Oasis
Stop The Clocks

I really haven't got much of them at all, this sounds exactly like my bag.

the cover. Good review as well.

normally i don't like to be so negative. but my taste has been laid claim to (i'm definitely of that 'certain age') and i'd like it back.

i was a little unsure about this release when it was first announced. But as the review says, these songs aren't getting overplayed to death anymore, and hearing them with some slightly fresh ears beings back some magic.

Seriously, play Slide Away or Live Forever loud on your IPOD on your way home tonight and you'll think 'ahh tune!'

is such an amazing song. The first time I saw oasis they played it for the first time in years. I was only 16. I got far too excited.

come on man, lets be serious even if you don't like the song selections these songs defined a generation both in the uk and around the world. mind you i would have included songs like listen up, rockin chair, gas panic, and do you know what mean. but that is besides the point. since,i own everything on stop the clocks.

also, people need to revaluate standing on the shoulder of giants. fucking in the bushes, gas panic, roll it over, go let it out, where did it all go wrong, and sunday morning call are all quality songs. that are leaps and bounds ahead of anything on heathen chemistry. which is just an awful awful record.

Double Gash!

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Thom!

sucked ass. "Stand by me" is one of the worst songs ever. However "D'yer know what I mean?" was the bands best...

could have been better this record if they'd veered more away from the early stuff, but hey-ho...

I'll take that arguement:

led zep

genesis

duran duran

culture club!

depeche mode

the cure

..right off the top of my head

"most Beatlish British band since the Beatles" : you can have that, if you like

jus cos Noelly G has it tattooed on the inside of his eyelids don't necessarily make it so

only Morning Glory really sold in the US and I don't believe that topped a million sales.

so

in fact

let's go for

Oasis = nearly as big as Bush, slightly less stable than Duran, almost as drug addled as Depeche Mode, considerably less important than Led Zep, but, easily, consistently funnier than Genesis
but not as good as the Cure

He could shave that into the monobrow if he liked.

I do like them, mind.
Not, y'know, much
but I have a fair few of their records.
And I like their interviews a lot.
A lot.
I have read more Oasis interviews than any other band.
That Noel IS a funny fucker and not without insight.

the biggest British band since the Beatles.

They're pretty popular here but they haven't had a huge impact in many overseas territories, especially in the States, where I reckon Bush, Coldplay and even Snow Patrol have had more success.

I just tried Googling for top selling bands but drew a blank. I reckon Oasis aren't even in the top 5.

I like the early Oasis stuff, but the last few albums have had neither grit nor real soul. They have not broken boundaries, they do not have thought provoking lyrics. It really put me off Oasis when I read that Liam just makes up random phrases that rhymes and sounds effective. (Admittedly my very own Pixies did that, but they ticked all the other boxes like being groundbreaking and subversive). Even in their own words, Oasis are derivative. They are radio-friendly, granny-friendly soft rock.

I am really surprised that this site will give Oasis a decent review when bands like The Feeling, who peddle a not-entirely-dissimilar hummable radio friendly soft sound get pelted with rancid tomatoes. In fact, I think The Feeling have come up with more memorable tunes than Oasis have in recent years.

truth.

OK First two albums quality!
Then next two shite(Be Here Now/Standing On The Shoulders), but how many bands do you know that would of bounced back from that! Not many and this band have especially with their last album!
Don't you think that it shows as well no Be Here Now songs on this album and the band still sell out all over the UK!

By making this record largely 1995 and earlier, it's hardly going to be a bad listen in itself. It just means it's hardly worth having I guess. What person who has ever liked Oasis doesn't own Definitely Maybe, Morning Glory and either The Masterplan or the early singles?

I generally like their interviews, but do get really cheesed off with their constant slagging of anything that isn't, funnily enough, "the big music".

the first 11 or songs on here draw heavily from dm and wtsmgbut thats no bad thing. There's always gonna be some cynical person who says oh they left stand by me or whatever you can't please everyone. They've outlasted the Beatles but my one slight draw back is they didn't really push the boundary's like their heroes, which i feel they can, maybe in the future hey...

thats something that Oasis really shouldve done, and is perhaps their most frustrating feature.
It looked like they were gonna attempt something new on SOTSOG.
I was lucky enough to hear Fuckin in the Bushes even before Go Let It Out had been previewed and from hearing that I thought they were gonna make a great experimental album. Never really happened though, and they just reverted to type.

I would love to hear maybe a totally acoustic album, or even some electronics (i can hear Liam spitting at that already)
I hate all the crappy fake psycadelica Noel tries to add to his songs. Who Feels Love is a prime example

Quite right. Oasis were overrated then and the fact that anyone cares enough to buy a 'listen to this stuff we wrote when people thought we were good' suggests that they still are. It's a shame.
Also, since when were sales a benchmark of quality - Jason Donovan managed to get into the top 100 album sales of all time for Pete's sake!

Oasis defined a generation musically in the same way that My Family defined a generation comedically.

Fuck Oasis. Again.

Yeah. Absolutely collossal they were. They were almost as big as David Devant, Kenny Process Team and Denim. Staggeringly popular bands all of them.

I'd rate him almost as highly as Stealthy for sheer entertainment value.

it was the second biggest selling album in the UK after Pepper? At least, it has been for the last four or five years.