- Jan 19, 2010
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[Music] Oasis - 2025
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NorthstandRacoon
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Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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I kind of agree with you but i know if there is I'll buy it even if it'd clearly a load of old shit.
I've spent the past decade or so convinced I wasn't bothered about a reunion and had solid reasons
for it but as soon as they announced it I lost my shit with excitement.
Mr Banana
Tedious chump
I like Simon Price but if I had to guess, the Guardian desk has contacted a bunch of writers offering £100 for a counter to the piece they ran earlier in the week in which loads of their (pretty cynical) critics said the reunion is culturally significant. He’s never liked Oasis but his main arguments read a bit contrived.
BBassic
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His entire piece can be shortened to this one line, found near the end:
But the art needs to at least be good.
That's all it boils down to. All his pontificating is summed up by, essentially, "I think the music is shit"
Just say that Simon and save everyone a few minutes of their lives.
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Fairly sure Simon Price DJ’d at one NSC’ers wedding?
Could have been the same night, cannot recall as the bar probably had my attention.
*Straining with everything I have not to make a joke that Bootleg Beatles were actually the main act that evening...*
AmexRuislip
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Nowt at the moment, still hoping!
That was the previous year in 1996 when bootleg beetles supported them, massive crowd crush on the Saturday night show made the news, we went the Sunday after coming back from a 1-0 defeat away at Carlisle on the Saturday ! what a night it was at earls court
- Jan 3, 2012
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Being a dad, I wouldn’t touch it with a bargepole.
And nor would my 42 year old daughter, who’s a mum. Most overrated band in the history of British Music alongside Led Zeppelin.
- Oct 17, 2008
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Agree, it’s nonsense like this which gives the Grauniad a bad rap. It’s miles apart from their excellent world news coverage. If they cut ALL the editorials designed to “shock” (I’m thinking Owen Jones and his ilk) I’d probably subscribe.
- Jan 3, 2012
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What’s wrong with saying you’re not impressed by something loads of other people are going overboard about.When you posted this, did you lean back in your chair, crack your knuckles and think “I’ll just wait for the post likes to come rolling in”.
What a completely pointless post in the OASIS thread
Sometimes I wonder about this place!
i saw one post elsewhere today where people were complaining that kids were getting in on the act and that it should be restricted to older people, to which somebody had responded that “well, everybody in England is an Oasis fan”. One needs to shatter such delusions!
- Oct 17, 2008
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1. It’s an Oasis thread full of people very excited about the reunion who just want to enjoy something nice for themselves in these shit, bleak times of economic ruin.What’s wrong with saying you’re not impressed by something loads of other people are going overboard about.
i saw one post elsewhere today where people were complaining that kids were getting in on the act and that it should be restricted to older people, to which somebody had responded that “well, everybody in England is an Oasis fan”. One needs to shatter such delusions!
2. The same people commenting multiple times how they don’t like Oasis - in the Oasis thread. A thread they’ve intentionally opened, then typed out a comment in, just to get a reaction and be adversarial.
3. This is genuinely a big event, wall to wall news coverage, hundreds of posts on here, it clearly has mass appeal and for people who don’t like them this seems to be really piss them off. I’m sorry your super cool niche band aren’t selling out the biggest stadiums in the country a year in advance.
That c*** really is triggeredNot much of an endorsement from the Guardian of the Gallager Brothers reunion concert plans I am afraid to say
Stop the celebrations – Oasis are the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history | Simon Price
Dismal lyrics, plodding tunes and prehistoric political views: why is everyone so happy that the Gallagher brothers are back, asks Simon Pricewww.theguardian.com
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
But before you go off on too much of a rant, for balance the same publication also published this:
The real magic of Oasis? They made a better kind of Britain seem briefly possible | Alex Niven
Ignore for now what they became and recall the radical vision that fuelled their rise – and made the nation embrace them, writes academic and author Alex Niven
www.theguardian.com
And
Will an Oasis reunion be a success? Definitely. Will it be worth it? Maybe | Alexis Petridis
Their first two albums and B-sides were fantastic, but after that things got bloated and weary. The reunion could go either way and that’s what makes it exciting
www.theguardian.com
Plus others. It’s almost like they allow their journalists to express various sometimes contradictory views and opinions.
Half Time Pies
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It's a strange phenomenon, same thing happens whenever the Beatles are mentioned, it prompts a whole load of contrarian odd balls to feel like they need to jump on a thread to claim that they were shit/ average/ overrated etc.
I was never a massive Oasis fan but I can appreciate what they achieved as a band, their impact on popular culture during the 90's and why them reforming is such a big occasion for many people.
No disrespect, but sounds like you’re firmly in grandad rock territory…Being a dad, I wouldn’t touch it with a bargepole.
And nor would my 42 year old daughter, who’s a mum. Most overrated band in the history of British Music alongside Led Zeppelin.