They're no Ocean Colour Scene.


andi

Well I downloaded the new demos overnight last night - and I hit up my sons Oasis album collection. I intend to spend the weekend listening, hopefully without a prejudiced mind, and I'll see if I come away with an appreciation of the band.

Seb - are they known for their bootlegs? In other words are the live versions usually far better than the album tracks? I always tell people who want to get into Bruce to listen to the live stuff rather than the old albums. The sound on the old albums sucks and so do some of the arrangements. But live is always a different story.

I can't say that I see a lot of Oasis boots on the trackers that I'm a member of though.

Aloha !

Good. :) So far I Wanna Live In A Dream is my favourite "new" song. I really, really love it and just don't understand why they didn't put it on their 2005 album. It absolutely fits in there.

Yes Oasis are known for their bootlegs. Whenever they tour the world they obviously include the UK in their dates and do a shitload of gigs there. Although most shows are the same, there's always one or two that standout because Liam is on fire or the crowd is at their best. Their last tour was a disaster gig-wise because Liam sounded just shit and I really hope he gets it sorted. It was a bit like Jon on the Bounce tour, but far worse.

That said though, they don't really change a lot about the arrangements. In fact, I think the only songs they've ever changed are Fade In/Out and Champagne Supernova. Still, if you like for example Don't Look Back In Anger, one of their biggest hits, you should hear a live version with a crowd singing the tune. It's much, much better than the album version.

For some reason they refuse to use acoustic guitars on stage apart from the odd acoustic set here and there. When their best off collection hit stores Noel went on a small promo tour to promote the album and did about 20 acoustic shows all over the world. If you'd like to hear that you should download one from dime, they uploaded one a few days ago. It sounds completely different compared to the regular rockers you hear on the radio but Oasis fans went mad because they had about zero chance to be there. It's among the most special things Noel ever did.

Also, Oasis fans don't care if something is MP3 sourced or anything like that. It's a completely different world compared to dimeadozen. They just want everyone to hear the show and there are no traders that keep the shows for themselves as they see no point in that. If you want to I can send you a few links (MP3 obviously) with some of their best shows?

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Just Gorgeous. Best Oasis song doubt i'll ever get to hear it live.

I hope Noel does an acoustic tour, I prefer some of his versions to Liams, unplugged was a class show.

I quite liked this topic until you used Oasis as a way to vent your feelings about Bon Jovi. Pointless and sours the whole thread.

Good band, absolutely no basis for comparison with Jon or the rest of the band. What's The Story... is one of my favourite albums of all time.

Oasis drummer Zak Starkey is unlikely to perform with the band again after falling out with singer/guitarist Noel Gallagher.

According to The Sun today (May 12), Starkey is highly unlikely to play with the band on any forthcoming live dates, and his involvement in their forthcoming new album, recently completed, will be his last with Oasis.


The newspaper quotes a source close to the band as saying: "There have been arguments with Noel Gallagher and general disagreements."

No official announcement about a possible departure or replacement have been made by the band.

The band are due to embark on a US tour in August, and are rumoured to be announcing further live plans soon

He's a decent drummer Zak Starkey. I was impressed when I saw him live with The Who last year. I guess a drummer can be replaced easily enough though. Oasis are a good band. I don't care what anyone says. Noel has a tendancy to rip other songs off when he writes, and some of the songs don't make much sense, but then he has a great knack of making bullshit sound like it means something. Maybe it did at the time, maybe he was so ****ed up on Cocaine or whatever he was takin'. They were probably the best band around when I was growing up and I still listen to a lot of their music. The first two albums were brilliant and so was Masterplan which was made up mainly of b-sides from the Definately Maybe and Morning Glory sessions. Although now I feel the next album needs to be a big one as the previous two or three have been below par in my opinion.

Aloha !

If my comments about Bon Jovi having their Bad Name's and stuff gave you the impression that I wanted to vent about Bon Jovi you misunderstood. I was just trying to explain something and I didn't mean to bash Bon Jovi in any way with that comment.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

They just lost one of the greatest drummers of today with Zak Starkey leaving. For those of you who didn't know, he was taught by Keith Moon (former drummer for The Who) and people say he's better than his father (Ringo Starr). Currently drums for The Who when they go on tour every now and then. Saw them a few years back, still put on an unbelieveable show.

Uh, Oasis are very good, but Bon Jovi are way better IMO. And whoever said BJ haven't got classics that get the crowd going like Oasis has, what a load of poo that is :p