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The New Oasis Album

Alex's Grandma

01:07 / 13.04.05

How's anyone feeling about this ? Tired ? Excited ? Suicidal ?

A thread for discussing the vague feelings of existential dread that often accompany a new release by those characters.

Tryphena Absent

02:14 / 13.04.05

I'm feeling evasive. I haven't heard the single and I'm really trying not to. If I'm lucky I'll be able to duck down and miss the whole damn tragedy. I'll make sure I don't listen to any commercial radio stations that play anything that's been in the charts in the last three years. That should do it!

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

04:28 / 13.04.05

The first album is kind of punk as fuck but after that god no.

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:25 / 13.04.05

Good Lord... Oasis. I didn't realise they were still together.

Which rather answers the question. It might just be that I'm old now, but I remember hearing "Supersonic" for the first time on the evening session and being really quite captivated. I saw them play live, touring "Definitely Maybe", and they created a truly joyful noise. The Blur vs Oasis nonsense obscured the fact that it was perfectly possible to like both, and to value the different things they did.

After that, a series of albums followed that largely did about the same thing but with progressively diminishing returns. The Wellergram arrived. Ocean Colour Scene took the gloss off the whole thing by fouling the waters. And Oasis vaguely plodded on, releasing ever less essential albums. Does anyone relaly care about this new one?

Haus of Mystery

09:01 / 13.04.05

Apparently the Gallagher brothers kicked themselves out of the band. New line up consists of Parker from the Thunderbirds, a brain-damaged chimpanzee, ex-members of Shed Seven and Northern Uproar, and Richard Blackwood.

I can't wait.

Tryphena Absent

13:43 / 13.04.05

I wish that was true.

Alex's Grandma

23:07 / 13.04.05

I always it would be possible to replace Liam 'n' Noel with Paul Calf and Ron Dixon from Brookside respectively, without anyone especially noticing.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:28 / 14.04.05

All I can say is I'm gladder than ever that I don't listen to music radio.

lonely as a cloud...

08:00 / 14.04.05

I also avoid radio. I loved Definitely Maybe, quite liked Morning Glory until I realised that ALL THE SONGS HAVE EXACTLY THE SAME DRUM TRACK, and then...D'You Know What I Mean all but killed my faith. The Press told me that Go Let It Out sounded like Immigrant Song. It sounded like The Beta Band with a terrible hangover, and Liam Gallagher seemed to have done that thing where singers with distinctive voices become parodies of themselves (cf Billy Corgan on the last two Pumpkins' albums, Brett Anderson on the last two Suede albums...). I actually bought Heathen Chemistry, as my girlfriend at the time was crazy about Oasis, and that was the last nail in the coffin. That song Liam did with Death In Vegas was just (to mix metaphors) the icing on the cake; it could've been good, if not for his singing.

_Boboss

11:52 / 14.04.05

do you know the one i miss? the one with the helicopters and the combat trousers. not heard that for years, and some of my best bad airguitar was done to that shitty treat.

Jack The Bodiless

10:33 / 15.04.05

That was 'D'you Know What I Mean', wasn't it? I quite like most of Be Here Now... kind of Morning Glory with ha-yuge guitars. And the latter album soundtracked some of the better portions of my student years, for better or worse.

They really, really should have gotten better when Andy Bell and Gem Archer joined, although I still can't quite get my head around Bell playing bass while Gallagher plays lead... kind of like getting in Neil Peart to play the bongos while Matt Sorum plays the kit. It's just wrong...

Anyway. Never a good sign when an album has this many problems getting made, and the law of diminishing returns definitely seems to apply to Oasis albums. This one's for the shitter, I reckon.

Brigade du jour

13:58 / 15.04.05

'Go Let It Out' sounds like 'Immigrant Song'!?

Okay, I was just going to do a LIVE! Barbelith experiment by comparing the two tracks, but the FREE! Oasis CD I found in a newspaper about three years ago and, um, haven't got round to, um, throwing out yet doesn't appear to contain that particular song.

Can someone whistle it while I pretend to be a, ageing, blond, snake-hipped Viking from Halesowen?

lonely as a cloud...

14:24 / 15.04.05

I swear I read a review of Go Let It Out comparing it to Immigrant Song. But google tells me that "Fucking In The Bushes" sounds like immigrant song. Hmmmm. Damn my memory...

Brigade du jour

16:21 / 15.04.05

cloud, it just can't be true! Nothing sounds like 'Immigrant Song'! Nothing, I swear by the great god Daizan!

Jack Fear

16:30 / 15.04.05

...except for "My Sharona."

More or less.

(mostly less)

Brigade du jour

20:16 / 15.04.05

Hmm. I see what you mean actually! But the rhythm's different. I'm a drummer, I notice these things. Plus, I'm an anal retentive detail freak, I notice these things.

Brigade du jour

20:17 / 15.04.05

Hang on!

(one step forward, three steps back)

Oasis did a song called 'Fucking In The Bushes'? Hmm I almost like them again now. It's been ten long years ...

Jack The Bodiless

02:01 / 16.04.05

(three steps forward, nine steps back, we go together 'cos opposites attract)

Yes they did. It was shit on a stick. If they'd filmed Noel's fat naked Mancunian arse pumping up and down on (insert name of celebrity girl/boyfriend here) and stuck it on the Cd, it would have been more creative and life-enhancing. I enshiten you not, cowboy.

Brigade du jour

13:13 / 16.04.05

Oh good. Enshitening brings out my eczema.

Dxncxn

20:33 / 18.04.05

Was ‘Fucking In The Bushes’ the instrumental with chords a bit like ‘I’m A Man’? ‘Cause if so, I seem to remember thinking that it was by far the best track on ‘Heathen Chemistry’. Although praise really doesn’t get much fainter than that.

In the shop where I work, we’re getting at least one phone call a day from people prepared to pay £20 for one-track promos of the new single. Not sure that this adds much to the topic at hand, but it does leave me a little bemused.

lonely as a cloud...

07:35 / 19.04.05

Anybody see the top 100 albums of all time on C4? I cannot believe that Morning Glory is still so highly rated (15th best album ever)! Although Definitely Maybe (6th best album ever) really didn't deserve such a high placing either...

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