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That's fair enough maxwell, you've got a reasoned opinion & I respect that.

Still....Morning Glory outsold The Great Escape 15 million to 1 and Oasis are still going making great albums that keep their fans wanting more. Granted, Be Here Now & Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants were rubbish.
Damon Albarn is just a cartoon for crying out loud :p
I've got loads of time for Graham Coxon though - his solo stuf is way under rated.
 
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shakermaker said:
That's fair enough maxwell, you've got a reasoned opinion & I respect that.

Still....Morning Glory outsold The Great Escape 15 million to 1
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Doesn't mean the music on Morning Glory was anyway better,Oasis just had a bigger fan base.And Albarns a cartoon?Nuff' said.
 
maxwell silver said:
Doesn't mean the music on Morning Glory was anyway better,Oasis just had a bigger fan base
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It's true that selling loads of records doesn't mean you're any good (look at Phil Collins) but Blur always seemed too fake to me, especially with the sudden lads attitude that they adopted after Oasis emerged (the track Girls and Boys for example). Oasis don't have to try, they're down to earth & honest which is personally what I like from a band.
 
Hardly, there was all the hype, a demo released on an NME cassette & Supersonic released a couple of weeks later. Not to mention all the live gigs in '93

(and my compulsive need to be right :p)

Anyway, the point is...Oasis are immense, always have been always will be :D
 
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mate, they were on the musical radar in early 94 but nothing major and certainly not a threat to blur at that point.
Blur went all laddie in 92/93 when "modern life is rubbish" was released.
Hardly attributable to Oasis.
 
ssshhhhhhhhh!!!

Anyway back to topic, the vid is the muts nuts I'm sure most of you will agree, and the song is a stonker.
Can't wait to hear some new material soon ;)
 
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in the great musical debate of 95 between oasis and blur what did i do???

I sat on the fence basking in the sunshine that was one of the greatest moments in british music. BRITPOP, where every band and every song was a winner. Them were the days sonny (nostalgic).

actually i was in bosnia as a squaddie with my mum sending me NME and ringing my mates to find out what CD's to send. Bless her, at least i didn't miss out.

class video shaker, indeed and has revived the old tune well!!!
 
Ill pontificate-and it wasnt a personal attack by any means shakermaker, you are young and this oasis thing will pass.
Oasis as a band are and were a conservative reaction to the aceeed house scene -Have you not heard of the term "dad rock"? Noel Gallagher comes across as ill informed, ill educated and downright spiteful in my opinion in interviews. He also supports New labour and therefore by proxy supports the war in iraq.Not that he has a proper political thought in his head, like all of britpop and "Cool britiannia" it was all posturing and ultimately a dreary reactionary bore.
The lyrics of the majority of Oasis songs are of a nonsensical nursery rhyme nature-good example being "I know a girl called elsa she's into alka seltzer" words written to fit in after gallagher has provaricated over which 3 out the 5 chords he can play hes using for his drudge.
Alex Petridis who is a fantastic music writer despises oasis as do most musical commentators-ipso facto it was Petridis who i nicked the "dreary reactionary bore" comment.
Anyway this is just my view, and not a personal slant in any form.Personally i spent 1992 to 1998 going raving till the backside fell out of that subculture.Best band of (very vaguely) similar nature has to be the happy mondays, at least you could have a groove to them.
 
Meerkat, Noel Gallagher does not support New Labour at all. He went to number 10 for the free food & because he was using copious amounts of drugs at the time.
Similarly, when he made his famous "Tony Blair will make this country better" speech at the Brits, he was on E.
Personally I think he comes across as very funny and very honest in his interviews, which can only be a good thing.
Oasis didn't ask to be part of Cool Britannia or Britpop or anything like that. That's the media's doing.
So, down to the music it is. For me, it's honest & effortlessly (aside from Be Here Now & Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants....eurgh) great music.
Music is too full of idiots trying to put the meaning of life into 4 minutes. Oasis just make good music & leave the epic literary attempts to people like Embrace.
 
ill pop back tomorrow im really p*ssed and cant think of anything constructive to say less im glad you dont think the new labour thing is positive.
salome
meerkat
 
lol shakermaker-- See this is why I remembered you being an oasis fan

Man I was really 'that person' back then. 6 years or so later and I feel so much older and so much more miserable. I almost wish I still had that pretentious part of me there still. I would be playing guitar and writing songs right now instead of writing this post :cool:

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Firstly, Oasis said they wouldn't sign on to Sony again.
Sony are not 'getting rid'.
Secondly, if Sony thought they were rubbish, they would not be releasing their best of to cash in before they leave their contract.:rolleyes:
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