During the nineties, I plain ran out of CD to buy. Most of the artists that I care for I already have and the new music that is coming out just do not click with me. I never thought this day will happen, that I am sounding like my father, who said the same things with The Beatles, that they just don't make music like they use to. But amid the muzak, there was one group, Oasis, whose name and music keeps coming up. I like their image too, the Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam does look like the early Beatles with their mop top hair cuts. Not surprising considering that The Beatles were their main influence. I don't care much for their attitudes and behaviour though. Brothers and brothers fighting each other in public. Their behavior in public made The Rolling Stones looks like girl guides. There were arrogant too, time and time again, boasting in the press that there were the biggest to come out of Britain since The Beatles. So what it comes down to is the music. I wouldn't say that it completely blow me over but amid all the manufactured pretty boy bands, there was some seriously good music to be heard here. With all the publicity and furores, I just have to give them a listen. And I was not disappointed..
TIME FLIES...1994 - 2009 : After much thoughts and hesitation, I finally bought this double CD, and thankfully I was not disappointed at all. I was not familiar with their music at all prior to this purchase so that is understandable. I wasn't really paying attention when I first bought this about three years ago. Listening to it now seems like listening to a new CD. The first few songs from Disc 1 just have me salivating. How could all these gems have escaped me. They sounded more Beatles than Electric Light Orchestra who was supposed to be modeled after The Beatles. 'Supersonic', 'Roll With It', 'Live Forever', and 'Wonder wall' could all very well be Beatles songs. 'Songbird' have a kind of child like nursery rhyme to it while 'Don't Look Back In Anger' , with the Imagine like intro,is the kind of songs that could wipe any audience in any concert into a frenzy. I saw them performing this song on You Tube and to say it's awe inspiring is an understatement. Just seeing those people singing along with them alone will leave you yearning for more. 'Stand By Me' is the kind of song that sounded so familiar when you first heard it but then again it's a newly written song so it just can't be. The melody of this song just won't leave my mind. After countless listen in my car, I knew all the words. Disc 2 is not as immediate as the first disc thought I'm sure it will grow on me in time. 'Some Might Say', 'The Importance Of Being Idle' 'D'You Know What I Mean', Lyla all have that Oasis stamp.'Let There Be Love' shows that the boys know how to sing ballads as well as they do rock.. Strangely when I played this song in the car, it didn't mean nothing to me but when I played it at home, I heard a different song, one that convinced me that Oasis may just be the one I'm looking for all these years. 'Whatever' is nice and 'I'm Outta Time' with a sweet haunting melody is about John Lennon. It also contains a short excerpt from the man himself. What's there not to like. Maybe I need to stop listening to them all at once but now that I am aware of Oasis, I may just buy their other greatest CD which consists their hits as well as their B sides. DOP : 25th December 2010.
