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What do you lot think of Oasis? Pretty awesome band, IMO.
 
hit and miss ..Liam Gallagher's voice can be annoying at times ..and their personalities make me want to kick them in the balls ..especially Liam the guy is a twat ..both gallagher brothers are twats especially when drunk, they should just stfu and make music but other than that their music is pretty good ..for the most part ..aa little derivative and repetative but still fairly good
 
Three-chord overplayed overrated mediocrity.

A disgustingly high number of British males think they're Gods Gift to humanity though.
 
Mostly awesome.

Pay no attention to the Eejit, it's in heat and cranky.
 
I like them. Without the Beatles they would be less-than-nothing though (as would a fair number of other bands).
 
I like some of the songs a lot, and other songs none.

I'm not really someone who becomes a big fan of a particular group or anything. They will all let you down with a shitty album eventually if not sooner.
 
They just steal The Beatle's chord progressions for their song structures, but either way they have some mint songs. I was more of a Blur fan at the time though.
 
They're pretty awesome, would rather listen to Blur though
 
A significant number of good singles, but they rarely put out good albums. If the old Britpop war of the 90s still had some kind of relevance, I'd say Blur were easily the better of the two.
 
Noel should replace Liam on vocals - his tracks are on the only ones I can tolerate. Then I might be able to enjoy them more.

My dad and best friend are huge fans, though.
 
kupoartist said:
A significant number of good singles, but they rarely put out good albums. If the old Britpop war of the 90s still had some kind of relevance, I'd say Blur were easily the better of the two.
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Rarely put out good albums? I think alot of people with disagree with you there.

Definately maybe is regarded as one of the best albums of all time alone, not to mention What`s The Story, Be Here Now and Don't Believe The Truth.
 
stemot said:
Be Here Now
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I'd hold this up as proof that you can't talk about what 'alot of people' will disagree with. The Band themselves think the whole album is a pile of wank, and it is.
 
kupoartist said:
I'd hold this up as proof that you can't talk about what 'alot of people' will disagree with. The Band themselves think the whole album is a pile of wank, and it is.
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Nope, your wrong, Noel is coming back round to it now. He doesn't like it not because of how it sounds, but the state he was in when recording and writing it.
If you speak to many fans of Oasis, they hold this album in as high regard as the first two, and it's not suprising to see why with the number of tracks on it, that if written by another band, wouldn't have been given the hard time they did.
The hype after the first two albums ensured that no matter what the band did for a third, they would never live up to the hype.
 
stemot said:
The hype after the first two albums ensured that no matter what the band did for a third, they would never live up to the hype.
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Actually, I think Be Here Now is one of those cases where the Hype itself carried the album forward. Just look at how many copies got sold and the decent reviews. My impression was that the Press actually jumped onto the bandwagon they originally missed and felated the album after having failed to get the band that everyone was raving about. Even I have to admit that I thought that 'Be Here Now' was cool back then, but it really isn't, and the press don't seem too hot on it either. Fickle bunch.
 
Great band. My username is the title of one of their first singles. Hopefully their new album doesn't suck. I wasn't too enthusiastic about their last one.
 
kupoartist said:
Actually, I think Be Here Now is one of those cases where the Hype itself carried the album forward. Just look at how many copies got sold and the decent reviews. My impression was that the Press actually jumped onto the bandwagon they originally missed and felated the album after having failed to get the band that everyone was raving about. Even I have to admit that I thought that 'Be Here Now' was cool back then, but it really isn't, and the press don't seem too hot on it either. Fickle bunch.
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As I remember, the press at the time slated it, giving it poor reviews, it's only now that it's appreciated a little more, and it is a very good album.

Anyway, even if we discount BHN, you said they were not an album band, yet they have had number 1 with every studio album they have released, are considered to have the best album in the world by Q Magazine and always appear in the lists for such things.

Not bad for a band that are really just a singles band :P
 
stemot said:
Anyway, even if we discount BHN, you said they were not an album band, yet they have had number 1 with every studio album they have released,are considered to have the best album in the world by Q Magazine and always appear in the lists for such things.

Not bad for a band that are really just a singles band :P
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I wouldn't have thought anyone measures actual quality on whether it was a number 1 album, and I did use the qualifier 'rarely'. They put out a couple of good albums, and everyone buys everything that comes after because of that, not because they know the albums are good. Doesn't the success of the album say as much for my opinion that they are a singles band too anyway? People buy albums because they've heard good singles, it's rarely the other way round.

edit: Besides, it's not as if being a 'singles band' is a criticism. People are going to generally remember you for your big songs, not how you totally wove a rich musical tapestry with your third album.
 
stemot said:
Definately maybe is regarded as one of the best albums of all time alone, not to mention What`s The Story, Be Here Now and Don't Believe The Truth.
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Pfft... NME and their troupe of goons, right? Anybody who thinks an Oasis album is one of the best ever is a headcase IMO.

"Wonderwall" is the only song I kinda like because it reminds me of the good ol' days of getting pissed in a bar and screaming its lyrics out. Most of everything else is boring.
 
I always thought Oasis was better than Blur. The thing that confuse me, though, is that people always compare the Britpop war with the rivaly between the Beatles and the Stones in the 60s, where Blur is The Beatles and Oasis is The Stones, but to me, Oasis is far more similar to the Beatles than to the Stones.
 
The Monkey said:
I always thought Oasis was better than Blur. The thing that confuse me, though, is that people always compare the Britpop war with the rivaly between the Beatles and the Stones in the 60s, where Blur is The Beatles and Oasis is The Stones, but to me, Oasis is far more similar to the Beatles than to the Stones.
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I think perhaps the idea was that Blur/Beatles are the more Pop orientated bands and Oasis/the Stones more Rock orientated? I don't really see the comparison anyway, they were just casting around for any historical example where two British bands competed for public appeal and they lazily went with the most obvious one. I think the biggest incongruity is that the Beatles, Stones and Britpop Oasis are all bands that were big in America, where Blur's Britpop era Albums barely charted.
 
They suck. Especially their horrible I Am The Walrus cover. Ugh.
 
I only ever listened to Be Here Now, mostly for All Around the World.
 
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