Oasis

Oasis are the best... band to ever release an album called Definitely Maybe.

They are also shee-ite!

Guill wrote: »

What oasis and beatles songs sound the same?

All Around The World (Hey Jude)
Whatever (Eleanor Rigby....ish)
The middle section of Born On A Different Cloud (Happiness Is A Warm Gun)

Thats about it. Beatles comparison always puzzled me too, sound more like Stone Roses or something a lot heavier. Beatles were pop, Oasis werent.

Live4Ever wrote: »

A guy said that Whatever = Eleanor Rigby. Seriosuly that is insane man, I read somewhere that Eleanor Rigby has no genre?

Nope, thats not what I said, I said they were a bit alike, heavily string laden and all. Eleanor Rigby is baroque pop genre according to wikipedia, sounds about right to me. Noel said himself that Whatever is their most Beatles soundling song (apart from All Around The World)

Android 666 wrote: »

You think I like razorlight? Uh, that hurts. Oasis had one or two okay songs and Noel was/is a decent enough interviewee but Liam Gallagher made being a complete spanner something people aspire too. How? Obviously if looking at monkey boy singing Status Quo songs floats your boat I'm happy for you but celebrating Dad Rock as something positive is insane. Maybe, just maybe, not being shackled to his tit of a brother might help Noel Gallagher to produce something fresh and interesting. Stranger things have happened.

Liam gallagher is the definition of a ****ing rock star and the best frontman of all time.so what if he acts the cock head now and again the music he produces is still mega I always find that a lot of people hate oasis purely on the basis that liams a bit of a knobhead. Thom yorkes a **** but I still like radiohead . It's about the music not the personality of the people in the band. Dad rock you say well it's better then half the ****e released this year and it's only their first single released so keep your slating of the band till after you hear the album man

I just posted on the other thread about Beady Eye but I'm not blown away by that new single, I thought it was pretty average to be honest. I've been an Oasis fan for quite a long time. I can still remember when I started to like them. They'd been out a while but for whatever reason they'd sort of not really appeared on my radar until Whatever came out.

It was being played on the radio and stuff and a few months later they released Some Might Say and that's the one that nailed me. I remember listening to Atlantic 252 and them saying "We have Oasis's new single coming up next" and it was Whatever and I was getting annoyed as their latest was Some Might Say and that was the one I was desperate to hear.

I then went out and bought Morning Glory and thought it was class. I loved Don't Look Back in Anger from the very first play.

Will be interesting to see what Noel releases now if he ever get's around to putting some tracks down.

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

I hate to sound like a 12 year old on youtube here but, "if u dnt lk oasis go way nd dnt b slagin dem off, gt a lf lk"

Well the OP stated asked us to discuss if Oasis are the best. I was merely putting acoss an opposing viewpoint. I have yet to be convinced that somebody with the iq of a lobotomised seal whose sole bit of stagecraft involves standing with his hands behind his back and jutting his chin is the greatest frontman of all time. Thom Yorke might be a gombeen, I don't know, but at least he seems to have a bit of intelligence when it comes to the creation of his music. Also he doesn't seem to feel the need to proclaim himself the greatest frontman of all time. I could tell people constantly that I have the cock of an elephant. Doesn't make it true.

Cliché if ever there was one. Half their remaining was underblown if it was anything.

Underblown as in they didn't bother over exerting themselves and played it safe? Yeah, I'd say that's a fair assessment of it.

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

Cliché if ever there was one. Half their remaining was underblown if it was anything.

i love be here now, maybe its because i listened to it first after all the hype had died down. i think its great, don't go away is a classic

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

I don't think intelligence has anything to do with the craft of music. For a council estate idiot who didn't obtain the British equivalent of a Leaving Cert, he certainly hasn't done too badly for himself, has he? I don't listen to music based on how many BAs or MAs the artist possesses. That said I'm not a pretentious tw*t!

I don't know if you're directing the pretentious twat comment at me but its totally uncalled for if it is. Have I once insulted anyone for listening to Oasis? No. Moving on... I never once said that you needed to have degrees to make intelligent music, did I? Listening to the music is all the proof you need when it comes assessing whether the creator has a brain or not and I won't apologise in saying that I like some spark of intelligence in the music I listen to. That said, there is an awful lot of intellectual posturing in certain genres of music that I find pretty tiresome. Also, you can be guaranteed that if somebody making music prefixes what they make with the word intelligent you're guaranteed it probably isn't (intelligent rock, intelligent pop, intelligent dance, etc.). It can be a bit of a fine line at times.

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

Thom Yorke is a fantastic musician, no one is denying that. You didn't bring him up, fair enough, but it is totally off topic. Liam Gallagher got up there and performed the tunes without much need for hullabaloo. I've seen Radiohead, Blur, Arctic Monekys live and they are not too much more lively (Albarn jumped into the pit at OXEGEN but other than that he stood centre stage with a microphone). The singer should be able to sing his songs and bring the crowd great enjoyment without having to act the b*ll*cks a la Bono.

Fair enough, I'll concede to some of that. I still think he looks like a tit onstage and inspired some amount of gob****es.

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

Underblown in that there were no 45 second intros made up of layers and layers of guitars and helicopter noises, underblown in that they didn't record the longest #1 in the history of the UK singles chart and then add a reprise onto the end of it. Their remaining career after Be Here Now was most certainly underblown in comparison to Be Here Now. To describe it as having "played it safe" suggests you probably haven't really given any of Oasis' back catalogue much time and that as such you probably shouldn't make ignorant generalisations.

You see, I have listened to their back catalogue and in a moment of madness I bought their last album. I read after they bought the album that they had booked time somewhere over in America to record the album and that Liam fooked off half way through to attend his sister in laws wedding and after that Noel didn't bother doing any more with the album and released it as it was. Does that sound like the actions of a man that really cares about the fans they have? He couldn't be bothered actually trying to produce what could the best possible album, the man had been on autodrive for the last few albums, allowing more and more of the other members to write song because he didn't have the passion any more.

I'll read any old bull**** in the music papers when I'm on the bog and I've read plenty about Oasis in my time to know I'm not making ignorant generalisatons.