The Stone Roses Live 12" EP Picture Disc

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	$		109

The Stone Roses Live 12" Picture Disc - The Resurrection
One sided 12" EP

Ultra Rare - selling from personal collection.


“The Resurrection” — honestly, enough said. This ultra-rare 12" EP picture disc is less a record and more a sacred relic from the second coming of The Stone Roses, capturing the impossible moment when four Manchester legends somehow returned from the wilderness and made the entire indie world collectively lose its mind. You would be extremely lucky to own one of these, because among Roses collectors this thing sits somewhere between prized vinyl and holy scripture. Pressed as a stunning picture disc and featuring live recordings pulled from the reunion era, it documents the band rediscovering their chemistry in real time — that magical point where nostalgia stopped being nostalgia and became a full-blown resurrection.

The extended version of “I Wanna Be Adored,” lifted from Benicàssim Festival 2012, is pure hypnotic brilliance, stretching out into a loose funky jam where Mani’s bassline prowls around the groove like it’s just escaped from custody while Reni drums with the effortless swagger of a man physically incapable of playing a bad rhythm. By this point the song had evolved beyond an opener into a full religious ceremony: thousands of fans chanting “I don’t have to sell my soul…” like they’d waited two decades for collective absolution. Somewhere in the middle of the jam you can practically hear John Squire’s guitar smiling to itself.

“She Bangs The Drums” from Fuji Rock Festival 2012 arrives with all the bright euphoric rush of the original, except now played by four men fully aware they accidentally helped invent half the bands on the festival bill. Ian Brown delivers it with gloriously loose confidence — occasionally ahead of the beat, occasionally somewhere in the next postcode — yet somehow it only makes the song feel more human, more alive. The crowd, naturally, sounds like they’re witnessing the return of a lost civilisation.

Then there’s “Shoot You Down” from Warrington Parr Hall 2011 — the intimate warm-up show that marked the band’s first live appearance in 16 years since the Reading Festival collapse back in 1996. You can almost hear the disbelief in the room: fans staring at each other as if checking this wasn’t some elaborate Mancunian hallucination brought on by strong lager and wishful thinking. The performance itself is beautifully fragile, with the band sounding cautious, emotional and quietly stunned that the old magic was still there waiting for them under the dust.

And finally “Made Of Stone” from Coachella 2013 lands like a victory lap through the Californian desert, all shimmering guitar lines and towering grooves rolling out beneath palm trees and bewildered Americans suddenly discovering why British people never shut up about The Stone Roses. The song itself sounds eternal — half psychedelic hymn, half indie prophecy — rumbling forward with the sort of confidence only truly great bands possess.

What makes “The Resurrection” so special is that it doesn’t just document reunion gigs; it captures the impossible actually happening. For years The Stone Roses reunion belonged in the same category as affordable Manchester rent or Ian Brown admitting he was wrong about anything: theoretically imaginable, realistically unlikely. Yet here they were, older, slightly greyer, but still capable of summoning that loose, funky, psychedelic groove no one else has ever properly replicated. Listening to this EP feels like hearing history repair itself one bassline at a time.

Good luck finding a copy — these things surface about as often as a perfectly in-tune Ian Brown vocal, and when they do, Stone Roses collectors descend faster than Mancunians hearing the words “last orders.”