“Ian Brown is an ugly man. He's always been an ugly man. We were just more willing to tolerate it when he fronted a band as ferociously talented as the Stone Roses. These days, as a "solo act," the Monkey Man's total lack of presentability has never been more readily apparent and, strangely enough, embraced by the man himself. His ugliness, in an abstract and simplified form, is on full display on ”
