Nothing too clever, nothing too brain stretching from this week’s music blog. Who is your favourite and why? It’s the ‘WHY’ I am interested in hearing about.

I have discussed before the importance of music and its hypnotic power of us. It fascinates me intensely why something so simple and abstract can do so much to us. It’s unlike any art form. Not many people are into art or design or architecture or sculpture but everyone is into music. Everyone has a favourite song/band/gig/album and music will have, at some point, defined an era in our life.   

My favourite band is The Stone Roses. They’re not the best band ever (that is The Beatles, and that is a fact that can’t be argued with) but they were my favourite band at the most impressionable stage of my life. They were infinitely cool, amazing individual musicians, arrogant and had a great sense of their own destiny. The only problem was they never achieved their destiny which will forever be their only blemish.   

I think like The Beatles, they inspired every subsequent band and they rarely did a bad song. Difference is the Beatles did 250 great songs while they did about 30 great songs. Their fusion of indie and dance music can still be heard in bands today. Friendly Fires, MGMT etc all use indie licks and melodies on top of dance beats and murky, rhythmic bass lines; it sounds original now but The Stone Roses pioneered the sound 20 years ago.   

There’s my view. What’s yours?    

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