The Stone Roses

Not just skinny white-boys with guitars, but skinny white-boys with guitars that want to make other skinny white-boys dance! Along with a few other of their Madchester contemporaries, The Stone Roses are credited with fusing dance and indie, and ushering the lost generation back to the dance floor. On evidence of this video, that may have been mainly achieved by demonstrating that it doesn't matter if you dance like a complete goon, you can still be a rock-star. Ian Brown's moves even fail to look cool when the camera switches to slow-motion and zooms in with the beat. After watching that, even I feel less self-conscious about shaking my stuff. At least the music has aged better than the video.