I AM THE RESURRECTION (Reading 96) / THE STONE ROSES

[BenjKris]

oh dear god

[richievegas01]

Fucking dreadful. Simple as. If some bloke did this at pub kareoke he would get booed off. Brown did this in front of 40,000 people. There was a video of the entire performance on YouTube, but it's since disappeared. Brown admitted a few years ago to staying up the entire night before this drinking. He was smoking spliffs the entire way through too, unusual for him. He has enough trouble trying to sing sober, never mind wrecked!

[B1ggu5]

One music reviewer described Browns vocals akin to "the hideous braying of a tone-deaf buffalo unexpectedly giving birth to triplets in a public toilet. In Hull."

No far off to be honest.

[barfbath]

Jesus Christ...

[Camelsarse]

Sounds like im singing! hahahahaah

[JONjRAMON]

what a fucking mess, a leader singer who cant sing...

[TheBobskin]

the stoned roses

[turtleneckmusic]

Ian Brown makes Liam Gallagher on a bad day sound like Pavarati.

Fucking Brutal!!! Squire should have replaced him with a tin o beans!!

[thevoid99]

omg. that was fucking awful. that just killed the band there and there.

[TheNeitherboth]

father, why has thou forsaken me. Is 2.20 a bible verse? the way people are bringing it up, as though you're waiting for it. Go back to 1.50 and hear the band fuck up and then realise Brownie is just lonely out there.

[SuperGrimupnorth]

apparently Brownie had been up the night b4 smoking his head off,..didnt do him no good by the sound of it,.i av seen the Roses though and i tell you,..he can sing live ,..ive heared it

[z00ts00t77]

I've waited years to hear this, I've always read how bad it was. It starts off, not so great, but not as bad as I was expecting......and then it gets to 2.20, it's bad, very bad....

[shiftlulz]

Sounds like a fucked up Shaun Ryder to be honest

[crazyeye93]

there are so many things wrong with this

[RichPeacocke]

I loved every second of this show, then the boot turned up and hmmmm...

[thisisboringnow]

Between 2.20 and 2.35 (I think that bit is meant to be the chorus) does someone kill a cat on stage?

Absolutely awful and I was there unfortunately.

[johnedsel]

Fuck me dead! This is making me cringe. I heard this performance was bad, but anyone else who hearing this now will definitely agree:

It's not bad. It's worse!

[ayeayebadman]

ian had been up all night the night before getting smashed and stoned.hes admitted this and says he listened to the gig in the car on the way home and said he even thought he was poor!I was listening to the reading gig on cassette the other nite and my housemates told me to turn that racket down!!!i couldnt argue could i??!

[Andrew077]

We all know he's not a great singer, but on this he sounds like a drunk trying to do karaoke.

[Theedgerob]

sounds like my dad singing Danny Boy...

[Porterjoh]

You can even hear the optimism drain out of the crowd, listen to them at the start...by the chorus theyve quit

[hofsteveO]

I have waited 13 years to hear just how bad this is...

I have just had to turn the speakers down at work..

A colleague just shouted over "What the f@@@ is that racket??"

[unioncitymusic]

This was a sad swan song for the Stone Roses, but it was no secret that Browny couldn't sing live.

[Mozzer232]

No, Brownie couldn't sing period... But he could and can carry a tune. With his swagger and unfound confidence, that was his thing. This is just AWFUL!!!!!!!

[kingshahine]

@Mozzer232

he had sung well in the late 80's early 90s.

he could sing on the first lp. elizabeth my dear and this is the one. his voice sounded good, but he wasn't good in a technical sense

[DeekayofLondon]

"a man shouting into a bucket" NME

[noelwannabe]

2:20 owh my

[Portis1Luv]

This is a lesson to all bands in it for the music from the start.....stay true to your friendship, and stay the fuck away from drugs an' the people tellin' you you're the greatest thing since Sophia Lorens' tits.

[noelwannabe]

2.20 is the sadest moment in music fuck me i can sing this song better with my eyes gaffataped over whilst injecting crack inside my ear and clipping my toenails

[becca1979]

plus they need the cash dont do ian they fucked u off bar mani

[jcrcst08]

horrible

[rilosafe1]

Ian Brown used to go to my school :)

[B1ggu5]

Was he in the choir?

[benjamin308]

The guitar playing here is clearly good. Ian Brown however was clearing having an 'off' performance.

[TeamGoldenOats]

Good grief.

[full3minutes]

They were always a vastly overrated tinpot band anyway. No great loss.

A classic example of a band 'peaking' far too early in their 'career' - FACT.

[headspin70]

tinpot band, fuck off pal, obviously a disgruntled smiths fan that jealous of the stone roses status on the best albums of all time, granted brown aint always good live, but when it comes to listening to an album, the smiths or no-one came close to the first album.....FACT!

[benjirichardshooper]

This is not the roses This idian guy could never play the role of squire never no-one could

[attentionaddicts]

you're honestly saying the biggest issue with this performance is the guitar playing? lol..

[headspin70]

aziz abrahim was/is a great guitarist mate, although id prefer squire as well, he wrote ice cold cube on browns first solo album which the lyrics are ironically about squire (reni used to call squire 'ice cold cube' when squire was at his peak on coke in reference to his persona).

[steviecarr06]

ian brown wrote ice cold cube lyrics

[headspin70]

sorry, i was drunk when i wrote that, what i meant was abrahim played guitar on that track lol...

[steviecarr06]

haha sound, good track though init

[jcrcst08]

horrible

[daambros]

Sweet Jesus, for that song alone, they have to reform and put this right......

[whitelabeldemo]

Good god.

Not surprised Squire left.

[lovespreads11]

ano man should have just chucked it after john left! Brown is stoned out his tree by the sounds of things and u can tell its all fell apart in the press conference for this gig! poor stuff man just not the roses that we love

[B1ggu5]

No wonder Mani cried all the way home.

[headspin70]

well why is it mani is the most vocal above anyone that wants the roses to reform then???

[B1ggu5]

Probably because of the very fact that this performance was his last memory of the band and wants to show that the Roses weren't the shambling wreck that this gig portrays them as and could once again be capable of producing some wonderful music. John Squire's recent artwork pretty much puts the nail in the coffin of any reunion hopes though.

[Sincyboy]

This is soul destroying

[mahavishnu]

What the hell!

Is that Ian Brown singing?

Oh, god!

It sounds terrible!

[DavySolaris]

thanks for uploading man.