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Stone Roses' Mani: 'Current music scene is dull as dishwater'

Bassist has a pop at UK's crop of guitar-slingers

August 18, 2009 | 9 Comments
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The Stone Roses' former bassist Mani has had a pop at the current crop of UK bands, calling them "dull as dishwater".

The bassist, currently playing with Primal Scream, claimed that his former band's 1989 self-titled debut album still shows up newer acts – and urged bands to "try harder".

"Twenty years on and it ['The Stone Roses'] is still fresh and stands out amidst a torrent of mediocrity, career-orientated, dull as dishwater, safe, unimaginative music that dares to challenge for our crown," he said in a statement.

He added: "We were light years ahead of our time, and The Stone Roses' album will always remain light years ahead of the new so-called super-groups. Read 'em and weep guys, you all know who you are! Back to school with you and try harder. Listen and learn from the masters."

The Stone Roses' debut album entered the UK albums chart at Number Five on Sunday (August 16).

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bergkamp72

Aug 18, 2009

mani clearly needs to listen to xfm, where EVERY day he can hear noisettes, florence and the machine, the killers, arctic monkeys over and over and over again.

stairway2notion

Aug 18, 2009

A pity they could only manage 1 great album though.

timmcollins

Aug 18, 2009

Mani is right about the current state of music but I think the Roses are partly responsible. Sadly, you can trace a line from them to Oasis to today's landfill indie bands, who have the attitude and ambition but not the talent.

jorges

Aug 18, 2009

is there anything more awful than an old person who hasn't learned to be humble?

drgonzo2012

Aug 19, 2009

Stone Roses- most over rated band of all time. Although he's right about modern music.

miniospina

Aug 19, 2009

The British music scene died once Oasis left the stage at knebworth. 2005 saw a breath of fresh air, but I'm still waiting.

DOOGLE53

Aug 19, 2009

I kind of agree with Mani but I also put this down to record labels flooding the market and not given acts time to develop properly. I'm not really getting this surge of UK pop coming out at the moment. There's a better pop scene from Scandinavia. My favorite albums are mostly by USA bands... Wooden Shjips, Pink Mountaintops, Cymbals Eat Guitars... Be interested to hear what The Big Pink album has to offer

Slip kid (2nd generation)

Aug 19, 2009

Mani, the master of contradiction as ever. Seems to forget all the so called challengers to the Roses crown he's been sniffing around. Think it was about this time last year he was ramming his tongue up Liam f**king Fray's arse (not sure which end that would be). If ever there was an unworthy, overblown self-proclaimed heir to the Roses legacy its that fat, wingeing cretin. Mani, you do have a point here, so stick by it and stop bigging up crap Manc bands because it sounds good for your 'down with the kids' image. It's pretty uncool dad!

the*strokes

Aug 19, 2009

Sounds like Mani has been listening to xfm, where EVERY day he can hear noisettes, florence and the machine, the killers, arctic monkeys over and over and over again...YAWN