Oasis reunion

BlueMoonday said:
(Not as moronic as paying £350 a ticket though)
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It depends how badly you want to see something - and obviously if you have the money.

I paid £50 for our £18 play off final from a lad outside Wembley - I wanted to see it that badly and luckily had the money.

Similarly for the Oasis Maine Road gigs in 96, I was desperate to see Oasis, especially at Maine Road.
I think the tickets then were £18 too?? (I'll have to dig out my stub)
Anyway, it sold out extremely quickly and back in those days when the internet was in it's infancy (didn't really exist!!) there was an advert in the NME of an agency in London who had tickets.
So, rang them up and acquired two at £60 each - I wanted to see them that badly and luckily had the money.

So, relatively if someone pays £350 for a £100 ticket, it's rougly the same ratio that I paid all those years ago.

I would have paid £350 to see then at Heaton Park, guranteed........unfortunately this time I don't have the money!!
 
Craig said:
I meant as a live band. Record sales aren’t really much to go on because people pretty much stopped buying records in the 90’s. Oasis have been the biggest band in terms of catching the mood of the country in many years. They did it in the 90’s and have just done it again. Probably the biggest band to come out of England this century (Coldplay aside) are the Arctic Monkeys yet i bet their record sales are pretty low
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The list includes CD's and downloads of albums not just vinyl. So it's sort of up to date...ish. Later issues don't seem to be counted.
 
ctidcarl said:
Album sales, agreed, but with today's world of streaming etc. I bet Oasis would be in the top thirty, probably the top twenty and maybe even the top ten.

Isn't Wonderwall one of the most streamed songs ever??
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I don't particulary care how many records they have sold. Whether they have sold more or less than Coldplay is not going to impact how much I enjoy it when I go to see them in a few months time.
I have not listened to Oasis for 20 odd years. They're not a band I will be sticking on the juke box. But it always raises a smile when I hear one of their tracks come on and I loved them at the time
I am excited about seeing them again and I am happy people have been given another opportunity to see them.
 
ctidcarl said:
Album sales, agreed, but with today's world of streaming etc. I bet Oasis would be in the top thirty, probably the top twenty and maybe even the top ten.

Isn't Wonderwall one of the most streamed songs ever??
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Wonderwall is 88th on Spotify's all time list.

Oasis are currently just outside the top 200 artists.
 
Nightmare Walking said:
I think their attitude and persona was of that time. You don't really get lad culture anymore.
There is nothing special about the music. It's not new or original. It just follows a line first tread by the Beatles. No one will be making documentaries about how Oasis changed music. They are just well crafted, catchy, pop/rock songs that you can sing along to. The songs will last the test of time as they are good songs.
In the same way punk did, Oasis will have inspired a whole generation of kids to pick up guitars.
Oasis are more than the songs, they are a cultural phenomenon. They have had more of an impact on British culture than they have had on British Music.
It just happens they have a bucketload of great songs that people want to hear and sing along with.
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They just have a connection with a lot of people I think. They hit their time at exactly the right time for them! I think young people still see a connection. Working class lads done well for themselves but still come across as working class lads. I think Morrissey once described Liam as “very runt of the litter”

I was at a HFB gig last year and it was a much older audience. Not that many under 30’s there yet Noel still makes good music and I find his gigs more my cup of tea now than Liam’s. Having said that I’m a bit jealous when I see the footage now that I wasn’t successful :-)
 
Nightmare Walking said:
I don't particulary care how many records they have sold. Whether they have sold more or less than Coldplay is not going to impact how much I enjoy it when I go to see them in a few months time.
I have not listened to Oasis for 20 odd years. They're not a band I will be sticking on the juke box. But it always raises a smile when I hear one of their tracks come on and I loved them at the time
I am excited about seeing them again and I am happy people have been given another opportunity to see them.
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I agree with you on this (I wasn't disagreeing on my first reply, was just curious and I'm happy to have been enlightened)

Music is what it gives you - you the individual.
Be that on your own listening on headphones or with a group of ten mates within an 80,000 crowd - where every song sung and every note played, you feel as if it's being done for just you, the individual.

Similarly I have every album, every CD single, therefore all the B-sides, I can listen to them on many streaming platforms, but...........when an Oasis track comes on the radio or someone has put it on in the pub, I too get a smile on my face and feel good for those few minutes.

Whatever people think of them as a band or individuals, in my opinion, these last two weekends, they've nailed it
 
ctidcarl said:
Album sales, agreed, but with today's world of streaming etc. I bet Oasis would be in the top thirty, probably the top twenty and maybe even the top ten.

Isn't Wonderwall one of the most streamed songs ever??
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I know Don’t Look Back In Anger is the most played song on the radio of the past 25 years.
 
ctidcarl said:
It depends how badly you want to see something - and obviously if you have the money.

I paid £50 for our £18 play off final from a lad outside Wembley - I wanted to see it that badly and luckily had the money.

Similarly for the Oasis Maine Road gigs in 96, I was desperate to see Oasis, especially at Maine Road.
I think the tickets then were £18 too?? (I'll have to dig out my stub)
Anyway, it sold out extremely quickly and back in those days when the internet was in it's infancy (didn't really exist!!) there was an advert in the NME of an agency in London who had tickets.
So, rang them up and acquired two at £60 each - I wanted to see them that badly and luckily had the money.

So, relatively if someone pays £350 for a £100 ticket, it's rougly the same ratio that I paid all those years ago.

I would have paid £350 to see then at Heaton Park, guranteed........unfortunately this time I don't have the money!!
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What's that saying; something like "anything is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it", something like that anyway.
 
jimharri said:
What's that saying; something like "anything is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it", something like that anyway.
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Pretty much isn't it.

For example, I've stopped buying big bars of chocolate in the supermarket as I feel it's expensive and I'm getting ripped off.

But, paying over the odds for something which will give me memories that can "Live Forever".........can you really put a price on that??
 
ctidcarl said:
Pretty much isn't it.

For example, I've stopped buying big bars of chocolate in the supermarket as I feel it's expensive and I'm getting ripped off.

But, paying over the odds for something which will give me memories that can "Live Forever".........can you really put a price on that??
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No. My Instanbul flight price being a good example!
 
Nightmare Walking said:
I think their attitude and persona was of that time. You don't really get lad culture anymore.
There is nothing special about the music. It's not new or original. It just follows a line first tread by the Beatles. No one will be making documentaries about how Oasis changed music. They are just well crafted, catchy, pop/rock songs that you can sing along to. The songs will last the test of time as they are good songs.
In the same way punk did, Oasis will have inspired a whole generation of kids to pick up guitars.
Oasis are more than the songs, they are a cultural phenomenon. They have had more of an impact on British culture than they have had on British Music.
It just happens they have a bucketload of great songs that people want to hear and sing along with.
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Yes and that’s what I mean of them being of their time, and the reason why it’s caught on again now is for nostalgia reasons more than anything, both for themselves and the kids who have grown up listening to their parents music (I was the same with my dads!).

I’m in two minds about the songs tbh. I was a big Oasis fan and went to Knebworth and can play all their songs myself (which isn’t difficult, I know!). Aside from if I was at a gig like what they’re doing now, which would be amazing and I’m very jealous of anyone going, I can’t listen to them in general anymore aside from a few of them. A lot need that big singalong, that’s what makes them.
 
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