Critiquing Oasis

[Kanda]

I might pop back to the UK to see this

 

[Humberto]

Haven’t listened to them for years but for a few years growing up they meant a lot to me and nearly all my mates. It was the energy, don’t know how anyone can deny there’s a certain energy in a performance like this. It just felt different at the time.

I enjoyed that.

What always comes across when I listen to Oasis is the 'wall of sound'. And derivative isn't neccessarily bad, everything is to some extent I'd imagine. Can be exhilerating.

 

[Humberto]

I liked this at the time and still do I think.

 

[Humberto]

I moved onto something else after the first album so don't know much else about their albums.

 

[Dystopiary]

I like a few things by them, but "She's Electric" is one of the worst songs of all time. Up there with "Achy Breaky Heart."

 

[petee]

timely!

 

[Wookey]

still regret not going to the other stage to see the Prodigy that night

Ah, you can see Prodigy next ti-oh...

 

[Fez909]

Honestly don’t know enough Oasis songs to be able to do that. But they seem to me to owe more to Slade. (Who are epic, btw).

I never paid Oasis much attention. I knew they existed and was aware of their songs washing around the background.

What turned me actively against them was all the people learning Wonderwall on guitar to sing at parties. It’s the same reason I don’t like Simon and Garfunkel.

I see no reason to care one way or another whether they reform. I won’t hear it.

You're right. They've even done a couple of Slade covers.

 

[JimW]

 

[marshall]

Wonder if Noel will write a new album for them to tour, can’t see it all being just a greatest hits singalong - that’s pretty much what Liam has been rolling out the last few years at various festival, so no fun/point in that.

And that’s when the bickering between them begins again, when Liam hears Noel’s new noodlings and twigs that Noel has no interest in writing another Supersonic. Cue massive barney, and…it’s all off.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Haven’t listened to them for years but for a few years growing up they meant a lot to me and nearly all my mates. It was the energy, don’t know how anyone can deny there’s a certain energy in a performance like this. It just felt different at the time.

Are Guigsy and Bonehead even plugged in?

 

[ska invita]

I saw Liam Gallagher supporting the Rolling Stones in 2017/18... His stage presence and set was excellent..I think I enjoyed him more than the stones

He doesn't seem to move around much on stage but I can well imagine.... He is what makes them any good and central to the sound.
If anyone else had to sing the lyrics it would sound shit. Imagine for example Robbie Williams as front man
I can't think of anyone who could pull off those songs without making them sound a lot worse

He'd be fun to meet for ten minutes I reckon.

Anyway, an hour to go!!!

 

[BigMoaner]

He doesn't seem to move around much on stage but I can well imagine.... He is what makes them any good and central to the sound.
If anyone else had to sing the lyrics it would sound shit. Imagine for example Robbie Williams as front man
I can't think of anyone who could pull off those songs without making them sound a lot worse

He'd be fun to meet for ten minutes I reckon.

Anyway, an hour to go!!!

I met him once on carnaby street in the early 00s. I had a book on me at the time. He was with a woman going in and out of shops totally undisturbed no security etc. he looked very much like Liam though, swaggering about, scowling, monkey walk. alright Liam can you sign this? Yes mate. Signed it. Walked off. Pretty uninteresting story really.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

On a related note to the sound engineer: it needs to be LOUD. Saw Blur at Wembley Stadium last year and it wasn't loud enough. Saw Oasis at Glastonbury in 2004 and it wasn't loud enough... Oasis need to be loud.

Those days are gone I’m afraid. License terms now come with strictly defined dB limits, both for the audience and off site.

 

[BigMoaner]

The Matt Morgan podcasts with Noel were good

 

[Hollis]

He doesn't seem to move around much on stage but I can well imagine.... He is what makes them any good and central to the sound.
If anyone else had to sing the lyrics it would sound shit. Imagine for example Robbie Williams as front man
I can't think of anyone who could pull off those songs without making them sound a lot worse

He'd be fun to meet for ten minutes I reckon.

Anyway, an hour to go!!!

The only other front man I've seen live in the last few years who was more effortlessly charismatic on stage was Morrissey.

<Yes, I know etc. etc.>

 

[ElizabethofYork]

I loved Oasis and still do.

 

[Steel Icarus]

You middle class haters just can't stand music made by working class people for working class people. You can't pretentiously pontificate about meaning and subtext when it's just rock and roll

 

[ska invita]

You can't pretentiously pontificate about meaning and subtext when it's just rock and roll

12 pages in I dont think anyone has mentioned "meaning or subtext" tbf you're right, thats not something you can level at them

 

[stethoscope]

30 years or so on, still don't get them beyond their 90s Friday night drunken sing-a-long appeal. Champagne Supernova if I have to choose anything by them.

So much great stuff happening back then, and they werent it.

 

[Steel Icarus]

12 pages in I dont think anyone has mentioned "meaning or subtext" tbf you're right, thats not something you can level at them

The early waxings were a roar of defiance, of rebellion, a joyous refusal to accept their lot. Enveloped in that concrete wall of guitars fashioned on bleak estates, you and your mates, arm in arm and bellowing all the words, really did feel like you could live forever

 

[ska invita]

Friday night drunken sing-a-long appeal.

Wonder if Noel will write a new album for them to tour, can’t see it all being just a greatest hits singalong -

i can.... its gonna be a massive stadium karaoke session.... £200 a pop

 

[JimW]

Rather that RCP band Easterhouse got back together.

 

[Indeliblelink]

For those that don't do X

Might be tempted for London if tickets aren't ridiculously priced. Hopefully they won't have fallen out again by that stage of the tour.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

 

[weepiper]

Two nights at Murrayfield slap in the middle of Edinburgh Festival? Good luck getting a hotel room.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Is it an actual reunion of the whole band, or just the Gallagher brothers plus backing musicians? I haven't really been paying much attention to them for the last 25 years.

 

[weepiper]

If I'm still in this shitty flat I might ship the boys to their dad's and rent out their rooms for the night to middle aged men at an extortionate rate (I can walk to Murrayfield from here)

 

[Steel Icarus]

Is it an actual reunion of the whole band, or just the Gallagher brothers plus backing musicians? I haven't really been paying much attention to them for the last 25 years.

Andy Bell of Ride is on guitar

 

[BigMoaner]

If I'm still in this shitty flat I might ship the boys to their dad's and rent out their rooms for the night to middle aged men at an extortionate rate (I can walk to Murrayfield from here)

Get a couple of Ozs and a crate of Stella for the complementaries