Now I'm not embarrassed in the slightest to admit being a massive Oasis fan back in the day - I was in my late teens at the height of Britpop and saw Oasis twice between '94-'95 - but to listen to the likes of Wonderwall and (especially) Don't Look Back In Anger now make my skin crawl. I guess the love affair ended when my old university housemate Andy grew his hair like Liam's and started sounding like a Manc although he was from Portsmouth. Normally I keep the CDs/records that mean something to me, like signposts or markers to different times (I've still got the first ever CD I owned - R.E.M's Out Of Time - which I was given in '91). But for some reason I couldn't wait to get shot of WTS?MG. I had all the singles too - and tried to sell them recently at a car boot sale. I ended up giving them away to a very polite young man in a Gibson T-Shirt. _________________ 'Reggae' & t'ing Folk 'n Stuff SHAMELESS RECORD DEALER PLUG
Now I'm not embarrassed in the slightest to admit being a massive Oasis fan back in the day - I was in my late teens at the height of Britpop and saw Oasis twice between '94-'95 - but to listen to the likes of Wonderwall and (especially) Don't Look Back In Anger now make my skin crawl. I guess the love affair ended when my old university housemate Andy grew his hair like Liam's and started sounding like a Manc although he was from Portsmouth. Normally I keep the CDs/records that mean something to me, like signposts or markers to different times (I've still got the first ever CD I owned - R.E.M's Out Of Time - which I was given in '91). But for some reason I couldn't wait to get shot of WTS?MG. I had all the singles too - and tried to sell them recently at a car boot sale. I ended up giving them away to a very polite young man in a Gibson T-Shirt.
Totally agree, it was nightmare once the Liam clones arrived. In fact a whole load of albums from that Britpop era...can't listen to Parklife all the way through, Pulp, etc. Only a couple I've never tired of and they would be the Elastica and Gene debut albums. I actually did listen to Definitely Maybe again for probably the first time in well over 10 years again recently and it wasn't too bad. Certainly nowhere near as good as I thought it was when it came out which kind of ties in with what a few of us were saying about the premature praising of this current decade, in the 'What's been the best decade for music thread'.
I've hinted at this in a few other threads, but I think a lot of pop-rock flavored stuff gets really, really worn out from over-exposure much more quickly than other music for me, even now at a time that I don't listen to as much and certainly don't endlessly repeat albums anymore. As a result, a lot of pretty major stuff is immediate background noise for me - David Bowie's non-Berlin/Station to Station stuff, all the Beatles records, a lot of the Flaming Lips catalog, etc. There's also big hype machine driven stuff that I overexposed myself to right off the bat like MBDTF that felt old by about a week after the album actually legitimately got released and the stuff that worked as a gateway to its influences and is thus sort of neglected at present like LCD Soundsystem and tons of others. Then there's the fundamental shifts in taste category where stuff like most indie rock languishes for me.
I adored both of these albums when I was a teenager, and I'm guessing I wasn't the only one here who did. Nowadays I may enjoy three or four tracks counting both albums, but the rest is pretty mediocre, I must admit. I still think "Breaking the habit" is a great track though.
I adored both of these albums when I was a teenager, and I'm guessing I wasn't the only one here who did. Nowadays I may enjoy three or four tracks counting both albums, but the rest is pretty mediocre, I must admit. I still think "Breaking the habit" is a great track though.
You said it way better than I ever could. I agree with Breaking the habit though.
I think when I was younger I used to completely tune the vocals out when I was listening to music. Nowadays I can't deal with the lyrics and the guy with the whiney voice on this album.
Was at one point head over heels in love with this golden record. But due to the fact that i frequently grow out of the phases i go through, i can no longer take this album seriously half of the time. But when I get into one of those moods where i just feel gloomy, i can rock this album all day.
Now I'm not embarrassed in the slightest to admit being a massive Oasis fan back in the day - I was in my late teens at the height of Britpop and saw Oasis twice between '94-'95 - but to listen to the likes of Wonderwall and (especially) Don't Look Back In Anger now make my skin crawl. I guess the love affair ended when my old university housemate Andy grew his hair like Liam's and started sounding like a Manc although he was from Portsmouth. Normally I keep the CDs/records that mean something to me, like signposts or markers to different times (I've still got the first ever CD I owned - R.E.M's Out Of Time - which I was given in '91). But for some reason I couldn't wait to get shot of WTS?MG. I had all the singles too - and tried to sell them recently at a car boot sale. I ended up giving them away to a very polite young man in a Gibson T-Shirt.
Totally agree too. I hope Oxfam made something from my donated copy... I used to love them, and this was a big reason why I got into music, but still, it's pretty painful now...
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