Oasis - Classic or Dud?

Dud

I never got into Oasis until my partner, who is a big fan, so I gave them a good listen just to find some common ground. I'd say for a couple of years (1994 and 1995), they really were excellent, even churning out a lot of top-notch non-album material to go along with Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory. That's pretty much all the Oasis I'd go back to, but that's still quite a bit of music.

It really is all you need. But its unlikely they would stick to just that material.

what's right with you people

listening to morning glory. as ever it strikes me that 'hey now!' is the most album tracky album track ever. lengthy, a bit tuneless, no one's favourite, there in good spirits as a breather between the big hitters.

jfc

ffs top news story on BBC and Sky. This fucking country.

So is there going to be a thread of ILXors going?

Painful watching TV presenters and reporters under 40 - which is most of them - having to act like they give a fuck.

Ah, back in the day the presenters were old and were like "um, Kurt Cobian of Nirvana? has just died we'll have some information later in the show..."

Kay Burley running amok asking every interviewee if they are Oasis fans and bullying her co-presenter into saying he likes them, "What, you're not an Oasis fan?"

Ticket prices? Ah, secret...

Dud

Get the Stone Roses to support them
#thingscanonlygetbetter

Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing algorithm is going to have a field day

The ticket buying equivalent of the darwin awards; for an Oasis gig in 2024 you deserve the prices you're willing to pay

Dud

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There's definitely a Cockney walk, a guy I used to work with had it. There's also a Glasgow/West of Scotland walk. The latter is more of a strut, so is the former but not as marked.

This is great.

I've watched this video of Liam Gallagher making his own cup of tea every day for a week now pic.twitter.com/xlVh7Q1SEg

— Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville) September 19, 2017

I joined the hot take tsunami this morning, spending 10 minutes talking about Oasis on BBC Radio Nottingham. Turns out that the presenter is a passionate lifelong fan, so I enjoyed taking a broadly contrary stance.

the brotherly feud was entirely confected right? like, it was just a bit of myth-building while they made bad solo records and waited for the brand to be worth something again

Yeah, I touched on that subject on the radio show: a friend of a friend spotted them at a secret Verve show at the 100 Club, a couple of years after the band split, relaxed and enjoying each other's company.

Should be good news for the tribute bands, maybe No Way Sis can reform too? In fact, do tribute acts ever announce big reformations?

I met Paul Gallagher once (useless third brother), he seemed desperate for me to know who he was.

I'm sure they despise each other regularly and will continue to do so.

Bonehead gets some prominent screen time in their official vid, so I guess he's going be doing guest spots. It appears he's the only original member everyone likes

So is there going to be a thread of ILXors going?

Maybe we can maroon them on their own separate board.

Dud

so, who else is going to see Pulp on their latest tour?

Bonehead gets some prominent screen time in their official vid, so I guess he's going be doing guest spots. It appears he's the only original member everyone likes

― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 27 August 2024 13:03 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Afaict he's also the only one who's had anything to do with either of them (Liam namely and recently) in the years since.

Kay Burley running amok asking every interviewee if they are Oasis fans

dadness in their eyes

Sadly the best (most annoyongly right) opinion I found

Oasis were a state funded counterinsurgency deployed to reestablish white nationalist cultural hegemony when 90s pop culture dared to drift into multiculturalism for two minutes.

They’re part of the same ensemble as Farage and Tommy, don’t @ me

— Arbeitology (@Arbeit_Fish) August 27, 2024

Well hey at least the state was giving some funding to the arts back then.

Arbeit_Fish

is this some kind of Nazi serial killer joke because um

Politically the guy is an left-wing/anarchist type..

Well hey at least the state was giving some funding to the arts back then.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 27 August 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Noel and Liam, filling out forms for an Arts Council grant!

Funny how this reunion has happened not long after Noel Gallagher announced his latest divorce. Ian Brown did a similar thing getting The Stone Roses back together after a costly divorce a decade ago.

give it guigsy to the end of the reunion

― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 August 2024 16:00 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

the only good post in this thread

the rest of ye have the whole of ilm to be ilmy in, why not fuck off there and idk poll radiohead political stances or something

the difference in the amount of cultural baggage attached to oasis in the uk vs the us is such a vast gulf

i should make clear im trying to start a proper 1996 feud here

blur threads next

pulp are alright i guess

wake me when suede announce they're doing a tour where they play the first disc of sci-fi lullabies front to back

they should kick off the first comeback show with Little James to rev people up

Seeing a few UK twitter posts that are like 'suede reunion plz', which is funny because they were overtaken quite quickly.

Aren't Suede already reformed?

yes that's why i didn't say "reform"

anyway... oasis, notoriously great live band who aren't dead fucks onstage at all, they're back baby

oh i see you were replying to xyz, tom, sorry about that, my brain isn't reading correctly today

Sorry should've checked. Still going with new material since getting back together..

Suede shared top billing with John Major at some Festival of Ideas last year or thereabouts, some laughs on social media about travelling back in time and informing the band of this. Also last spot on an ILX best albums of the year poll some time ago.

anyway... oasis, notoriously great live band who aren't dead fucks onstage at all, they're back baby

― ivy., Tuesday, August 27, 2024 9:41 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i used to just chuckle at the whole "mega" shit about them at the time seeing bands like fugazi, superchunk, archers, jesus lizard, girls vs boys, jsbx etc - let's see a little hustle out there fellas!! *blows whistle* alright we're gonna run some laps until you guys get this right