Does Oasis suck or what?

[RagingInMiami]

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/6318/Oasis.html

[mark414]

1. some people just have too much time on their hands

and i don't even really like oasis

[LoZoccolo]

2. That page looks like it's from 1996.

Probably the guy likes Oasis by now.

[liberalpragmatist]

3. Rolls eyes

Seriously, the whole Oasis-hatred on this board (along with the slavish Oasis worship of some fans on the board) is getting old. I'm a huge fan but number one, I'm not going to force Oasis down everyone else's throats, and number two, who fucking cares? If you don't like them don't worry about them.

I find it particularly odd that Oasis comes ups so much in the DU Lounge - I never hear anybody talking about them anywhere else.

It can often be fun to play this whole back-and-forth game - in fact, I had quite a bit of fun playing this game last weekend, but it's getting a little tiresome by now - what, the eighty-millionth time?!

And yeah, someone DOES have too much time on his or her hands.

[RagingInMiami]

7. Hey, I don't hate Oasis

I saw them in concert in Cork, Ireland.

[liberalpragmatist]

10. It's ok - i figure you're just going along with the whole Oasis wars...

...in the DU Lounge. I still think it's getting tiresome. I mean, it was fun - real fun - for awhile. Now it's just getting old. VERY old. Sorry.

[RagingInMiami]

13. I didn't realize there were actual wars on this subject

You learn something everyday.

[liberalpragmatist]

14. Oh, many dead

Quite tragic.

[UdoKier]

16. They seem like kinda buttholes, but their tunes are good.

Who cares? Not like we have to hang out with them...

[Floogeldy]

4. In a different time and place, . . . .

. . . . Oasis would have been a good back up group for Neil Young.

B-)

[liberalpragmatist]

8. Actually, I think they DID back up Neil Young

Or at least they opened for him.

http://www.oa515.com/inter057.htm

"I personally wasn't gonna tour outside of England again," says Noel, "but then Marcus called in to say there's three gigs offered. I said we're not interested, really, but then he says one of them's Rock in Rio, one's opening up for Neil Young and one's in Venezuela. It was like, 'Fucking hell, ummm, when is it?' and he said January and it was like, 'Aah, fucking cold and wet... January in South America? That'll do me."'

<snip>

...later Neil Young tells them how they're one of his favourite groups. That's some reputation to keep up, and tonight they've more than managed it. Post-gig, backstage, and everyone's well happy. "When Noel comes in," bass player Andy Bell tells me, "shout 'Buckethead!'"

...A Guinness to chase, and the next thing I remember is standing side-stage for Neil Young, singing 'Down By The River' and 'Like A Hurricane', a trip to a bar with Neil and Oasis, then feeling all tired and finding a tree outside the hotel where the band were staying, and pulling round a screen. But I think my feet were poking out, which the security see, then it's me and five of them, and I'm like, "Give me your name, I'll have you, ya bastard!", and then the sun coming up as my head goes around- I hear talk of Caracas but I think somebody is calling me crackers, and I'll have them all if I could only see them. Best off it before I get certified, or nicked, or both. Do me a favour though, security twats - give Oasis a message from me: Be seeing ya, lads. Maybe? Most fucking definitely.

[Floogeldy]

9. Forgive me if I mis-spoke

I didn't mean "opening act." I meant his back up band, i.e., the musicians he hires to stand behind him and accompany while performing.

B-)

[liberalpragmatist]

11. Oh I understood

That's why I qualified with "or at least opened for him"

[LoZoccolo]

5. Look at what that page has.

Blinking.

That's how old it is.

[fallout]

6. oasis isn't that bad... at least they sound unique...

whatever happened to the bands who put guitar solos and "intelligent" mixing on their album? not many...

nowadays i reflect on the early 90's music... alice in chains, nirvana, perl jam, etc.. they were all very unique.

i think oasis has their own sound, you might say "they sound like the beatles" but most just say that because they are from the same place.

with that said, who cares? if you don't like them then don't listen to them. they are musicians (artists) doing what they do. god bless 'em.

fo

[imenja]

12. yes

:puke:

[Kenneth ken]

15. I have to vote "or what"

because that's what on do on these types of questions. I really don't know anything about Oasis, except that they are a british band. I don't know that I've ever heard their music.

[liberalpragmatist]

17. Have you heard "Wonderwall" or "Champagne Supernova"

They were ubiquitous in alternative radio in the US in '96.

Really, they're not bad. They're actually one of my favorite bands. But they're fun to hate b/c they're so obnoxious and generally quite honest about their influences. It's basically British trad-rock. Classical, traditional rock structures - verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus. Big sing-a-long choruses. Tunefulness. If that's your thing, check them out. If not, move on - there's plenty of other good music out there.

[Kenneth ken]

18. those titles don't sound familiar

I expect if I did hear them, they didn't catch my ear enough to make me want to find out who the band was. The past several years I've been mostly buying old 60s-late 80s music that I don't have. A few newer things, but not all that much. I stopped listening to radio about 3 years ago, because in my area it's all Clear-Channel, and obnoxious.

I'm not nearly the music junkie I was when I was in my twenties.

:hi:

[HEyHEY]

19. ooohhh they suck - it's just racket