I don't like Oasis, but I like this interview with Noel Gallagher
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BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
There was something deeply authentic and meaningful about oasis early doors. They were great, great fun, great energy. Can still remember my mate putting wtsmg on in a bong smoked filled room and being blown away and everyone in the room the same. Think I was 15. It gave a bit of lyricism to our drum and bass lives.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Liked the early stuff and still listen to it.
Definitely Maybe and The Masterplan, Morning glory and then that’s it. Then the energy and hunger they had initially has gone and it becomes overblown.
Hollis
bloody furious
I know it's not everyone's cup of tea.. but that whole Britpop period of 93/94/95 felt very exciting at the time..
Same. Definitely Maybe has a sense of excitement and a real energy to it, Morning Glory is my favourite and has some bangers on it and The Masterplan is a great B-sides album. Be Here Now was when the rot set in.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Be Here Now was largely forgettable but I still rate D'You Know What I Mean? Stand By Me is ok but thats pretty much all yeah.
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
I think the rot set in earlier with the release of Some Might Say. All the previous singles were good, the first album was good and then I remember SMS being premiered on Radio 1 and me and my best mate just looked at each other and said 'Oh...'. They had already run out of ideas. As I've said before the reason it initially seemed Oasis were going to be incredible was that the early stuff might just be just a glimpse of their potential - it felt like they could evolve and change and then go on a massive avante garde experimental phase or something - like a truly incredible band.
Some Might Say showed that they had already showed us the entire breadth of their creative range and that was it. Roll With It was total rubbish and WTSMG was very patchy as an album - some highs and some lows.
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
It did - in retrospect it can be seen for what it was but wearing retro trainers and trackies and going to your local indie club (with a 30 minute section where they threw on some Underworld and Aphex Twin) as the scene blew up was exciting for this 17 year old.
Some Might Say is...not a favourite. THAT was the one that got to Number 1? I didn't realise how derivative they were as well, I knew about Shakermaker but not that Cigarettes & Alcohol is a blatant T-Rex rip-off.
Tbf they did try to be more experimental with songs like Who Feels Love? and Fuckin' in the Bushes, but they were in a bit of a rut creatively compared to Blur, who didn't alway get it right but at least were willing to experiment and change their sound up, and even in the early days, they had their moments of weirdness (Pressure on Julian, for instance). Also, Be Here Now needed serious tweaking. It's Gettin' Better (Man!!) just has Liam singing the chorus for what, 3 minutes? No, Liam, it is not getting better, it is getting worse the longer you keep singing. And All Around the World does not need to be nearly 10 minutes. They were so blatantly trying to do some kind of big I Am the Walrus style epic and failed (and they tried covering the actual thing, but it is a very hard song to pull off).
Tbf they did try to be more experimental with songs like Who Feels Love? and Fuckin' in the Bushes, but they were in a bit of a rut creatively compared to Blur, who didn't alway get it right but at least were willing to experiment and change their sound up, and even in the early days, they had their moments of weirdness (Pressure on Julian, for instance). Also, Be Here Now needed serious tweaking. It's Gettin' Better (Man!!) just has Liam singing the chorus for what, 3 minutes? No, Liam, it is not getting better, it is getting worse the longer you keep singing. And All Around the World does not need to be nearly 10 minutes. They were so blatantly trying to do some kind of big I Am the Walrus style epic and failed (and they tried covering the actual thing, but it is a very hard song to pull off).
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
I knew about Shakermaker too and it just seemed kind of cool and mildly subversive (because Oasis seemed a touch edgy in the very beginning), but I didn't know C&A was a T-Rex rip off either.
In the early days the lyrics seemed like they might have hidden meaning too - but after multiple subsequent iterations of chorus nonsense and dunce-Noel telling us they meant nothing and that 'books are shit', another bit of sheen was removed from the inital Oasis shine - or shiiiiine.
e2a I like your post a lot Lotte!
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
Sounds a bit like a Mondays song off Bummed as well maybe. The way it chugs along like WFL.
Hollis
bloody furious
Someone gave me a copy of 'Be Here Now' at the time... I don't think I've ever managed to listen to it all the way through... tried a couple of the later albums but... meh. The best thing I've listened to is NGHFB's 'Council Skies'... it won't necessarily appeal to Oasis fans, but has a nice Paul Weller feel to it..
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Noel is the better singer of the two by far. Liam is badly out of tune there. Really sticks out like a sore thumb on the slower songs.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Banger or not, good folk of urban? (
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Been thinking about them a while since the regroup and the word that comes to mind in those two first albums is “sincerity”. The songs sound sincere. Like they truly meant them. They had a sort of coherent energy that flowed out from them. They were still living at their mums when they played Maine road. You can hear “them” in the songs and it’s sincere.
Went tonshit after that tho
Went tonshit after that tho
Humberto
dreamin man
ok I agree
Because they weren't very good.Went tonshit after that tho
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Agree.
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