Oasis reunion

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Stone Roses anyone!!!!!!

They did have a reunion a few years ago, it wasn't a success...

Ian Brown isn't fames for his note-perfect singing & there were a couple of hilarious live videos that surfaced showing Mani in the background, cringing from a few of the many duff notes Ian Brown delivered.

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all the hate....

Slide Away is a GREAT song....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ri1s5O8wU

the first two albums have some legit great songs....after that....??

One of my favourites.

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I also fully get that this band, its fandom, history, etc is a TOTALLY different thing in the UK than in the states. As noted previously, they're an identity band which was held up as this sort of face of Britain. If that didnt represent you or you didnt like their music then I can see that intensifying ones dislike of the band. The same would go for the fanbase where it seems like practically EVERYONE liked them, including the worst meathead fucks that you avoid at all costs, then yeah I get that further driving the dislike wedge. We didnt really have that experience in the states. They come out and some people like em, but most people just go on listening to Stone Temple Pilots or whatever other garbage was popular at the time.

I agree with all of this, except the national identify thing. It wasn’t national. It was a Manchester thing. And a Mod ripoff thing.

Two scenes I absolutely didn’t relate to. Back then I had no idea about the working class roots of mod culture. I saw it as kids in the 60s who wore suits, listened to R&B and played cool rock music, ie The Who, Small Face etc. I could get down with that, even if I didn’t want to wear suits. So seeing that being co-opted into a casual addias samba-wearing pricks with stupid sideburns fashion, proudly displayed by the very same pricks who would beat me up for being a grunger & listening to guitar music, it really drove the wedge deeper. I still love their 2nd album, but I didn’t even give them a chance for Be Here Now.

For the Oasis bashers, especially those non UK residents (or those who wernt old enough to remember). A bit of context may enlighten and help you understand why they were such a massive UK phenomenom....

In the early 90s UK guitar driven music was thin on the ground.
The american grunge thing was on its way out and the charts were saturated with dance music post the late 80s rave scene.

In 94 Oasis gave the charts the kick in the head it had needed and pretty much single handedly ignited a new wave of British guitar driven pop.

Yup, very British, very working class, with very fucking NORMAL (ooh! brothers drinkin/smokin/punching fuck outa each other) behaviour if you were working class and a product of comprehensive school education..
They were basically talking the language of the majority of the UK teens/twentys!

I totally get your view, Linden. My experience as a 12 year old in London during 94 was kinda different though. I had not long been introduced to Nirvana, RATM & Metallic by my older brother. Then Green Day/Weezer/Offspring etc broke into the mainstream. It was a hell of a year to be a young kid excited by rock music. 95 was a big year for me around chart releases (see my seminal years of music thread).

I might disagree with oasis single-handedly igniting a new wave of guitar pop: my brother was going to gigs in Camden almost daily at that time, it seemed. I think there was a huge scene already well in the making. Oasis was definitely a massive accelerate, just not sure they should take all the credit. And not just because I think they’re awful human beings

Sozz for late reply, 2nd job put pay to my guitar shinanigans.. Ye "singlehandedly" was a bit of a bold statement in retrospect, i was watching the odd indie band at the time but they non managed to break into the mainstream. Oasis really captured the mood of the time.