The Stone Roses - I Want To Be Adorded

It's Monday so its time for another instalment of Looking Back In Anger. For this week's chapter we focus our gaze on the Madchester golden boys, The Stone Roses. Roses are one of those bands you can continually come back to and recently I've come back around. 2014 feels like a year of the Roses. Last year they had their epic reunion tours and rumours were floated that a new album was in the works, one can only hope it will arrive this year. Stone Roses were and are one of the only bands to successfully blend the psychedelic ambience of late 80s dream-pop with stadium ready hooks of 90s Brit Pop. If Second Coming hadn't been so panned they could have gone one to be much larger than Oasis or even The Smiths. Check out their clip for the spine tingling, I Want To Be Adored, right here:

T. Rex - Metal Guru

Another monotonous Monday is upon us and so it is truly time to look back in anger. For today's installment I'd like to feature the Glam Queen himself, Mark Bolan aka T. Rex. Massive 70s rock icons, T. Rex erupted around the same time as Ziggy Stardust, and helped transform the UK's fixation from mod-culture to one more based around Glam. Metal Guru is one of those infectious jams, with an unrelenting chord progression that drills into your brain. The song has minimal changes and is carried by Bolan's effeminate, mumble-whine, vocal delivery. Truly a perfect rock anthem - and one that influenced countless other acts, including one group of super fans in particular, who were quick to borrow the melody and production style ;)

The Hollies - Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress

Sometimes its important to travel back into the past and live vicariously through ancient youtube clips. The Hollies were a group of Mancunian lads who arguably, were one of the first jangle-pop guitar groups to come out of the UK. Riding hard on the coattails of the Beatles and the Stones, they emerged with a completely indistinct 60s pop sounds, only to morph, later, into a 70s psychedelic, power-haus. Creep deep into these 2 videos. One is a very early, and awkward pop performance, where Graham Nash bounds in front of the camera with a big a smile. The other is a much more controlled and brooding, technicolor capturing of Long Cool Woman in A Black Dress.' behold: