Turns Into Stone is the essential companion to The Stone Roses' era-defining debut, a double LP collecting the singles and B-sides that never made the album, including some of the most significant tracks the band ever recorded.
Released in 1992, it consists of singles and B-sides that did not feature on their self-titled debut album, making it the only place to find these recordings in their intended extended form. It opens with the 12-inch version of "Elephant Stone," the band's first Silvertone single, and builds toward its centerpiece: the full nine-minute version of "Fools Gold." The band's appearance performing "Fools Gold" on Top of the Pops alongside the Happy Mondays is regarded as a cultural high-water mark, exposing the Madchester scene to a wider audience and popularizing the baggy genre. It remains one of the most influential British singles ever pressed.
The album's release was surrounded by controversy. The Roses were in the middle of a legal battle with Silvertone Records, and an injunction prevented the band from releasing any new material for years afterward. Turns Into Stone exists, in part, because of that dispute. The context is inseparable from the record.
The Stone Roses virtually invented Madchester and built a template for Britpop, and the tracks on this compilation document the moment that template was being formed, before the band's turbulent second act.
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Limited to 5 individually numbered copies.
