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Post by matt on Jan 20, 2024 16:39:19 GMT -5
"I could probably write an Oasis album if I had to, it would probably be fun to try and do it". Infuriating because if all of us were in Matt Morgan's position we'd be asking if he would write the entire album. Please Noel, if you ever get back together, write the entire album!
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Post by matt on Jan 20, 2024 10:47:56 GMT -5
So what's happening with Radiohead then? The Smile seem more than just a mere side project. There won't be a new Radiohead album before 2026 at the earliest. The Smile is gonna be very busy in 2024 touring the globe and possibly releasing even more material. We know they have 4 other songs done but not released. Ed is finishing his second album now. Due in September. He said he will tour it since his debut album world tour got shutdown before it even began due to COVID. I'm sure Jonny is hired to score the new Paul Thomas Anderson film staring Leo, Joaquin and Regina Hall. We all know making a Radiohead album is never fun for the band. It usually takes years and a lot of pressure. That is why The Smile works for Tom and Jonny. They are free of that albatross and the results say they are thriving. I do believe we will get another Radiohead album. Its just gonna be another 3 years..... Hypothetically, if A Moon Shaped Pool was the last album, that's an impressive way to go regardless I'm not the biggest Radiohead fan but I see the beauty in it, if not feel it as much as others. Sonically, that album is what modern acts should aspire to sound like. I don't mean in the orchestration or musicality of that album, but the fact that it isn't caught up in the loudness wars and has very dynamic production like albums of a bygone era. Every Radiohead album does it and they are the best produced act out there.
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Post by matt on Jan 20, 2024 10:27:26 GMT -5
I swear Heavy Stereo are a parody band like Creme Brulee from League of Gentleman. A good guitarist but I hope we don't hear any new songs from him in the event of an Oasis reunion.
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Post by matt on Jan 20, 2024 9:59:32 GMT -5
Songwriters for hire aren't perfect, but I like GlastoEls movie analogy. I think its similar for music, a song written with somebody in mind and like an actor or director, they take ownership of it of the material provided. That's the same with Wyatt, as it is for John Squire. Maybe the latter has more common reference points and musical influences for Liam, but it's only by familiarity that these things feel 'right', the opposing argument to that is its too narrow minded and safe. Wyatt and co do a better job than Beady Eye where the songs were safe in their influences but atrocious, and even better than the half assed efforts of latter Oasis. I probably agree its not as rock as we'd like (I'd love to hear a really aggressive punky album from Liam), but so much of Liam's careers has emphasised the pop side of things just as much. Obviously there's not going to be the soulful connection Liam has with Noel's songs, where familial ties and a shared upbringing delivers something of more emotive impact with great conviction. Even then, you could say those ties were waning when both became rich and famous and Noel's songs stopped being about life in a northern town with escapist fantasies.
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Post by matt on Jan 20, 2024 9:41:21 GMT -5
So what's happening with Radiohead then? The Smile seem more than just a mere side project.
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Post by matt on Jan 19, 2024 17:28:33 GMT -5
Funny episode out last night. Noel in good spirits - took the piss of the listing the colours of the rainbow a few times (rightly so like) but all good-natured. Said he'd consider playing Let's All Make Believe live as he likes the demo version of that song and thinks he could pull it off now he's a better singer. He's currently demoing the acoustic album, and has taken all the electric equipment out of his studio so he's not tempted, but he will get the band involved in an 'unplugged' way. Has six songs ready to go. 'In A Little While' will likely be on it but not a single. Doesn't think he'll change it much from the demo. 'God Help Us All' and ' Just Let It Come Down Over Me' have been demoed fully for it and he intends to put them on. Not much else revealing, but still funny nonetheless. Hope he keeps the harmonica bit in, or doesn't replace it with a trumpet or something farcical like that.
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Post by matt on Jan 18, 2024 19:13:53 GMT -5
I think Oasis deserved the Beatles rip off tag in the 2000s when many of their songs around then embarrassingly aped the Fab Four, but at the same time, so many journalists make the most tenuous links like it does here. I even read a review of Be Here Now that referenced Stand By Me being influenced by The Beatles because even though there is the massive Ben E King hit of the same name, the reviewer assumed they got that from the same song on account of John Lennon covering it. Some mental gymnastics going on there. Talking about the 2000s. What bothered me a lot about mid 2000s oasis recordings is I think it was lazy production in the sense if you had a song like The Importance Of Being Idle, clearly a Kinks influenced song, or Mucky Fingers, clearly a Velvet Underground influence, but they even made the production and instrumentation choices pretty much sound like those bands. In the 90s, you can say Cigarettes and Alcohol is T-Rex and other examples, but production wise it was nothing like T-Rex, it was very much Oasis and Owen Morris in the production style and mix, rather than chase the sound of the song its influenced by. Anyway I'm getting off the thread topic here. It's just one of the things that never sat right with the later albums, I think a lot of identity was lost and some songs bordered on pastiche more than just influence. Yeah they lost their identity in the 2000s, merely aping single acts in one song. Production wise too, it was all watered down dull stuff. If you're not going to do anything interesting with guitars, just turn them all back up to 11 and have loads of reverb. Shock of the Lightning was one of the closest tunes to getting back to that old wall of sound, good effort if not quite there.
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Post by matt on Jan 17, 2024 16:15:43 GMT -5
Who would have thought there would be some “Harrison style slide guitar”… This one is probably for the fans of the Tomorrow never knows style drums and the Rain style bassline. Never made before experiments all of them. George Harrison didn’t invent slide guitar and it didn’t go to the grave with him. I think Oasis deserved the Beatles rip off tag in the 2000s when many of their songs around then embarrassingly aped the Fab Four, but at the same time, so many journalists make the most tenuous links like it does here. I even read a review of Be Here Now that referenced Stand By Me being influenced by The Beatles because even though there is the massive Ben E King hit of the same name, the reviewer assumed they got that from the same song on account of John Lennon covering it. Some mental gymnastics going on there.
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Post by matt on Jan 15, 2024 17:44:30 GMT -5
You can barely make a decent quality EP out of everything released post 2000 never mind a best of album ffs It would be no stronger than a Hard Fi or Kaiser Chiefs compilation. Noel would hate that comparison, but hey, that's his problem for being half arsed in the 2000s.
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Post by matt on Jan 14, 2024 19:08:59 GMT -5
Bye Bye Amazon Prime, I'm not paying any extra money to get rid of adverts on your video streaming service especially when it's not that good anyway and there's much better streaming services around. Thanks for reminding me that I need to cancel. There’s absolute fuck all on Amazon Prime.
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Post by matt on Jan 13, 2024 22:01:56 GMT -5
In what way was it 'terrible' that he got rid of Charlotte and Ysee? There's no bad blood there, he still speaks really highly of both of them. The band changes, he brought in the Roxy's and he's not playing songs on this tour that Ysee or Charlotte would have contributed to. It'll cost a ton of money to take people on tour. If they aren't offering anything to the songs - not through a lack of skill, but just what they do/play - then they aren't going to be kept around. Jess still adds a lot. Council Skies is a fine album. Is it Definitely Maybe? Of course it's not, but it's got some real highlights on there. I wrote what you're replying to a month ago so I don't even remember my frame of mind at that moment. Currently it seems Noel is going through a creative trough - clearly going through the motions. Was just an observation. I also never said Council Skies is bad, Trying to Find a World and We're Gonna Get There In The End, Think of A Number and Dead to the World are amongst the best tunes he's ever done. What I do stand by is High Flying Birds has regressed back to a Noel solo vehicle rather than a frantic, fully formed ensemble like it seemed from 2017-2019. Perhaps that ‘ensemble’ was dictated by the more fully fledged and ambitious sound of Who Built The Moon and the need to recreate it live. It certainly made for impressive gigs but sadly that era looks more like an outlier in his career than a creative turning point.
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Post by matt on Jan 13, 2024 20:16:57 GMT -5
Noel and his team would be leading the charge with it. Given Noel's conservatism in constantly producing staid sounding albums like they're from the 1960s (apart from Built The Moon), his songwriting regression back to stodgy mid tempo songs and his do-it-yourself PR team, I don't think the results would be all that. IDK man, 60s-era stuff is a lot more varied and adventurous than most of Noel does. Some of what David Holmes has done away from Noel, for example with Unloved, sounds way more like the 60s than literally any Noel song I can think of. I agree with you there. I’m not that clued up on the niche influences Holmes provided but I’m sure they are more wondrous than Noel’s staple choices, hence the more expansive sound of Who Built The Moon. Barring that lapse (and sadly that’s all it is, for all his talk of doing musical u-turns he ran away from it) Noel’s sound sticks to a muffled and primitive garage rock vibe from the more meat and potatoes 60s influences. Ever since Heathen Chemistry (leaving Who Built The Moon out of it), all his records sound really undercooked, drab and unambitious.
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Post by matt on Jan 13, 2024 18:16:42 GMT -5
Bizarre as it sounds but I think Liam doing his collaborations would be more adventurous in spirit than an Oasis reunion.
Noel and his team would be leading the charge with it. Given Noel's conservatism in constantly producing staid sounding albums like they're from the 1960s (apart from Built The Moon), his songwriting regression back to stodgy mid tempo songs and his do-it-yourself PR team, I don't think the results would be all that.
A John Squire collaboration ain't the top of my list when it comes to a Liam project, but I'd rather this than a half assed reunion effort that would be inevitable with Noel's team.
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Post by matt on Jan 13, 2024 18:11:27 GMT -5
A reunion Oasis single could get to #1 but it’s going to have to be engineered just right. 1) It has to be a week when no major star has a new single coming out or a monster song still dominating the top spot. 2) It needs a vinyl presale to bank a large quantity of sales to drive it to top 10 status minimum. 3) It needs to drop on radio, streaming outlets and video all have to come out on the same day and time. Need all those metrics to count for the 7 day window. 4) It needs to land on extremely popular Apple Music and Spotify playlists to get as many casual generic listeners as possible to stream it. 5) Noel and Liam needs to do major media outlet interviews together. Given an Oasis reunion would revert back to Noel's management, you'll have to save this draft so as to give Ignition some PR tips. They would probably still announce a CD release and put it on the airwaves 6 weeks before release....
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Post by matt on Jan 12, 2024 17:36:09 GMT -5
They wanted to avoid making an album where the musicianship sounded “mechanical”. “Perfection is subjective, isn’t it?” suggests Squire. He adds that he often likes “something that’s slightly out of time, a little bit sloppy. There’s plenty of percussion on Stones and Beatles records that’s off the mark and yet it’s perfect".
It's so nice to hear a musician take this stance. I think John Squire is right, and I think the 'mechanical' sounding records of today sound lifeless and robotic. It all adds to that mass produced, manufactured feel. Everything precision oriented to perfection. Many listeners prefer raw authenticity, and without it, its lifeless and soulless.
I wish acts would get back to recording live more or less. Leave the imperfections and the rough edges. It's what made so many of those classic Oasis singles great. God, imagine rough and ready songs like Columbia or Bring It On Down being tidied up by major record labels in the studio. It doesn't bear thinking about.
Very enjoyable interview, realised just how ultra rare it is to hear from Squire.
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Post by matt on Jan 12, 2024 17:10:43 GMT -5
Nobody releases compilations these days in this age of streaming. Well thats an absolute load of rubbish. Point still stands though, an Oasis compilation post-90s is pointless. And every major act worth their weight in salt ain't doing it.
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Post by matt on Jan 11, 2024 16:12:30 GMT -5
Nobody releases compilations these days in this age of streaming. Don't think the world is crying out for a post-97 Oasis 'best of' either, it would just be a pointless exercise.
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Post by matt on Jan 10, 2024 15:55:47 GMT -5
I am not interested in defending every action of the Israeli government or the Israeli army, but the situation is of course more complicated than what many people make it out to be. As far as I understand it is not incorrect to call the attack on Oct 7 a pogrom. It was the deadliest attack on Jews since World War 2. How do you negotiate a ceasefire with an enemy who carries out such an attack – an enemy that has one motive: To destroy you? An enemy that does not acknowledge your existence? Isn't it the job of the Israeli government to defend its citizens (arabs included) and do everything in its power to prevent another similar attack? You're right to say it's more complicated. And missing in your response is the acknowledgement that Palestinians have been subjected to occupation and apartheid for decades. In addition, have to deal with IDF harassing, beating and murdering Palestinians, including children, for decades. Those are humanitarian crimes and most of the world has remained silent and afraid to condemn Israel ... for decades. If you were subjected to those conditions, you would not be very pleased, right? Would you ever willingly live in such conditions? Would you have a right to defend your people from occupation, apartheid, brutality and murder? Even Israel has acknowledged that they are responsible for creating Hamas. Their actions radicalized a small percentage of Palestinians.
Entire revolutions have been fought for suffering far less severe crimes and living conditions. So yes, Israel has a right to defend itself. But so does Palestine. And in this case, the power balance between these two groups, is not remotely similar. Israel controls their food, their electricity, their water (and have shut it all off currently). They control everything entering and leaving Gaza. They restrict freedom of movement of all Gazan's. And they have been carpet bombing Palestine for decades. And that was all before October 7th. Gaza is called an open-air prison for a reason.
The reality is, that Oct 7th is a response to decades worth of humanitarian crimes that have went almost ignored and unpunished by the United Nations (What's even the point of international law if it's not enforced?). I say ignored because they have recognized the crimes, they just haven't done anything about it. No consequences. And as terrible as the attack was on Oct 7th, it pales in comparison to the devastation and loss of life that Israel has wrought. Not just since Oct 7th. But even prior to it. But there is no mention of that behavior in your post. Is that history suddenly erased or justified just because a terrorist organization, comprised of Gazan's finally fought back against their oppressors?
Apartheid is wrong. Occupation is wrong. Genocide is wrong. Taking over someones land or home because you believe you're entitled to it based off of some holy text, is wrong. Just consider for a moment the amount of journalists that have been targeted by the IDF since Oct 7th. That happens for one reason and one reason only and I am confident you know why. Even Jews within Israel, who have condemned the actions of their own government, are being targeted at the moment. What other period of history have we seen that before?
Even when the numbers are crunched, the terrorist organization known as Hamas has a significantly lower civilian casualty rate than Israel. If what they did on Oct 7th is defined as terrorism, doesn't that make Israel the even worse terrorists than Hamas? There is no crime that Hamas committed on Oct 7th, that has not been subjected onto Palestinians for decades at the hands of Israel, before and after Oct 7th. What is terrorism if not the mass violent targeting of civilians?
We are seeing a new holocaust unfold before our very eyes. And while at the start of WWII the U.S took a neutral position... right now, we have sided with the far-right authoritarian fascists doing the holocaust and are enabling them to continue their extermination. What a disgrace my country has become (the politicians in control, currently not representing the people).
The violence imposed by a colonial power on a region only traumatises those within it, Jewish or Muslim, particularly in the Middle East and results in that violence being repeated down the line. It's seen throughout history where the persecuted groups in history see no real resolution to that trauma resulting in that cycle of violence being repeated by the persecuted on both sides. That bit in bold.... that's primarily the fault of colonial legacy, particularly Britain. That homeland didn't just happen on religious texts alone, and to be honest, its quite worrying and distressing that you assume only that...
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Post by matt on Jan 9, 2024 15:55:22 GMT -5
Today´s update Top 100 Singles 1 Noah Kahan - Stick Season (17,110) 2 Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me (11,267) 3 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor (10,929) 4 Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Just Another Rainbow (10,382) * 5 cassö, RAYE & D-Block Europe - Prada (8,635) I think at the end of the week could be TOP 20. I can´t see it TOP 10. But brilliant for the boys!! Sometimes I think ISIS have a point about western decadence when I see the likes of Jark Harlow in the charts.
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Snooker
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Post by matt on Jan 8, 2024 10:32:14 GMT -5
Ding you beauty, what a 147 against Ronnie!
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Post by matt on Jan 7, 2024 18:46:21 GMT -5
Not for me. "One of Us" is fantastic and there some other enjoyable tracks, but the bulk is far too "radio rawk" for me. His debut is still the one album he's done to feel like it had an organic Liam presence to it, in my opinion; the rest feel like different algorithms being plugged into the Radio-X-Track-Generator with varying results. At least the third album plugged a few more colourful bits of code in there - Why Me? Why Not. feels uninspired even in that aspect, aside from some heavier moments like "Gone" or the title track. And the worst moments go beyond uninspired to being unbearable; I fucking despise the "hey!" moments in "Shockwave" and the entirety of "Now That I've Found You". Overall, it's not a bad record, but it leaves me with the feeling of slightly flat, warm lager. A recipe that was recently fresh been left to laze in the sun without enough refreshment. Apart from this one beacon of everything I'd love Liam's solo career to be! Swirling, driving, enigmatic, emotional, inspired. That's the atmosphere I want. One Of Us should have been the lead single in place of the horrendous Shockwave. One of the very best Gallagher tunes of the last 20 years.
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Post by matt on Jan 7, 2024 12:17:20 GMT -5
Ah yes, the great philosophers of history. Aristotle, Confucius, Plato.... and Liam Gallagher. What I think is that this forum no longer deserves any attention or effort. Few users are saved from this pigsty. And it's not worth it. Idiots will be happy chatting with others like them. 😂 No one is reading this chatbot slop buddy. You're just trolling at this point. I don't think this post is trolling judging from the OPs previous posts.
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Post by matt on Jan 7, 2024 9:41:37 GMT -5
I'm Outta Time?? More like too much time!
Amirite?!
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Post by matt on Jan 6, 2024 17:41:01 GMT -5
This is probably my least favourite Liam lead single 1 Wall Of Glass 2 Everything's Electric 3 Shockwave 4 Just Another Rainbow. Everything's Electric for me. A belter of a lead single.
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Post by matt on Jan 6, 2024 16:35:25 GMT -5
Contrary to what some think, Liam's vocals are one of the few redeeming factors for me.
While it lacks the purity of his youthful vocals (circa 94-97), the raspier voice adds bit of grit to the modern day polish of studio recordings. It's not punk but that abrasiveness always leaps out of the radio amongst the all too clean music of today.
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