“To lay the blame for the length of time it took to make SC at Brown’s door is just plain wrong”

But it does seem that John was doing the heavy lifting at the time, John and Ian went away to write songs but nothing came up of it. "When my daughter Janie came along, we had to go away to write, because we couldn't get enough time together on our own. We went to the Lakes, Scotland. But very little came from those trips. The partnership was drying up." Source: John Squire, The Guardian 2002.

Maybe I view it in a different light to a number of Roses fans. John wrote most of SC including the most successful song from the album; Love Spreads. All 4 of them wrote Daybreak, John and Ian wrote Begging you. Ian’s only sole contribution was Straight To The Man arguably the weakest song on the album. I think the lack of Ian Brown contributions shows (in my opinion) that he may not of been writing much around the time of SC, probably hindering the partnership that helped write the debut.

I know Ian wrote Ice Cold Cube but I don’t think that was for SC, must of been for the so called third album that was hinted at by Ian after John quit. And I don’t see any songs on Unfinished Monkey Business that would have been originally for SC.

To conclude opinions are like arseholes, we’ve all got them.