Today's pick was from our friend and guest Sean Zearfoss: "I first heard the Stone Roses by way of their second, almost universally panned second album, Second Coming. Perhaps because I didn’t read any press on the album before I heard it, I didn’t know what I was supposed to think about the band or the album. I liked it, especially “Ten Storey Love Song.” From there, I got The Complete Stone Roses shortly after, which gave me more of an idea of what they did best: catchy, Byrds-ian, psychedelic pop songs. I was already sold by the time I finally found their debut Stone Roses. The years I took to get there are perhaps the most circuitous way to find one of the most important and best albums of all time. Stone Roses has those same psychedelic pop songs, but what works most about the album is that it works as a genuine whole. In other words, it’s a perfect album. The songs are both tangible, like you’ve been hearing their sounds your entire life, but also otherworldly, as if these textures are from a time and space beyond. If we put our best on the Voyager spacecraft, this is what returned to us from the other direction. And while most people call out John Squire’s guitar on Second Coming, here, the band moves as a unit, as one cohesive whole towards the stratosphere. There is perhaps no more arrogant opening to an album than Ian Brown’s “I want to be adored” refrain. Here’s a band (and especially an album) worthy of such of a grand request."

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