When I lived in the UK, the music fans whom I knew seemed to rave about the Stone Roses. I've never been quite able to understand the appeal based on the songs of theirs that I'd heard. Oddly (given that they appear to only have 2 full-length albums) I had never heard much of the material on this album before.
I was much more used to their sound being a stripped down almost funky dancy take on rock; but this album seems to have its roots more in 60 pop-rock and folk (even featuring a reworked version of Simon & Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair"). There is a good deal more melody than I was expecting, and some sonic experimentalism with track "Don't Stop" seeming to be the music for previous track "Waterfall" played backwards with different lyrics.
As a fan of reversed music, I wholeheartedly support this approach. Reversing a piece of music really does produce an entirely different sound, often with a different mood to it. When I was younger, I had a Beatles cassette that got twisted. Once I rolled the tape back in, half of the album played backwards. It honestly cracked my mind wide open, and I loved it.
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