Stone Roses- Fools Gold- Top of the Pops 1989

[MrRoadhouse1974]

can mind watching this at my mates house that night,15yr old stoned out our trees and baboom this sweet little groove came on

[MegaTrainspotter]

Now you know were liam got his swagger from?

[jimifawcett]

I met Ian Brown in a butchers shop in levenshulme back in 91 ,he signed my check book and then asked me to pay for his mate's chicken that he was purchasing..I told him to f..k off!! LOL

[smashthegrannyootye]

The roses were good but oasis are better

[JSavic]

This is the funkiest song I've ever heard ! Who would have thought that white boys could funk the best ? Ian Brown - James Brown !

[7Rorschach7]

I wonder if this late 1980's audience even grasped what this was.. or the changes that were about to come?

[markwhizza]

these lot and blur are heavy says me the die hard hip hop meastro owwww

[piainoman]

What a song, shame this band got majorly screwed over by their manager.

[perryman02]

This is were my life began!!!!!!!!

[Rikk303]

Liam nicked this pose

[GrayImp]

2:15 Ah, the playback days. I like how he doesn't even pretend,

[EnglishChannel1]

Gerald Gary Mounfield

Alan John Wren

John Thomas Squire

Ian George Brown

[difflok]

waited outside virgin megastore overnight for tickets to see em at glasgow green...........fuckin epic

[psychosonicchild]

awesome!! first video that appears when you search for 'top of the pops'

[ucla4eva]

Anyone got a link to the Happy Mondays co-appearance that night?

[Gijsknol]

Great song, but hate them see playbacking :P

[madchestercity1990]

John Squire is a 90's Jimmy Page !

[methengine]

I love that about halfway through the song he stops even trying to pretend that he's really singing - just waves the mic over his head :)

[northfolkandchance]

I loved gettin'n stoned and my girlfriend liked roses. the 80'sand 90's were fools gold.

[oldskoolraver10]

big thanks to the person that put this on here!!class upload,timeless memories

[mhcxx777]

my son shaun watson loves this band hey shaun love you

[sonjiagust]

1:44 Favorite Moment

[RAMSEY1987]

they've only just gone and got back together haven't  they !!!!!!!

[fleetwoodsucks]

embodies everything shit about the early 90s

[dodger19701]

a real rock band are back

[cozener1]

What a wanker in the dungarees!

[ufewl]

@cozener1 hey that was me you piece of shit!!! (not lol).

[cheekkheyunt]

@TriGGlety1974 ITS was was ITS?? What was your mum up to in 1974? Giving birth to the stupidest wanker who has ever replied to one of my comments...

YA TWAT

[SystemBIeed]

lol they arnt even playing! great song though

[oakers6]

Sickens me that today some shite off X-Factor will hit number one at Christmas, yet this piece of magic only reached 8. Fuck modern music

[zedizme11]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[68fibua]

Mr Brown and Co Legends

[walkdru]

sod going aboard this year im off to the muddy feilds of T in the Park 2012 and Heaton Park to relive the roses feeling of when i was a youngster At spikey island....all over again lmfao!!

Thanks 4 the upload....priceless

[fagrash]

no shit sherlock

[ryanhaylo69]

Manchester produces the best music in the uk and coming from a londoner thats sayin sumin! cant wait to see em live!

[zXeCLiPzeXz]

@Ronniedasmoker

You fucking moron, don't you know what top of the pops is?

[Ronniedasmoker]

yo these guys are straight up miming

[DroverChicago]

Wow... just look at those stone-washed overalls... o_O

[moonsugar1]

The 80's were shite, and then this happened.

[cake5000]

@moonsugar1 Ermmm what?

[TheStationable]

@moonsugar1 Not full shite...we had the Smiths too.

[madchestercity1990]

@moonsugar1 The Smiths were shite maybe ?

[TheStationable]

@madchestercity1990 I'm going to pretend you didn't say that. -.-

[Seoser17]

@moonsugar1 Both were good too be honest 

[stevierotten22]

love the way he makes a point of not even bothering to mime! ata boy Ian!

[oasisbeyond]

I want this big sweater style to come back :)

[HaywirePictures]

@oasisbeyond agreed. I think it's coming back, except this time, baggy tops with slimmer pants

[GamesAndMusic2009]

aww man why do TOTP'S make them mime?!

[oldnmello]

Now if only someone had slipped a tab to Cliff Richard in the Sixties we may have gone straight to Ian Brown without all the other crap. But I'm 63 and into Faithless so what do I know?

[bingleberry1975]

The guy at 0:06 ended up as Gary Glitters holiday fluffer boy for sure

[bingleberry1975]

Stone Roses Reunification is going to be interesting :) This track fucking smashes it still and was way way way ahead of its time. Proof that breakbeats will never die....

[erndog64]

love classic modern bands from U.K.!!! what could've happened if they stayed together?

[arid595]

Baggy!!

[moewishaw]

he dances like karl pilkington lol

[jablonsky67]

TOTP always lip-synced then, is it? This is clearly the release track.

[moewishaw]

@jablonsky67 YEH it is known for lip syncing. it lip syncs more than madonna haha

[castreed]

Fresh

[moewishaw]

love the way he makes a mockery of totp by singing away from the mic haha

[moewishaw]

@moewishaw @1.40

[slumdog171]

was 15teen when this was released.. 22 years later it still hits the spot..they should have got back together decades ago.... they set the staNDARD  for everyone that followed........... legends......

[swatander]

Lip sync blahhhh

[DuffMan790]

@swatander Aww come on, it was 1989 on TOTP...it was all the rage then. lol Some nice old skool skating clips btw ; )

[tylerdurden2006]

Haha that guy on the left at the beginning. The dungarees, the shirt, the dancing. And I thought Ian Brown was cool

[markbutcher717]

Got tickets for the first night, cannot wait. Was only 11 when they split and never got to see them. Going to be amazing!

[huzzystar]

This song is the sex.

[MrSlimjimk]

welcome back the Stone Roses!

[sketchead2]

2:25 ?

[cheekkheyunt]

how annoying is it that the stupid wankers in the crowd are clapping like that...

[modmutha]

@droveraden. Shut up

[droverarden]

What a load of nothing.It's the longest intro to a song I've heard since Yes.The only problem is after 3.22 nothing happens.It turns out the intro is the song.

[Tapiola2007]

@droverarden Feel it! Don't listen to it!

[DuffMan790]

@Tapiola2007 Ha ha...great reply. I feel 18 all over again...roll on next summer!!!

[Tapiola2007]

@DuffMan790 I know already that I won't make either of the first two shows but I desperately hope to catch them somewhere on the proposed world tour. Did see Mani a few months ago with Primal Scream and he was on great form!

[mruj5]

@droverarden You obviously don't have a clue mate. One of the best intros ever along with I am the resurrection and I want to be adored. If you don't like it why are you here?

[sydarrtha]

@droverarden Fuck off back to Genesis.

[modmutha]

whos the knob in the bib n brace?

[james7AS]

so, who else is going to see them next year in MCR ?!

[1CharmingManc]

@james7AS

me and about 500,000 other people if Facebook, Twitter and Youtube is anything to go by!

Think 3 nights will sell out in an hour or so.

[peterpeterxxo]

before he was in the stone roses icon brown had his own tv show in about 1979/80..it were called...monkey.

[keitan4522]

私のお気に入りのアーティストの元祖かな？どこか似ている

[goingnowhere92]

The only way this could be better if it was the 9 minute version.

[kosacco92]

Why does anybody plays music like this anymore? I miss good music!

[jsward007]

Why do they have to be playing it live for it to be good ? id rather they imiitated and gave us out of studio sound because its been mastered to sound a lot better than playing live .

[danhatechav]

quite dissapointing that they aren't actually performing it live..

[oakers6]

High as a kite

[bAzTNM]

@oakers6 Agreed!

[goodhitsofthesummer]

playback aint fukin cool man

[agoodud]

Sitting on my best mates bedroom floor, he put a tape in. i heard the first strains of I Wanna Be Adored. I've never had music hit me like it did before or since

[sambomfc]

just wish music like this was in the charts now :(

[lewisf18]

I remember watching this video as a kid. I also remember thinking that he had Downs Syndrome. hahahaha

[oldnmello]

@lewisf18 And now you're so 'mature' you're thinking like an infant - you must watch Top Gear - "Downs Syndrome. Hahaha". Tune in to Stewart Lee for more info. regards

[klinepatsy]

Love how he blatantly waves the mic in the air as he is singing the lines... I'm no clown I won't back down don't need you to tell me what's going down. coincidence? Probably not.

[mysticlawlotus]

listenin to this makes me realise how crap music is now

[TheLeosfi]

Thats'definitive seal to the Madchester Era...

[kagaingas]

damn TOTP

[andeeedc]

Lip Sync :(

[Bill6650]

I clicked on this video forgetting TOTP is just miming haha

[ThePelincrew]

yeah, like ian would sound this good live!! :)))

[rupman27isback]

WTF.. LIP SNYC?!?! VIDEO SUCKS!

[inspiralroses]

Mani is a very good bass player, but believe me, here he moves like a shrimp on a hot tin roof ... hahaha ...

[Offspinmike]

Pah, Should have been Nuber One.......

[TheSlippySock]

before people hate for lip syncing, all bands were forced to lipsync on totp, bar a few

[thisonetheonly]

lip synced.. still at least he wrote the song, nowadays people lip sync songs that they pretend to have written, long live stone roses<33

[leebung]

That guy on the left at 0:06 is probably still wondering why hes single..

[lewisf18]

@leebung

Well spotted. I've not seen anyone dress like that for ages, not since they were a kid anyway.

[irjawz]

lol blatant lip syncing :P

[markfish130469]

Long live king monkey, indeed. I went to see Beady Eye the other week, and I am the resurrection came over the PA before the gig started, the atmosphere was unbelievable, like going back in time, shame about the rest of the gig really.

[starkyliam]

The singer looks like Liam Gallagher.

[johnmcluskey]

@starkyliam No, liam gallagher tries to look like him!!

[starkyliam]

@johnmcluskey yes, i know, i wasn't paying attention to my grammar.

[oakers6]

@starkyliam The singer? He has a name, it's Lord Ian Brown King of the Monkeys

[starkyliam]

@oakers6 I know that,

[wetend123]

Long live king monkey

[griffinmiller24]

thats not Mani in a ponytail is it?! it doesnt look like him

[warzsawa80]

@griffinmiller24 yes It's Mani

[yenbadcito]

0:03 the guy in overalls = awesome

[HackerGuitarist]

thank goodness this style died quickly

[spikeyisland70]

@HackerGuitarist You obviously weren't 'there' matey and if you were you were one of the saddos into the other bullshit that was around at the time.

[ainsleywalker]

@HackerGuitarist Die? Hardly. If it wasn't for these Oasis etc etc etc. would never exist.

[skuthepoo]

anyone know what brownys top is? 

[ufewl]

@skuthepoo looks like something he stole from a waiter in an Indian restaurant!!

[pdk2110]

London 0 - Hull 4. Still one of the defining songs of my youth., I was 8 years old & remember this like it was yesterday. God bless paul heaton,a genius among men..

[ciaran3707]

I don't care what decade you're living in. Nothing that can justify the dungarees and jumper that guy is wearing in the intro.

[robertodowneso]

I was a 17year old army recruit when I saw this on totp, shortly after I left the army, grew my hair long and life has been one long party since. nice1.

[FSMnoodle]

Super cool. Not like that twat in the bib and brace at the begining!

[easssyeddy]

Interview with Mani in Q magazine from a few years ago talking about them on TOTP ; 'We were completely off ours tits on E and Brandy. I don't think TOTP ever recovered from having that many whacked out Mancunians there on one day'. Legends , don't get anyone like that any more

[january39]

Alomst all performances on TOTP were mimed, if you could spot that from Ian Brown waving the mic.... Epic band though, and to think i thought they were 4hit when they first came out. Grrr

[rabidmonkeys1988]

fucking lip syncing!

[divisivecottonwood]

I like the guy in the audience wearing dungarees at the beginning :) 

[modmutha]

@JoshSmith6969... oh yeah!! just goes to show how little interest i have in them...but thanks for the info. Now is Bernard Sumner Stings brother?? lol xx. but glad we agree on the roses thing!!

[ianinoz69]

yum, Jackie Brambles!

[modmutha]

@mmmpointy, sorry new order the best manc band?? Oh no my friend!! The roses bar none, and if new order performed live on totp it was probably cos they couldn't sound any worse, I know ian Curtis is dead but his voice had the tone of a mental patient receiving an enema

[JoshSmith6969]

@modmutha I agree, The Stone Roses are the best band to ever come out of Manchester. But Ian Curtis was never in New Order. He was in Joy Division and the rest of the band formed New Order when Ian Curtis died. Bernard Sumner was the singer in New Order.

[modmutha]

Ian brown looks knickerwettingly gorgeous

[Klistern2]

has anyone ever done a live performance on this shithouse show?

[mmmpointy]

@Klistern2 Yes. NEW ORDER (the best band from Manchester in my opinion) always insisted on playing live.

[WizLaudan73]

"Tonight on TOTP we have The Stone Roses AND The Happy Mondays"...The best TOTP night ever...bar none!

[ucla4eva]

Coolest band...ever...

[hhead44]

So glad, I'm not the guy on the left 0:04

[manuelsoma1989]

Yeah, they don't need to mime, but it's not up to them, TOTP used to make you use playback.

[burnseyvilla]

damn, wanted to see renis drumming. damn you recorded tv! thought ian might have had his paul smith t-shirt on too

[kcor6]

lip synch suck ,.....

[wmchase65]

lip synch...damn...

[TheBarnes96]

Why arent they actually playing :( oh well their still awesome

[shaunb1973]

they shouldn't need to mime, one of the best live bands i ever saw, SPIKE ISLAND.

[tuna2k10]

how fucking cool is this?!? but that guy in dungarees stood next to the presenter looks like a proper dick! where the fuck did totp find the never-ending stream of fuck-wits that made up the crowd every week?!?

[ALANMURPHY776]

the roses were easily the best british band since led zep. Ian brown is a legend!!!!

[potdrum]

@ALANMURPHY776

hell yea, man, the only band to top the Roses is Led Zep, and now I see where my cousin got his dancing style, from Brown!

[earinsound]

@ALANMURPHY776

then british rock produced nothing from 1979 (when zep died) to 1988 (when the roses were born)??? what about boy george? or wham!?

[MadFerMusic]

@earinsound  Behave.

[figocooldude]

@earinsound The Smith man.

[higg1986]

Squires is a god

[mariaraver92]

Pure class....I love Ian Brown!!!!

[Meta1Head91]

Laugh out loud at Ian Brown 1:41 Fuckin good on ya. Thats what you get for making people lip sync on tv. But thats TOTP for ya.

[IpreferRocknRoll]

There's fuck all as modern as this around nowadays...

[oOoLukeoafcoOo]

The shittest effort at miming I've ever seen.

[TheSecondComing1789]

@oOoLukeoafcoOo That's The Idea

[AW4L]

'hes in tune for once'

Yea becuz hes lip syncing lol !

[rewirewi]

You can see where pencil dick Gallagher got it from.

[Ripstoneroses1]

if thats not cool, i dunno what is.

[bodyke4life]

@Ripstoneroses1 wat ur mans wearin at the start of the video ?

[robertodowneso]

i nicked a telly to watch this when it was first on.

[ABEEZY9]

lip synch?

[PolanskyA]

@ABEEZY9 Yeah.Coz its Top of the Pops.

[NOOBTUBE189]

The bass player is Gary "mani" mounfield

[ElFlakoRompanTodo]

who is tahta bass player?

[calbeesnapcult]

Bigger then Jesus... The MF!ing Stone Roses.

[SuperGrimupnorth]

apparently Ian turned up at the studio with the same top on as paul ryder, Paul changed his top,..also the Mondays and the Roses wanted to play on each others tracks with Mani playin drums with the Mondays and some of them in the Roses performance,..but the studio wouldnt let them..

[GlAmPoPpRiNcEsS]

Take that Top Of The Pops! Reni looks really pissed off about having to mime.