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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2009 9:07:18 GMT -5
Oasis put rock music back to where it belonged… in the gutterCan it be true – has Noel Gallagher really walked and Oasis split? How can people tell? With other bands, arguments, cancelled shows and smashed guitars would be all the evidence required, but the Gallagher brothers have always been like this. From the start, their relationship had an Old Testament pulse: Cain and Abel with soundchecks. One even marvelled at how Noel could fit in a successful songwriting career around his day job of trying to kill Liam. If Oasis have split, it's sad and not only because, latterly, they'd succumbed to the cliched rock star manner of conveying anger and contempt – the travelled in separate tour buses. How very Fleetwood Mac. What next, boys: refusing to share the Toblerone and little jar of peanuts from the hotel minibar? However, an Oasis split is sadder than that. Love them or hate them, they were culturally important. Not only for the songs, but because they took popular music back where it belonged – to the working class. They helped stem the ever-increasing tide of dreary posh boys, with A-levels in music theory and self-entitlement, writing whiny, bitter "boo-strum-hoo" songs about girls who didn't fancy them. Oasis did more than most to return British rock to the sexy, strutting, gobby gutter where it belongs – to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, all the better to look at the stars. So when we've stopped rolling our eyes, perhaps we should hope it's not truly the end. Come on, guys, give each other a man-hug. That Cain and Abel thing is so 950BC. www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/30/barbara-ellen-fay-weldon-feminism
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Post by saturdaykid1877 on Sept 1, 2009 10:31:04 GMT -5
Nice piece that, cheers for the heads up.
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