STOP THE CLOCKS, you guys!

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It's the Oasis Greatest Hits album. Y'hup.

You know, Wonderwall, Acquiesce, Half the World Away, all that.

Is it the end of an era? Dare they say "Vol 1" and damn themselves to never making it to Vol2?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Is it actually called Stop the Clocks? Hmmm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

please use sensible thread titles. i wasted precious seconds here!

P.S. Y'Hup?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

D'You Know What I Mean!

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ The Unstoppable Troll Machine (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Bonehead's Bank Holiday!

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ The Unstoppable Troll Machine (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Digsy's Dinner!

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ The Unstoppable Troll Machine (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

We'll have lasagne.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

a "Ringo song" if ever there was one...

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

P.S. Y'Hup?
-- Konal Doddz (stevem7...) (webmail), Today 2:21 PM. (later) (link)

Note, I did not say "It's the Oasis Greatest Hits album of Y'hup."

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oasis did one good album but unfortunately the rest was bullshit. And that one good album was only good because it was such an enormous heap of bullshit that one couldn't help but be impressed,

i.e. "OMG what an ENORMOUS HEAP of bullshit! Hey, guys, come and look! Wow! How on earth did they find enough cattle to create THIS?!"

, but that one good album was called Be Here Now and everybody hated it, so actually they didn't release any good albums and in 50 years people will only remember Blur (and Mansun) (and possibly Pulp) (no, just Blur and Mansun).

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

No, just Mansun and Cud.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

The 'Stop The Clocks' tracklisting is:

'Rock 'N' Roll Star'
'Some Might Say'
'Talk Tonight'
'Lyla'
'The Importance Of Being Idle'
'Wonderwall'
'Slide Away'
'Cigarettes & Alcohol'
'The Masterplan'
'Live Forever'
'Acquiesce'
'Supersonic'
'Half The World Away'
'Go Let It Out'
'Songbird'
'Morning Glory'
'Champagne Supernova'
'Don't Look Back In Anger'

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 September 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Punch The Cocks more like...

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 11 September 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

in 50 years people will only remember Blur (and Mansun) (and possibly Pulp) (no, just Blur and Mansun).

ftwftwftwftwftwftwftwftw?

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

No number one single "The Hindu Times"?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Shh, you're giving it away.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Nor "All around the world".

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

less of a "greatest hits" more of a "this is about the best we could scrabble together from our entire career" ... and still only about half of it is actually any good.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Any greatest hits I made would have to include the Unplugged performance where one of 'em (I honestly can't tell 'em apart) climbed into the balcony to berate the other.
In fact, I'd like just an album of all of their embarrassing, ribald, sodden or stupid public pronouncments. A clip of calling Jack White "Zorro on doughnuts" is worth more to me than some mediochre album track that I never cared about anyway.
(Though I suppose this'll be a good intro for the younger generation just looking to get into Oasis now...)

― js (honestengine), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Despite that I pretty much despise what they came to stand for, I still wonder if they couldn't potentially have become a much better band. Different drugs perhaps...

They had the whole bloody country in their hand and what did they even do with that opportunity? Gave them exactly what was "expected" every damn time, to ever more diminishing returns. I think wanting to be the most popular really led them to confusing the easy route with the "best" route from pretty much the first album on. And way too risky to turn back after the third/fourth/fifth etc.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

No "Roll with it"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Or "Whatever", their first 'let's attempt for number one' single.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

"D'You Know What I Mean?" didn't make the cut?

Are you sure?

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

So it seems, yep.

I'm more surprised about "The Hindu Times" but then, hey.

I think there's a cause to be held for "Be Here Now" to be the first to suffer the 'indignity' of the "opposite of Directors Cut" and prune the songs down to the bone. i.e lose all the helicopters and foofaraw off "dye ken" and "allaroun'" and so on.

oh and "Who kneads lurve" is not on either.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

You'd almost think Noel was embarassed by Be Here Now...

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

will they ever shave their uni brows?

― boonah (boonah), Monday, 11 September 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Just what the world needs, an Oasis greatest hits album.

― I am not Ted Nugent (Bimble...), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I reckon, and this isn't deliberate contrarianism, that you could plough the entire Oasis back catalogue and come up with a 8/10 13 track CD.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

hands off

― pscott (elwisty), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - pretty much what I was saying above Dom

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Just buy the first CD and be done with it. Horrible band. Alan McGee has so much to answer for.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Monday, 11 September 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

No "Step Out" or "Headshrinker"? Meh.

― xero (xero), Monday, 11 September 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

you can prob buy ALL their albs in the MVE basement for around a tenner

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 11 September 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

i love 'slide away'. i've actually used it in a non ironic way on a breakup mix. still gives me vague chills

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

STOP THESE COCKS

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

*applause*

― guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

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