Fave Oasis album?
Reading that they were reissuing the first three albums this year because Definetly Maybe is 20 years old made me want to relisten to all their albums.
I am quite the Oasis stan so even the worst one (Dig Out Your Soul) still has its moments for me. The Masterplan was wasted as a B Sides album it contains songs that are better than the ones on "Be Here Now"
I am quite the Oasis stan so even the worst one (Dig Out Your Soul) still has its moments for me. The Masterplan was wasted as a B Sides album it contains songs that are better than the ones on "Be Here Now"
Pick your fave 60 votes
Definetly Maybe (1994)
45%
27 votes
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
45%
27 votes
Be Here Now (1997)
1%
1 vote
The Masterplan (1998)
3%
2 votes
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (2000)
1%
1 vote
Heathen Chemistry (2002)
1%
1 vote
Don't Believe the Truth (2005)
1%
1 vote
Dig Out Your Soul (2008)
0%
0 votes
0
Comments
This is precisely what i think. there has never been another Indie record quite like it since in my opinion, every track is an anthem!
My favourite Oasis song is actually from Heathen Chemistry, but overall What's The Story by far.
Never got the fuss over What's The Story, to highly polished, lacked the raw energy of the first album, perfect in a stadium with it's anthem tunes for everybody to sing along to, but not so great at home.
I gave up after Be Here Now.
But Definitely Maybe for me. Brilliant tunes throughout!
I haven't heard any of their other albums, I didn't like any of the singles from Be Here Now so lost interest in them.
They pretty much became a different band when Gem and Andy joined, some decent tracks here and there with the later stuff but they'd lost the magic by then and had just become Oasis.
The B-sides were incredible too. Lets face it, if Noel had just saved some of the best songs used as B-Sides the 3rd album would have never have been so patchy. Still it added up to The Masterplan being a great album simply by collecting some of the best B-sides together.
Out of the other albums for me Don't Believe the Truth was rather good as well but I suspect by that time most had got fed up of them. In retrospect their other albums usually had about 2 or 3 really great tunes on and then the rest was filler. I suppose those 2 or 3 really great songs per album were better than a lot of their peers though.
Edit: If they went downhill when Gem and co. joined the band in place of the old members does that mean Bonehead was the real talent all along:D;-)?
Whats the Story just has more memorable appeal for me though.
DM was the best!
I said they became a different band. And more up and down than just downhill. Dig Out Your Soul and Heathen Chemistry are great.
There are some gems on the other albums but nothing will ever top those two... EVER!!
I never saw them as amazing songwriters. Technically, their music is very basic and uncomplicated and some of the lyrics and verses are pretty rubbish. I tended to like the songs Noel sang (The Masterplan, Half the World Away, Don't look back in an anger etc) in preference to Liam's sneering whine.
What I think Oasis were, were very lucky. They happened to appear on the eve of a "change" in the mid-nineties, at the time that people were really in need of something to feel good about in Britain, and they rode that particular "Britpop" wave with aplomb.
The songs were simple, shouty anthems that everybody could get behind, even me at Maine Road in 1996. It was a great era all round really, and Oasis became the poster boys for it.
Definitely Maybe just edges it, but I don't much listen to it these days. Of its time.
I also prefer Noels voice but lets not exaggerate on Liam's as in the studio its a very pleasant voice its just live it tends to grate at times.
At the time their Beatleseque retro sound was the total opposite of the manufactured pop bands, American grunge, and cheesy dance tracks than dominated the early 90’s music scene. They showed people a different way and that is why they had such an impact. Of course nothing lasts forever and it all ended in a lot of idiotic twattery, but even you admit it was great at the time.
P.S. To the chap who seemed to take my Bonehead remark as a personal sniping remark it twas was a light hearted joke. The thought of Bonehead being the real songwriting talent all along just appeals to my silly sense of humour. Or even better Guigsy:D!
I'm not denying that they had put the work in, but in my opinion they epitomise the idea of a band who were just the right thing, at the right time. A bit like the original Star Wars. It's not technically a great film, but it seemed to be what people needed at that time when it was released, so enjoyed a kind of zeitgeist effect.
There was a tiredness in the UK at the time, and the whole Britpop thing was almost a cultural change that people were screaming out for. It coincided with that "Cool Britannia" thing and the optimism in the run up to the elections when we finally ended years of Tory government (didn't work out too well with Labour of course, but we weren't to know that at the time) Oasis seemed to be the musical figurehead of that whole wave of (mostly excellent) British bands that appeared at that time, but I wouldn't say they were the best musically.
Did Guigsy even play on the albums?
What's The Story is OK, but as someone above says, a bit too polished. After that, we were promised every time that a new one was released that this one was going to be Oasis back to form. It never happened.