Yeah, Oasis aren’t really for pills. 
Critiquing Oasis
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Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
I was aiming to get a day ticket for Reading in 2000 (but didn’t) which had Oasis, Primal Scream, Doves on the main stage which I reckon would have been good value as I liked all of them. Plus stuff on other stages too.
Day ticket £33, weekend ticket £80 including camping and parking. Back when festivals were affordable
In the end I saw them play in Heaton park in 2009 which turned out to be their last UK gig. Weather was crap, they were crap, sound was crap and a lot of pints of piss were thrown about by the crowd.
I went to a Primal Scream gig on a pill way back when. Unfortunately it was the rock album (Give out but don’t Give Up?) where as I wanted Screamadelica. Still a good gig though.
skyscraper101
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I like Give Out But Don't Give Up. I even prefer the original Memphis sessions they recorded, which were then heavily remixed and re-dubbed for the official release.
savoloysam
Pigman's pigman's ha ha charade you are..
They did a few decent tunes imo. Not a massive fan although Live Forever is one of all time favourites songs.
I think the first two albums were very poorly produced. On that documentary I thought that the original production that they binned on the first album was actually better and I couldn't believe they completely reproduced it.
I think the first two albums were very poorly produced. On that documentary I thought that the original production that they binned on the first album was actually better and I couldn't believe they completely reproduced it.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Quite liked how their albums are often very different style to before
Swastika Eyes off Exterminator is a song I often use to get myself awake in the morning
I guess Screamadelica and an EP iirc were produced by Andy Weatherall and the rest not.
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
RubbishYeah, Oasis aren’t really for pills.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Jimmy Miller's production on Movin On Up and Damaged recalls his best work with the Stones, which am guessing that's why they wanted him producing those tracks.
Tried to get into the next album but found it a bit disappointing. Finally got round to getting Vanishing Point and Xtrmntr a couple of years ago and love them. But Screamadelica is in a league of its own.
Tried to get into the next album but found it a bit disappointing. Finally got round to getting Vanishing Point and Xtrmntr a couple of years ago and love them. But Screamadelica is in a league of its own.
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
Apposite:
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Happy Mondays, Oasis, Ride members launch new band Mantra Of The Cosmos with debut single 'Gorilla Guerilla'
The supergroup is set to play this year's Glastonbury Festival
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AverageJoe
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Apposite:
Happy Mondays, Oasis, Ride members launch new band Mantra Of The Cosmos with debut single 'Gorilla Guerilla'
The supergroup is set to play this year's Glastonbury Festival
That is astonishingly bad. It's just effects.
At least Shaun won't forget the words. There are only seven of them.
cuppa tee
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every weekend.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Shame Gillespie and Innes are tory cunts who stitch their 'mates' up eh...
Can’t say I know much about either but thought Gillespie was a socialist! Or at least he claims to be…
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
Discussion on RIP Martin Duffy thread.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
That's both the worst thing I've ever heard and the best thing I've ever heard that has Shaun Ryder on it.
Fair enough, that’s fucking grim. Shitty behaviour from Gillespie and Innes and they’re not worthy of the claims to socialism.
Hollis
bloody furious
Yeah, Oasis aren’t really for pills.
The first time I got offered pills was outside the Fleah at Finsbury Park in 1993 when Bob Dylan & Van Morrison were playing.... in retrospect might have helped with what followed..
maomao
普費斯
Valium's a pill.Yeah, Oasis aren’t really for pills.
Definitely maybe then…
ska invita
back on the other side
I like this post...I count myself very lucky that radio in 90s London had so many great shows, pirate radio especially but even GLR, Kiss, Choice, Jazz FM and others.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
This beauty from Simon Price today (whoever he is)..
" Here's what's just struck me about Oasis: THEY HAVE NO FAST SONGS. They just lumber about, fat-arsed and graceless, at 20mph because it's a residential area. Music for people who can't-dance-won't-dance. They ARE rock but they DON'T rock. And what's the fucking point in that? "
I still have a soft spot re the first 2 albums.
I used to go to his club night
Simon price that is not Oasis.
Fozzie Bear
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Gonna have to mildly disagree with you ska invita
Taping CDs for mates was still widespread and weirdness was available to many via John Peel and others.
You could buy NME/Melody Maker/Sounds in most newsagents and things like The Wire magazine in decent ones.
A lot of mainstream music was weirder than Oasis in the 1990s - hip hop and the Bristol scene for example. Or Beck.
And then there was the gamut of dance music - you would need to be pretty conservative to think that Oasis sounded fresher than jungle...
For me Oasis the was the end of the line for "indie" as a genre really.
Taping CDs for mates was still widespread and weirdness was available to many via John Peel and others.
You could buy NME/Melody Maker/Sounds in most newsagents and things like The Wire magazine in decent ones.
A lot of mainstream music was weirder than Oasis in the 1990s - hip hop and the Bristol scene for example. Or Beck.
And then there was the gamut of dance music - you would need to be pretty conservative to think that Oasis sounded fresher than jungle...
For me Oasis the was the end of the line for "indie" as a genre really.
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Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
As someone who was 13 years old when Definitely Maybe was released, Oasis were a gateway band that led me to other things, and probably the first band I was “in to”. For example finding about their influences and listening to them, then finding out about who influenced them.
I wouldn’t say my musical tastes are that far out but I wouldn’t have been listening to the indie shows on radio 1, or discovering for myself say The Clash or the Velvet Underground a few years later on, if I hadn’t first listened to Oasis.
Which is not to say Oasis were objectively a good band, more that they provided a route into wanting to know more about music than just what was in the charts for someone at that age.
I wouldn’t say my musical tastes are that far out but I wouldn’t have been listening to the indie shows on radio 1, or discovering for myself say The Clash or the Velvet Underground a few years later on, if I hadn’t first listened to Oasis.
Which is not to say Oasis were objectively a good band, more that they provided a route into wanting to know more about music than just what was in the charts for someone at that age.
Peak Britpop.
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