yeah v much the only Oasis album I need
― imago, Sunday, 21 August 2022 22:11 (two years ago) link
What do you think of Don’t Go Away? What are you hearing?
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 August 2022 22:17 (two years ago) link
that's one of the worst songs on the album yes
― imago, Sunday, 21 August 2022 22:21 (two years ago) link
https://neilk.substack.com/p/on-oasis-the-gallaghers-d4abcb889d59
― djh, Sunday, 21 August 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
yes, a classic bit of polemic
I still like most of this album and the song 'morning glory', was also impressed hearing 'roll with it' in the supermarket recently, happy to leave the rest
― imago, Sunday, 21 August 2022 22:24 (two years ago) link
lose 'don't go away', 'i hope i think i know', 'the girl in the dirty shirt' and it's all hits, a blistering soup of N Gallagher overdubbed twelve times, the plaintive miasma of cool britannia in its greatest throes, the immersive folly of the scene that truly celebrated itself
― imago, Sunday, 21 August 2022 22:33 (two years ago) link
a challops that big needs an incredible piece of writing to justify it, not that piece of meandering pointless shit
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length),
uh am I misreading you? Sheffield trashed it.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 August 2022 22:35 (two years ago) link
“Don’tcha know”
― calstars, Sunday, 21 August 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
i love the whole morning glory album, it truly spoke to me in silly ways when i was in high school. i imported a gigantic liam gallagher poster and hung it above my bed. ian curtis on the opposite wall. weird opposing heroes, but they both spoke to me. Be Here Now i bought on the day it came out. i thought "this fucking sucks". when Standing on the Shoulder (uggggggh) came out it seemed like a massive improvement, although now when i listen back, nope, that one sucks too. Oasis the band died at the end of Champagne Supernova. That fadeout is the sound of them going away to die. their ghouls reappeared on Be Here Now, it's their "excess" album, but really it's just their coke album, and it sounds exactly like that -- massive dickheads leaping way beyond their scope of knowledge, truly believing that every idiotic word that comes to mind is actually truly powerful on some level. no one listens to oasis for the lyrics (? right?) but the songs weren't there either, so they just did the really tedious act of stretching out every single song to the limit and playing things over and over, hoping to find new meaning in the 18th repetition, which somehow works when it's spacemen 3 but does not at all when it's oasis.
definitely maybe 8morning glory 10be here now 2
― Karl Malone, Monday, 22 August 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
i actually really like ‘d’you know what i mean’ but yet have never felt the urge to listen to the rest of it
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 August 2022 00:18 (two years ago) link
there are good songs on it but listening to it sucks
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 22 August 2022 00:34 (two years ago) link
be here now is at least better than most of what came afterward but that's not saying very much.
the tunes are mostly decent, you can at least hear how it could have been worthwhile if they weren't so coked out making it. it's a kinda fascinating artefact
― ufo, Monday, 22 August 2022 00:43 (two years ago) link
i saw Oasis three times -
once in 1994 when Live Forever had just been released - this was very exciting vibe-wise although I felt (and still feel) a little bemused by the hype
once in I dunno early 2000s when Andy Bell was playing bass (?!) - this was fine, I didn't pay much attention, it was at a festival
but they played in Sydney in 1998 at the end of the Be Here Now tour and it was once of the flattest/worst performances from a major band I have ever seen - just woeful. I think Noel Gallagher apologised later for how shit it was.
― the life of a rebo band is always intense (emsworth), Monday, 22 August 2022 02:36 (two years ago) link
"We were appalling last time," he said. "We owe the Australians one. If anyone saw us, they saw the band at its worst. I'm desperate to get back there to set the record straight. An Australian tour is pencilled in. If people will have us, we'll definitely come back."
"When we were in Australia [in 1998], it was meltdown time. By the time we got there we'd been on the road for seven months. There was a lot of drinking and nonsense. We'd had enough of touring. We'd been doing it for four or five years and it was one tour too many. If we had the chance to go back to Australia, I'd be the first on the plane."
From here
Stoked to have seen this historically important show!
― the life of a rebo band is always intense (emsworth), Monday, 22 August 2022 02:40 (two years ago) link
Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn) at 11:35 21 Aug 22a challops that big needs an incredible piece of writing to justify it, not that piece of meandering pointless shit― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length),uh am I misreading you? Sheffield trashed it.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 22 August 2022 06:56 (two years ago) link