When the long awaited Stone Roses second album
The Second Coming finally came out in 1994 it got some mixed reviews. The general consensus then and now is that it failed to live up to the big expectations. But I really do prefer
The Second Coming to the self titled first album. Recently I mentioned this to a mate of mine in the pub and he thought I was just trying to be a contrarian. He loves the first album and truly dislikes the second one. “It’s A John Squire wank fest,” he said. Well yes, it seems like that compared to the indie-dance Madchester sound of the previous one but the groves are still there. Like on one of The Stone Roses less celebrated song
Daybreak. Yeah it’s got Squire riffing all over it but it also has a tight danceable groove that’s textbook Stone Roses, plus a brilliant outro that goes into double time overdrive. A truly underrated song.
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