The Stone Roses

Someone pointed me towards this demo version of Love Spreads. Have a listen and leave your comments.

For such an influential band and album, Stone Roses cover versions are few and far between.

The little I’m aware of are listed below, with links if I’ve been able to track them down.

• Pete Yorn – She Bangs The Drums (Live)
• Belle & Sebastian – I Am The Resurrection (Live)
• The Unbelievable Truth – I Wanna Be Adored (Live)
• Stoney – Waterfall (available on The Saturday Sessions – The Dermot O’Leary Show)
• Monsters Are Waiting – I Wanna Be Adored
• The Travelling Band – Waterfall (Video link)

There must be more out there so drop a comment if you know of any.

From December 2008, here’s the full recording of Zane Lowe’s Stone Roses Masterpieces special.

Zane played the Roses debut album in full, with interviews and music to set the scene for this great record. Features an extended interview with Mani.

You can download the full show from the following link:

“The Stone Roses – Masterpieces” download.

Please note this file is not hosted on this site.

Stumbled across a nice little post over at the excellent music blog The Power of Independent Trucking.

He has for download a version of Elephant Stone which may be the original unreleased version which was produced by Peter Hook.

There’s no doubt that it sounds different from the various released versions but I don’t know if it is the Hooky produced version … it probably is though.

The origins of this version are interesting. Take one original 12 inch version of Elephant Stone. Re-reverse Full Fathom Five and you have yourself a nice new/old version of Elephant Stone.

Or just go here where all the work has been done for you.

The 20th Anniversary edition of The Stone Roses album has charted at number 5 in the UK albums charts:

UK Top 40 Albums