Shouldn't have bothered (Second Coming - Stone Roses)

Member Name: gerschwin

Product:	Second Coming - Stone Roses
Date:	23/09/00 (30 review reads)
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Advantages: some good songs

Disadvantages: lots of bad ones

The best tracks are splendid and the rock swagger of Love Spreads and Breaking Into Heaven or the sprightly Ten Storey Love Song are as good as the best of their debut. But there are longueurs aplenty. Squire dominates and, yes, if rock still had guitar heroes he'd be the natural inheritor of Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page's mantle. But there's too much of him and Brown's voice is too frail for the accompanying noise. Which brings us to the horrors of the free live EP recorded in Ireland. Four perfunctory tracks played with precision (if not verve) but rendered ridiculous by Brown's comically bad vocal performance. This may not have been his fault, perhaps there was some technical bug at play, but the result is pathetic.

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