― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 23 January 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Friday, 23 January 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 23 January 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 23 January 2004 22:24 (twenty years ago) link
Despite the short period of excellence, I've got to go "classic" because they were just SO HUGE from 1994-1996. That's a three year chunk of British music history that has to be viewed in the context of what Oasis were doing/saying/playing at the time, and that sort of dominance is rare in music.
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 23 January 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link
Then pretty dismayed to find that behind the sullen sneer they were the sort of boorish macho dullards I was crossing the street to avoid on my way home in Liverpool every night.
Classic for "Acquiesce"; Dud for most of the rest; Super-Dud for their contribution to "lad culture" and Beatles necrophilia.
― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Friday, 23 January 2004 22:40 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:15 (twenty years ago) link
There was a week in whatever year it came out that I thought Don't Look Back In Anger was the greatest song ever. Then I didn't. Now, I still have a soft spot for it, and a fair few other bits of theirs (Live Forever in particular). Plus Noel Gallagher usually seems to give very entertaining interviews, and does the whole personality crisis schtick (in his case usually manifested as "that last stuff we did was shit, but this is us back on form") a billion times better than Robbie fucking Williams.
Little By Little is very probably one of my least favourite songs ever, though, and lots of their stuff is just very dull. Some Might Say... dear god, no. So, yeah, neither classic nor dud, just somewhere in between.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago) link
― dr doom, Friday, 23 January 2004 23:33 (twenty years ago) link
― dr doom, Friday, 23 January 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago) link
How exactly were they "huge" (outside of England, I mean)? In the US, as I've written on other threads, they were just another okay band -- about as important as Third Eye Blind or Smashmouth or somebody.-- chuck (cedd...), January 23rd, 2004.
They are still huge in Mexico, as far as I could tell from last year. Must be the Anglophilia!
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago) link
― dr doome, Friday, 23 January 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago) link
― dr doom, Friday, 23 January 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago) link
The tunes - Inoffensive, if not entirely unoriginal. And overrated.The lyrics - Mostly shit.The image (if you care about that sort've thing) - Utterly boring."Personality" - Apart from the brothers incomprehensibly berating each other all the time (and that, too, got dull), the band has zero in the personality department....nicknames like "Bonehead" notwithstanding.Stage presence - Once again, apart from Liam acting like an ass, null & void.Album cover art - Yawnsome.Edge - Oft-touted, rarely displayed.Groove - Non-existant.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago) link
― doom, Friday, 23 January 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link
So a score draw for me.
― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago) link
when they opened up for neil young - and liam did 'morning glory' - that moment sold me on oasis as a live act.
― dr doome, Friday, 23 January 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Saturday, 24 January 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
― doomies, Saturday, 24 January 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Saturday, 24 January 2004 01:29 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 25 January 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link
nuff said.
― searchanddelete, Sunday, 25 January 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
It wasn't me. I love The Wall.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 25 January 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 25 January 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 25 January 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:28 (twenty years ago) link
Me. Bag of Shite.
― pete s, Monday, 26 January 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link
― pete s, Monday, 26 January 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago) link
Best thing they ever did : "Some Might Say" (UK cd single) - the title track, "Acquiesce", "Talk Tonight" (Noel's best acoustic thingy) and "Headshrinker". Perfect.
Everything after Morning Glory is poo, frankly...
― David Nolan (David N.), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:25 (twenty years ago) link
I agree hands down. Not one step misplaced on that one.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:02 (twenty years ago) link
― David Gunnip (David Gunnip), Monday, 26 January 2004 12:30 (twenty years ago) link
Definitely Maybe had some good songs on it, but I'm still coming down on the side of dud. Never saw what was supposed to be so great about Liam's voice.
Classic if only for the interviews, mind.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 26 January 2004 12:38 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2004 12:49 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 26 January 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
The image (if you care about that sort've thing) - Utterly boring
This is missing the point, which was that Oasis were like the crowd up on stage. Plus it wasn't that boring, they had an air of menace -- in the UK. They weren't 'indie' but they came out of indie 'culture' (ie NME readers, Evening Session listeners). Croation wasn't a 'real' indie by that point, but it was more indie than Columbia, shall we say.
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago) link
― pete s, Monday, 26 January 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago) link
― pete s, Monday, 26 January 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link
legend
― brimstead, Saturday, 18 September 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
"If this guy plays "Blackbird" one more time I'm going to lose it..."
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― scott seward, Thursday, 22 June 2023 20:57 (ten months ago) link
so not gonna happen
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 22 June 2023 21:51 (ten months ago) link