journolud
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I was around 31 when this album came out so maybe just outside the main demographic. It was a time though that I wasn't so much trying to recapture my youth but compensate for the one I didn't have much of in the first place and between marriages Oasis certainly fitted the bill for the feeling of something or other that I had at the time.
I don't know why I didn't get to see them at Maine Road in April 1996, I guess it had sold out quickly and it was probably the time when you had to actually urn up somewhere to buy tickets. In any case I remember feeling I was missing out big time on an "event". I was at Maine Road though when Wonderwall was adapted to elulogise Alan Ball and Georgie KInkladze, the latter more deserving of it than the former to be fair.
I left the UK for a couple of years in September 1996, Oasis two albums into their career and again pre internet days it was hard to keep up with the music scene in the UK from where I was but on returning home I found that Oasis had less to offer me than they had before. I think I have most of their albums downloaded but can honesly say I can hardly name a track on some of them and rarely feel like I want to listen to them.
Another random memory apropos of nothing I remember feeling really disappointed when the Oasis v Blur thing was at it's height and Roll With It came up against Country House. Roll With It just felt like it had been knocked out without much effort and was up against a band I didn't particularly like but put in a decent perfomance on that occasion. Reminds me now of the recent FA Cup final but that is probably a bit tenuous.
Anyway to this album, I hadn't listened to it for a while but was very pleasantly surpised to discover that it was something I would want to listen to more than I do. Similar to the Jam last week I set off on a retrospective to see what I might have missed. Morning Glory is also a great listen on the whole, I can't say one of these two albums is better than the other but half way through Be Here Now I could find my interest waning and I kind of gave up on listening to the rest. Maybe one day...
I like Noel's solo stuff but not to the extent that I play that so often either and there are a lot of good tracks on the Masterplan. Definitely, Maybe is certainly of the moment but was great to listen to it again and it's worth an 8.
I don't know why I didn't get to see them at Maine Road in April 1996, I guess it had sold out quickly and it was probably the time when you had to actually urn up somewhere to buy tickets. In any case I remember feeling I was missing out big time on an "event". I was at Maine Road though when Wonderwall was adapted to elulogise Alan Ball and Georgie KInkladze, the latter more deserving of it than the former to be fair.
I left the UK for a couple of years in September 1996, Oasis two albums into their career and again pre internet days it was hard to keep up with the music scene in the UK from where I was but on returning home I found that Oasis had less to offer me than they had before. I think I have most of their albums downloaded but can honesly say I can hardly name a track on some of them and rarely feel like I want to listen to them.
Another random memory apropos of nothing I remember feeling really disappointed when the Oasis v Blur thing was at it's height and Roll With It came up against Country House. Roll With It just felt like it had been knocked out without much effort and was up against a band I didn't particularly like but put in a decent perfomance on that occasion. Reminds me now of the recent FA Cup final but that is probably a bit tenuous.
Anyway to this album, I hadn't listened to it for a while but was very pleasantly surpised to discover that it was something I would want to listen to more than I do. Similar to the Jam last week I set off on a retrospective to see what I might have missed. Morning Glory is also a great listen on the whole, I can't say one of these two albums is better than the other but half way through Be Here Now I could find my interest waning and I kind of gave up on listening to the rest. Maybe one day...
I like Noel's solo stuff but not to the extent that I play that so often either and there are a lot of good tracks on the Masterplan. Definitely, Maybe is certainly of the moment but was great to listen to it again and it's worth an 8.