The Stone Roses at 30 - 5 classic tracks

That's right, The Stone Roses' debut album was released 30 years ago this week, and remains one of the great debuts of all time.

A quartet of Manchester lads dreamed big, flamed out, defined a generation and returned decades later to revisit their brief, shining moment of glory.

Listen: Alan Corr marks the 30th anniversary of the release of The Stone Roses, on RTÉ Arena

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Here are a quintet of tracks that tell you exactly what the fuss was all about.

As statements of intent go, the first track of their debut album says it all: I Want To Be Adored...

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The first single from their eponymous debut, She Bangs The Drums, remains a perennial dancefloor fave - were any of us ever this young?

Their rise was meteoric, aided by this memorable TV moment on BBC's Late Show, when the power cut out halfway through a performance of Made In Stone... "Amateurs!"

Fools Gold, the first Roses release after their debut, was one of the defining tunes of the Second Summer Of Love, and the whole Madchester era:

While their second (and final, to date) album The Second Coming finally arrived in 1994 weighed down with an impossible burden of expectation, it contained a few stone-cold Roses classics, not least Love Spreads:

The Stone Roses at 30 - 5 classic tracks

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