The Stone Roses is the debut album by English rock band The Stone Roses, released on Silvertone Records in 1989. It cemented the band's reputation among critics, and is still rated by some as one of the most influential albums ever recorded. In 2004 an Observer Music Monthly poll consisting of musicians and critics voted the album the greatest of all time, as did the writers of NME in 2006, declaring it to be the greatest British album of all time. It is widely considered the seminal record of the Madchester movement that was active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and as being highly responsible for the mid-1990s resurrection of British guitar music that came to be known as Britpop.