They did FC up with single selection a lot. Acquiesce and the Masterplan spring to mind. What album are Whatever, Round our Way and Cum feel the noise on?
After 40 years on the planet and having listened to more music than I can remember, from all genres, the first minute of Slide Away still hits me where I like it. Reminds me of being at St. Helens, a teenager, a little ****, my dad telling me to turn that **** down, finding the opposite sex and so on. Oasis, Blur, Nirvana, REM, Beastie Boys, Placebo and obviously, blink-182. The 90's were mint. Slide away, and give it all you've got My today, fell in from the top I dream of you, and all the things you say I wonder where you are now? Hold me down, all the world's asleep I need you now, you've knocked me off my feet I dream of you, and we talk of growing old But you said please don't.. Slide in baby, together we'll fly I've tried praying but I don't know what you're saying to me Now that you're mine We'll find a way Of chasing the sun Let me be the one, who shines with you In the morning, we don't know what to do Two of a kind We'll find a way To do what we've done Let me be the one, who shines with you And we can slide away
Strange that “Little by Little” doesn’t make the top 30 - just about my fav Oasis and they definitely brightened up the 90’s for me which had few musical highlights for me. Oasis and Pulp’s “Different Class”we’re very good but best music of the nineties for me was The New Radicals only album (don’t expect many to agree but each to their own!).
Slide Away and Supersonic for me. Two superb albums and some outstanding b-sides. After that they went downhill very quickly. I also think that their stuff has aged badly when put next to some of the other big players of the day. Definitely Maybe was era-defining though.
Musically, Oasis weren't a patch on bands like Suede or even Blur. Think of the complexity of Modern Life is Rubbish or Dog Man Star compared with Definitely Maybe, which is essentially just a load of Beatles riffs reworked. But they reworked them in a way that nobody before or since has managed to do. Definitely Maybe and then Morning Glory are massively accessible, catchy in the best sense of the word, and completely encapsulate the mood of the time. We were young, the nightmare of Thatcherism was finally and obviously coming to an end, and the world was ours to do what we wanted with. While being very far from my personal favourite albums of the era, they are still the ones which define it for me. Those albums, and Trainspotting.
Ooh, that’s a brave thing to say! But good that you feel able to say it. Not a great fan of the Beatles but they are right up there (maybe top of the pile?)of artists who have exerted huge influence on (popular) music: Elvis Dylan Bowie Sex Pistols Clash Erm…… Whether they fall into the overrated rubbish (Queen, Michael Jackson, Bee Gees etc….) is yet another matter of opinion.
On a serious note, and admittedly I am a big fan, but give the new Arctic Monkeys album a go. There's a Bowie like quality to it of adopting something different and taking it to whole new places. Sculptures Of Anything Goes is a good jump off point
When we re-formed the old band after a long lay off and went semi-pro in the '90s (decade not my age) we did a few Oasis songs but always closed the night on DLBIA as our second and final encore.Always went down a storm. People stood on (and fell off - due to being mostly pissed) chairs and tables waving cig lighters (in the days when you could still smoke* in venues and pre mobile phone torches taking over). Always thought of them as a bit of a 'rip-off' of the Beatles at times in spite of them being from Manchester Gallagher had a sort of Lennon LIverpudlian twang in his voice. Wrote some great 'Anthems' though. I confess to having a 'soft spot' for American soft rock though...like REO Speedwagon, UFO, Jon Bon Jovi , Boston etc. The standard of musicianship, vocal harmonies etc was uniformly high. *sometimes it was so thick with cig smoke we did not need the smoke machine to see the moving beams of the light show.
Agreed, my favourite Oasis song as it encapsulates Barnsley's recovery and progress since relegation And my sex life. Have I ever mentioned I'm old?
