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The worst music feature ever?
Posted by Niks on 10 February 2009 - 7:19pm.
Is this the most tedious, pointless waste of ones and zeros ever to grace the music pages of a national newspaper website?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/feb/10/oasis-best-gigs-mc...
I'm not sure if it made it into the print version of the Guardian (I can see one from where I'm sitting but I'm just to lazy to go and check), but if it did then that surely has to be the most worthless sheet of paper in existence.
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It's just a way to get more hits
They know if they do a blog praising Oasis they will get loads of outraged comments. They do it all the time on the Guardian blogs.
The worst thing
about that is the link: Check out Alan Mcgee's new website 'Too Cool to Die.' Jesus wept. The man must be at least 50.
Liam - one of the best vocalists since Elvis
Christ on a bike. That is a dictionary definition of hyperbole.
Not so much hyperbole
More just an outrageous reverse of the truth. I think he's an appalling singer. All delivered in the same beligerent tone with no dynamics of light and shade. When Noel sings, Oasis can be quite listenable.
If anyone wants my top five Marillion gigs...
you only have to ask.
Tempting ...
Perhaps not the gig list! But I would definitely appreciate an album recommendation or two. I only have 'Clutching at Straws', oddly.
Seek medical advice
The fact that anyone's been to 5 is pretty astounding
Well you've either been to them all
or you haven't been to any. They're that sort of band.
Specs - you can't go too far wrong with 1995's Afraid of Sunlight. Trust me.
I saw Oasis at Glastonbury in 95. They were rubbish.
Part of me agrees with you,
but as I've only ever been to one Oasis gig, and there it is at the top of the list, I feel my ego has been stroked.
I know, accuse me of being easily pleased, if you will.
My only Oasis gig...
is at number 3 on that list, but I can't for the life of me recall Liam being even remotely "Jagger-like" on that occasion anyway.
For what it's worth, the Eagles gig the next day was infinitely more enjoyable.
Well said:
Jagger - never keeps still for a second on stage
LG - never moves on stage at all
Bastard...
Never included the two nights at G-MEX I worked at. They were bazzin, and one was live on MTV. Full of slebs too. Like him from New Order. And Curly from Corrie. That's. It.
Bazzin?
Is this a good or a bad thing? You must forgive me. I am very old.
Mad for it
Any better?
Shurely
it was really written for Private Eye - some mistake?
I actually went to one of those shows...
at Earls Court. I remember thinking I should check out what all the fuss was about, but I was underwhelmed by the experience. The really annoying thing is I had the option to go to see Radiohead on the same night, but chose to see Oasis. How that decision haunts me to this day...
On reflection, with that dilemma
I would have stayed in.
On the night
Oasis played at the GMEX, Elton was at the MEN Arena and Paul Weller was at the Apollo. What a party they must have had at the Premier Lodge Travel Inn that night...
Premier Lodge Travel Inn Mancs
I left a birthday card for my neice in my room there, containing a tenner. By mistake. It wasn't that night, but could anyone in the vicinity nip up to room 305 and see if it is still there.
That bleedin Liam
will get there before me. He stays there when City are at home
Phew!
What a relief that I saw Oasis instead of being enticed to Radiohead!