Bad Blue 2000 wrote:subsub wrote:Bad Blue 2000 wrote:black_guardian wrote:I can still recall when I first heard Definitely Maybe...
As my mate skipped through the tracks all we said was..
"WELL THAT SOUNDS LIKE T-REX, THE BEATLES, NEW SEEKERS ETC."
We genuinely thought they were taking the piss. It sounded like a shit tribute album from K-Tel.
Probably true, but you have to put it in to the context of the time.
The biggest "indie" bands at the time were JAMC and Ride, proper shoe-gazers.
Oasis, whatever you may think of them, were positive.
Not my favourite Manc band by a mile, but they could write a tune.
They could rip off other people's tunes, yes...
They never denied it, bands before them did.
If you're playing four chords you'll always sound like somebody else.
In their heyday they wrote better b-sides than most bands a-sides, and I'm not a big fan of theirs.
I heard Noel Gallagher in an interview one time and he acknowledged thus fact.
He said "we can't improve on what The Beatles or the Stones did so we don't even try....we just make music that people seem to enjoy".