I think Adam sums up how i feel about Oasis when he mentions how he discovered them on the ITV1 Chart Show. The album had been around for a good while by the time they made the charts, but the mainstream ‘straight’ audience that the Chart Show performance gained them would never have been pulled from the indie discos and toilet venues up and down the UK. I noticed a huge change in the crowds attending indie nights over that period. Shirts and jeans ‘footie lads’ were suddenly launching themselves into the mosh pit, scattering scruffy goth and punk kids away to start up their own niche club nights. Oasis pretty much killed the indie disco for a lot of people back in 1994/5. But then musical taste is not neccesarily dictated by quality – One man’s Chopin is another man’s Shitmat.

ps. Y.X – Listen again to ‘She comes in the fall’ and tell me that the Inspirals can’t write a pop hook! I should imagine that their music played a big part in teaching Oasis how to craft a pop song.

PPS. RE Quo comparisons – surely the heirs to TRex’s back catalogue are owed a bit of cash from Noel and Liam? ‘Lets get it on’/ ‘Cigarettes and Alcohol’ anyone?

All oasis were, was the most popular generic guitar band at the time, but in a media dominated by middle class indie kids, this must mean they were the sound of a whole generation. Wrong!

Oasis didn’t herald in a new era, they were the fag end of the madchester scene, producing shite that probably wouldn’t have made the charlatans recording studio.

Lloyd your comment is hilarious, its the equivalent of someone from the 70′s saying Showaddywaddy were the voice of that generation totally ignorant of the emerging punk scene.

The post Thatcherite generation didn’t need a voice, they were the voice. In bedrooms up & down the land, new music was being produced & played out in the warehouses and fields of the u.k.

10th hand recordings of Top Buzz, Spiral Tribe, Rat Pack, sasha etc etc we’re the sound track of the generation

Acts passed in parliament to stop “the threat” of kids of all classes, creeds, colours, rural & urban from coming together

Oasis we’re the voice of a generation, the generation that needed its music reviewed, hyped up in the pages of NME, Melody Maker and The Face. Easily accesible on the airwaves and on the shelves of our price and HMV. A modern day status quo, with catchy riffs and choruses.

I had the copy of The Face which had Liam on the cover and heralded them as the new Pistols or Beatles. The real story though was a few pages on, about the emerging Drum & Bass scene. That was the real story of that time

The sound for middle class kids, who thought it was edgy to walk like a constipated silverback and grow their hair like mods, again!

Ask any mancunian worth their salt from this era & they will tell you Noel Gallagher was little more then a guitar man for the Inspiral Carpets and Oasis we’re a band from south of manchester.

stick with what you think were the seminal sounds of the early to mid 90′s, i know different.

P.S H is short for Harry, my forename. Sorry i couldn’t think of anything “ledgy” of “epic” like doogmeister or something, but i’ve been called H along time before steps and a long time after.

at least steps and their fans accept what their music was, pop music. I just wish oasis fans would accept that there music was just a slightly more edgy/rocky version of hanson.

Anyway, things pale into insignificance, just heard the sad sad news about Gary Speed. I Wont forget the Young Swash buckler, with the ravers hair at leeds. Was probably my favourite non Bristol city/ Arsenal player for a time. RIP, you will be missed and thanks for the memories