GARAGE FLOWER
5 / 10
Garage Flower is a poorly packaged document of the band's early efforts. The highlights on the album are all too brief - it is not so much the songs themselves but the production (especially of the drums) wherein lies the problem. In their early days The Stone Roses had an aggressive, punky sound; their main influences at this stage were The Clash, The Sex Pistols and Manchester outfit Slaughter and the Dogs. The Roses had a dedicated following in Manchester, but were considered unfashionable (publicity shots from around that time feature John Squire in a bandana and Ian Brown wearing leather trousers) and somewhat uncouth by the local music scene at the time, a scene dominated by Factory Records and Tony Wilson.
Speaking to stoneroses.net in 2001, Andy Couzens explained what a 'garage flower' is:
1. Getting Plenty
2. Here It Comes
3. Trust A Fox
4. Tradjic Roundabout
5. All I Want
6. Heart On The Staves
7. I Wanna Be Adored
8. This Is The One
9. Fall
10. So Young
11. Tell Me
12. Haddock
13. Just A Little Bit
14. Mission Impossible
Format:
Released 1996:
Garage Flower (Garage Flower / Samsung Music, SZC-1016, Korean CD)
Released 25th November 1996:
Garage Flower (Garage Flower, GARAGE CD 1, CD)
Garage Flower (Garage Flower, GARAGE C 1, promo cassette)
Garage Flower (Garage Flower, GARAGE C 1, cassette)
Garage Flower (Garage Flower, GARAGE LP 1, LP)
Released March 1997:
Garage Flower (Garage Flower, GARAGE CD 1, Australian CD)
Released 1998:
Garage Flower (Garage Flower, 7243 8 42749 2 4, Dutch CD)
Released 25th February 1999:
Garage Flower (Garage Flower / Cutting Edge, CTCZ-30001, Japanese CD)
Released March 2001:
Garage Flower (Garage Flower / Zomba, ZJCI-13005, Japanese CD)
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