You are a fully fledged music snob. Congrats!

Do yourself a favour and listen to their first 2 albums and B SIDE COMPILATION, that will shut you up. It probably annoys you that Oasis’ albums are always present in best album polls across the country and abroad.

Now I’m off the listen to Acquiesce.

So I was pretty sure most hardcore Oasis fans were blithering idiots before I wrote the piece.

Now I’m certain beyond a shadow of a doubt.

I don’t know where you’re getting it from I’m not familiar with their discography. I have heard every single track, off every single album of theirs, although it’s not really necessaryto hear it all, since the alterations from album-to-album are marginal at best.

I love how Oasis fans, as well as Ac/DC ones, or fans of insert any other mindless, anthem-oriented band here ______, always dismiss blatant stupidity and uncreativity as ‘good ol fashioned rock n roll’, or in your case, “rock n roll persona of cool”. And apparently I’m jealous of them because I don’t like them, and believe me, while I love your college-girl mentality, I’m just not sure how much weight it holds in this forum.

Perhaps you love a completly unpredictable setlist, as do many boneheaded Oasis fans, but believe it or not, some of us actually like the element of the unknown when we go see our favourite bands, I know that might be tough to comprehend for you, since that’s probably the opposite of ‘cool’ to you.

You sound like some spiteful girlfriend who is dating some abusive, banal boyfriend who has treated you like shit for several years now, but one who seems to be the cock of the walk in the high school corridors. When anyone points out to you what a shithead he actually is, you just accus them of being jealous because you know, he’s just so cool!

People like you never really gave the prolific work of early to mid Oasis Noel Gallagher a shot. People like you never gave the Lydon/Lennon esque live vocals of early to mid Liam Gallagher a shot. The only reason they mattered so much for so long was that their first several years of success were so great that matching it has become an impossible task. Did Richards, Lennon/Macca, Townshend, Bono, or any of the so called great bands write a debut and follow up like Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory? Hardly. Did their b-side smatch Noel’s? Absolutely not. It’s hard to continue greatness when you were head and shoulders above everybody else in your time and much of your b-sides that most people never heard were better than most bands’ material. Most people, except critics, are willing find something to enjoy on their later albums because there is good music in them while realizing a Definitely Maybe or Morning Glory may never be possible for the band to reproduce (if they even should). As for their live shows, a lot of critics complain that they appear disinterested on stage or that they just play “greatest hit” setlists and don’t experiment. Their apparent disinterest is part of their rock n roll persona of cool, something people like you don’t understand but are incredibly jealous of, coupled with their intense interest on playing music. This is not Mick Jagger with two guitarists behind a curtain. About setlists, most bands would kill to play their setlist and that’s why most bands are cover bands.

Quitting your job would rid the world one more idiot critic that doesn’t spend enough time listening to music before he puts pen on paper.

You’re right, I haven’t seen them, but that’s no fault of my own, as the Oasis lads have been pretty public about their dislike for my continent, hence Canada usually only gets 2-3 shows out of 70 + whenever they tour.

Having said that, I have read countless reviews of the band playing disinterested shows, not to mention how prone they are to disaster in their shows. I’m sure Oasis is capable of putting on great shows, but from following them over the years, that doesn’t seem to be the rule of the hour.

To me, the whole ‘average lads making it’ thing is pretty uninteresting to me. Most bands come from pretty blue-collar backgrounds, it’s not like Oasis emerged from Bosnia to sell out stadiums for the next ten years. We gotta evaluate them on the music they brought to us, and while those songs you mentioned aren’t inherently bad ones, to me they’re cookie cutter versions of each other, just with a slightly different flavour.

We need bands like Oasis in the industry, rocks who never change or falter. But I also hesitate to champion such acts.

I’ve seen them twice and there were visceral, vital performances, loved by thousands. I hate the argument that sales = quality, but Oasis have been selling out stadiums for ten years, so they must be doing something right in their live shows.

Oasis may have only made two truly great albums, but since then they’ve shown they are capable of moments of brilliance – I’m Outta Time, Songbird, Little By Little, Stop Crying Your Heart Out, Don’t Go Away, Stand By Me, Sunday Morning Call etc (Interestingly, I think the band’s best moments since the first two albums are generally more reflective tracks, ballads, if you will).

The whole point about Oasis was that they were about escapism. Here was a group of lads that showed you could do something. They were just like us, but they proved that normal people can make it. And even if that means we have to put up with the Enemy as a result, we should be grateful for the hope that Oasis gave to the North’s underclass.