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The Stone Roses 20th Anniversary

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The Stone Roses were huge in England, but in the preglobalized '80s, their music was hardly available in the U.S. So what did we miss? Ian Brown's bleak northern outlook, sung over ecstatically romantic chords and harmonies. This three-disc set captures it all.

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