Oasis greatest hits tracklisting revealed

but they seem to have missed most of their best songs.

they've managed to miss 3 singles off the first album but still included All Around The World.

Wait, why do I care?

most bizarre tracklisting ever. Seriously, did they just have a raffle to decide this? How else would The Hindu Times make it?

Bizarre.

'Some Might Say' = It's Shit
'Don't Look Back In Anger' = Contrived "Anthem"
'D'You Know What I Mean?' = No
'All Around The World' = Fuck right off
'Go Let It Out' = Keep it in.
'The Hindu Times' = the sound of George Harrison clocking up 75 RPMs
'Lyla' = Ugh!
'The Importance Of Being Idle' = EUGH!
'Masterplan' = Concoct half-baked pub tunes. Sell to chavs. Repeat.
'Half The World Away' = Half a good idea.
'Acquiesce' = Kill yourself
'Champagne Supernova' = Cocaine Quasar
'Rock 'n' Roll Star' = How do you transpose the least boring occupation into a boring song. Listen and learn.
'Supersonic' = Ironically mid-tempo?
'Wonderwall' = Rhyming couplets should be outlawed
'Whatever' = Exactly
'Boy With The Blues' = I've never heard this. It will be shit.
'Stop The Clocks' = This will be muscular shit. Horseshit, as it were.

Contrary to all this, I don't dislike Oasis. I nothing them.

The best song of the 90's isn't even on the bloody record.

some well-meaning relative is bound to buy me this for christmas.

And its their best song!

they first came out...i was 16 at the time and agree or not, they were a kick up the arse for the alternative scene at the time. i first watched them along with about 500 people in a dingy nightclub in cardiff and it was absolutely awesome! a night i will never forget

admittedly they have gone downhill but what band that gets to that level of fame doesent? they are just like a pub band now and liam and noels outspoken views just seem cringeworthy.....but for a moment i thought they were superb.

music snobs will obviously disagree...

I'm not an Oasis fan and haven't cared at all about them for many years but i's ludicrous to claim all Oasis songs are terrible.

Whilst I don't care for most of Oasis' output (and I can't even remember the Hindu Times), I'd say "Don't Look Back In Anger", "The Importance of Being Idle", "Masterplan", "Supersonic" and "Acquiesce" are really strong songs.

Of course "Live Forever" is their best song and not on here.

were incredible 10 years ago.

i dont care now.

Fucking mugs

especially that 4 yawns and to bed. I like. Cracks me up when some Oasis news comes out, prompting the hataz to pipe up. Anyone with an informed musical bent would appreciate the importance of Oasis' tunes to modern music whether they're fans or not...unfotunately these folk's views are often swamped in the quagmire that is bitterness...

Slide Away should've been there.

with reckoning...

when i was 16 they were as important to me as the pistols probably were to a lot of teens in 1977....and the beatles in 1966. there is nothing wrong with that....when has the NME mattered anyway. i used to buy the NME in 1994 and they could not be more up oasis arses if they had tried

i have always had a soft spot for bands who have spent hours rehearsing in a garage on a council estate...whilst being on the dole. the idea of paying to watch a load of art school fopps disagrees with me (although i did it with blur).

wish oasis, like it or not, you had a breath of fresh air and a frontman that backed up how he looked, with a singing voice and stage presence.

people may not like the music and thats fine...but attacking them just says to me that you probably wish you were like them!

Got five posts out of it. And it didn't hardly take a minute.

Incidentally, your comment about Oasis' importance to modern music would have merit had they been anything more than a shameless throwback to better bands that existed 30 years before they did - unless you're seriously suggesting that coming up with two guitars, bass, drums, and 4 chords between the lot is somehow innovative?

It is without doubt that a whole load of modern guitar music is indebted to Oasis' work in the 90s. Obviously they have their own influences, some more obvious than others, but during 1996 (in particular) their impact on the youngsters, now strutting their stuff as rock stars today, was immense. Nothing has captured the UK's musical imagination like they did whilst leading the britpop charge during it's pomp. And whether you've always hated them or have jumped on that particular bandwagon, you'd be categorically wrong to say they're not or have never been an important band.

horseshit don't you?

Anyways i think you're slightly losing track of the argument here...i don't think anyone's claiming Oasis to be innovative, i'm just stating the fact that Oasis are a hugely influential band, not only through the style of music they played in the 90s but also through their 2-fingers, working-class attitude and live forever philosophies. Music was slightly less pretentious then as well so their vast array of supporters were made up mostly of people subscribing to these ideals, and not the scenesters which pack out venues today...

This isn't the tracklisting. It's the one The Sun "revealed" last week, and is wrong.
Not that I know what is on it - but I can't imagine if, as is claimed, it's the band's choice that Noel Gallagher would pick Lyla ("6th best song on our last album") over Live Forever.

The_Glory will buy this

He must already own all of these tracks in physical form already, so he'd have to be pretty-

Actually yeah he will.

Roget's has a lot to answer for. Now lets put a few things to bed:

Firstly, I've not equated 'influential' with 'good quality'. At no point have i said Oasis are quality...i may quite like them but this has been left from my argument as i'm focussing on their undoubted influence on today's music, which unlike me saying they're great and you saying they're shit, can be reasoned fairly objectively.
Secondly, my posting history on this subject has been concentrating solely on their influnce as a band, as leaders of a kind of movement which caught peoples imagination. I, again, have never claimed the musicians in the band to have inspired a new wave of budding Hendrixes (Hendrixi?)for example.
Thirdly your Liam comments kind of betray you...Liam's appeal and Oasis's in general was their don't give a fuck attitude...Liam doesn't care if you think he has no philosophies, he probably doesn't. He's a meathead rock n roll star and that's it. Again, we're not talking about the music.

Oasis make me happy. They remind me of a time when the world was in less of a mess than it is now. Yeah maybe they shoudlve stopped after the Masterplan but no-ones saying its hugely credible music, its appallingly simplistic and thats why it appeals to the masses (which seems to be the issue for many here) and largely borrowed from other musicians, but it makes me smile. Its still the starting point for many kids listing to guitar music and if it inspires them to pick up a guitar isnt that better than a knife? Maybe not if they write little james 2, yes, but you get my point. Slide Away should've been on there

you only had one paragraph. rightly so, splitting that into two would have made each look scanty.

just we were younger and didn't realise so much.