Oasis - Classic or Dud?

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

Because the singing was abominable?

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

interesting

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

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

perhaps the mode of interpretive dance, then?

Then, now and forever: dud.

I miss long-gone ILM poster osis fan.

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.

Sure that wasn't Q mag?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Nothing wrong with that.

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

Dépêche

they're from basildon, not bordeaux.

odd list. or maybe i'm odd.

The Prodigy – The Fat Of The Land

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

my mate from rochdale moved to boston (briefly) in the late 1990s and sent me a mixtape called "the land of the fat".

wonder where i put it? it was bloody good.

7. The Clash – London Calling
8. Keane – Under The Iron Sea
9. Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon

SEQUENCE DOES NOT COMPUTE

Q is dumb.

that list is terrifying, it's like nothing's changed since 1997

who are these "readers" voting for the same 10 albums ten years and counting??

at least keane came along and revolutionised things after 1997

Maybe it's made up, like Ant 'n' Dec and the Blue Peter cat.

Even by Oasis' standards this is some pretty horrible cover art:

http://static.nme.com/images/08714_154326_digoutyoursoul.jpg

Sorry that was meant to be an image above!

Trying again:

http://static.nme.com/images/08714_154326_digoutyoursoul.jpg

it's blindingly shit, isn't it? really. i can't believe a band this clodhopping is not just allowed to exist but is actually still lauded in some quarters.

there was a moderately amusing piss-take on idolator or the quietus or something the other day, but i can't be arsed looking again.

According to this, the designer responsible also did the covers for XTRMNTR and Broadcast's Ha Ha Sound, both of which I liked. That is truly dire though.

That really looks like a Pollard collage for one of his umpteen side projects.

One of the worst covers I've seen in my life.

Great new song/video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K09GFqeT_5g

lolz

first 20 seconds are good, then some fat yank midget fucks it up stupid yanks

I saw Oasis live tonight. A friend who is a much bigger fan than I am decided graciously to take me. I'd like to share my impressions, as someone who hasn't bought an album of them since um...well, Heathen Chemistry, which I don't remember jack shit about. And I have never seen them live, either, though I own the "...There & Then" VHS and remember quite enjoying it for awhile.

Okay well first of all, on the positive side, I thought Liam was dressed impeccably. He had a white scarf that sorta led 3/4 of the way down his chest over a black shirt and I thought that was fantastic. Black leather jacket, just down to the waist, nothing too fancy. Jeans, with chains hanging out the back pockets. Totally Paul Weller hair (or I dunno, Beatles hair, I couldn't really quite describe it...a bit more over the top than Paul Weller hair I think). I just thought it was bloody great men's fashion. Top gear or whatever you're supposed to call it in Brit-speak.

Other positive sides: even if they didn't do the song I most wanted to hear ("Roll With It") they did do "Champagne Supernova" which I especially loved. And one of their new songs (of about three they played) did sound really cool and psychedelic and they had the visuals to prove it. I don't know what song it was (my friend says the album isn't out yet) but I'd like to hear it again.

On the negative sides: the song they announced as their new single seemed dark and uninteresting to me. Couldn't figure out where they were going with that at all. Fuck me if I know the name of it. Also, I didn't find their song choices from the past to be particularly wise. "The Masterplan" by Noel acoustic? Um...I can think of about 5 other songs I'd like to hear him do acoustic. "Slide Away"? Yawn. Yeah "Supersonic" was okay I guess...

I dunno. It's Oasis, what do you expect, right? I still marveled at the sight of good ol' Andy Bell from Ride on bass. My friend said he thought they still had Zak Starkey on drums, but it turned out not to be true.

It does get a bit tiring the way they appropriate other people's songs for their own. The drumming for one of them (I thought it might be one of the new ones but I'm not sure) sounds exactly like the start of "Tomorrow Never Knows". And what's up with fucking "Cigarettes & Alcohol" ripping off T-Rex? But you know, it's Oasis, what do you expect? I don't think they're a BAD band, but you do have to cherry pick with them.