The Wisdom of Noel Gallagher

magpie

Everyone knows Noel is good for soundbites. One I heard recently that I enjoyed was, when referring to his daughters love of The Scissor Sisters, "of course Anais likes the Scissor Sisters, she's a child and they make music for juveniles".

Favourite Noel quotes, please.

Tha Gopher

These arent exact mind....

Regarding Boyzone
"Boytzone? Were`nt they a costume change away from being the Tweenies?"

Regarding the S Club Juniors
"I bumped into them when we were recording in the same building. I thought they were kids from a special needs school or summat, I signed autographs and everything for them"

On the time he and Liam respectively recieved a Rolls and a Rolex as presents from the record company
"It was no good, cos I cant drive and Liam cant tell the time"

His "Q must stand for queer" rant after Robbie Williams won a Q award instead of Oasis

On why6 they called the song Songbird
"Its a song.....about me bird"

I wish theyd repeat that prog on BBC2 they did a year or two ago, think it was one of those Storyville docus about British music of the 90s, it was hilarious. Particularly Noels insights about how he would walk into the Hacienda and be appalled by the music, but after dropping a few yokes it sounded like works of genius

Bungalow Bill

A few good ones!

"This guy came up to me from some band and he said that 'Man, I'd hate to be you right now, no privacy at all' and I was thinking, 'Sure thing man, I have a ****ing Rolls Royce, a million dollars in the bank, a ****ing mansion and my own jet and you think you'd feel sorry for me? What are you? I'd hate to be you, broke as hell living in the dole.'"

"Sure I love Liam, but not as much as I love Pot Noodles"

"Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer."

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover.'


"Someone was playing a joke when they made me, you know, 'Let's make this guy a writer and a guitar player, but let's make him write with his left hand but play with his right, and let's have him born in the middle of May and give him a Christmas name like Noel, and let's make him a dodgy, schizophrenic, two-faced Gemini.' Cheers!"

Jonny Arson

Noel Gallagher = LEGEND! Undisputed soundest bloke in rock n' roll

grumpytrousers

For Noel at some of his funniest (including the full S Club Juniors routine, along with calling Liam the 'Prince of Darkness) check out the DVD single of 'Songbird'. 10 minutes of unbridled buffoonery...

Jimmy_Jazz

"The three biggest twats in any band are always the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say anything else." - Noel on Keane

"I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon."

"I went to Paul McCartney's daughter Stella's party and who should open the door but the man himself. He was dead cool. There were all these questions I wanted to ask him but I settled on: 'Do you watch Brookside?'"

"Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't believe you've
arrived until you get a stalker."

"Actually, me and Our Kid are just using this band as a stepping stone for our double act on the "David Letterman Show" as comedians, cheers!"

And finally:
Noel at Slane: "This one's called Hello."
Liam: "No, it's called Howareya!"

There were some great ones in last week's NME. I might dig it up tomorrow.

Bungalow Bill

A few from a recent interview:



Radio 1 spoke to Noel before the gig and asked if he shared Liam's apparent dislike for Keane and Kaiser Chiefs. He slagged them both recently and Tom from Keane hit back - here's Noel's thoughts:

"Keane, until they get a guitarist... It's actually quite heart warming that we're brought them down to our level, he called me a **** in the papers."

"I find it very amusing, his mum and dad will be waiting for him to get home and cane him when he gets in. He'll be phoning up saying 'I say, I think I've had it out in the press with the Gallagher brothers, sorry pater, I may have said the C word'."



"We hung out in the dressing room and that and he's a gent man, he's a top kid and I think he gets a real bad rap from the press and all this thing with Kate Moss - 'Kate had better beware' - well I know Kate Moss and it's Pete Doherty who better watch out because she is mad for it."

magpie

"I find it very amusing, his mum and dad will be waiting for him to get home and cane him when he gets in. He'll be phoning up saying 'I say, I think I've had it out in the press with the Gallagher brothers, sorry pater, I may have said the C word'."

Classic

lordgoat

shame he's not as talented a musican as he is at aking the piss, but then again he is in oasis

magpie

He's made a few million quid from playing guitar and writing songs. I'd rate that as being pretty talented.

Bungalow Bill

lordgoat wrote:

shame he's not as talented a musican as he is at aking the piss, but then again he is in oasis

Its a shame you believe all you read.

Listen to 'The masterplan', 'champagne supernova', 'supersonic', 'live forever', 'columbia', 'rock 'n' roll star', '(its good to be) free' and the small matter of 'Don't look back in anger' and tell me that man is not a genius.

angry_fox

Bungalow Bill wrote:

Its a shame you believe all you read.

Listen to 'The masterplan', 'champagne supernova', 'supersonic', 'live forever', 'columbia', 'rock 'n' roll star', '(its good to be) free' and the small matter of 'Don't look back in anger' and tell me that man is not a genius.

Dont forget about Wonderwall

Keyzer

Bungalow Bill wrote:

Its a shame you believe all you read.

Listen to 'The masterplan', 'champagne supernova', 'supersonic', 'live forever', 'columbia', 'rock 'n' roll star', '(its good to be) free' and the small matter of 'Don't look back in anger' and tell me that man is not a genius.

Talented - yes (to an extent)
Genius - Definitely not...

The music hasn't changed at all in 10 years, and the new album is crap...

magpie

OK, let's not go down the "the guy from [insert obscure bandname here] is a more deadly guitarist" route. This is neither the time nor the place.

More funny quotes from Noel please.

Half-Bicycle

Can't remember where I heard/read it but it's a quote about Oasis.

"Oasis are for people who hate music"

Keyzer

Start off with the ful story of the Oasis Vs. Coldplay feud

At a recent charity concert for kids with cancer, Coldplay's Chris Martin took the opportunity to vent his anti-war views:

During Everything’s Not Lost he urged the crowd: “Don’t be afraid to sing along, sing to end this war.” He also changed the lyrics of A Rush Of Blood To The Head to “I’m going to buy a gun and start a meaningless war.”
Not entirely unexpected since he's been a vocal opponent of the war. But it didn't sit well with Liam Gallagher of Oasis, who got off a profanity laced drunken tirade:

“Chris Martin shouldn’t be using this cause to bang on about his own f***in’ views on the war.
“If him and his gawky bird (Gwyneth Paltrow - ed.) want to go banging on about the war they can do it at their own gigs.

“That lot are just a bunch of nobhead students — Chris Martin looks like a f***in’ geography teacher. What’s all that f***in’ s*** with writing messages about Free Trade on his hand when he’s playing. If he wants to write things down I’ll give him a f***in’ pen and a pad of paper. Bunch of students.

“These gigs are about kids who have got cancer, they’ve got to fight a war every day of their lives. That’s what we’re all here doing this for.”


Maybe he has a point but I was laughing too hard to take it seriously. There must be no stronger insult to a rock star than to say he looks like a geography teacher.

Liam on Oasis without Noel

Interviewer: Do you think that Oasis would have had the same level of success without Noel in the band

Liam: I don't know. It's like asking if Jesus Christ would have been a pervert if he'd had a crisp packet stuck on his head?

Noel Gallagher on success "... Ive got 87 million quid in the bank right now. I've got 3 stalkers. Am I happy with that? NO I'M NOT! I WANT MORE!"


Noel on showbiz parties .."you would be at the bar and some bloke would say, would you pass us that @#%$ glass of red wine there, and your like WOW THATS GEROGE MICHEAL, and THE EDGE!!! Whoa, there's Sting, throw him out!"


excerpt from the Phone Ins with the band on US Radio.

Caller: "I was wondering. Do you have any advice for a young guy in a band who wants to make it REALLY big?"

Liam: "Yeah man, get yourself a pair of step ladders."


Noel on worship - 'when youre at glastonbury theres all this rivalry, cos youve all got your own campervan and its like 'im not talking to oasis' but its not our fault were the best band in the world, come over and pay homage'

Noel on what he wants - "All I ever wanted to do was make a record. Here's what you do: you pick up your guitar, you rip a few people's tunes off, you swap them round a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and again, and it sells. I'm a lucky bastard. I'm probably the single most lucky man in the world, apart from our Liam."

Liam on U2's Bono - "You see pictures of Bono running around LA with his little white legs and a bottle of Volvic and he looks like a fanny."

Liam on a good night out - "I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another,and another, and I thought, 'man, is this gonna be a good night'."

Liam on aliens - "If I saw an alien, I'd tell it to f**k right off because whatever planet he came from they wouldn't have the Beatles or any deccent f*****g music. So they can f**k right off, I ain't going anywhere with them."

Liam on vanity - "I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a f***ing good-looking f*** you are.' And then I brighten up."

Liam on Victoria (Posh Spice) Beckham - "She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book."

Liam on Oasis success -
Interviewer: "What makes Oasis different?"
Bonehead: "Good songs."
Liam: "And a handsome lead singer with a beard."

Liam on his bum - ''I've got a @#%$ hairy ar$e, I've got a rasta ar$e. RAAAASTAAAAA"

Liam on yanks - "I'm not going to play for silly yanks when I haven't got a house to live in!"

Liam at the MTV Music Video Awards in New York 1996 - "Allright this party's @#%$ and we're here to liven things up a bit. You know you're not havin' a good time but you're all too scared to say it, ya know mate."

Liam on discipline - "Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word."

Liam at PinkPop 2000 when the audience began throwing things at him - "I can't @#%$ sing and duck at the same time"

Liam on the search for a new bass player - "Yeah, ‘coz they’re all kn**heads anyway, aren’t they? We auditioned a bass player the other day but he like started singing songs about frogs and that, so we had to get rid of him"

Liams identity crisis - "John Lennon thought he was god. I just think I'm John Lennon."

Liam after a rock was thrown at him on stage - "Whoever's throwing things like this on stage...like...if you don't like the music, @#%$ off! If there're any more coming on, I'm off. And you gotta deal with all these people here who are enjoying themselves. If you don't like it, go @#%$ hang yourself! Don't be throwing @#%$ stones on stage like this...I don't wanna go blind over some @#%$ @#%$! This one's called...this one's called Roll With It, @#%$!"

Liam on bugs - "There was this bug in my room and I thought, 'you can fook off, this is my room.' "

Bungalow Bill

Keyzer wrote:

Talented - yes (to an extent)
Genius - Definitely not...

The music hasn't changed at all in 10 years, and the new album is crap...

Wow Liam is a funny bastard aswell isn't he!

The new album is anything but crap my friend. Are you basing this on Lyla?

Go listen to let there be love and the importance of being idle, they a great songs.

'Standing on the shoulder of giants' was a very different album. It saw Oasis using samples, trying a indian style on a song, the debut song from Liam and some much more psychedelic music. Its actually an excellent album if you give it a listen. Heathen Chemistry had 4 songwriters on it is that not a change?

Every oasis album has been really different, you actually have to listen to them and not read about them to realize that.

JimboPope

Oasis = ****e

They were in the right place at the right time. Simple as that. They are still riding their success from the mid nineties. They built up a pretty big fan base during those years and its them fans that are keeping them afloat today.

From experience oasis fans are a stubborn bunch who refuse to acknowledge the fact the band has has their hayday and are now very much over the hill.

Noel is still one funny fecker though, I could listen to the man speak all day, just not his music.

Bungalow Bill

JimboPope wrote:

Oasis = ****e

They were in the right place at the right time. Simple as that. They are still riding their success from the mid nineties. They built up a pretty big fan base during those years and its them fans that are keeping them afloat today.

From experience oasis fans are a stubborn bunch who refuse to acknowledge the fact the band has has their hayday and are now very much over the hill.

Noel is still one funny fecker though, I could listen to the man speak all day, just not his music.

No, no and no.

They have never had a song outside the top5, how is that riding your earlier success. The last two albums have sold about 10million copies, why would people keep listening to them if they don't like them?? its ridiculous.
I would say a sold-out stadium tour and sold out madison square garden and hollywood bowl is a little more than staying afloat, wouldn't you?

Keyzer

Bungalow Bill wrote:

Wow Liam is a funny bastard aswell isn't he!

The new album is anything but crap my friend. Are you basing this on Lyla?

Go listen to let there be love and the importance of being idle, they a great songs.

'Standing on the shoulder of giants' was a very different album. It saw Oasis using samples, trying a indian style on a song, the debut song from Liam and some much more psychedelic music. Its actually an excellent album if you give it a listen. Heathen Chemistry had 4 songwriters on it is that not a change?

Every oasis album has been really different, you actually have to listen to them and not read about them to realize that.

Dude, I don't an education on Oasis, I was listening to them when you were still in nappies... They have not progressed musically at all in the last 10 years. If you wan't to listen to a geniuses then try Dylan or Bowie etc.

magpie

Tell me more about this Dylan Bowie, he sounds interesting.

Keyzer

magpie wrote:

Tell me more about this Dylan Bowie, he sounds interesting.

He's the unknown lovechild of Bob Dylan and David Bowie....

Bungalow Bill

Keyzer wrote:

Dude, I don't an education on Oasis, I was listening to them when you were still in nappies... They have not progressed musically at all in the last 10 years. If you wan't to listen to a geniuses then try Dylan or Bowie etc.

Fair enough but I am 20!
I just honestly think that Noel is up there with the best of them.

drstaunch

Bungalow Bill wrote:

I would say a sold-out stadium tour and sold out madison square garden and hollywood bowl is a little more than staying afloat, wouldn't you?

Staying afloat like the rolling stones, what a contribution they have made to music in the last ten years. oasis are well past it, but let em still make albums, hell, you cant blame em if some idiots still buy their stuff

Keyzer

drstaunch wrote:

Staying afloat like the rolling stones, what a contribution they have made to music in the last ten years. oasis are well past it, but let em still make albums, hell, you cant blame em if some idiots still buy their stuff

No need to get personal....

Bungalow Bill

drstaunch wrote:

Staying afloat like the rolling stones, what a contribution they have made to music in the last ten years. oasis are well past it, but let em still make albums, hell, you cant blame em if some idiots still buy their stuff

**** that, their new album is quality, you'll see.

Half-Bicycle

Quality? Oasis are the musical equivalent of what The Sun is to the masses. So they sell shedloads of albums... so what. Does quantity equal quality?

Genius? Zappa, Beefheart, Can, Funkadelic, Hendrix, Jeff Buckley, Terry Callier, Miles Davis, Eno, Talking Heads, Leonard Cohen - there's talent and musical adventure for you.

Harrumph!

Bungalow Bill

Half-Bicycle wrote:

Quality? Oasis are the musical equivalent of what The Sun is to the masses. So they sell shedloads of albums... so what. Does quantity equal quality?

Genius? Zappa, Beefheart, Can, Funkadelic, Hendrix, Jeff Buckley, Terry Callier, Miles Davis, Eno, Talking Heads, Leonard Cohen - there's talent and musical adventure for you.

Harrumph!

****in' road to nowhere! crap song. Hendrix was a great guitarist but only had a handful of good songs. Buckley is most famous for doing a cover, Eno for being U2's producer and the rest of them, if they were any use I would have heard more by them.
Oasis have more great songs than that lot put together.
"musical equivalent of what the sun is to the masses"?? please, don't be a musical snob there is nothing worse.
Oasis are still better than most of the big bands out at the moment. Franz Ferdinand, Snow patrol, scissor sisters, killers, futureheads.

drstaunch

Bungalow Bill wrote:

Oasis have more great songs than that lot put together.

Sorry, but that is obviously wrong. how can you say that noel is up there with the best of em when he has pretty much said himself that he rips off alot of other songs. Oasis are a pub rock band that made it big, like a lot of other bands out there.

magpie

****in' road to nowhere! crap song. Hendrix was a great guitarist but only had a handful of good songs. Buckley is most famous for doing a cover, Eno for being U2's producer and the rest of them, if they were any use I would have heard more by them.
Oasis have more great songs than that lot put together.
"musical equivalent of what the sun is to the masses"?? please, don't be a musical snob there is nothing worse.
Oasis are still better than most of the big bands out at the moment. Franz Ferdinand, Snow patrol, scissor sisters, killers, futureheads.

Now you've all wandered off thread I may as well join in.

1) There's a lot more to Talking Heads than Road to Nowhere. May I recommend Remain in Light, produced by Brian Eno

2) Brian Eno is not famous for producing U2. He's famous for being in Roxy Music, recording excellent solo material, recording with Robert Fripp and producing for such luminaries as Bowie and the aforementioned Talking Heads.

In fairness Oasis aren't even in the same ballpark as these people.

Noel does have funnier quotes than Eno though.

Half-Bicycle

Bungalow Bill wrote:

****in' road to nowhere! crap song. Hendrix was a great guitarist but only had a handful of good songs. Buckley is most famous for doing a cover, Eno for being U2's producer and the rest of them, if they were any use I would have heard more by them.
Oasis have more great songs than that lot put together.
"musical equivalent of what the sun is to the masses"?? please, don't be a musical snob there is nothing worse.
Oasis are still better than most of the big bands out at the moment. Franz Ferdinand, Snow patrol, scissor sisters, killers, futureheads.

LOL! I guess you are a bit of a wind-up merchant but I'll indulge you all the same. Of all the Talking Heads output, you mention the one song that everyone knows. Why not Heaven? Life During Wartime etc etc. Agreed, it is a crap song compared to the earlier stuff. Hendrix had only a handful of good songs? What the ones you heard on a jeans advert? :rolleyes: Philistine! As regards Jeff Buckley, you're talking about the old Leonard Cohen song? Doesn't matter whether he's famous or not now, he was against all that celebrity stuff and was determined not to end up like his dad. Cult of dead rockstars etc. Buckley was a true genius and innovator and your comparing him to a Status Quo tribute band is a joke.

Eno is best known for his solo work and his days in early Roxy Music. Yes he happens to be a producer and has worked with quite a few talented bands, including Talking Heads.

If the rest of them were any use you'd have heard more by them? That's a puerile comment and not worth replying to.

I'm not a music snob, I have very catholic tastes when it comes to what I listen to. Everything from Sun Ra to Sepultura and then some. Yep, Oasis is truly for people who hate music...

magpie

Eno is best known for his solo work and his days in early Roxy Music. Yes he happens to be a producer and has worked with quite a few talented bands, including Talking Heads.

Why am I getting Deja Vu?

"Tommy can you hear me?"

zAbbo

So Oasis are making crap ripped off music and selling it to idiots who dont know much about music, well why isn't every other band in the world taking a piono riff from the white album, mixing it with some sex pistols vocals, and finishing it with some funky T-rex guitars.

Good borrows, genius steals.

Oasis caught the imagination of the times, when the decade came of an acid loop, and music was a wishwash of dance crap and xworks jeans, came Oasis, touted as the New Beatles, with some cracking songs to match, Get the first 20 oasis singles, with the main song and 3 'B' side tracks that were easily better than anything done at the time.

I began listening to them in 94, got sick of them by 96, but can't fault most of there first 3 albums.

Don't worry about some people here, some have there valid opinion, others, well its just fashionable to slag oasis, about as fashionable as wearing charity wristbands

Now if someone can post more of those ad libs from Radio1 interviews

Half-Bicycle

It's not about being fashionable bazH. If I wanted to be part of the in crowd, I'd probably be singing their praises too. Their second album was ok, I'll give them that.

magpie

That deaf, dumb and blind half-bicycle sure plays a mean pinball.

Bungalow Bill

I am anything but a wind-up merchant and I don't think its unreasonable to judge somebody by their most famous work.

As for oasis and you lot churning out your meaningless 'pub rock' tired clichés its just stupid. I guarantee you that none of those artists have a back catalogue anywhere near in quality to Oasis. Back in the day Oasis were putting out classic songs as b-sides. As Noel said recently "If a band like Razorlight came out with a song like 'fade away', game over man".

Noel Gallagher is a genius and if he had done the sensible thing and killed himself you would say that too. Of course he has continued to release a lot of music and in there of course are some faults. I heard Jeff Buckley's sketches and they were nowhere near anything as good as the stuff on Grace.

Half-Bicycle

magpie wrote:

That deaf, dumb and blind half-bicycle sure plays a mean pinball.

Damn right!

Half-Bicycle

Bungalow Bill wrote:

I am anything but a wind-up merchant ... I guarantee you that none of those artists have a back catalogue anywhere near in quality to Oasis.

Wind-up merchant. I rest my case.

Bungalow Bill

Whatever, you listen to your alternative upper class music and i'll be in manchester and marlay park with 80,000 other fools having the time of my life.

Keyzer

Bungalow Bill wrote:

****in' road to nowhere! crap song. Hendrix was a great guitarist but only had a handful of good songs. Buckley is most famous for doing a cover, Eno for being U2's producer and the rest of them, if they were any use I would have heard more by them.
Oasis have more great songs than that lot put together.
"musical equivalent of what the sun is to the masses"?? please, don't be a musical snob there is nothing worse.
Oasis are still better than most of the big bands out at the moment. Franz Ferdinand, Snow patrol, scissor sisters, killers, futureheads.

You have just dug your own grave and demonstrated your immense lack of musical knowledge...

Talking heads were a phenomenal band, check out "Stop makking sense", there are songs on that album that Noel Gallaghers dreams he wrote....

Jimi Hendrix is one of the most influential guitarists of all time, and along with that he wrote masterpieces...

Eno is a genius, a musical genius, if you ever get the chance to see the documentary on the making of the "Joshua Tree" you would understand...

Jeff Buckley wipes the floor with Noel Gallagher in terms of songwriting and musicianship...

You need to wake up and open your ears. Stop listening to the h0rsesh1t thats on the radio nowadays and dig up the stuff from the past. You'll realise then that Oasis are mediocre compared to these real legends....

Half-Bicycle

Bungalow Bill wrote:

alternative upper class music .

Keyzer

Bungalow Bill wrote:

I am anything but a wind-up merchant and I don't think its unreasonable to judge somebody by their most famous work.

As for oasis and you lot churning out your meaningless 'pub rock' tired clichés its just stupid. I guarantee you that none of those artists have a back catalogue anywhere near in quality to Oasis. Back in the day Oasis were putting out classic songs as b-sides. As Noel said recently "If a band like Razorlight came out with a song like 'fade away', game over man".

Noel Gallagher is a genius and if he had done the sensible thing and killed himself you would say that too. Of course he has continued to release a lot of music and in there of course are some faults. I heard Jeff Buckley's sketches and they were nowhere near anything as good as the stuff on Grace.

Your even stupider (if there is such a word) than I initially thought...

parasite

back to the quotes :

Oasis singer Liam Gallagher tonight branded Beatles hero George Harrison "a nipple" for calling him "silly" in an escalating exchange of insults. It follows reports that another former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney thought Oasis "derivative" and "full of themselves." Harrison reportedly said last year as Oasis were on the verge of splitting that they would be better off without "the silly one" -Liam.

In typically invective strewn style, Gallagher told MTV News tonight: "I still love George Harrison as a songwriter, but as a person he's a nipple, and if I ever meet him I'll tell him. If you're watching - Nipple!"

Clearly hurt, Liam said: "He doesn't know me so what's he on about? It goes to show that all that time in the Beatles and he's still stupid. He's the silly one because he reads the press. How does he know I'm silly? I've got four GCSEs, I'm not silly."

Gallagher dedicated Thursday night's Earls Court performance of Stay Young "to all the old farts".
Harrison, 54, was also reported recently in French paper Figaro as saying Oasis would not be remembered in 30 years like the Beatles were.

But afterwards he issued a statement saying he had never spoken about Oasis in the interview and didn't care about them oneway or another. Harrison did attack other modern acts in the Figaro article, saying the Spice Girls were better with the sound turned down, and
that U2 were egoists out to make money.

U2's Bono advised: "He should get back to the Sunshine Home for the Bewildered."

Sir Paul also claimed his comments had been taken out of context in last week's interview with The New Statesman, and that in fact he liked Oasis both personally and as musicians

magpie

Which do you prefer, Blur or Oasis?

Someone lock this thread for the love of God

Bungalow Bill

I have listened to Hendrix and Buckley, yes I don't know too much about the other groups but as I said their most famous work definitely did not endear me to them.
Grace is good and I do like it but it is not very versatile is it? Hendrix, who I respect as a guitarist wasn't IMO that good a songwriter. I can only count about 7 or 8 great songs.

My point about snowpatrol and all that was just to point out their relevance to todays scene.
I also listen to Dylan, the smiths, beatles, bowie, stone roses, u2, radiohead, the who, nirvana, sex pistols, elliot smith, belle and sebastian, jack johnson, libertines, rory gallagher, rolling stones, the jam, the kinks and I would easily place Oasis in the top three in that list.
I do actually have a very extensive knowledge of music, but it takes a song or two to get me into a band and 'road to nowhere' wasn' endearing at all.

Keyzer

magpie wrote:

Which do you prefer, Blur or Oasis?

Someone lock this thread for the love of God

Lets just stop trying to educate a musical numbskull...
Back to funnies....

Bungalow Bill

Half-Bicycle wrote:

it was in relation to someone's comment about oasis being the musical equivalent of 'the sun' to the masses.

Keyzer

Bungalow Bill wrote:

I have listened to Hendrix and Buckley, yes I don't know too much about the other groups but as I said their most famous work definitely did not endear me to them.
Grace is good and I do like it but it is not very versatile is it? Hendrix, who I respect as a guitarist wasn't IMO that good a songwriter. I can only count about 7 or 8 great songs.

My point about snowpatrol and all that was just to point out their relevance to todays scene.
I also listen to Dylan, the smiths, beatles, bowie, stone roses, u2, radiohead, the who, nirvana, sex pistols, elliot smith, belle and sebastian, jack johnson, libertines, rory gallagher, rolling stones, the jam, the kinks and I would easily place Oasis in the top three in that list.
I do actually have a very extensive knowledge of music, but it takes a song or two to get me into a band and 'road to nowhere' wasn' endearing at all.

Listen, I'm not arguing with you, all I know is that Oasis's first album was good, very good. After that its downhill. As Noel said himself, the best songs went on Defo Maybe, then the second best songs went on Whats the story, and be here now got all the crap ones. Thats from the guy who wrote them.
He doesn't even acknowledge be here now. What does that tell you?

I put my hand on my heart and say now that Oasis have not got one song, not one, that is better than anything U2 have written, never mind the other people I mentioned. U2 fluted around for a few years with dance beats and stuff, but they came back to what they do best and thats write great songs. Although I'm not a huge fan of atomic band, when I stick on "Where the streets have no name" I close my eyes and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up... Oasis never have and never will have that " musical" power....

Half-Bicycle

Bungalow Bill wrote:

yes I don't know too much about the other groups but as I said their most famous work definitely did not endear me to them.. I do actually have a very extensive knowledge of music, but it takes a song or two to get me into a band and 'road to nowhere' wasn' endearing at all.

So you've listen to the commercial radio-friendly chart stuff and judged them on that then. Fair enough, if I only knew what I heard of certain bands by their playlist on mainstream radio I probably would shrug my shoulders with indifference too.

Oasis are tabloid fodder and like the Pistols give great copy. Also like the Pistols, they show that you dont have to be a musical virtuoso and anyone can pick up a guitar and strum a few chords.

That's where the comparison ends, mind.

Bungalow Bill

Keyzer wrote:

Listen, I'm not arguing with you, all I know is that Oasis's first album was good, very good. After that its downhill. As Noel said himself, the best songs went on Defo Maybe, then the second best songs went on Whats the story, and be here now got all the crap ones. Thats from the guy who wrote them.
He doesn't even acknowledge be here now. What does that tell you?

I put my hand on my heart and say now that Oasis have not got one song, not one, that is better than anything U2 have written, never mind the other people I mentioned. U2 fluted around for a few years with dance beats and stuff, but they came back to what they do best and thats write great songs. Although I'm not a huge fan of atomic band, when I stick on "Where the streets have no name" I close my eyes and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up... Oasis never have and never will have that " musical" power....

And I feel the very same way about oasis. Noel has also said that the worst oasis songs are 'whatever', 'round are way', and 'roll with it' so I think he has a warped perspective on things! I can see a liar any one?

I think that U2 are really good though and they get a hard time from the same type of people for the same silly reasons, eg, boring songs, no musical progression kind of non-arguments, so I thought someone like you might see where I am coming from.

Bungalow Bill

Half-Bicycle wrote:

So you've listen to the commercial radio-friendly chart stuff and judged them on that then. Fair enough, if I only knew what I heard of certain bands by their playlist on mainstream radio I probably would shrug my shoulders with indifference too.

Oasis are tabloid fodder and like the Pistols give great copy. Also like the Pistols, they show that you dont have to be a musical virtuoso and anyone can pick up a guitar and strum a few chords.

That's where the comparison ends, mind.

Oh come on, that is how everybody gets into a band. You can't expect me to get some obscure track by a band I dont know ahead of their most famous one surely?
Pete Doherty is also tabloid fodder, it shouldn't diminish his contribution to music though.