Just had a look, turns out he’s signed to the Other Ones and released a couple of albums. When he was younger he was signed to Sony but the deal expired as he wasn’t well enough to produce the required output.
I was hoping they'd do Glasto so those of us who don't get tickets at least still can watch their Glasto set in full
Can’t lie, have had an Oasis playlist on repeat since the news broke and the think I noticed in the car there before is the at its 71 tracks deep. They really did knock out some tunes. That’s before we even start with the excellent side projects they have both gone into.
Surprises me a little. Guns n Roses and Oasis are pretty similar. Sensational debut album followed by a "try too hard" follow up and then very hit and miss after that before implosion. AfD and DM are 2 of the greatest debuts of all time but I remember when I bought Morning Glory I wasn't overly keen on a lot of it especially the 2 songs most people love (Wonderwall and DLBIA) Morning Glory and Champagne Supernova are superb tracks though and from then on only a handful of songs (admittedly I didn't buy the albums that followed) like Stand by me and one of my favourite Oasis songs "D'you know what I mean......" but really any band that has as many songs as Oasis has that can do a whole gig without any filler is a great band. A greatest hits that is all great. There are very few "great" bands that have any album that can be played all the way through without the tempation to skip 1 or 2 tracks. On the line of "the techincals" of Oasis.........There's a time and place for listening to Yes, Rush, Dream Theater and rejoicing about the skill levels and music theory........and then there's a time and place where simplicity is joyous and I daresay more inclusive. You are right that they/Noel are great at what they do and they do/did it so well bringing so many people along for the ride and that should make other people happy instead of dismissing their output (not you in particular, more the general internet moaners.) Some of the best songwriters of the modern era know zero about reading music or theory but they have an ear for it. Not aimed at you because you seem to be quite cool about "each to their own" but I have never really understood the music snobbery around Oasis, nor Status Quo or Slade for that matter. Its music. Its for sharing and encouraging togetherness while equally being something you can enjoy on your own. If my foot is tapping, something's making me smile and I'm feeling the urge to turn the volume up then its darned good stuff I would much prefer that than going deep into the technicals or meaning or depth of some other music I have. I listen to the simpler stuff much more. time and place and mood and all that. But I do applaud you for not falling into that dismissive mindset that pervaded the "anti Oasis mob" back then and has been reawakened in the last few days Sorry if I sound like I'm digging at anyone above. That's not how I want it to come across.
I’ve always been a “ I like who I like” my playlist can hop between Bon jovi to velvet underground to the Beatles to rage against the machine to Gomez to alt j to Pantera I get absolutely obsessed with albums playing them on repeat non stop for weeks.
While I would agree on the process of the manufactured bands I think its a bit sweeping to say the manufactured stuff is awful. There are actually some superb writers in the game and some of these songs are pretty damn good. The song writing teams behind hits from Britney, Backstreet boys and such, the team that wrote for Girls aloud and co-wrote many of the Sugar Babes middle period right through to someone like Cathy Dennis who has an immeasurable back catalogue of writing songs for others including all the S-club plus their various iterations as well as the Pop Idol theme tune itself and "co-writing" (Hmmm very popular term these days) Katy Perry's breakthrough and on through to (whisper it) the writer of BonJovis biggest hits Desmond Child who also wrote those 2 big songs for Ricky Martin. p.s. I'm not implying everything these people wrote is top draw or WOW, just that there are some top tunes amongst them. Yes the "talent show" format has kinda ruined things but that is against a backdrop of a music industry that increasingly excludes those without access in the first place (via contacts, nepotism or financial privilege) and when something organic does come through they jump on the bandwagon, praise it, copy it and determinedly try to own it and cast the organic ones out of the circle eventually destroying it. Its actually quite rare these days that an organic act breaks through in any kind of way before "the blob" has wrested control back into their circles. But then the "talent show" format is entirely emblematic of this where "the blob" has complete control of the process from start to finish. And thats one thing to celebrate about Oasis, whether simple and untechnical or not, returning because they are at least representative of a success against that control and anyone that does sneer at their simplicity is surely contradicting the above when they are in reality limiting access to those classicly trained, highly educated demographics that punk rose against in the late seventies. Music should be inclusive not exclusive. I love Oasis as much for what they represent in that regard as how they made simple things sound sooo good, and then I went home and listened to all sorts....including prog rock
Another similarity between Oasis and GnR is that they were nothing like the contemporaries that were around them and seemed <----much more "real" and "authentic" as well as wild and dangerous. Like they were the same people in real life as you saw on stage.
Unless you can produce your “I was there then” certificate from hmv for buying Be here now on day of release in 1997 then you don’t get in still got mine in the sleeve of my be here now CD. The anticipation in the run up to release was unbelievable. There was documentary on tv I think the night before with the first play of sone of the tracks. Think it was the first time I heard stand by me.
For me Oasis came around at a time when the country was in the ****ter and their music and songs resonated with a lot of us. Certainly definitely maybe felt like that. Listening back to some of the albums now has me remembering where I was a mand what I was doing at the time of their release. Be here now was just me getting ****ed up as a teenager a d not really having a care in the world.
"But I do applaud you for not falling into that dismissive mindset that pervaded the "anti Oasis mob" back then and has been reawakened in the last few days." This is something I've never understood, with Oasis and their fans, to be honest. There is no mob, and people aren't rabidly 'anti-Oasis', they just don't like the way they sound. Personally I find the vocals whiny and the guitar equally whiny, it sounds like one big sneer to me. That doesn't make me part of a mob or inferior to those who Oasis appeal to. I've probably seen more bands than anyone on this forum and love a broad spectrum of them, Oasis don't just leave me cold, I find them really irritating. I saw them at my club and thought it was all like people impersonating a rock band. I went to Glasgow, as a favour to my son who's a massive Oasis fan, to see Noel Gallagher and the HFBs which was musically excellent but gave me no joy whatsoever. Enjoy whichever music you choose, that's a matter of taste ... ... I've just no idea why Oasis fans take such offence at people who don't like them.
I don;t think its that. We are on a football forum and of course some people do like to jump over to the opposition or rivals subs and poke the bear either with intention or just for a wink wink but the whole Oasis vs Blur thing seemed very one sided. I can't recal Oasis fans moaning about Blur that much in fact most people I knew had both parklife and definitely maybe on rotation. But in this internet era and the uber tribal current tendencies you can see all over the internet there is a sudden resurgence of anti oasis sentiment but I don't see much if any anti blur sentiment. So its this that I am talking about. the need for people on reddit or twitter or elsewhere to enter an Oasis thread to give their "Oasis are ****" blah di blah sentiment. I prefer Oasis but I bought parklife and Great Escape. If I didn't like blur I wouldn't have made a point of heading to the blur chambers to tell them so. lol. Maybe (but not definitely) I am wrong and indeed there are rampant Oasis hordes rushing to tell blur fans their bands **** but I doubt it. Thats what I am talking about. There's absolutely nothing wrong with people havaing preferences and like you they aren't your cup of tea but then you aren't here with a brief "Oasis were always ****, pub band, overrated." I don;t take offence at people criticising Oasis although I do get defensive (more with US people) when they think it is a band with 1 song but thats a different matter. I just get a little disappointed with the trolls, that were about before the internet became the town square when some snob in a pub would pipe up as Oasis came on the jukebox, Ahh for ****s sake. Brave fella but come on. Why? Its the people that feel the need to venture across to have a go just enjoy your music. We are free not to like something. I don't like things too. I'm not heading over to the Suede forum to say Brett sounds like he's trying to out cockney ziggy era Bowie or that Albarn's mockney stuff really grates on me. I have now but I would rather rejoice Oasis being back and listening to their music than spend that time going over to the Blur / Suede / Pulp threads on the platforms to tell them how **** their band is. lol (I have Pulp albums too, so I'm just exampling.) Anyways. I'm off to the Grimsby board to tell them how **** they are and how Lincoln have always been the pride of Linkisheer. This Oasis thread has been quite good actually with not to much of the tribal stuff. People quite open with jsut not being into them which is fine by me but also it seems happy for those that are into them. Its like promotion day for Oasis fans at the minite and next year will seem like back to back promotions and up to the Prem Happy days. sorry for the long posts. I'm still buzzing.
This. Every Oasis song I hear from albums 1-4 and B sides takes me back to the 90s and makes me happy. Sadly, it was my happiest time. I remember waiting on Radio 1 to play Some Might Say as the first single from WTSMG. Life was simple then.
