As I mentioned in the first post by The Stone Roses, in mid 1985 they made their first attempt at recording an album, and employed the services of legendary producer Martin Hannett to record their songs. Despite Hannett being at the controls, when the album was finished the band were unhappy with the production and the songs, and so it remained unreleased for many years. Once the band released their official debut album in 1989 to huge acclaim, it's no surprise that bootlegs of their earlier attempt started to appear, and fans were thrilled to hear early versions of future classics like 'I Wanna Be Adored' and 'This Is The One', along-side embryonic takes of the first three singles, and many songs that have never since seen the light of day. In 1985 the band would just have changed their name from 'English Rose', and decided to give the mod sound a miss, and so the playing is harsh, primitive post-punk, closer to Killing Joke and their earliest days as the Clash-inspired The Patrol than anything that came after, but the attitude and the songwriting are already well in place. Bassist Andy Couzens was co-writer of nine of these 14 songs, and so when he left and was replaced by Mani that changed the dynamic of the band, with John Squire and Ian Brown taking over the songwriting. Even at this early stage you can hear Squire's stabbing, ripping chords on tracks like 'Heart on The Staves', while 'Getting Plenty' is almost as dramatic, 'Trust A Fox' hammers toward the shouted, sneered "hello" chorus, and Reni goes wild on 'Tradjic Roundabout'. The album was finally officially released in 1996, very much against the wishes of the band, who refused to have anything to so with it, resulting in there being minimal information about the recordings in the sleevenotes, but even after all this time I'm sure there are still fans out there who've missed this who would jump at the chance of hearing these early recordings by their favourite band.
Track listing
01 Getting Plenty
02 Here It Comes
03 Trust A Fox
04 Tradjic Roundabout
05 All I Want
06 Heart On The Staves
07 I Wanna Be Adored
08 This Is The One
09 Fall
10 So Young
11 Tell Me
12 Haddock
13 Just A Little Bit
14 Mission Impossible
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