From Weezer to Missy Elliott: 10 of the best difficult second albums

By Michael Cragg

 

Come again … Stone Roses singer Ian Brown. Photograph: Joel Phillips/Empics

 

Second Coming (1994)

The Stone Roses

Released five years after the Madchester pioneers’ era-defining debut, Second Coming has become synonymous with difficult second album syndrome. Battling high expectations, crippling self-doubt and, in the end, themselves, it’s an album that mirrors its difficult gestation, with songs often hampered by superfluous noodling. The good still shines through, however, not least in the lovely Ten Storey Love Song and lead single Love Spreads.

 

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32 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

with songs often hampered by superfluous noodling

What?

Nice to see Paul’s Boutique on there.