Music discussion thread

[duffer]

The newest Gym Class Heroes Album - The Quilt is quality. Cookie Jar is a good song but the album is chock full of better ones IMO. Drnk Txt Romeo is my favourite though. Can so relate to it. Travy is a really talented guy.

[cpr]

You know, one song i never got the hype about was Coma, mind you the chances of me getting that far into an album are low, as my attention span is.....

[GIMH]

Coma's awesome, the lyrics are mega, and the bit when all the women are ranting at Axl and then Slash just turns the guitar up....magic, how often do we all feel like doing that???

Like you, btw, I am also quite fond of Be Here Now. It's a bit like UYI in the way, overblown, critically panned, the band themselves aren't particularly fond of large chunks of it, the songs are long and self-indulgent, yet it's good rock and roll, loads of loud guitars and great tunes. Love it (Y) - that being said I prefer the last two oasis albums to the three that came before it, ie my order of preference is as follows:

Defo Maybe
Heathen Chemistry
Don't Believe the Truth
Be Here Now
Morning Glory
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants

Probs prefer The Masterplan to Morning Glory & SOTSOG as well. The live album's not great though, of all of the oasis gigs that I've listened to those Wembley gigs are amongst the worst

[BoyBrumby]

Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

Like you, btw, I am also quite fond of Be Here Now. It's a bit like UYI in the way, overblown, critically panned, the band themselves aren't particularly fond of large chunks of it, the songs are long and self-indulgent, yet it's good rock and roll, loads of loud guitars and great tunes. Love it (Y) - that being said I prefer the last two oasis albums to the three that came before it, ie my order of preference is as follows:

Defo Maybe
Heathen Chemistry
Don't Believe the Truth
Be Here Now
Morning Glory
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants

Probs prefer The Masterplan to Morning Glory & SOTSOG as well. The live album's not great though, of all of the oasis gigs that I've listened to those Wembley gigs are amongst the worst

FWIW I'd go:

Definitely Maybe
Morning Glory
Don't Believe The Truth
Heathen Chemistry
Be Here Now
Shoulder of Giants

Masterplan might even go as high as 2 tho, were it an album proper. I think the singles from Be Here Now are great (D'You Know What I Mean? & Stand By Me are two of their best), but there's a lot of water-treading on that album. Magic Pie might well be a career nadir too.

[sledger]

Would go listen to 13 by Blur before touching any of the Oasis albums tbh.

[Matteh]

Awta

[GIMH]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

FWIW I'd go:

Definitely Maybe
Morning Glory
Don't Believe The Truth
Heathen Chemistry
Be Here Now
Shoulder of Giants

Masterplan might even go as high as 2 tho, were it an album proper. I think the singles from Be Here Now are great (D'You Know What I Mean? & Stand By Me are two of their best), but there's a lot of water-treading on that album. Magic Pie might well be a career nadir too.

Always got the feeling that Oasis could have spent more time on Be Here Now and less time breaking CW forum rules and it could have been great, but basically they they (or Noel) felt it had to come out when it did because they were so, so popular right then. None of their albums since then have met universal approval the way the first two did but they still remain massive, says a lot about how much people loved those early albums and also the personalities of the Gallaghers. Loads of bands have been outselling Oasis for over ten years but they remain huge.

[16 tins of Spam]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Sort of following on from the Oasis discussion that precedes this post, but mainly because I'm currently listening to Because Of The Times by Kings Of Leon, I thought I'd throw this thought out there. There seems to be an awful lot of groups who hit the ground running with inspired debut albums & then really struggle to live up to this early promise. Definitely Maybe is (MHO, obv) comfortably the best Oasis album (and it's probably because it caught me at just the right time that I still give them more time of day than a lot on CW seem to) & since then each of their subsequent releases has been compared to it & found wanting in said comparison. Even Don't Believe The Truth (a big return to form) was generally hailed as their best since... yadda, yadda.

This annoys me. Fair enough if you feel that a band simply hasn't produced anything decent since [whenever], but to constantly be demanding another Definitely Maybe or whatever strikes me as pointless. We already have Definitely Maybe, I enjoy hearing Oasis doing something a bit different. They can still rock hard without singing about trying to get out of Manchester, because let's face it, they've done that haven't they?

Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

I think you're on the money, on the most part. I'd say a lot of people prefer Morning Glory to Definitely Maybe - I don't, and I don't know many who love oasis like I do that prefer any other album to the first.

I don't really think Morning Glory's much chop at all. IMO it's on a level with Standing on the Shoulder of Giants in that it's half kick-arse and half filler. As far as I'm concerned Definitely Maybe is the only Oasis record that's actually a great album - all the others have good stuff on them, but a lot of ordinary or just plain poor stuff too. Heathen Chemistry's the only album of theirs that I think is plain boring, but strangely I also think that The Hindu Times is one of their best tracks ever.

Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

Like you, btw, I am also quite fond of Be Here Now. It's a bit like UYI in the way, overblown, critically panned, the band themselves aren't particularly fond of large chunks of it, the songs are long and self-indulgent, yet it's good rock and roll, loads of loud guitars and great tunes.

I've often thought it should be remixed, a la Let It Be. Then we'd hear the great record that lies buried underneath piles of cocaine and 40 guitar tracks on every song. Oh, and swap Magic Pie with Stay Young.

[GIMH]

Originally Posted by 16 tins of Spam

This annoys me. Fair enough if you feel that a band simply hasn't produced anything decent since [whenever], but to constantly be demanding another Definitely Maybe or whatever strikes me as pointless. We already have Definitely Maybe, I enjoy hearing Oasis doing something a bit different. They can still rock hard without singing about trying to get out of Manchester, because let's face it, they've done that haven't they?


I don't really think Morning Glory's much chop at all. IMO it's on a level with Standing on the Shoulder of Giants in that it's half kick-arse and half filler. As far as I'm concerned Definitely Maybe is the only Oasis record that's actually a great album - all the others have good stuff on them, but a lot of ordinary or just plain poor stuff too. Heathen Chemistry's the only album of theirs that I think is plain boring, but strangely I also think that The Hindu Times is one of their best tracks ever.


I've often thought it should be remixed, a la Let It Be. Then we'd hear the great record that lies buried underneath piles of cocaine and 40 guitar tracks on every song. Oh, and swap Magic Pie with Stay Young.

Best call.

[BoyBrumby]

Originally Posted by 16 tins of Spam

This annoys me. Fair enough if you feel that a band simply hasn't produced anything decent since [whenever], but to constantly be demanding another Definitely Maybe or whatever strikes me as pointless. We already have Definitely Maybe, I enjoy hearing Oasis doing something a bit different. They can still rock hard without singing about trying to get out of Manchester, because let's face it, they've done that haven't they?

To be fair I'm not exactly demanding another Definitely Maybe (although an album that was as good would be nice, no question) just noting a trend amongst bands of which Oasis are one of the most obvious examples. As I said a few posts back I thought Don't Believe... was a real return to form and I'll definitely purchase their new LP too. If someone new to the group asked me which was the best Oasis album to buy tho I wouldn't hesitate in recommending their debut.

I wasn't even saying that a band's debut being their best work is a bad thing, really. It often stands to reason that it should be; you have your whole life to write your first album & a few months to come up with the second.

[16 tins of Spam]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

To be fair I'm not exactly demanding another Definitely Maybe

Sorry if that sounded like a dig at you, dude. It totally wasn't.

[NZTailender]

Been listening to a lot of 2 Many DJs/Soulwax lately. So gun. Can mix anything into anything and make it sound good.

[Kweek]

tried Justice? they are gun imho

[NZTailender]

Yeah, really like Justice too. D.A.N.C.E. never gets old too.

[Josh]

Loving Newton Faulkner, Charlie Parr and The Tallest Man On Earth at the moment.