Former Stone Roses singer Ian Brown has sided with critics who panned the iconic group's album Second Coming, insisting it's "boring".
The British band baffled fans and critics alike when they released the heavy-rock infused album in 1994 - because the tracks were a marked departure from the Stone Roses' funk-influenced debut album five years earlier.
And Brown now admits their change in sound was the wrong move - because the record is too "dark" and lacks "groove".
He tells Clash magazine, "At the time I thought it was great, and we were great and we were going to smash it. When I look back now I think we lost... A lot of bands have got rock but they've got no roll. And I think what separated us from other bands in '89 is that roll.
"We had a groove... but, when I look on Second Coming now, there's only a couple of tunes in the groove and it's mostly just rock; just boring, I understand now.
"We should have taken it all back to basics again, whereas we turned into dinosaurs. The freshness wasn't there, you know? It was dark. The first album's great because it was all light. I wish we'd stayed in the light."