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Have heard it once or twice recently also. ("Better Days")
I was almost cringing through it at one point due to how nasal the vocals were. And the lyrics were the most generic shoite imaginable. If it was a new song by a complete unknown, it surely wouldn't get any attention.
"There'll be better days when the sun gets into you And the shadows of your heart There'll be better days when my love will find you Even though we're miles apart Like an aeroplane, as the world fades out And there's a new world yet to come And all your pain will release at night Into the arms of the chosen one
If you're lost, I'll find you there With the sunlight in your hair And the sadness washed away by the rain
Believe me, yeah Believe me, yeah"
Groundbreaking.
What is the deal with singing in such a nasal manner? It's unpleasant. I don't mind his voice really when he isn't singing in quite that fashion.
Heard a Liam Gallagher song on Radio 2 today on 23:23 - May 26 by Swansea_Blue
The question of whether he’s a good or bad song writer I’d leave to the purists and musical experts. All I know is under Oasis him and the band nailed it. I’ve not followed his stuff since, but their contribution to the whole 90s indi scene was spot on, and probably the most significant of any band (sport Blur - too niche, not popular enough). Banging stuff. Nothing since has come close in terms of popularity or commercial success. Ed maybe commercially, but he’s a bit wet compared to what Oasis served up.
Mind you, I don’t think Oasis wouldn’t have even been noticeable if not for the groundwork from bands like Inspiral Carpets, Stone Roses, The Verve, etc. I know the Beatles are always quoted as their musical inspiration, but I reckon that would have been meaningless without the Manchester indi scene laying the contemporary foundations for them. Cracking band, but of their time.
Blur had success in the US something which Oasis never did, they definitely weren't niche. Oasis released two great albums then a handful of decent songs - by and large their career after What's The Story way pretty underwhelming
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Heard a Liam Gallagher song on Radio 2 today on 08:01 - May 27 with 824 views
Heard a Liam Gallagher song on Radio 2 today on 07:51 - May 27 by dickie
Blur had success in the US something which Oasis never did, they definitely weren't niche. Oasis released two great albums then a handful of decent songs - by and large their career after What's The Story way pretty underwhelming
Not entirely true. Oasis weren’t a massive success over there but they still had three top ten albums as well as a couple more that charted highly.
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Heard a Liam Gallagher song on Radio 2 today on 08:09 - May 27 with 818 views
Heard a Liam Gallagher song on Radio 2 today on 23:23 - May 26 by Swansea_Blue
The question of whether he’s a good or bad song writer I’d leave to the purists and musical experts. All I know is under Oasis him and the band nailed it. I’ve not followed his stuff since, but their contribution to the whole 90s indi scene was spot on, and probably the most significant of any band (sport Blur - too niche, not popular enough). Banging stuff. Nothing since has come close in terms of popularity or commercial success. Ed maybe commercially, but he’s a bit wet compared to what Oasis served up.
Mind you, I don’t think Oasis wouldn’t have even been noticeable if not for the groundwork from bands like Inspiral Carpets, Stone Roses, The Verve, etc. I know the Beatles are always quoted as their musical inspiration, but I reckon that would have been meaningless without the Manchester indi scene laying the contemporary foundations for them. Cracking band, but of their time.
I’m a big fan of Oasis but Noel was the brains behind 90% of the songs.
Heard a Liam Gallagher song on Radio 2 today on 23:23 - May 26 by Swansea_Blue
The question of whether he’s a good or bad song writer I’d leave to the purists and musical experts. All I know is under Oasis him and the band nailed it. I’ve not followed his stuff since, but their contribution to the whole 90s indi scene was spot on, and probably the most significant of any band (sport Blur - too niche, not popular enough). Banging stuff. Nothing since has come close in terms of popularity or commercial success. Ed maybe commercially, but he’s a bit wet compared to what Oasis served up.
Mind you, I don’t think Oasis wouldn’t have even been noticeable if not for the groundwork from bands like Inspiral Carpets, Stone Roses, The Verve, etc. I know the Beatles are always quoted as their musical inspiration, but I reckon that would have been meaningless without the Manchester indi scene laying the contemporary foundations for them. Cracking band, but of their time.
Some of the greatest songs of all time have lyrics that, when written down, could have been written by a toddler.
Likewise some stinkers actually have pretty clever lyrics if read as poetry rather than alongside whatever god awful tune was written alongside it.
I mean Let It Be. Classic. Lyrically simple as. Think of the success that Chumbawamba had for a while. Lyrics that could have been written by a drunk simpleton in a pub.
For me it is all about the combination. No Limits was an absolute banger in the early 90's because it all worked together.
Oasis, even in a lot of their songs that make absolutely no lyrical sense no matter how much you analyse them, were absolute giants of their time and the first two albums of theirs were as good as rock and roll gets. I was lucky enough to see them live when it was largely those hits.
Even when they trotted out some mediocre albums there were one or two legitimately incredible songs on there. As you say, they owed a lot more to the Manchester scene than the Beatles, it was just a lazy comparison because Oasis themselves mentioned how much they loved to cover them and did so many Beatles songs.
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Heard a Liam Gallagher song on Radio 2 today on 12:12 - May 27 with 733 views
Heard a Liam Gallagher song on Radio 2 today on 07:51 - May 27 by dickie
Blur had success in the US something which Oasis never did, they definitely weren't niche. Oasis released two great albums then a handful of decent songs - by and large their career after What's The Story way pretty underwhelming
Blur v Oasis was the Pablo v Shefki argument of its time
Heard a Liam Gallagher song on Radio 2 today on 22:41 - May 26 by Lord_Lucan
There's nothing wrong with Oasis full stop.
If anything they are a bit underrated, I know their stuff echoed a lot of Beatles, Slade and all that stuff but their first two albums were sensational.
Proper rock and roll dudes as well.
I never saw them live. I was supposed to see them at Chelmsford V but they had their bust up the night before and split.
Dalai Farmer reckons he saw them at The Army and Navy in Chelmsford but I've never been convinced about that.
Definitely Maybe is quality, anything after this I don't Like
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Heard a Liam Gallagher song on Radio 2 today on 13:37 - May 27 with 678 views
I loved the whole Manchester indie scene from the late 80's early 90's. Oasis just followed on and they bring back some cracking memories from a wonderfully carefree time in my life.
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Heard a Liam Gallagher song on Radio 2 today on 00:10 - May 28 with 606 views
Heard a Liam Gallagher song on Radio 2 today on 14:02 - May 27 by fabian_illness
I loved the whole Manchester indie scene from the late 80's early 90's. Oasis just followed on and they bring back some cracking memories from a wonderfully carefree time in my life.
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