Oasis - Classic or Dud?

Skibidi Toilet is far more effective for that.

what's the non-story morning glory

nobody should be paying these prices to go see oasis in 2025 i think we might all agree on that much?

honestly can't imagine any musician living or dead who i'd pay that for to watch in a stadium but gig tickets have been expensive for a good while and Ticketmaster have been robbing cunts forever, it's funny watching people just discover this

I am surprised so many people have this much money to spend

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/sep/01/oasis-ticketmaster-in-demand-standing-tickets

Well they only go to one gig a year

I ummed and ahhed about paying to see Pulp in Sheffield last year, seemed like a lot of money but it did turn out to be my only gig of the year. In total including gig ticket, petrol, parking, drinks, food & merch I ended up spending a shocking £140 or so.

"I am surprised so many people have this much money to spend"

Radio 4 listeners/Guardian readers have money.

can confirm

I’m balking at paying $175 a ticket to see Yo Yo Ma play with the Baltimore Symphony (admittedly it’s a fundraising gala). I’ve seen Ma before for far less $$$.

I recently paid just shy of £100 for tickets for Dylan in November. Was wavering, but figured may be the last chance I get to see him.

How much were people paying for Blur’s two Wembley dates last year?

You can pay upwards of £100 to see a Premier League game, for reference.

The last 'big' show I paid for was Stereolab in fall 2022 - $99 for two tickets including all fees. That's pretty much my limit across the board.

£83 standing for Blur last year

well yeah

no distance left to run

peak i've ever paid face value was the £140 for Kate Bush London... something like 8th row. So not far off Oasis standing face value (and this was 10 years back!)....so i can't be too judgemental about people paying £150 for oasis.... this article however i have no problem judging:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/sep/01/oasis-ticketmaster-in-demand-standing-tickets

(ah sorry realised thats already posted)

Nothing to be nostalgic about

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/sep/02/normal-dont-call-me-normal-gail-porter-on-stardom-sexism-anorexia-and-survival

did anybody actually get tickets

To see Gail Porter's standup act? I doubt it.

Maybe she does Oasis jokes

did anybody actually get tickets

.....they didnt have better tunes that the verve tho

what's an Oasis song that actually sounds like the Beatles. i never thought of the Beatles when i heard their music. i just thought of i dunno, madchester. the charlatans. inpiral carpets? but rockier obviously. bigger.

No Oasis song is as bad as “Bittersweet Symphony,” I’ll give them that.

The closest I can get is "Falling Down" to "Tomorrow never knows" but that might be via the Chems "Setting Sun" xpost

xxp All Around The World is an obvious one. But specifically they often sounded like "Rain"

Oh yeah, that one on purpose obv. The video is Yellow Submarine during a migraine...

Oh, and the demo of "Songbird" with Johnny Marr is exactly like "Rain"

i don't think i knew that "setting sun" came from an actual oasis song! i liked that one at the time. i just thought he was singing on a chem bros. track.

i like that. that they all sounded like "rain". ha!

wow, "all around the world" is long. i do remember it now. or the video. it's no "stay together". and the long version of "stay together" is also long but its so awesome.

She's Electric and Whatever both have Beatles vibes about them

"Bag It Up" is Oasis' most Beatlesy song imo. Zak's 'doing his dad' there.

watching that video and noel's hot ones popped up and his was definitely entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxZwXy8kds8

the end of "The Turning" with the "Julia"-esque guitar over the cityscape sounds ripped from the end of "Eleanor Rigby" on Love where the same thing happens. now that's what i call updating your touchstones.

i don't think i knew that "setting sun" came from an actual oasis song! i liked that one at the time. i just thought he was singing on a chem bros. track.

???

There's an early Oasis demo called "Coming on Strong" which has a lot of the same lines IIRC.

"You said your body was young but your mind was very old" also kinda turns up in "Half the World Away": "My body feels young but my mind is very old".

Let Forever Be had Noel on it and sounds like Tomorrow Never Knows

Incidentally, Half the World Away - through being the Royle Family theme - and Setting Sun - through being the greatest record ever made - are reason alone for me to have admiration for Noel as is

well i'll be. look at that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-aNph4FoiA

shout-out to noel for giving a shout-out to "voodoo ray" in that hot ones episode.

An ok review spoilt by the Oasis comparison.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/sep/03/never-understood-the-jesus-and-mary-chain-jim-william-reid-ben-thompson-review-noise-rock-band-rock-brothers

These working class people, they're all alike when you get right down to it.

They all just escape the factory or a life of drugs and crime by either playing music or football.

That's what Bobby Gillespie tells us so it's obviously true.

Also I love how English journalists are hung up on tenements as being indicators of grinding poverty - West End of Glasgow anyone?

i think i'm an oasis fan now. i've been listening on youtube. the lyrics are shit but i do like the guitars. i mean they WERE an actual rock band tht could rock. i've never heard any of that later stuff and i actually kinda dig the woozy beatleisms of some of it. they certainly gave oasis fans oasis music all the way to the end.

like this is totally generic in a lot of ways but i don't hate it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPc2plEHrHA

"shock of the lightning" is pretty easily their late period highlight