You've made me angry.

alphastreet said:

You've made me angry.

This is how I liked my Oasis.

Gunsnhalen said:

alphastreet said:

You've made me angry.

We gonna do this the Christian way now?

TheDigitalGardener said:

This is how I liked my Oasis.

Great track as well! loved 90's Oasis!

alphastreet said:

Gunsnhalen said:

We gonna do this the Christian way now?

We can be gentleman or get into some real gangsta shit

Gunsnhalen said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

This is how I liked my Oasis.

Great track as well! loved 90's Oasis!

I seen them in quite a small venue just as Definitely Maybe was being released. They walked off after 2 songs, Noel came back on claiming that Liam had a sore throat and could not continue. To Noels credit, he treated us to a handful of songs with just him and an acoustic, but we wanted the band, not just him. Beer and shoes (yes shoes) began to fly and the audience were verbally pissed off, it was very tense. Noel cowered behind the curtain while a roadie came on and explained that if we kept our ticket stubs the band would return in 2 weeks to play another show for free.

We returned after 2 weeks and they played a blinding set and blew us all away.

Great times.

I sort of lost interest in them after that.

TheDigitalGardener said:

Gunsnhalen said:

Great track as well! loved 90's Oasis!

I seen them in quite a small venue just as Definitely Maybe was being released. They walked off after 2 songs, Noel came back on claiming that Liam had a sore throat and could not continue. To Noels credit, he treated us to a handful of songs with just him and an acoustic, but we wanted the band, not just him. Beer and shoes (yes shoes) began to fly and the audience were verbally pissed off, it was very tense. Noel cowered behind the curtain while a roadie came on and explained that if we kept our ticket stubs the band would return in 2 weeks to play another show for free.

We returned after 2 weeks and they played a blinding set and blew us all away.

Great times.

I sort of lost interest in them after that.

There assholes.... i mean i love them. But there more unreliable live then Axl Rose.. and that is saying a lot

Gunsnhalen said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

I seen them in quite a small venue just as Definitely Maybe was being released. They walked off after 2 songs, Noel came back on claiming that Liam had a sore throat and could not continue. To Noels credit, he treated us to a handful of songs with just him and an acoustic, but we wanted the band, not just him. Beer and shoes (yes shoes) began to fly and the audience were verbally pissed off, it was very tense. Noel cowered behind the curtain while a roadie came on and explained that if we kept our ticket stubs the band would return in 2 weeks to play another show for free.

We returned after 2 weeks and they played a blinding set and blew us all away.

Great times.

I sort of lost interest in them after that.

There assholes.... i mean i love them. But there more unreliable live then Axl Rose.. and that is saying a lot

They are assholes yes, but that was all part of their swagger. Despite the in house fighting and attitude they could really cut it live. I seen them play Loch Lomond in Scotland and that was 80,000 people, headline show not a festival, and they just swaggered on and blew us all away again.

By that stage they were bigger than fucking Coca Cola, at least here in the UK.

They lost their magic after those shows, those gigs were the pinacle, after that they turned to sludge imo.

Their best Beatles impression.

I dig it though. Classic tune!

lazycrockett said:

We got a blur fan in the house i like blur to

Gunsnhalen said:

lazycrockett said:

We got a blur fan in the house i like blur to

I love both groups but musically the rivalry was laughable. Oasis had basically two types of songs they did (loud rock songs and ballads). Blur were so much more versatile. Listen to Parklife/Blur/13 back to back and they sound like the work of three different bands.

Of course the public took a liking to the dumbed down option.

I like a lot of their later stuff but circa 1994-1996 Oasis were churning out so many fantastic songs, it's not an exaggeration to say that their b-sides were better than most bands' best material. Be Here Now wasn't bad but it was terribly bloated, it definitely would have benefited from some editing. Hubris is probably a good word to use when describing that era. After that they were still capable of some great music but there was an awful lot of filler too. I'm not sure that the band benefited from the more democratic approach to songwriting that emerged after Be Here Now.

Listening to Oasis makes me wish I was British. I'm jealous of you for really having them.

breese said:

Listening to Oasis makes me wish I was British. I'm jealous of you for really having them.

Umm. You can still have them. Just buy the music.

Re Blur. I agree that they were musically more adventurous, but they were a bigger bunch of cunts then even Oasis were. Oasis were the peoples band, Blur were more your middle class art snob wankery who tried to be down with the working class kids, an audience that Oasis had already snared tenfold. Trying to be the UK equivalent to bands like Pavement was the best thing that Blur did, at least it produced some interesting and varied music.

Damon Albran still has the most annoying whine of a vocal, that was enough to make me dislike him...profoundly...to this day.

On a side note, Blur's Graham Coxon has some amazing solo albums, plays all the instruments himself and is fucking dynamite in concert, if you are not familier with him, check him out, he has a new album out soon.

I watched Oasis so many times when I was younger, but looking back now, i'm sure I only liked them because I thought it was cool! I always skip them when it comes on my ipod.

No denying their influence on music today though, good or bad!

kangafunk said:

I watched Oasis so many times when I was younger, but looking back now, i'm sure I only liked them because I thought it was cool! I always skip them when it comes on my ipod.

No denying their influence on music today though, good or bad!

They did have loads of great tunes and they could really play their instruments, and yes they have influenced a lot of other bands, but i'm like you, I can't listen to them these days at all.

many people hate the lyrics

but this is still the best rock single of 1996...

rialb said:

the rivalry was laughable. Oasis had basically two types of songs they did (loud rock songs and ballads). Blur were so much more versatile. Listen to Parklife/Blur/13 back to back and they sound like the work of three different bands.

couldn't agree more

TheDigitalGardener said:

kangafunk said:

I watched Oasis so many times when I was younger, but looking back now, i'm sure I only liked them because I thought it was cool! I always skip them when it comes on my ipod.

No denying their influence on music today though, good or bad!

They did have loads of great tunes and they could really play their instruments, and yes they have influenced a lot of other bands, but i'm like you, I can't listen to them these days at all.

I'm not sure about Bonehead and Guigsy.

rialb said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

They did have loads of great tunes and they could really play their instruments, and yes they have influenced a lot of other bands, but i'm like you, I can't listen to them these days at all.

I'm not sure about Bonehead and Guigsy.

Mmm, you may have a point there.

According to Noel, Bonhead was a "solid guitarist," whatever that may mean. God knows what he is up to these days, I think he was putting on gigs in Manchester for a while.

Guigs apparently invested his dough into a recording studio somewhere, I think he still plays in a band too.

This is how I liked my Oasis.

This is how I liked my Oasis - they could still bring it even when they toned things down: