Oasis: clutching to relevance till their knuckles turn white

[Lil' Bitch 0]

 

Noel Gallagher is attacked during Oasis concert.

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Noel Gallagher is attacked during Oasis concert.

 

Which raises the question:

 

People still go to Oasis concerts?

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People still go to Oasis concerts?

 

For some utterly inexplicable reason British people still totally lurve Oasis. It's baffling.

[Slayer 0]

It seems like every other year since 1997 I'm surprised to hear that Oasis still exists

[King Kamala 0]

Canadians also still like Oasis (IIRC- that's where the dude tackled Noel). Maybe they feel obligated to like them since they have The Queen on their currency?

[Ravenbomb 0]

I like Oasis.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

I like Oasis.

 

Why?

[Copper Feel 0]

Oasis are benefactors of constantly being compared to Blur, whose musical output ranges from mildly catchy to wholly unassuming. (What's the Story?) Morning Glory aside, they're really not anything special.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

Oasis are benefactors of constantly being compared to Blur, whose musical output ranges from mildly catchy to wholly unassuming.

 

Uhhhhhhhh Blur is about a thousand times better than Oasis and if you honestly think otherwise you have truly terrible taste. hth

[Copper Feel 0]

You would appear to care about Blur to the extent that 'British people' care about Oasis. I really don't see the appeal.

 

'hth'?

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

I really don't see the appeal.

 

Uhm, how about the fact that they boast a catalog filled with supersmart pop songs spanning a fairly wide variety of genres/styles? Or perhaps the fact they they're one of the few bands who's just as good at ironic social commentary as they are at real pathos? Or maybe the fact that they own??? Really a lot of reasons here bro.

 

[King Kamala 0]

I'm with Chilly Willy, Blur was really the standout group of the Britpop explosion in the early to mid '90s. Though I have a huge soft spot for three or four Oasis songs.

[Nighthawk 0]

I like both. Blur is better, but that's really not a Britpop "explosion". By those standards, Blur was a one hit wonder. You had to go out of your way to seek out their other stuff. Oasis had several stateside hits.

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It's rancid and righteous schaedenfreude at work. The Gallaghers have created these monstrous personae for themselves that they started to live their gimmick. If you roll with "I hope [the guy from Blur] gets AIDS," then be a fucking man and accept that a drunken yob from Canada is going to push your overweening ass over and break a rib or two. They've positioned themselves so that not only are they targets for ridicule, abuse and scorn, but hey, the rest of us can enjoy without guilt Liam or Noel or whichever one that was getting tackled and Noel or Liam being such a priss that he won't get his fists up until half-a-dozen security dorks take him down. It's Glenn Danzig getting knocked out: the next generation.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Nah, I'd say Danzig getting knocked out is a bit more enjoyable than a Gallagher, given it took MUCH longer for him to run his mouth before anything happened.

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re Britpop: Blur's really good (duh) but Pulp was clearly the best thing to come out of that whole mess. Different Class is like the best album of the whole 1990s probably. And Jarvis Cocker is def. the best/hottest wry British waif guy.

 

 

 

 

 

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Yeah, Pulp were the best of the lot. Anyone who disagrees will be branded 'young'.

[godthedog 0]

funny enough, i would want to replace 'parklife' for 'different class' in byron's statement. i like what little of pulp i've heard (mostly 'different class' and 'this is hardcore', neither with much regularity), but jarvis's speak-singing is a little too theatrical for my tastes. blur were catchy as shit and had a great sense of humor.

 

early oasis have little-by-little become sort of a guilty pleasure for me. i'm finally able to look past the obnoxiousness and noel's whiny voice to some of the catchiness, and i can sort of see why they were so popular for a time. i really like "cigarettes and alcohol."

[King Kamala 0]

I immediately thought of Pulp after I made the post but didn't they sort of predate Britpop? Granted, their peak years were during Britpop's peak years. I never really got into them all that much for pretty much the reasons gtd explained which is not to say they're not a great band.

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funny enough, i would want to replace 'parklife' for 'different class' in byron's statement.

 

I love Parklife, but it's kinda poorly sequenced, ya know? The four best songs are all put right up front and after the title track it just sort of meanders around though weird one-off genre experiments and pointless interludes with actual good songs scattered about seemingly at random.

 

[Ravenbomb 0]

I also like both Oasis and Blur. And Kimya Dawson, too, since someone brought her up. I like a lot of bands people think are shit.

[Mik 0]

I like a lot of bands people think are shit.

 

oh man tell me about it

[Kinetic 0]

funny enough, i would want to replace 'parklife' for 'different class' in byron's statement.

 

I love Parklife, but it's kinda poorly sequenced, ya know? The four best songs are all put right up front and after the title track it just sort of meanders around though weird one-off genre experiments and pointless interludes with actual good songs scattered about seemingly at random.

 

Yeah, I prefer The Great Escape for being a significantly more cohesive album, although the highs on Parklife are admittedly higher. Blur unfortunately never had a really great album.

[Matt Young 0]

I like a lot of bands people think are shit.

 

oh man tell me about it

 

Same.

[Nighthawk 0]

Well I do too, but nobody hassles me over it.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I'd love to see Oasis live...as long as they only did their first three albums

[Guest Vitamin X]

I like a lot of bands people think are shit.

 

oh man tell me about it

 

Same.

 

Fourth'ed.

[The Niggardly King 0]

Oasis is fucking magic...

 

ALL MY PEOPLE RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW... Y'KNOW WHAT I MEAN... YEAH YEAH

[mfn 0]

considering that oasis sell out just about every show that they do live, i'd say that people still care about them. oasis are a very solid band.

[ZGangsta 0]

Yeah Oasis is selling out arenas on a US tour right now. It's not like they're struggling to pack people into a club show or anything.

I still dig Oasis when I hear them, I liked them when I was a kid in the 90s.

 

And Blur fucking sucks, aside from the nostalgia of the novelty of Song 2. Parklife? Fuck off.