The Stone Roses Albums Ranked

The Stone Roses were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. One of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the band’s classic and most prominent lineup consisted of vocalist Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire, bassist Mani, and drummer Reni. Following much-intensified media speculation, The Stone Roses called a press conference on 18 October 2011 to announce that the band had reunited and would perform a reunion world tour in 2012, including three homecoming shows in Heaton Park, Manchester. Plans to record the third album in the future were also floated but only two singles were released. In June 2012, Chris Coghill, the writer of a new film which is set during the Stone Roses 1990 Spike Island show, revealed that the band “have at least three or four new tracks recorded”. In June 2013, a documentary about the band’s reformation directed by Shane Meadows and titled The Stone Roses: Made of Stone was released. In 2016, they released their first new material in two decades. The band members continued to tour until June 2017, at which point cryptic remarks by Brown indicated the band had split again, later confirmed in a 2019 interview with Squire. Here are all of The Stone Roses’ albums ranked.

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8. Crimson Tonight, 1995

“Most songs here are better musically than on _The Second Coming_ but are slightly let down by Browns off key singing. Of course the songs aren’t as strong as during the Silvertone years, & Squire can unleash his self indulgent guitar playing to his hearts content, but there’s a good atmosphere & Mani is superb on bass. Maddix is a reasonable replacement for Reni, considering.”

7. Garage Flower, 1996

“Garage flower is a good album but also very strange, mainly its low-quality sound and the fact that it contains only simple rock songs and not many sings of what a unique band stone roses later became.”

6. The Very Best Of The Stone Roses, 2002

“Almost flawless… this is the one (as it were) to get for starters. Sure, a couple of superior songs were omitted, but they weren’t singles. “One Love” was actually their highest charting song at the time of its release, even though most fans seem to agree it’s one of their weaker efforts (and it probably charted largely on the strength of the immortal “Fools Gold”). Super talented band, especially the guitarist. Can’t go wrong here.”

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5. The Remixes, 2000

“I love hearing remixes of songs I know and love. I bought the original album when it came out in the late ’80’s and I had never heard these remixes. A few of them I found interesting for their approach, but ultimately repetitive (not really a trance fan) but still very cool to hear.”

4. The Complete Stone Roses, 1995

“A great place to get the early singles and B-sides in together. Their earliest material is lacking, and for some reason they saw fit to include oddball mixes/edits of some of the tracks from their self-titled album. Definitely not something you want to pick up if you’re looking to get hits, but for someone looking to hear the non-album stuff, it’s great.”

3. Turns Into Stone, 1992

“The ultimate Stone Roses release…consisting of non-album singles and B-sides, every track is perfect (with the exception of the dull Simone), highlighting that lovely bliss-on-Valium vibe that made this band so great. If there’s one moment that deserves to be singled out, it’s the change-up at the end of What The World Is Waiting For, when the music kicks into a higher gear, the foundation for Ian Brown to sing, “Stop the world, I’m getting off,” and…oh, it’s just about the most gloriously defiant moment you’ll hear in any pop song.”

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2. Second Coming, 1994

“The most underrated album ever! This album had an extremely troubled genesis so it is surprising it is this good. The Zep comparisons have been exaggerated and the album is very diverse. This is one of my favourite albums ever and I am not ashamed to admit it.”

1. The Stone Roses, 1989

“The Stone Roses have a stigma these days of being a band that “hipsters” like and while this may be true, their debut album is one that I always find myself coming back to. There is not a single track on this album that I skip or do not enjoy. The Stone Roses present an album with a unique blend of sixties pop, psychedelics’ guitar, and danceable tracks which is confusing when you realize this album was released in 1989.”