I don't like Oasis, but I like this interview with Noel Gallagher

[BigMoaner]

No use saying you are the last great rock band when you're not and never were.

But there was something there right, early doors?

I don’t think I am particularly Basic Bro in my musical tastes and I recognise that.

 

[Humberto]

But there was something there right, early doors?

I don’t think I am particularly Basic Bro in my musical tastes and I recognise that.

Yeah there was. Think it was a laddish thing but many ladies were on it too.

Maybe like it hit a specific moment which is good enough.

 

[story]

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

I'd say their music is more earnest than sincere.

I reckon what you're identifying there as something interesting is something else though. Even not very interesting bands can sound pretty awesome at the beginning because of a certain urgency and compulsion and passion that comes from being young, ambitious, a belly full of fire.

Add to that the drive and excitement provided by having money and support from other (usually older, richer, more powerful) people in the Biz.

The self confidence and delight from knowing you're on the rise, that people like you. You're being taken seriously.

And, at the time, the music industry was wide open. The door between Indie and the proper chart success had been kicked open by Carter USM. Oasis and Blur gang- charged that opening like school kids spying the fire escape door ajar on a sunny day.

Plus, there was scanty RnR antics at that time. The rude, bolshy, lairy, fuck you stuff, the punk attitude had been smoothed over by MDMA and a weird laid back attitude that had got dead boring. (There was a story that one of the Gallaghers had surfed the tour van, which whipped round the Biz like it was something important. A band finally being risky and RnR was exciting.)

I like a couple of their tracks but not enough to put them on to listen to.

Most of their stuff sounds dead dreary to me. A friend sang Slide Away at a karaoke night recently and it was so fucking boring. I was, like, "why the fuck you chose that?!" He said "As soon as I started I realised it was a bad idea."

 

[Smangus]

Meh

 

[Lotte]

But there was something there right, early doors?

I don’t think I am particularly Basic Bro in my musical tastes and I recognise that.

I'd say so. The first two albums have an energy to them that everything else lacks. It's almost like they hit a wall with Be Here Now.

 

[maomao]

Meh

My favourite Oasis song is whichever one is shortest. We take it in turns to pick music at dinner in our house and my wife asked for Oasis the other day. I asked her what track and she said 'whatever' so I just put the shortest one I could see on. But apparently they actually have a song called Whatever and it's about four fucking hours long.

 

[stavros]

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.

I listened to a Stone Roses track earlier, and whilst Ian Brown is a similar quality singer to Liam, at least his vocals were a lot deeper in the mix. OK, the Rose had better musicians than Oasis, and certainly a better rhythm section, but you wonder whether the latter would've sounded better had the vocals not been so prominent.

I suspect they'd have been less commercially successful.