Oasis Split - Official

[beeboo]

Ah so it is true - I heard this on the radio this morning in a sleepy stupor and wasn't sure if I dreamt it.

Happy day!

 

[Pie 1]

From the Gruaniad:

Following last night's announcement the band's fans took to micro-blogging site Twitter to express their sadness.

"Noel Gallagher leaves Oasis? Gutted" posted PsychedelicAdam. Wolvolass said: "I feel sick, sooo many good memories and gigs seeing Oasis over the years." MattGriffin added: "This is the worst day ever."

Ben Clover, 28, who travelled from south London for the festival said: "I was hoping to see the band on the top of their game"

If such a thing ever existed, you were 12.

 

[han]

Hi pinky! longtime no see (mwah!)

Oh yes, the Stone Roses were far superior.

I saw them at Stratford upon Avon Civic Hall in 1990 (when I was 17) and they blew my mind.

Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova are the only Oasis songs IMO that are really any good. Just my opinion, like. But even those songs are not as good as any by the Stone Roses.

 

[Stigmata]

Dunno what everyone's getting so pleased about. It's not like they were ever going to release another high-profile mega hit album, and their old standards will keep getting airtime for years and years.

 

[Maggot]

Dunno what everyone's getting so pleased about. It's not like they were ever going to release another high-profile mega hit album, and their old standards will keep getting airtime for years and years.

Plus it's likely to mean lots more Oasis played on the radio and TV for a while.

 

[editor]

Just thought I'd try to be the first to break the happy news.
BBC report here

 

[Cloo]

It was fun for one album. After that it was just dull and irrelevant.

 

[audiotech]

Strange reaction, particularly when my memories of Oasis will be all those middle class students, in the union bar I was working at the time, singing along to their lyrics with gusto.

 

[Orangesanlemons]

Sadly, Pickman's beat me to it. But cheers anyway.

 

[editor]

*threads merged

 

[ouchmonkey]

that's right brightened my day that has

 

[ebay sex moomin]

apparently it all came down to musical indifferences

 

[Maggot]

Where's the picture of a Supernova?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

praise the fucking Lord. Them and Big Brother in one week

 

[stavros]

This reminds me of the thread about footballers who should've stayed at their first club, in that Oasis would be quite fondly remembered if they'd packed it in/imploded after "Definitely Maybe". That was a very good, if heavily derived, album.

 

[Wookey]

Couldn't fucking stick Oasis, I was always more of a Damon Albarn fan.

I hope neither of them make any more music, ever again, ever.

 

[treelover]

Strange that no one has mentioned NG's resignation letter which talks about about how he 'can't take the violence and imitimidation any longer', strong words indeed, But i though he was a hardman....

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

This reminds me of the thread about footballers who should've stayed at their first club, in that Oasis would be quite fondly remembered if they'd packed it in/imploded after "Definitely Maybe". That was a very good, if heavily derived, album.

You see, I don't even agree with the people who say the first album was good and then they got shit. I thought they were pap when I first first heard them, just a bog standard pub-indie band. They were less indie after that, but didn't get any worse as such, they were always shit.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Hi Han! *waves*

In some ways I resent them as they rode in on the coat tails of the Stone Roses, who were the rightful heir to lead the charge into the latter part of the nineties and had more original material as well. Still I can't deny them the fact that their earlier material was a part of the tapestry of sound that formed the backdrop to my early/mid nineties.

If the Roses had their act a bit more together they could have been the biggest British act of the 90s. They just threw it all away, or possibly shot their load with the first album

 

[treelover]

Obviously musical taste is subjective, but it has always baffled me why Oasis were so successful, in fact its one of the great mysteries of our time. But what is even more baffling is the critical acclaim this pub rock band received: I often wonder what say, a 1980 NME writer would have wrote about them if they had existed then, particuarly Paul Morley and his kind.

 

[Wilf]

Strange that no one has mentioned NG's resignation letter which talks about about how he 'can't take the violence and imitimidation any longer', strong words indeed, But i though he was a hardman....

It was odd (think it was something like 'intimidation to him, his friends and family'). Its either got very very nasty or he's trying to position himself for the 'legacy'/avoiding the blame for the split. Be amusing if Liam has to start learning a bit of counselling speak to express the hurt he has been feeling...

My line on oasis is the predictable one - couple of good (perhaps very good albums) - but nothing since. The blokey aggression and swagger was part of that on the way up, but it just got tedious over the last decade. Liam was a full on div, but Noel did give great interviews.

 

[rorymac]

Obviously musical taste is subjective, but it has always baffled me why Oasis were so successful, in fact its one of the great mysteries of our time. But what is even more baffling is the critical acclaim this pub rock band received: I often wonder what say, a 1980 NME writer would have wrote about them if they had existed then, particuarly Paul Morley and his kind.

'I think U2 are the best band I've ever seen' Paul Morley Leeds Futurama 1980

'Never mind the rain and never mind Manchester is my motto .. did Oasis rock ? well yes they did let's get it right. The Stone Roses didn't and folks like me and my like who think they did are wufters' PM

 

[Endeavour]

I've watched Paul Morley get lost in a supermarket

 

[Geri]

I liked them in the beginning - the first two albums were good, and the one that has loads of B sides on. I started to lose interest after that.

They are still very popular though - one of the blokes at work went to see them at Wembley a month or so back, and he was so excited about it. He's only about 27 or so.

 

[yardbird]

Apparently Liam smashed Noel's beloved Gibson 335.

The End.

 

[Clint Iguana]

Apparently this marks the end of materialism

 

[Clint Iguana]

If the Roses had their act a bit more together they could have been the biggest British act of the 90s. They just threw it all away, or possibly shot their load with the first album

They were the best british act of the 90s. Oasis at their best were not fit to be drum roadies for the Roses.

I was absolutley gutted when they (stone roses) split, but it does mean they never got to become boring and plod on long after thier shelf life had passed.

 

[krtek a houby]

Good news. Oasis didn't progress, same formula for the last 2 decades!

Hope Noel does well in his solo career & doesn't believe all the hype and disappear up his arse like Weller.

 

[Silva]

They were the best british act of the 90s. Oasis at their best were not fit to be drum roadies for the Roses.

I was absolutley gutted when they (stone roses) split, but it does mean they never got to become boring and plod on long after thier shelf life had passed.

Reading '96? After Reni and then Squire left, the whole thing was a joke, tbh.

This just crossed my mind - With Oasis gone, maybe now Andy Bell can reform Ride? Of course, I avoid their later stuff like the plague, but I'd be more than happy to see them perform their earlier stuff live

 

[Gingerman]

Noel always came across as a decent sort Liam just came across as a twat