Second Coming - Stone Roses Reviews

Second Coming is the second and - as it turned out - final album by The Stone Roses and was first released in 1994. The album was highly anticipated but met with a decidedly mixed reception that mostly bordered on the lukewarm. The Stone Roses were truly great at their mighty best but they were undone in the end by the fatal combination ...  Read the complete review

After over 5 years of waiting, the record company in charge finally told the Stone Roses to produce an album, and this was it. You can see it's rushed in places: Daybreak is just a loose jam (but a great one at that- if only there was more time to it!), Straight to the Man is something that would have fitted into Ian Brown's lo-fi debut ...  Read the complete review

Second Coming has in the past received critical reviews, but this is in no small part due to camparison with the Stone Roses first, self-titled album. Yet comparing the two isn't really fair - the albums are simply different. What remains the same is the thumping rhythm section of Mani and Reni, whose bass and drums, respectively, are ...  Read the complete review

What is Brit pop? British pop music? a new star spangled ice cream? Perhaps it is a freudian slip unintentionally telling of the up coming demise of 'popular' British music. You protest i hear! Firstly its a comment on the state of 'popular', as in sells records. i dont want somebody telling me that the British music ...  Read the complete review

After you've written one of the best albums ever, it's always going to be a tad tricky producing a follow up that pleases everybody. Suffice to say that with Second Coming, The Stone Roses didn't. I'm one of the seemingly rare people that has a lot of affection for it however. More than an acceptable quota of average ...  Read the complete review

Slaggin, slagging, slagging and a bit more slagging. That's all this album recieved on its long awaited release a few years back. Is it justified? Well, yes, if you wanted a replica of the stunning debut album, but The Second Coming wisely does not try to be so. It's got a lot of teh same ingredients, just in a ...  Read the complete review

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. ...  Read the complete review

I am mainly writing this in response to other peoples opinions. I was a latecomer to the world of The Stone Roses, having previously decided (much to my annoyance) that I wouldnt like that kinda thing. Well I bought The Second Coming in a sale, amd it remains as one of my favourite albums. I heard it before getting the eponymous album, ...  Read the complete review

The Second coming was quite a radical departure from the First Album, and this probably accounts for the majority of Roses fans being dissapointed when it was first released. I think this was to be expexted though, since the lads had grown up a lot since the late 80's. I feel the emphasis had shifted away from Ian Brown, and ...  Read the complete review

It starts oddly, with "Breaking into heaven" an 11 minute piece, with ambient jungle noises - certainly not like the guitar-laden gems the Stone Roses are famous for. The overall tone of the first half of the album is more like the Happy Mondays. As far as I am concerned it is not until "Begging you" (Song #7) ...  Read the complete review

Second Coming does not deserve the slagging off it sometimes gets. I even know some people who prefer this to the first album. If you are a Roses fan you should definitely buy second coming and give it a while to grow on you. Ten Storey Love Song is the song you'll probably like the most at first as it sounds more the like the ...  Read the complete review

Was it it worth the wait and the endless bickering? Probably not. The album starts off well enough with the sonic guitar fest of "Breaking into heaven", and peaks with the tuneful "Ten story love song", which hinted at a more tuneful past. Unfortunately the is too much self indulgence from John Squire, whose exquisite ...  Read the complete review