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My first memories was listening to the tape of the Definitely Maybe on a walkman at school before the bell went, Whats the Story was one of the first album I bought and despite not being able to drive and living on Northumberland wanted and I think tried for tickets for Knebworth. Songs for a generation 🙂
So just watched the documentary Supersonic, so many memories and so many things that were headlines around then being retold, can't imagine them getting up to so much these days. Including the Talk Tonight story.
What I got from it, when you're driven you can do anything but you have no idea what is going on around you.
When you are on a roll don't stop!
You couldn't say that anybody that was ever in Oasis, me included, was the best in the world at anything. But when it all came together, we made people feel something that was indefinable. We're still the same band that was playing at the Boardwalk. We virtually are wearing the same clothes. All that's happened is that it's caught fire and all these people have got on board. But people will never, ever, ever forget the way that you made them feel. There's a chemistry between the band and the audience. There's something magnetic drawing the two to each other. The love, and the vibe, and the passion and the rage and the joy that come in from the crowd. If anything, that's what Oasis was.
Noel
[i]and it's never going to be the same[/i]
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any more quotes and I break the swear filter.
21 years ago we thought the world was changing, rock stars advising prime ministers, UK was cool and London wasn't the centre of the UK.
Parklife.
Pink Floyd
My wife is a huge Oasis fan, took her to Milton Keynes bowl to see them, never seen so many middle aged walking casualties in my life, guy next to me was wetting himself and just stood there!
Some anthems, but there no Stone Roses....
Great Band, mindless larger music, nothing more, nothing else but that doesn't make it bad.
Great time to be young - optimistic, forward thinking, exciting. Pretty much the opposite of what we have now.
Oh and forget any Oasis v Blur nonsense, it wasn't a real thing, it was a couple of weeks of Music Biz PR which had somehow manged to become a much bigger thing in retrospect than it ever was at the time.
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Parklife.
Blur were the stable long term band, Oasis were the ones who shook it all.
I'll agree it was the time bit some of Noel's songs stand the test of time, the deeper acoustic stuff mostly but Rock and Roll Star still resonates. It's hard to work out who is being them today and maybe that is the problem with the internet etc.
I must admit that when they he featured on the Death in Vegas track, apparently they were lined up to produce the next Oasis album, before unsurprisingly falling out, would of love to have heard a Death in Vegas produced album.
To be honest i'd love a return to the charts being full of decent guitar led or original electronic music, so many bands wanting to ape bands from the 80's or 90's or auto-tuned to death pop.
I remember walking into town on a Saturday evening on summer in the 90s. I heard wonderwall playing out of so many windows it was funny. When I got into the centre of town I heard it again - it was coming from the practice hall for the Canterbury cathedral choir. Sounded incredible. IMO oasis did nothing that hadn't been done before and if you play their stuff back2back with many other bands they come off second best.
But, they harnessed a moment, an attitude and time like no other and I respect them for that. We were ****ing invincible! 🙂
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It's worth remembering at this point that whilst everyone remembered Oasis, Pulp, Radiohead, Nirvana, Stone Roses etc the 90s was the decade of the novelty song and the horrible 'house remix'.
For example Robson and Gerome outsold Oasis and Blur in the 90s by miles.
Saw them at Cardiff CIA and is one of the worst gigs I've been to.
Liam just couldn't be arsed and started telling the crowd they were effin bankers. Left before the end.
The Jive Bunny of 90's rock. 😉 a bit of beetles, bit of T-rex, a soupcon of the Kinks etc.
Parklife
The proper name for Yogurt Pots on Holmbury
As above I saw them in one of their last performances (in Singapore), they where awful.
I've seen them 3 or 4 times. Wembally(?) Supported by black grape was good, nottingham not (liam in a grump with sound engineer).
The gig that ended it for me was at city ground and was just a paraody of blokey machoisum (if there is such a word). The wife said it felt uncomfortable like it was all about to kick off.
Saw them in '94 for a fiver. They were great, but can't listen to them now. Sound terrible. Maybe Acquiesce or Supersonic still sound ok, but nothing else. How people are still interested in Noel or Liam's latest bands is beyond me.