The Oasis Thread

[crawlinwithin]

What about that live show from Boston that's been on satellite tv and stuff?

http://entertainment1.sympatico.msn.ca/music/concerts/oasis - don't know if those will work internationally, but they might. I quite enjoyed it.

i did see that actually, i hope they show it again

[Space Cadet]

It was originally called Deb's Dinner, and was accidentally credited as Digsy's Diner on the USA edition of Def Maybe.

Ok, that explains it. Huh. Wonder how someone managed to make that big and permanent of a typo?

You can go here http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1205 to 6:30 in, if you want to see Noel notice it for apparently the first time... :confused: I don't think I've ever seen him apologise for anything before!

[busybeeburns]

Intervista Noel Gallagher @ Virgin Radio
Christian O'Connell talks to Noel Gallagher Monday 12 February, 2007

What's that? Your boss won't give you any speakers to listen to Noel's interview? The meanie... Never mind, you can read all of what was said right here. Better smuggle in some headphones next time though... You can't listen to Virgin Radio without 'em!

Christian O'Connell talks to Noel GallagherMonday 12 February, 2007

C: Outstanding achievement award but your only 39. What’s going on?

N: Yeah they must have run out of people to give it to I don’t know. If Weller hadn’t done it last year I don’t think we’d have bothered, its not the first time they’ve asked us, first the initial reaction was no, then we started thinking we either do it now when we look good or do we succumb in ten years time when we just turned the corner, we still all can legitimately wear the leather jackets and it appealed to us that we’d be the youngest band to get it. When they do the retrospective film we won’t look too cheesy.

I don’t think many bands going to go from best newcomer to getting an outstanding achievement award probably Coldplay are the next ones in line they could probably do it, but they never got best newcomer.

C: What knowledge have you learnt?

N: About making records I’ve learnt if it’s not going well don’t panic its best to go home take a few weeks off, don’t try and chase something that’s not there. Everything in moderation would be the one golden rule whether its drink or the other nice sweeties.

I don’t want to sound like the drummer out of Spinal Tap but just enjoy it. I never thought it would get this far for this long and I’m still enjoying it now if we get another ten years out of it- brilliant

C: In a lot of interviews people make it sound like fame is such an awful burden and a miserable life for them- Keane for instance.

N: Some people do. I’d like to see the background they came of because if this is a struggle then they must have been living the life of Riley before they recorded. Me personally if it wasn’t for this I would be out there shovelling snow or either on a motorway or a building site. So when it came along I embrace it-it’s a great thing. You can always say no to people asking for autographs. Can I get a quick picture? no fuck off! Can I get an autograph? No!

C: You always sound like someone who keeps it as real as possible.

N: I got up at 9 this morning and there was no milk in the fridge, nothing.

C: Don’t you have staff to sort that out?

N: I didn’t get where I was today by spunking money off staff. So at 9:20 this morning I was up at Marylebone High street in a blizzard but I like all that it keeps your feet off the ground.

C: Are you a good cook?

N: My mrs sarah is an outstanding cook. If I’m going shopping I need strict instructions on what to buy. I love it when she goes back to Scotland for the weekend-chicken and mushroom pot noodle give us one of them!

C: How has writing the big songs changed?

N: The moments of magic come along less and less because life takes over. When songs come along and you’ve got to grab them while they’re there. As long as you’ve got a guitar with you and a pen and piece of paper you’ll be alright. The last bunch of songs I was just sat on the couch watching telly one afternoon strumming the guitar and frantically trying to get it down.

C: What do you think is the best song you’ve written?

N: For me, I enjoy playing Lyla and Mucky fingers. The most important song I wrote was Live Forever because it announced us to the world and it reached America.

C: The band took off really quickly.

N: Oasis is very much like a high street shop

C: Which one?

N: Superdrug-yeah Superdrug

C: You’re going to be 40 this year. What do you think Liam’s going to get you?

N: No were not that kind of family the last present he got me was, I kid you not a jumper a pink v neck jumper kind of a tartan thing with gold thread-and I was holding it up going “he’s having a laugh”.

I bought him a few presents in the 90’s I bought him a thing from an auction which was an Indian necklace thing that John Lennon wore when he went to see the Maharishi its worth a fortune it was round the mans neck when he wrote Sexy Sadie, so I sent it to him for Christmas and next time I saw him he had it on. He took it out the frame and the label saying worn by John Lennon. I said “what are you doing its fuckin memorabilia” and he said “John Lennon wore it I’m wearing it”. He’s probably flushed it down the toilet by now I don’t know, haven’t seen it since.

C: Is there any one that’s come along in the last couple of years who you think can do the same as you?

N: Yeah course Kasabian for spirit I guess the Arctic Monkeys for what they mean to this generation of people and The Libertines to a certain extent from what they meant a few years ago.

But what happened to us came by surprise. We didn’t know what we were doing our record company didn’t know what they were doing but we were just enjoying the ride.

The new bands are great I love the guy who writes the tunes for the Kooks and Kasabian.

C: How’s it changed being a dad?

N: You’ve got to be very careful you don’t write songs about your kids. Life changes that instant and it’s never that same again.

C: Do you do the kids tv thing when she’s over?

N: I did when she was into Animal Planet but now she’s into Disney that is evil.

C: Did you do the wiggles?

N: The Wiggles! Have you ever seen them and Franz Ferdinand in the same room seriously, never! and until they are in the same room together I’m not having it that it’s not Franz Ferdinand.

C: Do you think you’re going to become an embarrassing dad?

N: No I’m not I wouldn’t do the parents sport days because I only do stuff I’m going to win at. If I didn’t win they’d be trouble. Liam does though but he’s a different animal to me though.

C: If you were to die which TV detective would you want on the case?

N: If it was suspicious then it would have to be someone from the Sweeney but ideally it would be inspector Cluso.

C: What’s your favourite swear word?

N: Shit ****

C: What’s your least favourite word?

N: Latte and Tapas. Being a northerner you don’t tend to pronounce your T’s after a vowel .It annoys me when people walk along the street drinking coffee, its so american. Tapas it winds me up, what is it? It sounds like some sort of material a joiner would use.

C: When is the last time you cried?

N: No, I don’t really cry. I’m more liable to cry at sporting achievement like when Ricky Hatton beat Costa Tsyu, when you see real great human achievement, I don’t cry at sadness.

C: What’s the greatest song ever written?

N: To me it’s always a Beatles son and it goes between I’m the wall or ticket to ride but sometimes I can be listening to 'Club Foot' by Kasabian and it depends what mood you’re in.

C: What are you doing for Valentines day?

N: My long suffering woman will be sat listening to the radio. I don’t do any of that nonsense. Once you start you’ll be celebrating pancake day, St David’s day, Scotland day. Valentines day… get up… brew…. I love you we don’t need to the card, do we need to get the roses we don’t need to do that surely?

C: What makes you go on?

N: The initial love of music is there for me. I can’t do anything else until they allow absolute proper profanities on the radio I can’t go into radio unless allow swearing on the television I can’t go into television.

C: Were you surprised about the success from your last album?

N: I was surprised at the review we got because I was starting to get slightly paranoid that everyone had it in for us.

The most difficult thing is to get a number one single-it’s easy to get an album.

http://www.virginradio.co.uk/music/artists/oasis/article/474.html

[I_love_útvarpshaus]

C: You’re going to be 40 this year. What do you think Liam’s going to get you?

N: No were not that kind of family the last present he got me was, I kid you not a jumper a pink v neck jumper kind of a tartan thing with gold thread-and I was holding it up going “he’s having a laugh”.

I bought him a few presents in the 90’s I bought him a thing from an auction which was an Indian necklace thing that John Lennon wore when he went to see the Maharishi its worth a fortune it was round the mans neck when he wrote Sexy Sadie, so I sent it to him for Christmas and next time I saw him he had it on. He took it out the frame and the label saying worn by John Lennon. I said “what are you doing its fuckin memorabilia” and he said “John Lennon wore it I’m wearing it”. He’s probably flushed it down the toilet by now I don’t know, haven’t seen it since.

:laugh3: Hahaha, Liam... Liam is hilarious. Always good to laugh at.

I can so picture him with that necklace...


N: I was surprised at the review we got because I was starting to get slightly paranoid that everyone had it in for us.

Awwwww. I can understand him.


Seriously, I can always read a Noel Gallagher interview. I haven't really read any interviews with him until two years ago. Before that I'd only love the moments that Oasis were on the radio or on TV.

If I was in the car with my cousin, I used to beg her to play "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back In Anger"... Yeah... *sigh* The good old days.

Things have changed... But Noel is as funny as ever. :lol:

Thanks a lot for the interview. :)

[bart]

Oasis's Noel attacks Blair record

Tony Blair could have been John F Kennedy, Mr Gallagher said
Oasis's Noel Gallagher - who famously chatted with Tony Blair in Downing Street in 1997 - has launched a scathing attack on the prime minister.
He said people had thought Mr Blair "was going to be John F Kennedy", but he was now "saddled" with the Iraq war.

Tory leader David Cameron, meanwhile, was "no different" from Mr Blair and was "like a songwriter who's eternally ripping off someone else's song".

He told BBC Newsnight he did not think there was "anything left to vote for".

Mrs Thatcher

Mr Gallagher was closely associated with New Labour's heyday after its landslide general election victory almost 10 years ago.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6364089.stm

He was among several celebrities who attended a celebratory drinks party at 10 Downing Street.

It's like a song writer who's eternally ripping off someone else's song and just changing the odd line a little

Noel Gallagher on David Cameron

But Mr Gallagher said that, since then, the media had turned Tony Blair into a "president", adding: "It's no wonder he acts like one."

He said: "David Cameron is no different from Tony Blair, and Gordon Brown is no different from David Cameron.

"They're all cut from the cloth and it annoys me that the biggest political icon from the last 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher, someone who tried to destroy the working class... it freaks me out you know.

"So I don't really think there's anything left to vote for. That's why people don't vote... why people would rather vote for celebrity talent shows than would vote for politics."

Drugs

During the so-called "Britpop", or "Cool Britannia", period of the mid-1990s, the media made much of Mr Gallagher's feuding with his bandmate and younger brother Liam, in much the same way that commentators have focused on Mr Blair's alleged difficulties with Chancellor Gordon Brown.

But Mr Gallagher said the media were spending too much time looking at individual politicians.

He said: "Nobody ever mentions Labour, they mention Tony Blair now. Everything is Tony Blair's fault.

"You made him into a president, no wonder he acts like one."

Mr Gallagher also criticised Mr Cameron for refusing to admit or deny using drugs while at school.

Poles better off

"To say no comment is typical of him and his party copping out.

"They wait to see what Tony Blair says...and then they move in behind and switch it and change a little bit.

"It's like a song writer who's eternally ripping off someone else's song and just changing the odd line a little."

Mr Gallagher said a Unicef report ranking the UK bottom on child wellbeing across 21 industrialised countries "kind of makes me angry".

He added: "When the Labour Party got in it was all about children and education and yet 10 years down the line there's people saying that kids are better off in Poland."

"That's not right."

Iraq war

Everyone had got "carried away" by the significance of Labour's 1997 landslide, he said.

"It was a big deal, the landslide and all that, and everybody got carried away.

"We thought it was going to be John F Kennedy and for a year or two it was.

"Unfortunately for this Labour government, they are going to be saddled with the Iraq war and nobody can get around that."

On Wednesday, Oasis, whose hits include Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger, won a Brit for their outstanding contribution to music.

[Black Rose]

Good it worked :)

[MrMagpie]

I thought they were bloody boring at the brits.

[I_love_útvarpshaus]

I thought they were bloody boring at the brits.
I haven't seen it. The whole band?

[MrMagpie]

Yeah, I guess they were just being Oasis haha.

[Space Cadet]

I thought they were bloody boring at the brits.

I really enjoyed it. Liam's voice was off a bit, but otherwise no complaints. *shrug*

Probably helps that they showed that backstage interview Strombo had with Noel right before they showed it though. Had me in stitches. About his plans for the night "...we'll see what the fallout is; see how many people we can offend in one night. Going for the record tonight: eleven."

Meh, made me laugh.

[*Sarah*]

wohoo~ I've just seen the brits performance and I think it was brilliant! :dance:
liam's voice was fine me thinks, I heard him sing far worse ;D the only thing that was off a bit (hehe) is his hair - woah, I haven't seen him for a looong time I guess :stunned: :laugh3:

arghs, I wanna see them live again!! :bigcry:

[Plug_in_coldplaying]

mwhahahaah:evilgrin: cant stop singing live forever

[MrMagpie]

I just bought Be Here Now yesterday.

[I_love_útvarpshaus]

I just bought Be Here Now yesterday.
:laugh3: Awesome. I listened to it again yesterday.

Great...

Which song did they perform?

Was it Live Forever? :stunned:

[*Sarah*]

^at the brits? rock 'n' roll star. :smug2:
it's on youtube. ;)

[I_love_útvarpshaus]

^at the brits? rock 'n' roll star. :smug2:
it's on youtube. ;)
Cool. Thank you. :smug:

They should have done another song. Because they play Rock 'n' Roll Star so often. I like it, but... why not... Shakermaker? :laugh3:

Yeah, well, it is one of THEIR songs that everyone knows, but still...

[NinaTheFrog]

They made a few more:
Don't Look Back In Anger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sDrcQd4t9A)
(What's The Story) Morning Glory ? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzR3Ur2Tkhk)
Cigarettes & Alcohol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5RjhU8Mi7s)
The Meaning Of Soul (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5lRp5-0lDE)

[*Sarah*]

^oooh, cool! :wideeyed: I didn't know that, hehe... thanks very much! :dance:

[MrMagpie]

I really enjoyed Don't Look Back In Anger since it is my favourite Oasis track.

[*Sarah*]

just watched "the meaning of soul" - I didn't expect it to be that good! :cool: :dance:

[ég-elska-Thom]

He added: "When the Labour Party got in it was all about children and education and yet 10 years down the line there's people saying that kids are better off in Poland."

Sheesh, like Poland is a third world country. :rolleyes:

[coldplay_is_louve.]

i love oasis with a burning passion.

my favorite one of their songs is probably 'some might say'.

that songs rocks.

[MrMagpie]

^Some Might Say is one of my fav. Oasis tracks. Such a great album.


I bought a used copy of Definitely Maybe today. Its very good so far.

[I_love_útvarpshaus]

Oh, I remember when I bought Definitely Maybe. I took it to school with me for a whole week and just listened to it.

It still is really good, but the first listen was incredible.

[MrMagpie]

I've been listening to it over and over. I really like Live Forever and Slide Away so far.

[Plug_in_coldplaying]

yeah,live forever could the best Oasis song so far

[MrMagpie]

Nah, Don't Look Back In Anger Is. ;)

[I_love_útvarpshaus]

I think I soon liked Shakermaker a lot. Awww, its name rocks. :D

[winigwl]

i am a relatively new oasis fan, and i have about 15 songs on my ipod... what are some good songs i should check out?

[GazeboflossUK]

I used to be a big fan when I was younger and off the top of my head I'd say these are the remaining tracks that I can honestly say I still like and I think the you should have. Some are B-Sides from Singles.

Slide Away
The Masterplan
Morning Glory (the Dave Sardy Mix of this is better sounding, I think)
Live Forever
Underneath The Sky
Cigarettes And Alcohol
Supersonic
Wonderwall
Cast No Shadow
Champagne Supernova
Magic Pie (well, most of it)
Let's All Make Believe
Rockin' Chair
Acquiesce
Headshrinker
Listen Up
Talk Tonight
Fade In-Out (it's not ALL bad)
Part Of The Queue (not 100% sure about putting this on the list)
Guess God Thinks I'm Abel
Turn Up The Sun (the Intro and Outro are good anyway)
Flashbax
Sad Song (actually not as good as remember though)
Stay Young
Going Nowhere
(It's Good) To Be Free
Whatever

[Miss-Clementine]

Sigh, Oasis are beautiful

[Miss-Clementine]

I'd add to the above list:

Some Might Say
Go Let It Out
Stop Crying Your Heart Out

[winnie]

go and listen to some albums - that's usually the better way to check out new music :)
and especially the oasis ones are high quality-albums ;D

[Ondes Martenot]

a list of good oasis songs: [blank]

[Cirrus Minor]

^ Yeah, I'm not a huge Oasis fan either...

But I kinda like Wonderwall (very boring with time though) and Don't Look Back in Anger (really cool actually).

[Miss-Clementine]

a list of good oasis songs: [blank]

awww Nik! Come on, Oasis are brilliant!

[TraceOddity]

a list of good oasis songs: [blank]

Aw! I love Oasis, but that's still a brilliant post.:D

I know I'm TOTALLY in the minority here, but I still think Don't Believe The Truth is a GOOD ALBUM. *ducks eggs and rotten tomatos and chairs*:D :D :D

[Deedee]

Listen to the album "Morning Glory". It's amazing. 'Roll with it', 'morning glory', 'hey now', 'hello', 'champagne supernova'... those are my fav from that one.

I really liked "Heathen Chemistry" also. 'hindu times', 'little by little', 'songbird', 'force of nature'..

I won't repeat a lot of songs that GazeboflossUK has already mention so I'll leave it at that.

[MrMagpie]

I actually enjoyed Don't Believe the Truth after a few listens.

And I agree with Winnie, just get a couple of the full albums. Whats the Story (Morning Glory) would be the best one to start with, then Definitely Maybe.

[TraceOddity]

Hindu Times is AWSOME!!:)

[MrMagpie]

I've only listened to WTSMG, Definitely Maybe, Be Here Now, and DBTT.

[Black Rose]

Best place to start: Stop the Clocks.

Merged with the other oasis thread

[MrMagpie]

Stop the Clocks is the next album I want to get.

[Black Rose]

Well, as you already have the first 3 albums and their last album, i suggest you go out and buy either the masterplan or standing on the shoulders of giants.

[MrMagpie]

Oh woops I meant to say I am planning on getting the Masterplan next haha. For some reason I always get those two albums names flipped around in my head.

[*Sarah*]

I know I'm TOTALLY in the minority here, but I still think Don't Believe The Truth is a GOOD ALBUM. *ducks eggs and rotten tomatos and chairs*:D :D :D

agreed! :nice:
it was actually dbtt which got me into oasis, hehe... brilliant album! :cool:

[ugadawg5]

people who dislike DBTT just don't like good music. DBTT is SOLID from start to finish.

[Miss-Clementine]

i brought standing on the shoulder of giants recently, and its amazing

[MrMagpie]

I've been on a big Oasis kick for the past month, after not really listening to them much for a year or so.

[Deedee]

people who dislike DBTT just don't like good music. DBTT is SOLID from start to finish.
It's good but not the best.

[Black Rose]

i brought standing on the shoulder of giants recently, and its amazing

Another fan of their under-rated 4th album :D

[I_love_útvarpshaus]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/woodpecker_casablancas/Oasis/AwwwwcuteNoel.jpg
I love this picture so much. I had to put it in my signature. :heart:

It's so adorable.

[I_love_útvarpshaus]

Hindu Times is AWSOME!!:)
The first song I really loved. I didn't know the classics Wonderwall and Don't Look Back In Anger. I think I know these two for... four years now. But... Hindu Times... For five years. I don't know how, but I saw one video of them, I think it was The Hindu Times and I was like "They are brilliant."

:laugh3: And then...

The whole Blur/Oasis thing kept me amused for a loooooong time.

[MrMagpie]

I'm a big fan of the Hindu Times as well, just an awesome song.


I wasn't really into music during the whole Oasis/Blur thing.

[*Sarah*]

^me neither. but I keep reading in all those unofficial coldplay biographies how big oasis must have been back then ... and how mean liam must have been. lol :laugh3:

[I_love_útvarpshaus]

I'm a big fan of the Hindu Times as well, just an awesome song.


I wasn't really into music during the whole Oasis/Blur thing.
No, I only got to know it five years ago. :laugh3: But even then... It was still there.

Now "that joke isn't funny anymore", they have grown up. :laugh3:

Although it never was really serious...

I don't even like The Hindu Times that much any longer...

Oh, in 1995... I didn't have the faintest clue about what the world really looks like. :laugh3:

[I_love_útvarpshaus]

Noel Gallagher is some crazy guy who has given me some wisdom...

He is a weird guy.

[alecs37]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/WikiNoel.JPG

My idol.

[AlexTHFC]

All their albums are great - end of story!

[ég-elska-Thom]

Don't Believe The Truth is very good. Simple as that. It's no Definitly Maybe, it's non generation-defining but noone can expect that.

[Black Rose]

I think I read when it came out, if it was a debut release by an unknown band it would be hailed as a masterpiece, but since it was Oasis and since it wasn't Morning Glory, it was marked down.

The Oasis of the Morning Glory era and the Oasis of the Don't Believe the Truth era are 2 different bands.

[Plug_in_coldplaying]

Right Dave

[Plug_in_coldplaying]

Oasis have quashed rumours that they were planning to release their next album with Radiohead-style pricing, with fans choosing how much to pay for the release.

Frontman Liam Gallagher said he would never let an Oasis album be given away for free. Specifically, he said he would allow it to happen "over my dead body".

Gallagher went on to talk about how Oasis' new album sessions in north London's Abbey Road studios were going.

"There's lots of cool parts," he told Reuters. "Really, we're throwing everything at it.

"Hopefully our kid's [Noel Gallagher] learned his lesson [about over-tweaking things in the studio]. It shouldn't be hard making music. We've been doing it long enough."

The follow-up to 2005's 'Don't Believe The Truth' is expected sometime in 2008.

[Ms Magpie]

Frontman Liam Gallagher said he would never let an Oasis album be given away for free. Specifically, he said he would allow it to happen "over my dead body".

ahahahahahahahahahahahaahahhahaha :laugh4:

I lolled.

[Plug_in_coldplaying]

He is a serious biatchand he said he has nothing against Radiohead and Blur anymore

[Ms Magpie]

i doubt their fight will be over ... oh well.

[Plug_in_coldplaying]

It could be if someone would shut up Liam

[Ms Magpie]

and Noel?

[GazeboflossUK]

There's no fight.

It's all promotion and marketing ploys.

[*Sarah*]

He is a serious biatchand he said he has nothing against Radiohead and Blur anymore

and you actually believed him?
come ooon, he's liam! :D

[anna111]

Psh...liam gallagher :rolleyes:

[Black Rose]

No fighting, just putting the rumour of them doing a similar move to Jane Siberry

[RICK8]

Ugh....:sick:

[Black Rose]

Oasis mixing new album this week

http://static.nme.com/images/84_Oasis_L071106_02.jpg

Noel Gallagher and co about to finish seventh record

Oasis are reportedly mixing their latest album in Los Angeles this week, it has been reported today (January 9).

According to a report on US radio station G Rock, the band’s seventh studio record is being mixed after Oasis finished recording sessions at London’s Abbey Road Studios late last year.

The band also recorded and mixed part of their last album, 2005's 'Don't Believe The Truth', in the city with producer Dave Sardy, who is based there.

At the time Noel Gallagher told NME.COM he had been initially reluctant to work in Los Angeles, but eventually enjoyed the experience.

“I’ve got to say I was bit nervous going to America because it’s a bit like being in a little spaceship going into the Death Star in ’Star Wars’ when you go over to that country, especially Los Angeles,” he declared. “I was like ‘Fucking hell, there’s loads of idiots with long hair. I don’t want to meet any rappers or anyone in a rock band’ but once we got over the initial hurdle it was great. We were in our own little bubble.”

The album is expected to be released in the spring. However, the band have yet to confirm any details.

http://www.nme.com/news/oasis/33534

[winigwl]

when do they expect the album to come out?

[MrMagpie]

Good new. I like the Oasis. Be Here Now is their best album ;)

[Black Rose]

when do they expect the album to come out?

Whenever they get around to signing a new record deal :lol:

They are like Radiohead in that sense, a band who finished with their old record label and not wanting to go back, however they won't do a radiohead and give the record away.

[hugo]

Whenever they get around to signing a new record deal :lol:

They are like Radiohead in that sense, a band who finished with their old record label and not wanting to go back, however they won't do a radiohead and give the record away.

as far as i know they have already signed with big brother (their own company) and Universal will take care of all the international distribution

[winigwl]

Good new. I like the Oasis. Be Here Now is their best album ;)


i agree

[MrMagpie]

whats your favourite song off the album?

[winigwl]

i hope, i think, i know:D. You?

[MrMagpie]

I would have to say the same. I just love that one.
Also a big fan of My Big Mouth, and Don't Go Away.

[winigwl]

don't go away is probably number 2 for me

[Black Rose]

as far as i know they have already signed with big brother (their own company) and Universal will take care of all the international distribution

I thought Universal was only taking care of the international distribution of lord don't slow me down, but I stand corrected.

[Black Rose]

The new album artwork:

http://bp3.blogger.com/_IeVEawIpC_k/R5xtON_ZtKI/AAAAAAAACUM/wQ0zZroeYeE/s1600/new%2Boasis%2Bartwork%2Bcopy.jpg

[StephenG]

its funny how Be Here Now is consistantly seen as their worst album, from what ive heard its classic Oasis, the clueless band who make great feel good rock anthems.


Oh and I can't see the artwork.

[MrMagpie]

Yeah I can't see it either.

[anna111]

http://bp3.blogger.com/_IeVEawIpC_k/R5xtON_ZtKI/AAAAAAAACUM/wQ0zZroeYeE/s1600/new%2Boasis%2Bartwork%2Bcopy.jpg

click the link and press 'open'

http://www.ateaseweb.com/mb/style_emoticons/default/wtf.gif

[MrMagpie]

that isn't working for me either :(

[winigwl]

haha, me neither

[Black Rose]

here you go:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/MrDaveS1986/newoasisartworkcopy.jpg

[MrMagpie]

:laugh3:

[ugadawg5]

L4E

Oasis "Having a great time in LA"

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Oasis showed up in full force (no Zak) last night at the Troubodor to check out a show by the band Black Mountain. Also in attendance were Producer David Sardy and Black Crows singer Chris Robinson. L4E member Jilliam got a chance to chat with Noel and Liam who were both happy the way things were going with the new album. Here's some of Jilliam's email :

Spoke with Liam for a while about the new album, sez its finished being recorded and our now giving it the "finishing touches" Its real melodic, he's writen a few songs for it, Liam on LDSMD is really THAT Liam. I talked to Liam about Radio Head and their selling tactics...JOKES, Liam sez he's gonna fuckin charge DOUBLE for his album!!!!! ........he did a fuckin spot on impersanation of that radio head ****, adapts accent "Oh I think our music is fablous, we want to give our music away for free. FUCK that!!! He fuckin died laughing. Said he's proud of the songs he's done for th album, "You know I've writing a lot of tunes man, and you know, not everyone gets to go on the album, but, their all fuckin quality! Mr. Gallagher was sporting black jeans, black slip on Vans, a striped black and white shirt and that same black leather jacket he's been snapped around town rocking. Sez the band are really avin' a great time in LA, "fuckin weathers nice".....Gem was sitting next to Liam the whole time was chattin with us. Andy was talking up a storm with some dude from Black Mountain. Great Night!

[busybeeburns]

Oxford rock band Radiohead have seen their 1997 masterpiece OK Computer voted the third best British album.

Britpop veterans Oasis have demonstrated their place in music lovers' hearts by securing first and second places in the new chart.

The Gallagher brothers' 1994 debut, Definitely Maybe, came top in the poll by music magazine Q and retailer HMV to find the 50 "Best Ever British Albums".

Radiohead's came third in the poll, followed by The Beatles' Revolver and The Stone Roses' self-titled debut.

The group also see their second album The Bends come in at number 11 and latest offering In Rainbows make the number 40 spot.

The rock-dominated chart also features records by The Clash, Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, The Smiths and Queen.

Q editor Paul Rees said: "It's clear that, having polled three times more votes than any other act, Oasis are undoubtedly the nation's most loved band.

"Similarly, it's evident just who music fans believe the classic and most enduring British acts of each era to be.

"And, by that measure, the likes of Keane, Arctic Monkeys, Muse and Amy Winehouse have emerged in recent years to be seen as genuinely classic artists in the eyes of the people that matter most - those who buy music.

"In a list that features the likes of Radiohead's OK Computer and The Beatles' Revolver this list is a testament to the popularity of Oasis and their music."

The full list: 1. Definitely Maybe - Oasis 2. (What's The Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis 3. OK Computer - Radiohead 4. Revolver - The Beatles 5. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 6. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles 7. London Calling - The Clash 8. Under The Iron Sea - Keane 9. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd 10. Urban Hymns - The Verve 11. The Bends - Radiohead 12. Abbey Road - The Beatles 13. Hopes And Fears - Keane 14. Don't Believe The Truth - Oasis 15. Violator - Depeche Mode 16. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths 17. A Night At The Opera - Queen 18. Whatever People Say I Am - Arctic Monkeys 19. The White Album - The Beatles 20. Never Mind The B******s - Sex Pistols 21. Rubber Soul - The Beatles 22. Be Here Now - Oasis 23. Absolution - Muse 24. Rio - Duran Duran 25. Parklife - Blur 26. A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay 27. The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers 28. Origin Of Symmetry - Muse 29. IV - Led Zeppelin 30. The Wall - Pink Floyd 31. Up The Bracket - The Libertines 32. X&Y - Coldplay 33. Who's Next - The Who 34. Black Holes And Revelations - Muse 35. Back To Black - Amy Winehouse 36. Songs Of Faith And Devotion - Depeche Mode 37. Word Gets Around - Stereophonics 38. The Fat Of The Land - Prodigy 39. Different Class - Pulp 40. In Rainbows - Radiohead 41. Hunky Dory - David Bowie 42. Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys 43. Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers 44. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 45. Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys 46. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie 47. Parachutes - Coldplay 48. Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones 49. Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division 50. Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones

http://www.oxfordmail.net/display.var.2050809.0.radiohead_beaten_to_top_spot _by_oasis.php

[Black Rose]

I was wondering who was going to post the results of the latest Q opinion poll

[rayman]

The guitarist says hip-hop is 'wrong' for the British festival

Oasis' Noel Gallagher has said that he thinks the decision to book Jay-Z for a headline set at this year's Glastonbury festival was incorrect.

Speaking to BBC News, Gallagher said that deviating from the festival's tradition of booking guitar-based headliners was "wrong".

"If it ain't broke don't fix it," he said. "If you start to break it then people aren't going to go. I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance.

"Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music and even when they throw the odd curve ball in on a Sunday night you go 'Kylie Minogue?' I don't know about it. But I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong."

Noel Gallagher has also spoken about Oasis' UK live plans, responding to repeated rumours the band would play the O2 Arena in London.

http://www.nme.com/news/oasis/35873

[TraceOddity]

I'm of two minds on this one. I love the fact that Glastonbury's always been about guitar rock, and I'd like to see it stay the same. But if you want to continue to bring large crowds, you have to keep up with what people want to hear, and people definitely want to hear Jay-Z. (I personally don't mind him, but I want my screaming Manchester guitar bands,lol)

[winigwl]

like he's right. glasto has always been such a great rock festival, but it is a business and they are trying to attract crowds. even so i understand what he means. but he should keep his mouth shut for once. he's always trash talking!

[Black Rose]

and people definitely want to hear Jay-Z

O Really?

*checks and finds tickets are still available for a festival which has sold out in previous years within a day*

[shipoffools]

I usually don't agree with Noel, but here I do. Hip Hop should stay out of the Glastonbury festival. It's supposed to be about rock, and that's how it should stay.

[TraceOddity]

O Really?

*checks and finds tickets are still available for a festival which has sold out in previous years within a day*

Well, I understand it as a business move...but apparently a bad one. Sorry to hear that, and Noel's absolutely right.

[StephenG]

like he's right. glasto has always been such a great rock festival, but it is a business and they are trying to attract crowds. even so i understand what he means. but he should keep his mouth shut for once. he's always trash talking!


Every comment he says is gold tho, selling his villa in Spain because James Blunt moved in is snobby enough, but then publicing it, LOL

[Black Rose]

The great debate continues :lol:

[The Mad Hatter]

I don't really care, it's not like I'm going. :\

[Dan the Man]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Kaw_5odRQ

Amazing!

[Jpw48]

Is this actually real? I don't have any speakers at college so can't listen to it...

[winigwl]

i hope this is real cuz its good!

[Dan the Man]

It's genuine - some of the songs have been leaked.


Here's another two...

I Want To Live In A Dream In My Record Machine (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gLNbkPDfiq0)

Nothing On Me (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gHQMK-D3kDE)

[Space Cadet]

That is b e a u t i f u l !!!

Certainly sounds like Noel's voice to me. If it's a leak, maybe they just haven't completely finished mixing it in a couple of spots?

Anyway, I love it. :nice: Thanks for the heads up. Do they have a new album coming out soon?

[StephenG]

That is b e a u t i f u l !!!

Certainly sounds like Noel's voice to me. If it's a leak, maybe they just haven't completely finished mixing it in a couple of spots?

Anyway, I love it. :nice: Thanks for the heads up. Do they have a new album coming out soon?

yes, they do.

I do love Oasis's drums, but the piano sounds very Radiohead this time!


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nyBa_NKU3H8&feature=related

Actually this record actually sounds worth purchasing. And I didn't think so highly of DBTT

But these songs look like demos, the quality is too low.

[busybeeburns]

http://static.nme.com/images/0725_174022_oasis_chalkley01.jpg

Three Gallagher tracks for new record appear on internet

Three songs reportedly for Oasis' next album have leaked online.

Links to downloads of the tracks, ' I Wanna Live A Dream (In My Record Machine)', 'Nothin' On Me' and 'Stop the Clocks' started appearing on messageboards and fansites throughout the day (May 6).

Since then some fans have copied the clips and made them available via sites like Youtube. It appears steps are being taken to remove the demos with several previously working links now dead.

Of the leaked tracks, NME.COM has had a listen to the three songs and here is our initial impression.

'Nothin' On Me'
A relentless crunchy riff from Noel Gallagher and a sneery nasal vocal from Liam characterise this rollocking new Oasis song. It's a meaty return for the band, more Led Zeppelin-inspired than their more subtle recent work, such as 'The Importance Of Being Idle'. "They got nothing on me," Liam repeats, "I don't care what they say – all I want is the truth". A forceful return from the Gallaghers, although lacking the smash'n'grab choruses of some of their other anthems.

'I Wanna Live A Dream (In My Record Machine)'
Opening with a soft tambourine shake cut through by Noel Gallagher's sombre acoustic guitar, Noel sings John Lennon-style vocals on this quieter number. Tambourine and bells rattling in the background throughout give a Doors-esque edge to the affair, with drummer Zak Starkey's glammy stomp pumping in a minute in to add weight to the song. "Take Me, back to the darkness where they sent me," Noel Gallagher sings on this subtle yet uplifting and punchy number. "I want to live the dream" he sings on an uprising chorus, "I want a piece of the world", before weighty piano stabs add to the build. Towards the death a classically understated Noel Gallagher riff brings the song home. Understated yet upliftingly epic, it's a song of fine balance and poise.

'Stop The Clocks'
Noel Gallagher is a huge fan of this song, naming their 2006 'Best Of' album after it. Noel sings lead vocals over urgent acoustic strums, while a psychedelic guitar sound effect again adds a Doors-esque element to the intro. Noel cuts in over his own more conventional vocals with an echo-effect voice sample before his bandmates add to the build by adding layered backing vocals. It's a lighters-in-the-air moment for sure, although without the immediacy of a 'Wonderwall' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger'. "Stop the clocks and turn the world around," he sings. "Let your love lay me down…".
"When the night is over there'll be no sound", he continues in a Lee Mavers-esque repetitive croon, before a drumbeat pounds and clatters towards a riffy crescendo, with a sudden twang to finish.

http://www.nme.com/news/oasis/36429

[Larry]

Don't really know what happens to me, but I'm also disappointed about "Stop The Clocks" lol. I think it sounds a bit monotonous.

[Black Rose]

It's only a demo

Some of the Death in Vegas DBTT session tracks has leaked.

[winigwl]

ack, its been removed!

[winigwl]

stop the clocks is the best song i've heard this year
its fucking awesome

[AlexTHFC]

Recently the Oasis song I've listened to most is '(As Long As They've Got) Cigarettes In Hell' - it is amazing!!

[hihi]

definetly maybe for me.

i used to think there amazing when was a bit younger and because of my older brother but i realise now my music has progressed there not!

istill like them,they got a couple very very good albums and loads of great songs but there albums since the first two havent been that good.

[AlexTHFC]

www.myspace.com/newoasissongs

Yeah I heard these are actually tracks from old sessions and they probably won't be on the new album. I love I Wanna Live In A Dream though.

OH P.S. if you are on myspace check out my music too! And add me!

[MrMagpie]

Decent songs, I'll have to listen to them again.

[busybeeburns]

http://static.nme.com/images/20050725_172151_Oasis250705.jpg

One of the band is unlikely to play with the Manchester legends again

Oasis drummer Zak Starkey is unlikely to perform with the band again after falling out with singer/guitarist Noel Gallagher.

According to The Sun today (May 12), Starkey is highly unlikely to play with the band on any forthcoming live dates, and his involvement in their forthcoming new album, recently completed, will be his last with Oasis.

The newspaper quotes a source close to the band as saying: "There have been arguments with Noel Gallagher and general disagreements."

No official announcement about a possible departure or replacement have been made by the band.

The band are due to embark on a US tour in August, and are rumoured to be announcing further live plans soon.

http://www.nme.com/news/oasis/36526

[AlexTHFC]

I wonder what they argued about

[winigwl]

aww that sucks!

[footyfan10]

Hey, I like so many of you am from the U.S., and we aren't nearly as lucky as the Brits in the music bands send our way from over there. There's quite a few songs I've listened to that aren't available for purchase over here, and I was wondering if you had any links to where to find some mp3 downloads of them. The main song I've been listening to lately is Sad Song.

[footyfan10]

Also, I'd like to apologize for my first post being a non Coldplay related post. lol

[winigwl]

i can't help as i'm really bad at finding downloads and stuff, but welcome!

[AlexTHFC]

there's this thing called Itunes :D

[footyfan10]

Yeah haha. I get everything I can from iTunes. Unfortunately a lot of the stuff is released in EPs or just singles in Britain, and we never get to see them. Just like with all the music I like from over there. If it's available for purchase I'll buy it. If not, then I'm not hurting the band by getting it on download.

But yeah, if no one knows its no problem. I didn't know if anyone knew off the top of their heads.

[Black Rose]

Look here:
http://stoptheclocks.org/index.php

Although they have a large backlog of activations, so it might take a while

[VERVE]

Record Machine is a brilliant song! The other two leaked ones are pretty boring.

[talkingonsquareone89]

lately Jay-Z's music has gotten some jazz and 'rock-ish' edge incorporated into. maybe it won't be so bad...? :\

true, Jay-Z is a risky move to be headlining the festival...but honestly i don't think hip-hop should be excluded from the festival, given from the tone of his statements there, and given that they tried getting Kylie Minogue to headline (as we know, a POP act).

makes sense about the money thing too. and for Glastonbury to be opening doors for other genres...that's kind of cool since it's a HUGE festival and there's more varieties to PICK AND CHOOSE from.



on a side note: those Gallagher brothers annoy the f*ck out of me whenever they open their loud mouths to speak out their narrow-minded thoughts.

[Black Rose]

I for one won't be watching Amy Winehouse and Jay Z on the main stage on Saturday night.

Elbow and Massive Attack is calling

[Stefan-C8]

Jay-Z? Well... it's refreshing.

[clockpolitiks]

Myspace bulletin-

‘The Shock Of The Lightning’ new single out September 29th

‘Dig Out Your Soul’ new album out October 6th

Oasis are set to return later this year with a new single and their seventh studio album.

The single,‘The Shock Of The Lightning’ is released on September 29th and the album, ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ follows in October; it is the first new Oasis music since last year’s ‘Lord Don’t Slow Me Down’, taken from the on the road film of the same name.



‘Dig Out Your Soul’ sees Dave Sardy return to the producer’s chair following his work on their 2005 album, ‘Don’t Believe The Truth’.

Recorded at Abbey Road and mixed in Los Angeles, all four members once again contribute tracks, but the recording marks a new approach for the band as described by the band’s principle songwriter, Noel:

“I wanted to write music that had a groove; not songs that followed that traditional pattern of verse, chorus and middle eight. I wanted a sound that was more hypnotic; more driving. Songs that would draw you in, in a different way. Songs that you would maybe have to connect to - to feel.

”

The lead single is still unmistakably Oasis, a Noel penned song with Liam’s immediately familiar voice to the fore underlining their distinctive brand of finger in the socket rock ’n’ roll.



‘The Shock Of The Lightning’ may well represent the most recognisable Oasis song on the album but, again, the new approach on ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ was present on this lead track as Noel explains:

“If ‘The Shock Of The Lightning’ sounds instant and compelling to you, it’s because it was written dead fast. And recorded dead fast. ‘The Shock of The Lightning’ basically is the demo. And it has retained its energy. And there’s a lot to be said for that, I think. The first time you record something is always the best.

”

‘Dig Out Your Soul’ will be the first album released on the band’s own Big Brother label worldwide.



Keep checking back to Oasisinet for more news..

[AlexTHFC]

With him talking about a groove etc I'm hoping they're gonna be going in a Kasabian kind of direction, especially with how highly Noel speaks of them and how often he goes to their gigs that could be a possibility. Could be very different sounding to those songs that leaked last month or whenever it was!

[winigwl]

sweet! hope that stop the clocks is on it

[MrMagpie]

Woo another big band with an album! Hope its a keeper.

[*Sarah*]

yay! :)

[Dapper-Dan-Man]

(WTS)MG is my favorite album, but Definitely Maybe and Don't Believe the Truth are close behind.

The Masterplan is my favorite song, though. :smug:

[StephenG]

Since DBTT was not a return to form for me Im not sure if i'll bother with this one.

[stemot1978]

Since DBTT was not a return to form for me Im not sure if i'll bother with this one.

You are wrong.

[Dapper-Dan-Man]

You are wrong.

No kidding...

In my opinion, DBTT is one of their best yet.

[juanif94]

In my opinion all albums are great...hope "dig out your soul" is as good as their previous ones

[Pseudonym]

Who else thinks "Dont Go Away" is one of those great songs that everyone should here? I frickin love that song, its just so brillinat. I oike it about 80 times more than "Live Forever". I think that song is overrated.

[StephenG]

You are wrong.

Nope thats you really. :embarassed:

The opening track quickly bored me nice as Oasis's drums are and always have been. Mucky Fingers is skippable and irritating. Lyla is alright for a while but it doesn't have the replay value of 'The importance of being...' Love like a bomb / God thinks im abel / Meaning of soul are all boring and forgettable mainly because their all over the place lyrically and musically. The last 4 tracks arn't bad (Let there be love is a classic) but the other 3 sound very similar.

Overall I would take Let there be love and Importance of being, then dump the rest of the album in the wide collection of Oasis's tracks post 90's that are barely worth listening to.

Definatly maybe only had a few great songs, but at least the rest of the album held up with thinks like Shakermaker somehow not sucking but simply being a change of pace between Rock and roll star and Live forever. Morning Glory was a beast of an album, Be here now had its moments of mediocrety but still holds up higher than this one.

[Dejan]

Oasis' Noel Gallagher has said that he thinks that Radiohead's 'pay-what-you-like' method of releasing recent album 'In Rainbows' was a "free marketing" ploy.

He told BBC 6music that his own band would not be following in the footsteps of Thom Yorke and co by letting fans choose how much to pay for their forthcoming new album, 'Dig Out Your Soul'.

[b]"That's not our bag," he said. "I didn't spend a year in the most expensive studio in England, with the most expensive producer in America, and the most expensive graphic designer in London to then give it away. Fuck that."

Speaking about Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' release, Gallagher said, "To be honest, to me it looked like marketing – a great way of getting a load of marketing for free really. But good for them. That's what they do, they're rebels and outsiders."

[Jpw48]

What a fucking genius he is. :P

[mc_squared]

What a fucking genius he is. :P

Would you like him to come and share a pasty with you in Cornwall??:rolleyes:

[mountainloafers]

Oasis' Noel Gallagher
[B]"That's not our bag," he said. "I didn't spend a year in the most expensive studio in England, with the most expensive producer in America, and the most expensive graphic designer in London to then give it away. Fuck that."


So, expected to fork over mega cash for their expensive new album...:(

[Death Hill]

He's probably mad he didn't come up with the idea first.:dozey:

[Ms Magpie]

Hah.

[busybeeburns]

monobrow strikes another chord for the mensa club.

[mc_squared]

monobrow strikes another chord for the mensa club.

Know-all Gallagher??:rolleyes:

[ugadawg5]

noel gallagher would run circles around chris martin mentally.

[Pseudonym]

This guy is just against everyone who thinks differently than him. He criticized Jay-Z and Glastonbury because he thought his performance there ruined the "rock show" when it's really a music festival. Now he's taking shots at Radiohead just because they had the balls to pull something like this off.

This guy is making it harder and harder to want to listen to Oasis.

[bedofroses]

monobrow strikes another chord for the mensa club.

:lol:

Everyone has their own view, but i await oasis's new album......will it actually be interesting

[Black Rose]

He's probably mad he didn't come up with the idea first.:dozey:

Neither did Radiohead ;)

But what he says is true, it was a mere marketing plot.

[xneverwherex]

This guy is just against everyone who thinks differently than him. He criticized Jay-Z and Glastonbury because he thought his performance there ruined the "rock show" when it's really a music festival. Now he's taking shots at Radiohead just because they had the balls to pull something like this off.

This guy is making it harder and harder to want to listen to Oasis.
my thoughts exactly - which is why im beyond excited to write im seeing Damon Albarn on Saturday night!

[ugadawg5]

Oasis is the best band in the world, and their new album Dig Out Your Soul is going to rock.

[juanif94]

It's called Falling Down and this is the remixed version by Chemical Brothers. Couldn't find the complete original version. Hope you like it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QLFffIdaX5k

[iPsy]

thanks, it's good!

[hanofjoh]

I guess this is the unofficial oasis thread for everything oasis related on coldplaying .com.

[Black Rose]

I guess this is the unofficial oasis thread for everything oasis related on coldplaying .com.

*nods head*

[Jpw48]

http://www.digoutyoursoul.com/assets/images/packshotBackground.jpg

Bag It Up
The Turning
Waiting For The Rapture
The Shock Of The Lightning
I’m Outta Time
(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady
Falling Down
To Be Where There’s Life
Ain’t Got Nothin’
The Nature of Reality
Soldier On



Is it just me or does that artwork bear a resemblance to Sgt Peppers....

[Scribble127]

Grew up with them but lost the faith.

1. The Masterplan
2. Definitely Maybe
3. What's the Story

I don't rate the other albums...

Favourite songs:

1. Acquiesce
2. The Masterplan
3. Whatever
4. Rock 'n' Roll Star
5. Champagne Supernova
6. Supersonic
7. Gas panic!
8. Half the World Away
9. Don't Look Back in Anger
10. Stay Young

The new album cover just looks like they're pretending to be art students...

[crawlinwithin]

http://www.digoutyoursoul.com/assets/images/packshotBackground.jpg

Bag It Up
The Turning
Waiting For The Rapture
The Shock Of The Lightning
I’m Outta Time
(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady
Falling Down
To Be Where There’s Life
Ain’t Got Nothin’
The Nature of Reality
Soldier On



Is it just me or does that artwork bear a resemblance to Sgt Peppers....

a little bit, there's certainly a lot going on in there... can't wait for the new album!

[coldplayGeorgia!]

i like 2 songs only Acquiesce and Stop crying your heart out (in the movie Butterfly effect )

[tEx]

I like Oasis, even if their best is behind them......but lets be honest how many bands in history have made more than 3-4 really good albums.....

[crawlinwithin]

i could name quite a few

[fakfak]

I've never really understood what people mean when they claim Oasis "lost it" after WTSMG. Don't get me wrong, I quite like Oasis, but they simply are not an "innovative" band.

Whatever they do, IMHO they've pretty much done it consistantly. Therein lies the one complaint about Oasis I (somewhat) see as having a solid basis, they are repetitive.

Perhaps I just don't get something, but I fail to see how Oasis later work has differed enough from their early work to cause such universal dislike of the later. Perhaps it's simply that the "newness" of their sound circa 1994 eventually wore off.

[StephenG]

I've never really understood what people mean when they claim Oasis "lost it" after WTSMG. Don't get me wrong, I quite like Oasis, but they simply are not an "innovative" band.

Whatever they do, IMHO they've pretty much done it consistantly. Therein lies the one complaint about Oasis I (somewhat) see as having a solid basis, they are repetitive.

Perhaps I just don't get something, but I fail to see how Oasis later work has differed enough from their early work to cause such universal dislike of the later. Perhaps it's simply that the "newness" of their sound circa 1994 eventually wore off.

Because they used to write good songs, now they don't.

Oasis used to be relivent, Cigerettes and Alcohol and Rock and Roll star defined a generation of music lovers, total anthems for the masses. Now they just arn't as relivent.

[tEx]

i could name quite a few


Im talking about 3-4 great albums. There really arent that many.

[fakfak]

"Oasis used to be relivent, Cigerettes and Alcohol and Rock and Roll star defined a generation of music lovers, total anthems for the masses. Now they just arn't as relivent."

perhaps I didn't make my point as clearly as I wanted to. I Agree that early on in their career Oasis were more relivent than they are today. I was merely trying to put forth that this is largely due to the "newness" of Oasis' (or more specifically Noel's) songwriting in the early days as opposed to a drop in quality, which IMHO is simply not there. (bearing in mind that any debate over the quality of music is entirely subjective.)

[tEx]

The masses are finicky, but it matters not what the masses think. Oasis have their place in rock history cemented. If they continue to churn out good music thats great.
My fav growing up (in case anyone wondered) was The Smiths, their legacy is cemented. Morrisseys has had some great stuff and some not so great stuff, but Im not going to bail on him as a fan......doesnt matter what he puts out. That'd be like bailing out on your parents because theyre old and not as "relevant" as they used to be....

This interview got me to really listen to Oasis, of course he's lauding The Smiths, but Ive really grown to love Oasis and recognize how great their catalogue is....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1MsuoNJQ3U

[StephenG]

i could name quite a few

Well Muse has 4, Oasis has 1, Travis has 3, U2 has 6, Radiohead 7... ectra and yes thats great albums not just good ones.



To me theres definatly a drop in quality in later Oasis, but thats music subjectiveness.

[fakfak]

Generally however, Oasis is regarded as having made two great albums at the very least.

[Black Rose]

Well Muse has 4, Oasis has 1, Travis has 3, U2 has 6, Radiohead 7... ectra and yes thats great albums not just good ones.



To me theres definatly a drop in quality in later Oasis, but thats music subjectiveness.

Muse having 4 great albums which in 10/20 years people will still remember is a joke, Muse have 0 truly great albums, just 4 alright albums

[StephenG]

Don't get great mixed up with classic. Morning Glory is a classic for sure. Muse however don't have any classics, but they do have 4 great albums.

Yes history will forget Muse and remember Oasis at this rate. That doesn't make them a great band.

[tEx]

^exactly. Not every album by a great band is classic.

[Jpw48]

Muse having 4 great albums which in 10/20 years people will still remember is a joke, Muse have 0 truly great albums, just 4 alright albums

Now slow down one moment!
Absolution is surely going to be remembered in the future as one of the best albums ever. BHAR and Showbiz maybe not so much, and OoS is somewhere in the middle.

[Aleluvscp]

:rolleyes: face it Jake... Oasis is better

[StephenG]

I don't think it will be famous on the level of Morning Glory, but I forcee in years time Amazon.com will direct people to Absolution if they want to try out Muse's back catalogue.

Definatly Maybe and Absolution are similar, both have loads of great songs ontop of some very mediocre ones.

[*CoLdPlaY.4.EveR*]

I like Oasis a lot!!! I'm a fan of the boys!!!

Hope their new CD!! :D

[Black Rose]

Now slow down one moment!
Absolution is surely going to be remembered in the future as one of the best albums ever. BHAR and Showbiz maybe not so much, and OoS is somewhere in the middle.

I disagree, Muse are a singles band, they have not yet made an album which no filler

[busybeeburns]

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00378/LIAM_MAIN_378910h.jpg
Liam Gallagher on stage with band Oasis after winning the award for the Outstanding Contribution to Music at the Brit Awards 2007 (Chris Harris/ TheTimes)

Liam Gallagher prefers being a stay-at-home dad these days, but he’s not lost his rock’n’roll swagger

Liam Gallagher says he and his brother “are two totally different people and the sooner people realise that the less we can go on about it”. Fair enough, but, having interviewed Noel several years ago, I can report the Gallagher boys have more in common than being in the same band and having the same mum and dad: extreme candour, for one thing. You asked Noel a question, you got a straight answer. If anything, his kid brother is even more straight-talking. Also (and I didn’t think this could be possible), Liam swears even more.

When I ask Liam what he thinks the public thinks of him, for instance, he says: “Loudmouth blagging gobshite from Manchester…and they’d be totally correct.” Or here he is on the subject of Wayne Rooney’s wedding to Coleen McLoughlin, which had taken place, and subsequently appeared in OK! magazine, not long before we met. “You’ve got this kid who’s f****** 19 [22] or whatever the f*** he is, who 20 minutes ago was playing for Everton, having a five million pound wedding! How do you f****** grasp that?”

“All right,” Liam continues, “he earned his f****** money, do what you want, but I couldn’t live with meself. That to me is just f****** ridiculous. There’s ways of doing it. In fact, what did mine cost? I got married at Marylebone station, er, Marylebone registry office. In and out, no f****** about, it cost £18. Reception over the road, it was nice, we drank champagne, but I’ve still got a lid on it.”

Would anything have induced him to sell the photographs? “Absolutely f****** nothing. It smells funny, it doesn’t sit right. I’d have to be well and truly f****** desperate. I’d have to be homeless. It’s like, haven’t you got e-f******-nough, you little ****? I find that hard to f****** take. But that’s famous people for yer. When they’re not on the f****** telly they want to be in a f****** magazine and when they’re not in a magazine they want to be on a f****** bottle of water. It’s like, f****** chill the f*** out, you can’t do one f****** job right let alone f****** trying to do f****** five, you *****!”

It’s not just footballers “spending 100 grand on f****** Rolexes” that Liam objects to; he doesn’t have much time, any time, for celebrities per se. “I’m not one of them that walks around town like I’m the king of London. If I need to get milk I go out and get milk, but most of the time I’m indoors.” Noel, he says, “loves being famous. He adores it. I don’t think about it. I don’t do what famous people do. I don’t go to famous-y events. As long as I’m in a band and making music and playing gigs, I couldn’t give a f***.”

Oasis are soon to release their seventh studio album. “We should have made more, we should be on our tenth or summat,” thinks Liam. “We don’t struggle for songs.” Besides Noel’s output, Liam now writes as well, contributing three (one good, one bad, one indifferent, in my opinion) of 11 tracks on the new album. What’s I’m Outta Time (the good one) about, I ask. “Ain’t got a clue, man. Didn’t sit down to write about being out of time, in time, on f****** time, it wrote itself.” He finds melodies easy, he says, but “I find it hard with words”.

He can be inarticulate in person, too, yet he is one of those people, like John Prescott, whose meaning is crystal clear despite verbal infelicity. Oasis’s publicists are nervous at letting Liam loose in a full-blown one-on-one. He is uncompromising. He doesn’t try to be your friend. His conversational style is combative. He gives an answer, then juts his chin up and stares you out with those unblinking blue eyes. Liam doesn’t trouble with the usual niceties of shifting product either. “Buy it [the new record] or don’t f****** buy it, I’m not mithered either way.”

We’re in a photographic studio in East London, sitting on facing sofas, the publicity team out of sight behind a wall but in earshot. The biggest surprise comes right at the outset. Liam, now 35, is off the fags, off the booze, off “the other stuff” (cocaine) as well. He’s been off them for nine days at any rate. And he has taken up jogging. “Not jogging, man, running. Get up early, live right on the heath [Hampstead], pair of trainers on and away I go. Beautiful.” (I’m going to edit out most of the expletives from here on, I’m sure you’ve got the general idea.)

He covers ten miles in an hour and a half. (That’s a shade over 6.5mph which, sorry Liam, is jogging, not running, speed. But well done anyway.) He comes home, walks his kids to school, has a bath, chills out, watches TV, does “whatever’s on the menu for the day”. When we met, that meant rehearsals for the new tour (now under way in Canada), hence his abstemiousness.

“Last week me voice was a bag o’shite, I had to have a word with meself. I want this to be a success, I want this to be great, I thought I’m going to have to tone it down a bit. Load of big fat lines, load of cigarettes, staying up late talking the same shit you talked the night before and the night before that, that’s not good for it [his voice]. It’s not a big deal. I’ve got willpower.” When his voice is good, he says, “no one can touch me”. (Many would agree.) “And when it’s bad, it’s a bit better than Pete Doherty’s.”

When he does drink, he says, he might “do a bottle of tequila in a couple of hours, no problem. The good stuff, Patrón.” Doesn’t that make him ill? “No, I feel all right. Red wine I can’t handle, just want to batter everyone. On tequila, I’m Bob Monkhouse. I’m a good drinker, but it’s dominos, isn’t it? Get pissed, smoke, do the other…”

I ask if he’s mellowed with age. “I can still go pound for pound with any clown at any time,” he says. “I’m not on about fighting,

I can still have it drinking or whatever. But yeah, I’ve mellowed, but not in the sense of liking Radiohead or Coldplay. I don’t hate them. I don’t wish they had accidents. I think their fans are boring and ugly and they don’t look like they’re having a good time.” Liam doesn’t like any contemporary bands. “Not interested. I play the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks, Neil Young, the Pistols. Maybe a bit of the Roses. Don’t like modern bands. Topman music, innit?”

These days, he says, “Family’s the most important thing. The kids are just the b******s, I enjoy their company more than some idiot in a band or some actor. That’s how I’ve changed. Years ago I was in the pub.” Did he always want to be a dad? “No, not really. Just wanted to get off me tits and do music, but once you get your missus pregnant, you’ve got to step up to the plate.”

He has two boys, Lennon, almost 9, who lives with his mum, Liam’s ex-wife Patsy Kensit, and Gene, just 7, who lives with Liam and his second wife, Nicole Appleton of All Saints. The boys attend the same school. Private or state? “Private.” Was that an issue for him? “Not at all. Not a-f****** tall. They’ve got every right to be there as much as some banker’s son. When I pick me kid up, I feel amazing.” Liam left his own school, Catholic, all-boys, at 15. “Had no time for it. Got a job creosoting fences. Fifty quid a week.”

I mention that when I had interviewed Noel, he said he worried he wasn’t a good dad to Anais, then 2, his daughter by Meg Mathews. “He shouldn’t get hung up about it,” says Uncle Liam. “She’s only 8. If any bad days have gone down you make it up to her, don’t you?” As for his own paternal ability: “I’m the b*******s at being a dad. I’m top. We have a lot of fun.” Who’s stricter, him or Nicole? “Me. I’m the bad cop, she’s the good cop. I’m not Hitler, but they’re getting older, they make a mess, they tidy it up.” What if they swear? “I give ’em a medal! Nah, they don’t swear.”

He and his wife don’t go out much, he says. “Done all that, seen it, didn’t like it.” Did you get anything out of it? “Might have had a couple of lines out of it, couple of scraps, lot of earache.” If he and his wife do venture forth, they usually take Gene with them. “Go out at 6, out of there by 7.” Babysitters are not an issue. “Nicole’s mam is round the corner.” The Gallaghers do not employ a nanny. “Don’t need one.”

Liam’s own mother is still in Burnage, the suburb of Manchester where the Gallaghers grew up. He phones her every day. “I enjoy speaking to her.” He offered to buy her a new house. “She said, ‘What would I move for? You can get us a new gate.’ Noel bought her a little cottage in Ireland. She goes there a bit.” Despite his Irish roots, Liam considers himself typically English. “I hate that plastic Paddy thing. I’m into the English thing, music, football, clothes.”

The brothers’ estranged father lives in the house they grew up in. Liam was closer to his dad than were Noel or the eldest boy Paul (“He never beat me up, he beat the other two up”) but even so, he has no contact. “Not interested. Not angry, not sad, just nish.” Have his father’s shortcomings made him try harder as a dad himself? “Nah. I think you’ve got to do it right, not because he didn’t, but because they deserve it. I don’t dwell on it.”

Liam and Nicole have a second home in Henley-on-Thames. “Try to get there every weekend. Watch TV, play with the kids, sit in the garden, get in the pool, get out of the pool, go for a run, normal stuff.” How have the good people of Henley reacted to his arrival? “This lady walked past, she said, ‘You’re the coolest person I’ve seen in Henley since George Harrison.’ They’re pretty much the same as us really, they get a bad rap.” His house in Henley has its own bar, but he only stocks it with booze for special occasions.

I ask Liam if he still feels working class. He pauses. “I’m not one of them that harp on about it like Billy Bragg. I was born on a council estate, we had no money, me mam and dad split up. Now I live in a nice area, kids go to private school, few quid in me pocket, so what? I am what I am. I’m just me. I’m not a flash **** if that’s what you’re saying. And I’m not the other one, whatever that is.” Middle class? “Right. The kids are middle class though, I suppose.”

I say when I asked Steven Gerrard the same question last year, about class, he got shirty. Liam’s interest picks up. “Oh aye, Gerrard got shirty, did he? Did I get shirty then?” Not especially, I reply, and, dropping another name, tell him how Paul Weller described resisting his partner’s attempts to lure him to middle-class dinner parties. “Well, he should have a working-class party, shouldn’t he?” says Liam. “Invite all of them, they won’t come again, will they? ’Cos apparently we’re scum.”

When he sees lads on street corners, so-called chavs, what does he think? “That’s exactly how I was, man, so I’ve got nothing bad to say about ’em. Whatever makes ’em happy. They look like dicks but fair play to them.” Does he feel a sense of solidarity with them? “What does that mean?” Do you feel, ‘That could have been me’? “That was me. Not ‘could have been’. And I ain’t going back there.”

As a teenager in Manchester, in the middle to late Eighties, he wore Adidas and Levi’s, “get me giro and might get a Lacoste top. Never had the money to splash out on Burberry, but I was into clothes big style. Still am.” Today he’s wearing Lee jeans, black Vans, black T-shirt, Holland Esquire suit jacket, a rubber wristband that says “Peace and love”. “Got that off Ringo Starr. Yeah, I like me clothes, and I don’t get ’em for nothing. I go and buy ’em like a proper dude.”

Kids and clothing aside, a lot of our conversation is about what Liam doesn’t like or doesn’t do. He has a Mini and a Range Rover but doesn’t drive, has never learnt. He doesn’t read, apart from to his children. “It’s Grizzly Dad today, about a dad that turns into a bear. Don’t like Dr Seuss, too smart.” He hasn’t got the patience for other books, “and it’s a form of people telling you how it is, isn’t it? I like to make my own mind up.” He doesn’t want to make new friends. “Quite happy with what I’ve got.”

He tends to go to the same pub. “Read the paper, have a beer, someone says ‘Mind if I join you?’, I might shoot the breeze, depends what mood I’m in.” He doesn’t go back to Manchester much, has stopped going to Man City, “just get mithered. Noel goes. He likes signing autographs.” He doesn’t socialise with his brother. “All we need to do is make music together.”

He’s tried golf a few times – “Bit of exercise, spliff, whack f*** out of the balls, beer afterwards, it’s good” – but doesn’t sound as if he’ll be taking it up regularly. Still, if he hadn’t made it as a rock star, he’d have fancied a job “cutting grass on a golf course. Nice and chilled. Outdoors, not inside, walls and that.”

He isn’t interested in politics, although he’ll watch Prime Minister’s Questions. “I like the noises they make.” When his brother went to Downing Street to meet Blair in 1997, he isn’t sure whether he was invited or not, but “I wouldn’t have gone.” He’s lost interest in feuding with other bands. “I’m cool with Damon [Albarn]. That was only a bit of a laugh.” How about Robbie Williams? “Funny how he says a couple of things then moves to LA, know what I mean? Gives it all that and packs his bags.”

He insists he is “a passionate man”, however, and there are three other subjects he becomes passionate about. One is the paparazzi. “See me coming out of a pub with five million birds, charlied out me head, they’ve every right to take a picture. Get in my way when I’m going about me business, freak my kid out, then they get a slap.”

Another is being in Oasis. “We’ve no competition, none at all.” He knows many people, including all critics and his own brother, think the band’s form dipped after the first two electrifying albums, but he isn’t having it. “Just ’cos Noel and a couple of divvy journalists think that doesn’t mean it’s right. I think all our records are great.”

And the other subject is religion. “I don’t pray and I don’t go to church but I’m intrigued by it, I dig it. I’m into the idea that there could be a God and aliens and reincarnation and some geezer years ago turning water into wine. I don’t believe when you die, you die. All the beautiful people who have been and gone, Lennon, Hendrix, they’re somewhere else, man. Whether it’s here or whether it’s there, they’re doing some musical thingummyjig. They got to be somewhere else, haven’t they? I’d like it if everyone were all right at the end of it.”

And shortly after that, Liam, by now a little late to pick his son up, bounces to his feet. He’s taking his lad to the cinema, or, as he puts it, “I’m off to f****** ’ave it with Kung Fu Panda.” Does it feel strange, I ask, to do a big interview for The Times? “No,” he says, staring coolly back, “it’s about f****** time.”

The new Oasis single The Shock of the Lightning is released on September 29, and the album Dig Out Your Soul a week later on October 6, both on their Big Brother label

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4457507.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3

[yellowtalk]

This sentence makes me laugh out loud: I think their fans are boring and ugly and they don’t look like they’re having a good time.

I'm sorry he is very confused if he says we are boring and ugly, and since when weren't fans having a good time, even one I know loves the live shows and album. Or is he talking about the band? either way he's incorrect, he probably doesn't read anything....

[Dejan]

http://www.digoutyoursoul.com/

[iPsy]

Boring and Ugly? So your insulting your own fan aswell!?!?!?!?....Maybe I should just hate Oasis.... :P

[*Sarah*]

^exactly, he's insulting his own fans as well :rolleyes: *likes oasis*

[AlexTHFC]

The interview with Noel in this weeks NME is hilarious! And the Chemical Brothers Remix of the new track 'Falling Down' is really good, kind of sounds like a more dance version of Coldplay in a way.

[ryansn]

Funny how he says boring and ugly, beause they did a concert here in Ottawa and barely anybody showed up to care:laugh3:

[cerati]

Oh like you didn't know Liam... that's just the way he talks

but music speaks louder

I think the new album will be easily on my top 3, behind definitely and don't believe the truth

[caity...]

it's like he's a snob about not being a snob... prick.

...i can't wait for the new album though.

[nobodyseditwaseasy08]

if you know anything about liam(from his public persona,cause i dont know him in real life obviously)you should know that he just talks. Hes a mouth, and everyone who likes oasis knows the noel is the real musician in that family.- and i bet a large percentage of oasis fans like coldplay.

[tauiwi]

What a great read that article was!! Dont mind being called ugly and boring, I think being an Oasis fan as well as a coldplay fan cancels that out.

When liam's voice is on song, they are electric - ill agree w' that.

Bring on the new album.

[Famous Old Painter]

I love Noel Gallagher, partly cuz I hate him so much. It's like a movie that is so goddamn awful it's brilliant. As for Oasis, good music. I wanna hear the new stuff.

[Glossal Fragster]

http://www.xfm.co.uk//news/2008/listen-to-the-oasis-single-again?&DCMP=EMC-EMR2007

you can hear the official new single here :D

and you can go to that other link below what im just typing now to hear an interview with noel and the playing of the new record on the chris moyles show :D


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/galleries/3672/1/#gallery3672

[VERVE]

The new single and falling down sound great, really like them.
They sound better than anything on "Dont Believe The Truth".

[Black Rose]

I see Oasis have taken a leaf out of the Radiohead box by releasing a super-deluxe edition of the new album with a 2nd cd containing 9 bonus tracks (of which only 2 are actually new, 1 is LDSMD & the remaining 6 are remixes), a dvd, 4 heavyweight vinyls plus a book. for £50 plus postage

[deborahbr]

The Shock of the Lightning is f***** amazing!!!!

[stemot1978]

Fucking awesome tunes, both Falling Down and SOTL, can't wait for the album now.

[AlexTHFC]

I don't think SOTL is amazing but its definitely better than Lyla I think, which is a good sign. And it is growing on me each time I hear it. I'm definitely glad it's fast and loud though, a lot of their recent singles have been kind of slow and 'plodding' - good to hear them do something fast again, reminds me of a stripped down and more raw style of something from Be Here Now like My Big Mouth and It's Getting Better (Man!!) which is definitely good.

[AlexTHFC]

I just noticed you can download the 'Falling Down' single version from Itunes now, I got it and its amazing! Much better than SOTL and very different to the Oasis norm. Reminds me of Coldplay and even a little of Radiohead!

[stemot1978]

I just noticed you can download the 'Falling Down' single version from Itunes now, I got it and its amazing! Much better than SOTL and very different to the Oasis norm. Reminds me of Coldplay and even a little of Radiohead!

Okay, no need to start insulting the track :D

[AlexTHFC]

Have you heard it yet?

[Black Rose]

I would guess Stemot listened to Falling Down when it first leaked a couple days ago

[AlexTHFC]

there's two version though, I think the original album version is MUCH better than the Chemical Brothers remix

[*Sarah*]

falling down is great, i really like it <3
sounds different though.

[StephenG]

Ok, Oasis you have me intrested in your new CD, now don't let me down.

That means no 'borrowing lines from the Beatles' no letting Liam or the other guys except Noel pen a song...


I know its too late, i've done my research :(

[stemot1978]

there's two version though, I think the original album version is MUCH better than the Chemical Brothers remix

I meant I don't like Radiohead...sorry, well, nothing KidA and after.

Yeah, I've heard both, please, what kind of Oasis fan do you take me for :)

[winigwl]

i havn't heard falling down. i have heard the lightning one and i like that one... excited for the album!!!!

[Dejan]

Noel Gallagher has said the forthcoming Oasis album, 'Dig Out Your Soul', will see the band taking a newer, less mainstream direction.

Speaking to BBC 6Music, Gallagher explained that he does not expect to hear too many of the new songs on radio because of their more experimental nature.

"It's not Britpop, let's put it that way. It's not our usual thing," he explained. "It's just really exciting, three of the tracks have got two drummers on, me and Zak [Starkey] playing drums. Some of it sounds a bit glam. There's no pop singles on it. I'd be amazed if anything else gets on the radio past the first single."

Gallagher said that the album takes influences from The Stooges, The Doors and The Pretty Things - as well as John Lennon.

"There's a kind of piano-y, John Lennon-y obligatory plod-away song in the middle, which Liam wrote," he said, "and that's to break up the two sides which are pretty intense, and it's full-on from the start to finish."

'Dig Out Your Soul' is released on October 6. It's preceded by a single, 'The Shock Of the Lightning', on September 29.

[Giuly2E]

:dance: I can't wait! I am so curious! 2 drums!!!

[StephenG]

Wow, he likes a modern band, im speechless.

[Dejan]

lol

[crazyduckette]

Did people know that tickets for UK gigs go on sale tomorrow?
I bet these tickets are gonna sell lightening fast.....

[winnie]

everyone's gone "experimental" these days, hm? :rolleyes: ;)

sometimes I think this word is just an excuse for the band thinking their new album is sh*** ;D


but honestly: I'm looking forward to it, something new is always fine :nice:

[*Sarah*]

aren't there two dates for each city anyway? that's crazy ^^

[*Sarah*]

not necessarily, keane actually messed it up :P lol nah...

[winnie]

WE'RE SPI-RA-LING *woooooah* :laugh3:


well.. at least the tracklisting looks promising ;D

[*Sarah*]

a tracklisting can't tell you anything about the songs in general, as i always said :nice: everyone thought VLV would be shite because of the song names and it turned out to be quite brilliant ;) so let's hope it's not the other way round with oasis, but i highly doubt that. noel = mastermind! ;D

[winnie]

that's quite true :D apparently Liam wrote only one song - that's a sign of hope ;) :rolleyes:

[*Sarah*]

well, it can't be worse than "little james" :rolleyes:
he has written "songbird", though, that's a great song :nice:

[winnie]

thats true! ;) even Liam has his moments :rolleyes:

[VERVE]

I think I wont go to a Oasis gig ever again.
Saw them 4 times and 3 times with almost the same setlist.
MAYBE if they change their setlist and throw in some classic bsides ect. I'll go see them again.

[the hitcher]

about time they went down the experimental road they should have done this years ago!

[Lore]

not necessarily, keane actually messed it up :P lol nah...


so true :laugh3:

[Lore]

btw the single is not really "experimental"

[Malcolm-Edge]

The single sounds like Morning Glory to me. I hope this album flops cause its surpasses there two crap albums and youre out limit.

Although if Noel wrote most of the album there may still be hope.

[footyfan10]

ive been listening to falling down, and while i dont think its radio friendly in all honesty (which might just be my brains way of saying i dont like it) i dont think its really experimental.

i doubt sincerely that oasis will actually go experimental. i think bands really overthink things when they say that. coldplay said it, and while vlv was a change of pace, its not like some big whirlwind shift lol.

i think the only bands i really believe in actually experimenting is u2 and radiohead (some may ask why u2, but i know you guys all know about what happened in the 90s), and im not sure even then id completely believe it. for radiohead what could be experimental now lol.

personally i think its a fad to say stuff like this, but i think its gonna be the same oasis. for me that means some brilliant songs, and some songs i just wonder where their heads were at.

[Passenger]

omg... u should see me! only 1 h and 40min to go!!! looool

[Larry]

Hehe, my favourite radio station was so proud today that Oasis mentioned them first on their official site! :D

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Big Brother are proud to announce OASIS in the largest ever live radio broadcast in Germany

20 August 2008
OASIS will play their first show in mainland Europe to accompany their brand new album 'Dig Out Your Soul' in the intimate surroundings of the Gloria Theater (http://www.gloria-theater.com/) in Cologne on September 29th (http://www.oasisinet.com/GigInfo.aspx?m=f&g=757) in a performance recorded exclusively for Eins Live (http://www.einslive.de/).

The concert will be broadcast live across Germany from 9.00pm CET on the following radio stations: Bremen Vier, Das Ding, MDR Jump, N-Joy, Radio Eins, Unser Ding, and You FM as well as stations throughout Europe via satellite.

This will be the largest ever live radio broadcast of a single artist concert in Germany due to the collaboration of the eight participating stations. Stay tuned to your local participating station for a chance to win tickets to the show.

[*Sarah*]

cool :nice:

... but it's a pity that liam sounds rather horrible when he's live on tv or radio ;D

[Larry]

Haha this reminds me of something which happened when I've been to Prague last week. One evening I watched the German music channel VIVA in my room. They had this German chart show and when Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" begins the announcer said:

Liam said all Coldplay fans are ugly and stink like hell. That's why "Viva La Vida" drops to number 8.

A few seconds later my friend who's not that much into Coldplay laughed sooo hard! I was so ashamed! :D

[*Sarah*]

haha^^ yeah well, i'm not referring to when he's talking... i'm referring to his voice when he's singing xD his voice isn't that good anymore, not at all, in my opinion.

[Larry]

Hm guess I have to listen to this Cologne gig to build up my own opinion about his voice. :)

You know how to get any tickets for Cologne?

[*Sarah*]

no idea... but at the end of september it's gonna be all TRAVIIIIIIS for me anyway, as the new album will be out on the 26th :dance:

[Black Rose]

*wishes Dejan won't post new album news in a separate thread, when there is no fecking need for it*

[Black Rose]

Did people know that tickets for UK gigs go on sale tomorrow?
I bet these tickets are gonna sell lightening fast.....

Within 2 hours they were all gone

[stemot1978]

The single sounds like Morning Glory to me. I hope this album flops cause its surpasses there two crap albums and youre out limit.

Although if Noel wrote most of the album there may still be hope.

That's a bit of a ****ish thing to say, DBTT was considered a return to form by many thus not crap, and Heathen Chemistry still is better than anything most other artists from the last 15 year have in their catalogue.

[StephenG]

Just bought Heathen Chemistry, so far I like it a lot. More so than DBTT. Not much point in the stretching of Better Man

[busybeeburns]

TORONTO — The album is ready, the Canadian tour is imminent and the insults have been flying for weeks.

Brit loudmouths Oasis are kicking off their Canadian tour Wednesday with the requisite boasts about their upcoming disc and potshots at acts like Coldplay, Radiohead and Amy Winehouse.

Such outbursts are par for the course with the outspoken Gallagher brothers, whose reputation for shock and awe dates back to their earliest days.

But frontman Liam Gallagher says from his London home that despite all the ballyhoo, he's been tamed by age and family life, having married his longtime Canadian girlfriend Nicole Appleton, the former All Saints singer, in a private ceremony earlier this year.

"I'm sick of drinking and smoking . . . you know what I mean," Gallagher says in an expletive-riddled phone interview.

"I've calmed down drinking," he says in his thick Manchester accent. "I don't really smoke as much as I used to and I'm just looking after myself a bit better. For me and my children. I just want to live forever, man, I don't want to be not well."

Still, avowals of a more balanced outlook come amid a slew of heavyhanded insults he and his brother have reportedly levied in recent days. Last week, the Guardian quoted Gallagher as calling Coldplay and Radiohead fans "boring and ugly," while older brother Noel made headlines after a BBC Radio 1 interview in which he compared the troubled Winehouse to a "destitute horse."

But as often as they tear a strip off others, the Gallaghers are notorious for feuding among themselves. That's something that will likely never change, says 35-year old Liam, noting the wild pair have settled into a truce of sorts that centres on as little contact as possible.

"We don't really speak that much, there's nothing to say," Gallagher says of 41-year-old Noel, the band's principal songwriter behind such monster '90s hits as "Wonderwall," "Don't Look Back in Anger" and "Supersonic."

"We speak if the music ain't right, we sort of pull each other aside and go, 'Look, you're doing that wrong or you're doing that right' and that's it really. ... We see enough of each other on the stage."

"I'm cool with it, there's things he don't like about me, there's things I don't like about him. I refuse to be like him and he refuses to be like me."

In the past, spectacular Gallagher blowups derailed several public appearances and tours, with Noel quitting the band following an onstage row in 1994, Liam backing out of a U.S. tour in '96, and Noel walking out on a European tour in 2000.

Things have calmed considerably since then, with recent tours passing without incident.

Tensions obviously remain, though. The elder Gallagher wasn't even at Liam's wedding - but then again, neither was anyone else. Gallagher says he kept the ceremony secret from everyone in an attempt to keep paparazzi at bay.

"I'm a pretty private person," says Gallagher, who wed the Toronto-raised Appleton on Valentine's Day.

"The minute you tell someone, someone tells that, and then you end up ... paranoid and blaming people. So I thought the best way to do it was to tell no one."

Meanwhile, it seems that he, Noel, bassist Andy Bell and guitarist Gem Archer have found a bit of spirituality. Most of the songs on their new disc, "Dig Out Your Soul," deal with religion in one way or another, but none of that was planned beforehand, says Gallagher, who wrote three songs. Bell and Archer each contributed one.

"We're not God-heads, and we don't go to church or anything," Gallagher says of the coincidence.

"It's just, we're talking about love, life, religion, death, but not in a morbid way. Angels and shit like that; it is what it is."

Gallagher's track "I'm Outta Time" includes a radio clip of John Lennon speaking shortly before his death in 1980. But he says it's not meant to be an ode to his musical hero, as some British press have suggested.

"People are sort of going on about this tribute to John Lennon - it's not a tribute to John," Gallagher says.

"If I tried to write a song about John Lennon it'd . . . sound ridiculous. So it's just a song, man. You know, people will have to get what they get from it, you know what I mean. I hate when people say 'it's about this, it's about that' because instantly people stop using their imagination and you just look for that."

Likewise, Gallagher isn't one for over-thinking a straight-ahead rock show. He's not fond of stage "gimmicks," he notes, preferring his signature pose in which he sings with his head angled upwards toward a mike on a stand, hands clasped behind his back.

"I'm the only who's doing that - everyone's throwing moves and throwing their arms about," says Gallagher, slipping into another rant.

"I'm sick of all these. Everyone that's in a . . . band these days, as soon as they open their mouth their hands go up in the air. . . . They all think they're Jumping Jack Flash, man."

"When it's got to rock, it's got to rock and when it's got to chill, it's got to chill, man. And I'm pretty good at both, I think."

Oasis kicks off an eight-concert Canadian tour Wednesday with stops in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, London, Ont., Ottawa and Montreal.

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[Black Rose]

about time they went down the experimental road they should have done this years ago!

They did experimental on Standing on the Shoulders, it got bad marks so they stopped being experimental for a while

[Glossal Fragster]

i like "the shock of lightning"......i didn't at first but i think it's a grower :D

[Dejan]

http://thescenestar.typepad.com/ss/images/2008/08/20/boxset_fp_banner_2.jpg

[Black Rose]

You could have put a link in that image dejan

[Lyla27]

Hm guess I have to listen to this Cologne gig to build up my own opinion about his voice. :)

You know how to get any tickets for Cologne?

win a competition :lol:

who is going to see them on their uk october?

[iPsy]

i like "the shock of lightning"......i didn't at first but i think it's a grower :D

Yeah, i didn't like it at first, but it is SOOOOOOOOO CATCHY!....


Love is a time machine,
up on the silver screen.... ;)

[Glossal Fragster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87IQhui_Yy8

"The Shock Of The Lightning" Official Video

Isn't The Very First Shot A Rolling Stones Album Cover? :\

[Black Rose]

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:)

Very random

[Glossal Fragster]

cheers david :D how do the "[media]" bits not work anymore? :\