling Stones.
SPEAKER_02Oh god.
SPEAKER_00Or the Stone Temple Pilots. Oh, the Stones. Okay, so you ready?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Who's going first?
SPEAKER_01Going I'll go first.
SPEAKER_00Bonus point if you can guess the song as well. Okay. Okay. First lyric of today. Strolling on the boulevards of Paris, naked as the day that I will die. It's a Rolling Stones. Stone Roses? Rolling Stones. Rolling Stones or Stone Temple Pines? Rolling Stones. I don't know the song though. Rolling Stones. You're going Rolling Stones as well? Yeah. Got an idea of a song?
SPEAKER_02Um no.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna go street fighting then. Yeah. Both right with Rolling Stones. It's honky tonk woman though. You got all you got. I can't compete with the riders in the other heats.
SPEAKER_02Stone Temple Pilots.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Stone Temple Pilots. Got any songs? You know any songs of this? I don't know Stone Plot.
SPEAKER_02No, Stone Temple Pilots.
SPEAKER_00It was Rolling Stones, I'm afraid. Oh, what's it? Start Me Up. Start Me Up. Yeah. Right, next lyric. I don't feel too steady on my feet. I feel hollow. I feel weak. That's the um that's the Stone Roses.
SPEAKER_02Is absolutely for Stone Roses.
SPEAKER_00Any songs? Have we got any songs?
SPEAKER_01Made of Stone.
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_00She bangs the drums.
SPEAKER_01She bangs the drums, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Somehow you got the fucking right song. She bangs the drums. A bonus point for Jimmy. Three-two. Your one next. You'll see the look and you'll see the liars. You'll eat the liars and you will. Stone Silver Pilots. Yeah. You don't know songs, I'm guessing.
unknownNo, no idea.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you're both right. Vaseline. Right, one more lyric. What's the s is it four three to Jimmy? Alright, last one then. I'm standing warm against the cold now that the flames have taken hold. Stone Roses? Rolling Stones? Or the Stone Temple Pilots. This is called the Three Stone Lyric song today, if you have only just tuned into us. We've slightly changed the format.
SPEAKER_02Um KSWFD.
SPEAKER_00Stone Cold 3 Austin. Uh once more, please. I'm standing warm against the cold now that the flames have taken hold.
SPEAKER_02Uh Stone Temple Pilots.
SPEAKER_00You don't know us, you don't know any of the songs we're going with that? I'll go Stone Roses, but I don't know what song it is. It is the Stone Roses. It was made of stone, that one. Thought he was going to win that one, Jimmy. Gareth salvaged it back right at the end.
SPEAKER_02Alright, albums. Do we need two albums? I probably like we probably don't, do we?
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_02I mean, we're all gonna go Stone Roses and then the second coming, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Uh any standouts for you guys in terms of songs?
SPEAKER_01I'm the Resurrection. This is the one. This is the one, really? Yeah, Mercy Paradise.
SPEAKER_00See, I would go for Love Spreads. My top five, no, my top four would probably Love Spreads, Made of Stone, I'm the Resurrection, and then She Bangs the Drums. I do love that one.
SPEAKER_02It's the intro, right? It just throws you in it.
SPEAKER_00See, objectively and musically, you'd probably say I'm the Resurrection, without a doubt. Yeah. She bangs the drums just gets me in a yeah. When I hear that, I'm just like, yeah, I'm ready to dance.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Like One Love as well. Big fan of One Love. Yeah, it's good. Single though, right? It's not on an any album. No, no, it's on the made of stone. But yeah, single.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Drive South is in my top five. Love spreads, she bangs the drums, Elephant Stone. Ten story love song. That sort of backwards drumming. I am Resurrection. I just I just I can't get away from the three tunes in one song that just make you want to dance.
SPEAKER_00Done. Done. Just bad decisions, ultimately. Cost them.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And timing. Everything. We've talked about it all day, just were unlucky with timing. Yeah. All this happened in a period where music just changed so much. Yeah. It's like turning up to a party late and just trying to play catch-up.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Interesting one.
SPEAKER_02Anyway, lovely to see you, beautiful humans. Yeah. And I will see you for the next one. Alright, bye. Oh yeah. Bye. Adios. Adieu to you and ya. And yeah. This has been uh Kiss the Curve production. Produced by Barry at Backwater Channel Studios. Music by Ben Bailey. Talking about is presented by Gareth Norman, James Gentle, and Philip Reynolds.