... That was in The Beatles, The Smiths or Blur and Oasis later so and is no different for the Stone Roses. "Turns Into Stone" is as much a collection of non-album singles ("Elephant Stone" still appeared before the debut album, "Fools Gold" and "One Love" between this and "Second Coming") as the B-side up 1992 So all those who were burned contemporaneously to debut "The Stone Roses" on singles. If you consider that just this debut is one of the best albums of the decade, perhaps of all time, one can imagine fast that even the material that was not quite good enough yet has plenty of class. The 1988 single "Elephant Stone" about being one of the best pieces of Roses - with a terrific, drummer Reni, Bass Eats Mani and guitarist John Squire wonderful piece by piece over a half minutes built intro it starts, then allowed Ian Brown (his voice that of a young God) sing at the time some nonsensical lyrics and catchy chorus an absolute before Reni, Mani and Squire serve up a delicious Outro. Even the quiet, partly sentimental "Going Down" could just as easily be found on the debut album space. "The Hardest Thing In The World", "Mersey Paradise" and "Standing Here" are hardly less and reflect the songwriting innovative class of Roses in its early days back. "Standing Here" is also a good example of how meticulous the band songs to perfection brought - for a three-minute, driven by electric guitar part, which is melodically absolutely good enough for a song, still two more minutes in which Brown must breathe beautifully quiet tunes on quiet guitar - brilliant. With "Where Angels Play" follows the probably the best song on "Turns Into Stone" - quiet and determined at the same time, by Squires airy distorted, accompanied gerückter in the background guitar perfectly and completed by a perfect chorus. After the second followed by a nearly two-minute, dreamy Outro - no wonder that these B-side since its publication (and even before that, without the chorus - which says a lot about the quality of the verses) is an absolute must on any Roses concert , After nice but inconsequential "Simone" (The instrumental of "Where Angels Play" backwards) followed by four songs from the period between albums - the stark change in style of "The Stone Roses" to "Second Coming" you can guess from here "Fools Gold" as is almost dance music, definitely no more rock and with 9 minutes during which Brown minimalist, but catchy melodies about Squires distorted guitar whispers, amazing long that it was the biggest success of the band at this time. The quick, positive "What The World Is Waiting For" is hardly worse, similar to shortly afterwards brought out the single "One Love" and their wonderfully weird, far too long, dreamy B-side "Something's Burning". It's worth the time to wait until the chorus, which is in fact really good. Overall, the album except for "Simone" hardly weak tracks (perhaps "The Hardest Thing in the World") and is an indispensable building block of the Stone Roses Collection - high, it is probably better than "Second Coming", has especially it more (great) songs in the style of their debut, which was so soon stripped. Incidentally: the alternative B-side compilation "The Complete Stone Roses" does offer "Sally Cinnamon", the B-sides "All Across The Sands" and "Here It Comes" and the two (rather weak) debut singles as an added value, including but only the much shorter version of "Fools Gold", "One Love" and "Something Burning". "Turns Into Stone" is therefore the better choice, although "Sally Cinnamon" is indispensable for Roses fans - collectors will probably buy both CDs, but actually it's enough, "Turns Into Stone" to order and "Sally Cinnamon" download individually.
