Oasis - Classic or Dud?

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All Around The World is worst if only cos of the video.

I'm reading John Harris' not-very-good Last Party right now which prompted me to revive this thread.

Venga, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Last Party" is a really good book and Oasis (for first two albums, B-sides, "Whatever" EP, "Don't go Away"/ "Who Feels Love"/ "Hindu Times"/ "Stop Crying" are CLASSIC.

CRW (CRW), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn. Sorry folks.

Venga, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Watching a bit of some crappy documentary about '10 years of Oasis' on telly last night, I was reminded of something that always puzzled me a bit about them. They had some footage of Liam facing up to a photographer or someone, in a kind of OTT, eyeball-to-eyeball, poking fingers kind of way. This kind of performance always struck me as a completely ridiculous pose, somehow even more ridiculous than someone like Brett Anderson waving his arse around and pretending to be a bohemian bisexual. I've come to terms a bit with glammy poseurs, but the loutish aggressive pose still sticks in my craw a bit, esp. that anyone would fall for it. Am I wrong to think it was all a pose? Was it real somehow? Was he angry? What about? That question isn't necessarily answered by whether or not he would have acted in the same way down the pub had he not been famous.

N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet Liam would nut you for that. I reckon he's a tough son of a gun!

CRW (CRW), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Dud, Dud, Dud, Dud, Dud!
Apart from 'She's Electric'.

Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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Talk Tonight
It's Better People
Roll With It
Supersonic
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57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...
Regardless of what you think about Oasis, can someone please watch this , specifically at the 3:50 and 5:02 marks, and tell me what the hell happened?

Zachary Scott (Zach S), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

it sounds like Liam is doing the 'muh-nuh muh-nuh' bit of the Muppets song

2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

i lost respect for Noel long ago but still enjoy his level of candidness in interviews, even if/when he is wrong

2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

All Around The World is worst if only cos of the video.

Haha, my best mate's dad directed it!

chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

(The animated parts at least. Apparently his brief was simply 'make it as much like Yellow Submarine as possible'.)

chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

it sounds like Liam is doing the 'muh-nuh muh-nuh' bit of the Muppets song


dying over here

wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I really can't stop watching it. I'm not shocked that Liam sings badly live, but really. Really? REALLY?!

wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Back in the sad, sad, days, I owned their live album, Familiar to Millions. From 2000 or 2001 I think. He didn't sound anything like he does now. Maybe Noel secretly punched him in the neck or something. He sounds like he's impersonating someone else impersonating him, drunkly.

Zachary Scott (Zach S), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm making it our homepage.

wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm making it our homepage.

The whole thing, or just the singing bits?

Zachary Scott (Zach S), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

the whole thing.

"never forget"

wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Has coke fucked up his nose that much he now sings like that? Christ. WTF has happened?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he can't hear himself?

wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

why does it say "oasis yeti" at the beginning?

wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

He's also really bad at pulling away from the mic before he finishes his notes.

Gotta love the Noel eyeroll during the clip at 3:50.

Zachary Scott (Zach S), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)


why does it say "oasis yeti" at the beginning?

Because the singing was abominable?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

i see what you've done

wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Noel Gallagher has continued his attack on the Arctic Monkeys, branding them "grumpy old men".

The Oasis guitarist has made numerous jibes at the Sheffield band since their rise to fame, and has continued this week with his latest criticism. As well as blasting the band's image, Gallagher expressed his concern over upcoming musicians copying the Monkeys.

He said: "Their public persona is now of a bunch of grumpy old men. I'm worried about what's going to follow in their wake. It's gonna be c**ts with guitars going: 'And me mum works down the f**king chip shop, she met a geezer' and all that."

Gallagher added his own views on the difference between the two groups: "Great pop music is not about real life, it's about how great life can be. Real life's s**t."


says CHEERFUL UNDER-30 NOEL GALLAGHER WHO DIDN'T REVIVE SUCCESS OF 'GRUMPY OLD MEN' IN THE CHARTS AT ALL OH NO

2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahah.

As for Liam, I remember some years back apparently some voice specialist said he would completely have shot his voice by about now. And so it appears to prove.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

There was a mentally retarded kid living across the street from me where I grew up who talked exactly like how Liam now sings.

Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Noel Gallagher has continued his attack on the Arctic Monkeys, branding them "grumpy old men".

The Oasis guitarist has made numerous jibes at the Sheffield band since their rise to fame, and has continued this week with his latest criticism. As well as blasting the band's image, Gallagher expressed his concern over upcoming musicians copying the Monkeys.

He said: "Their public persona is now of a bunch of grumpy old men. I'm worried about what's going to follow in their wake. It's gonna be c**ts with guitars going: 'And me mum works down the f**king chip shop, she met a geezer' and all that."

Gallagher added his own views on the difference between the two groups: "Great pop music is not about real life, it's about how great life can be. Real life's s**t."

You need to be yourself
You can't be no one else
I know a girl called Elsa
She's into Alka Seltzer
She sniffs it through a cane on a supersonic train
She made me laugh
I got her autograph
She done it with a doctor on a helicopter
She's sniffin in her tissue
Sellin' the Big Issue

dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

If I have to see one more AT&T commercial that ends with a whiny "All around the world..." I am to spontaneously combust. GAWWWWWD!

How much longer til their contract with AT&T runs out? How many trillions did they make by licensing that song, which seems to be played at least once every commercial break?

Z S, Friday, 13 July 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

I am to double-check my spelling and grammar next time I post, too.

Z S, Friday, 13 July 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, that's got to have made them more $$ than everything else they've done combined. Since AT&T still uses it even after absorbing Cingular it seems that they aren't going to rebrand and switch songs, at least not for a while.

Noel Gallagher has continued his attack on the Arctic Monkeys, branding them "grumpy old men".

The Oasis guitarist has made numerous jibes at the Sheffield band since their rise to fame, and has continued this week with his latest criticism. As well as blasting the band's image, Gallagher expressed his concern over upcoming musicians copying the Monkeys.

He said: "Their public persona is now of a bunch of grumpy old men. I'm worried about what's going to follow in their wake. It's gonna be c**ts with guitars going: 'And me mum works down the f**king chip shop, she met a geezer' and all that."

Gallagher added his own views on the difference between the two groups: "Great pop music is not about real life, it's about how great life can be. Real life's s**t."

Funny how since the posts made in November of '06, Noel is now bff with the Arctic Monkeys. HYPOCRISY SHOCKAH

musically, Friday, 13 July 2007 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

http://www.the-masterplan.co.uk/audio/2008-leaks.php

Even the new stuff they leak online is a) rubbish and b) four years old.

James Mitchell, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

interesting

Bee OK, Thursday, 8 May 2008 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

my oh my is 'slide away' ever a great song.

but aside from that and a couple of other less notable cuts from the first record, dudsville

Charlie Howard, Thursday, 8 May 2008 06:50 (eighteen years ago)

mere words cannot explain the contempt in which i hold this band.

grimly fiendish, Thursday, 8 May 2008 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

perhaps the mode of interpretive dance, then?

Mark G, Thursday, 8 May 2008 08:49 (eighteen years ago)

Then, now and forever: dud.

Alex in NYC, Thursday, 8 May 2008 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

I miss long-gone ILM poster osis fan.

Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 8 May 2008 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

I was reading the last issue of Mojo during my lunch break at Borders. They did another readers poll: 50 best UK albums of all time.

3. Radiohead: OK Computer
2. Oasis: What's the story...
1. Oasis: Definitely Maybe

Quite a bit of Keane in there too. The Beatles still made top 10.

paulhw, Thursday, 8 May 2008 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Sure that wasn't Q mag?

Mark G, Thursday, 8 May 2008 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Sure that wasn't any monthly music mag since 1997?

Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

classic for first two albums and associated b-sides, pretty boring since and getting steadily worse.

darraghmac, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

don't get me wrong, still better than radiohead though.

darraghmac, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

no i think you'll find that was the pretenders.

Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

Mark, you're right: it was Q. And yes, unfortunately it was May 2008:

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm#Q%20Readers%20Best%20British%20Albums

So, why the seachange at this point? 20 something Oasis fans in the mid 90s turning into 30something Q readers in 2008?

Anyway, dud.

paulhw, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

1. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
2. Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory
3. Radiohead – Ok Computer
4. The Beatles – Revolver
5. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
6. The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band
7. The Clash – London Calling
8. Keane – Under The Iron Sea
9. Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon
10. The Verve – Urban Hymns
11. Radiohead – The Bends
12. The Beatles – Abbey Road
13. Keane – Hopes And Fears
14. Oasis – Don’t Believe The Truth
15. Dépêche Mode – Violator
16. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
17. Queen – A Night At The Opera
18. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say, That’s What I’m Not
19. The Beatles – The Beatles
20. Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks…
21. The Beatles – Rubber Soul
22. Oasis – Be Here Now
23. Muse – Absolution
24. Duran Duran – Rio
25. Blur – Parklife
26. Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head
27. Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible
28. Muse – Origin Of Symmetry
29. Led Zeppelin – IV
30. Pink Floyd – The Wall
31. The Libertines – Up The Bracket
32. Coldplay – X & Y
33. The Who – Who’s Next
34. Muse – Black Holes And Revelations
35. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
36. Dépêche Mode – Songs Of Faith And Devotion
37. Stereophonics – Word Gets Around
38. The Prodigy – The Fat Of The Land
39. Pulp – Different Class
40. Radiohead – In Rainbows
41. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
42. Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
43. Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
44. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
45. Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour
46. David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
47. Coldplay – Parachutes
48. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street
49. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
50. The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed

paulhw, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Nothing wrong with that.

Z S, Thursday, 8 May 2008 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

TWO rolling stones in the top 50? and neither of them compilations? scandalous

darraghmac, Thursday, 8 May 2008 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

Dépêche

they're from basildon, not bordeaux.

odd list. or maybe i'm odd.

grimly fiendish, Thursday, 8 May 2008 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

The Prodigy – The Fat Of The Land

Still the token dance album of choice, ten years on? Wowzers.

James Mitchell, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:22 (eighteen years ago)


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