New Oasis Album in May 2005

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We can talk about the album, but it's probably more fun to make fun of the article.

My faves:

Noel said: "The most interesting thing will be when you hear Liam's songs. They are very, very good. A song called ’Guess God Thinks I'm Able’. The end 30 seconds will blow you away. It's great."

WOW!! A whole 30 seconds of good music!! I can't wait!!

"There was an obvious first single but I was singing it," Noel explained. "After 12 years of Oasis, Liam thought that might sound a bit odd, people might think he'd left the band. He threw his cans out the pram."

No commentary needed.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Maybe we can start taking bets on which bands Oasis will slag off in order to get publicity for themselves and desperately build up the hype for the release of yet another mediocre album.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

I would like to see an Alex Kapranos vs. Noel Gallagher throwdown.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

WHY are they so incredibly shit nowadays?? And why does everybody still like them???

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 7 January 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

everybody?

― elwisty, Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

nowadays ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

i still like them, always have. the last two albums have had a higer shit:good ratio that i would have liked, but there's always been at least two or three songs on the album to justify. i think at this point, though, its just a sense of loyalty that keeps me hoping for at least a partial return to glory. i was a freshman in college when Definitely Maybe came out and i became enthralled since i was finally near a record store where i could easily get imports, so Blur and Oasis becamse my addictions. i bought every import single as they were released and i've been hooked ever since. what can i say? i'll always have a soft spot for Oasis. i'm (probably naively) looking forward to the new one.

― jonviachicago, Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

I just think it's pretty ludicrous for them to claim at this point that the bulk of whatever they're doing "doesn't sound like Oasis". Frankly I don't think they're capable of doing anything that doesn't sound like Oasis, and that's part of their problem.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

[Noel] said: "The finished album is my favourite one of the last four. Because we're all contributing to the songwriting there's a different feel to it. In fact the only songs that sound like Oasis are Andy Bell's funnily enough.

"The band is run less like a dictatorship than ever before. This is significant progress in our book. We even let the guy from Ride write some songs. After fifteen years playing in bands, we think he's earned the right to have a say in some things. He might even be as talented as our kid. Maybe."

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 8 January 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, does anyone actually give a damn anymore? I mean, give it up already. The glory days -- pardon the pun -- are not comin' back. Morever, I never quite understood why people got their shorts all drenched about this band in the first place. At their veritable zenith, they were exceptionally mediocre. And Oasis were -- with the possible exception of the Cars -- the dullest live band i've ever witnessed.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

Actually, that's not true. The Verve were the dullest.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

This band is no good. They never had a great song. Name one then. After however many years I have yet to hear how they *sound like the beatles*. Fuck a Gallagher with a Revolver.

― outragethon, Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

Well, all I'll say is I just always had this dream that one day I'd get to hear a Noel solo album. Maybe if one had ever existed, it would have sucked mightily, but I wanted the chance to find out. And I don't believe I'm ever going to get that, now. So I don't care anymore.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

BTW that was pretty funny what you wrote, Barry.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

I thought "The Hindu Times" was a great single, so they've left the door open just a crack for me to have some interest in hearing their new stuff. I won't buy the album (I own only "Definitely Maybe", thought "Morning Glory" was a significant step down, and haven't bought any of their stuff since), but I'm curious to find out if they've got anything left in the tank.

Thanks Bimble, I was an NME whore during the mid-90's and have read my share of Oasis interviews.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 8 January 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

Great Songs: "Cast No Shadow" and "Morning Glory"

― rob mackey (mackey), Saturday, 8 January 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

"Supersonic", "Acquiesce", "Cigarettes and Alcohol", "Slideaway"

They were fantastic for a couple of years.

― holojames (holojames), Saturday, 8 January 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Guess I was in the right place at the right age when I first heard them, but I think they're great.

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 8 January 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

'slide away' is the only oasis song i can listen to.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 8 January 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

they had this exact same press release for the last fucking record

"oh you should hear liam's songs, they'll blow you away, he plays a mandolin on one, he's really been practising his song writing, up at 6 every morning running laps for songwriting and kicking a ball against the wall"

"we're more of a team now, a melting pot of ideas"

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 8 January 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

It's a bemusing autopilot that the hype is on in ways but hey. I have no regrets about being a completist and they ended up shifting from the Rulers of the UK 1996 to 'brief sold out stadium tour and a new album thanks seeya next time' mode pretty well. I expect no changes from anyone in the band now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 January 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

wow. people still hold out hope for a good oasis album? they always have been and always will be total fucking arse on toast and the sooner they fuck off and die, the better.

there, i feel slightly better for that.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 8 January 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Strangely that does ring a bell now, Ronan! Good point.

an NME whore during the mid-90's

I was a card carrying NME whore in the mid-90's myself!

Fiendish, I'm still trying to get over your assertion on the Crawling Chaos thread that some music "made your teeth itch". Is that just some common phrase I've never heard before or did you come up with it yourself? I think it's hilarious.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

i'm an arch-postmodernist: i don't create, i just appropriate. it's something my dad says, and i thought it summed up the effect mid-80s factory jazz has on me quite perfectly!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm a bit disappointed that we won't hear the DIV recordings, if anyone could get them doing something interesting again it would be them. Back to the ho hum plodathon then, with the odd melodic gem to keep the old timers interested I guess.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

oasis possibly doing hurricane #1 songs might be the worst thing ever.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 9 January 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

Oasis doing Ride songs could be promising, though. "D'Ya Know What I Mean" was a great single and it's pretty much a rehash of Ride's "Dreams Burn Down".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 9 January 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

not really.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 9 January 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

The most interesting thing will be when you hear Liam's songs.
Oh, I'm sure that'll be as interesting as the Doug Fogerty Creedence material, if not more.

Alex in NYC otm. I put it down to one of those historical mass delusions.

To be fair, I'll take "Wonderwall," "Live Forever" and maybe "Supersonic" - you can have the rest. I am, like Ian Hunter's or David Bowie's brother, back at home with my Beatles and my Stones- the real ones.

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 9 January 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

"The Beatles and the Stones/Sucked the Marrow out of Bones/Put the V in Vietnam..."

I think Oasis doing Ride songs would be quite a hoot. But then I used to be quite the Ridemaniac, so I would say that.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 9 January 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

who listens to oasis? have you heard

pulp
the wedding present
doves
spiritualized

I could go on. I mean, are you for real?

― CONCERNED BRITSHIT DJ, Sunday, 9 January 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

Guitly pleasure and all that but....

The thing about Oasis is the complete yabo aesthetic. A bunch of jackasses who happened to distill what their lager-addled brains were working feverishly to replicate from the Beatles cuts on the pub juke.

Noel and Liam are pure fab four geeks who managed to get it right on their own terms. RESPECK!

― nonthings (nonthings), Sunday, 9 January 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

who listens to oasis? have you heard

pulp
the wedding present
doves
spiritualized

Yup. Love 'em all too!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 January 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

but they don't sound anything like the beatles especially for such "huge" fans.

is concerned britshit dj claiming those bands are influenced by oasis or that they are fans? because 3 of 4 pre-date oasis. the fact that spiritualized is less distinguishable from oasis these days is to their detriment.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 9 January 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Maybe we can start taking bets on which bands Oasis will slag off in order to get publicity for themselves and desperately build up the hype for the release of yet another mediocre album.
I say we put Oasis and Eminem in a room and allow them to destroy each other. Who's with me on this one?
Bunch of whinin' bellyachers.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 9 January 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Vocal melody cribs:

'A Bell Will Ring' : 'Material Girl' - Madonna

'Part of the Queue' : 'Scarborough Fair' - Simon & Garfunkel (specifically, Garfunkel's counter-melody in the verses)

― On the bass, 57 7th, he wrote this (calstars), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

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