“Shoot You down” by The Stone Roses

"Shoot You Down" is a track from The Stone Roses, the band's self-titled 1989 debut on Silvertone, and it belongs to Ian Brown and John Squire, who wrote it together. Brown sings, Squire plays guitar, Gary Mounfield holds down the bass, and Reni drums and adds backing vocals. John Leckie produced it with Paul Schroeder engineering, in sessions that ran from June 1988 to February 1989, mostly at Battery Studios in London.

The album was no overnight smash. It caught on as the band's big gigs turned them into standard-bearers for Madchester and baggy, and its reputation has kept climbing ever since, all the way to 319 on Rolling Stone's 2020 list of the 500 greatest albums.

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