The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses: The Remixes

by Colin Fleming
July 12, 2004

The way the Stone Roses burst upon the British national scene in the spring of '89 couldn't have been more colorful. Loved primarily for their eponymous debut album, the Roses spawned everything from English populism to Oasis to a dance culture saturated with rock backbeats and neo-psychedelic allusions. And then, in what must have been the almost crippling pressure to follow up an album that had galvanized a generation, the Roses bogged themselves down with record label court cases and ...