It's just not difficult to be good at sounding like everyone else. When you're taking your influence from the classics, it's even easier. This band sounds like a college bar band playing some strange hybrid of Oasis cover songs crossed with hippy Grateful Dead country music. It sounds like Credence (where they got their name), it sounds like Neil Young, it sounds like the Stones, it sounds like Oasis and a hundred other Sixties country/rock style bands.
Unfortunately, it's not even pleasantly derivative. This was one of the most boring songs I have EVER heard. I quite like all that old classic rock stuff, and even some Oasis isn't too bad. But this was utterly bland and banal, without the element of novelty (at the time) that the aforementioned bands had. Sure, they'd make plenty of money on the US college circuit, playing for bland, drunk suburban students. But is that really what they want out of life? Noel, what are you doing? You must be so lame.
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4Laurie Parker's Score