Turns Into Stone
by The Stone Roses
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Turns Into Stone is ranked 3rd best out of 10 albums by The Stone Roses on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Stone Roses is The Stone Roses which is ranked number 33 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 22,021.
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Turns Into Stone track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/01/2026 23:09 |  Purplepash | 4,969 | 75/100 |
| ! | 03/21/2026 14:46 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,462 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/25/2025 20:37 |  RasmV | 2,559 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2025 19:12 |  TimBroad04 | 203 | 69/100 |
| ! | 08/20/2025 00:26 | Ilovesuicide | 373 | 67/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.7/100, a mean average of 77.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.
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Such was their strength in depth of tracks for The Stone Roses album, most of the ones here were instead placed on B sides, apart from the hits "Elephant Stone", "One Love" & "What The World Is Waiting For/Fools Gold". Incredibly "Sally Cinnamon" didn't even get on either album. A good example is "What The World is Waiting For" which was scheduled to be released as the A side, yet Silvertone felt the B side "Fools Gold" was too good resulting in the eventual double A side.
I am a huge fan of their first album. The second isn’t as bad as people make it out to be. I can’t believe I’ve been depriving myself of this album. I don’t know why it’s called a compilation, I guess it’s a bunch of B sides. I really like this “compilation” and it deserves a higher ranking. It’s consistent and the songs are solid. This sounds like a follow up to the first album.
Graeme2 04/21/2015 13:14 | #139960 | TOP COMMENT
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They had it all at one point. Everything. Not sure how many bands could record something like where angles play and not have it make the album.
SuedeSwede 06/25/2013 16:14 | #79819 | TOP COMMENT
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Although it's only a compilation, and nowhere near as iconic and definitive as The Stone Roses, I still really love this album. It's classic Roses: twee and jangly, and I love that. There's so many tracks here which should have been on The Stone Roses but were replaced by better tracks. All in all, this is basically the excess of what should have been on The Stone Roses but wasn't as good in practical. So, it's just the same stuff but not as good. And I like that. (Don't know why Second Coming ranks higher on BEA, it's nowhere near as good as this album.)
Key tracks: Elephant Stone, Fools Gold, Where Angels Play, Mersey Paradise, Standing Here
Key lyric: 'Don't count your chickens, 'cos they're never gonna hatch. You can't catch a monkey with a shotgun and a sack.' (Edited)
GeevyDallas 04/09/2013 19:11 | #72234 | TOP COMMENT
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The best compilation ever
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