I don’t follow the oaf called Liam Gallagher on twitter, primarily because I can’t stand the bloke and secondly I am not, nor have ever been, a fan of his former popular beat combo outfit Oasis. In my opinion – and I know this stuff is totally subjective, which is why it’s my opinion – Oasis were massively overrated. There was nothing vaguely new about what they did, their music being hugely derivative, not least with their huge Beatles influences, combined with the worst lyrics in the history of lyric writing. Inevitably, they became successful. Now our Liam is encouraging his brother to get the band back together again.
Liam tweeted this: “Fucking fuck, our kid. My solo career is going better than it fucking should given the fucking shit on my new fucking album but I need a few fucking quid. Time we fucking got ‘O’ together, play the old songs and make fucking millions from people who only want to hear the fucking old songs. Fuck.” (I couldn’t find the precise words but this, I hope, represents the gist of it.) Will it actually happen?
AT least Noel Gallagher is making new and, judging from his last album but not the two before, different music and it’s quite good. The lyrics, concocted by using a rhyming dictionary, are still terrible but it’s hard to deny the man has the ear for a good tune. I’d even consider going to see Noel live, except that I can’t stand arena shows unless it’s to see someone who appears on my bucket list and, I’m afraid, the talented Gallagher is nowhere near mine. I wouldn’t cross the road to see and hear Oasis.
Biased, as I am, my view is that every Oasis album was worse than the one that came before. 1994’s Definitely Maybe was undoubtedly a good album, What’s the story morning glory a not bad album. By the time we reached their sixth album, the bizarrely Trumpian titled Don’t Believe the Truth, the word bad would have been a complement. Oasis had been trading on past glories for many, many years. They could fill stadia rather like a travelling, sweary jukebox and that’s fine if all you live for is nostalgia, not so fine if you like to hear new music.
I can definitely see a ‘reunion’ happening, probably within the next year, possibly even at ‘Glasto’ when Michael Eavis’s tired festival returns after a fallow year. And it will happen for one reason and one reason only: money. It’s why old bands always reform and it’s why a lot of old bands tarnish their reputation and legacy.
And there will certainly be huge demand for a stadium tour from the 50 and 60-something men who are desperate to hear Don’t Look Back In Anger because they haven’t heard it for at least half an hour.
Rock and roll isn’t dead yet but an Oasis reunion would certainly provide another nail to drive into its coffin.
