The Stone Roses-The Stone Roses
After 16 years, I still fail to see the attraction of this album. It's just...dull! The only tracks of any merit on there are She Bangs The Drum and the first half of I Am The Resurrection. The rest is just half-arsed shuffles through various Smiths and Beatles hooks that never go anywhere. Ian Brown has no prescence, other than that of the guy who stands behind you in the queue at the kebab shop who looks like he may lay into someone at any moment for wearing the wrong trainers. He certainly hasn't got a singing voice worth hearing. John Squire is an adequate guitarist, but he's no better than any one of a thousand session players, and shows the same amount of restraint and depth of feeling in his playing as one of those session guitarists who have finally saved enough money to record an album of their own. Mani and Reni are competent, no more, no less. The songwriting is appalling, which suits Brown's half-arsed mumble perfectly.
Guns N' Roses-Appetite For Destruction
They would be a great backing band for Dave Lee Roth, and I'm sure Axl Rose could wrap a mean Big Mac. However, despite their technical ability, this is an album of soulless, dreary songs that only achieved the success it did on the back of the hellraising reputation of the band. It's nothing Aerosmith couldn't knock off in half an hour. And Axl's singing voice is the worst in the history of recorded music.
Okay, maybe that's a bit harsh...he's not quite as bad as Ian Brown. But it's a close call.
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