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Noel Gallagher interviewed in Esquire UK
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You are goddamn right.Noah's right, there's only one rock star in music today that actually acts like a fucking rock star.
Zvonimir Boban
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wanderingprostheyltite
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WadiumArcadium
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Lmao.
Kar
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Im pretty sure Kanye West is legit insane. I guess thats why he qualifies.
14 years of top selling records is one hell of a flash.
I think they're pretty much the opposite of a flash in the pan.
Yeah, I'd be pretty disappointed. Common People is way way better than any of their other records.
I think what gets Noel is Oasis were the face of an era than really doesn't hold up too well. Britpop was too backward looking to really stand the test of time, unlike the Madchester scene which was forward-looking and produced a genuinely great album in The Stone Roses.
Blur could see it at the time and dumped it overnight, Oasis just tried to hang onto it. Beetlebum alone put Oasis in their place, Noel even grudgingly praised it at the time saying he could never have written it. Blur moved on and proved themselves as a band. Maybe not propelling them into the greats, but contributing more.
So after everything Oasis is the face of an era with not even the best Britpop album to go with it, which was Pulp's Different Class.
Blur could see it at the time and dumped it overnight, Oasis just tried to hang onto it. Beetlebum alone put Oasis in their place, Noel even grudgingly praised it at the time saying he could never have written it. Blur moved on and proved themselves as a band. Maybe not propelling them into the greats, but contributing more.
So after everything Oasis is the face of an era with not even the best Britpop album to go with it, which was Pulp's Different Class.
That shit that makes your soul burn slow.
I can't argue with that.
For my money though, I think Suede was overall the best band of the britpop era.I remember the 90s! Everyone in school was trading Oasis tapes and I was into Seattle grunge.
But Oasis were the only band I've ever lived through that almost made it a monoculture. Here in Manchester we had an Oasis café ffs. It was a bit like how I imagine the Beatles would've been, except Oasis stiffed a bit in America (at least that was the consensus at the time, given how huge they were in the UK).
I think if they'd split after Morning Glory there'd be no dispute about their place in the "canon" (ugh that word). But when Be Here Now came out there was such a buzz everywhere, it had to be as good as Sgt. Pepper's really to stand a chance, and Oasis just weren't that versatile and were too dependent on one man.
I know it's mega clichéd to say, but the rest of their albums are just so flat apart from a few really good singles.
Either way I fucking love Noel and Liam. Long may they talk absolute bollocks. Oasis were a unique band in the UK and Europe and it's a shame they never took over America just to fill those US TV channels with utter gobshite-ry.
But Oasis were the only band I've ever lived through that almost made it a monoculture. Here in Manchester we had an Oasis café ffs. It was a bit like how I imagine the Beatles would've been, except Oasis stiffed a bit in America (at least that was the consensus at the time, given how huge they were in the UK).
I think if they'd split after Morning Glory there'd be no dispute about their place in the "canon" (ugh that word). But when Be Here Now came out there was such a buzz everywhere, it had to be as good as Sgt. Pepper's really to stand a chance, and Oasis just weren't that versatile and were too dependent on one man.
I know it's mega clichéd to say, but the rest of their albums are just so flat apart from a few really good singles.
Either way I fucking love Noel and Liam. Long may they talk absolute bollocks. Oasis were a unique band in the UK and Europe and it's a shame they never took over America just to fill those US TV channels with utter gobshite-ry.
I can't argue with that.
Definitely the most creative.
I always saw Suede as more lumped in with Britpop rather than being a part of it though.
Ivan Amiibo
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does he?
i haven't heard any kanye drug stories. It's more like "he's got good beats" and "he's a good businessman" zzzzzz
Fela Kuti had a compound where it was just orgies and drugs 24/7
does kanye have a sex/drug compound. or does he just interrupt people on tv or something
Kiever Sher
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This is a classic one from Noel
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/18/noel-gallagher-fiction-waste-time
It's not fucking true, what's the point!
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/18/noel-gallagher-fiction-waste-time
It's not fucking true, what's the point!
Red Liquorice
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Keith Richards looks like a 700 year old female PG Tips chimp.
moozoom
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Still the same pretentious prick as he ever was, bragging about drugs, money, fist fights and unfunny pranks.
Saw them in Reading or Glastonbury (don't remember) in the nineties and it confirmed the fact that they were poor imitations of the real british rock bands that existed before them. There are lots of stoned musicians that produced way better music in the 90's than the insufferable "wonderwall".
And it's no wonder he hated Damon Albarn, the guy is actually able to write pop, rock and very different styles of music and is incredibly productive. (and made Gorillaz)
Sidenote : Pulp was fantastic in concert. Jarvis Cocker is incredible on stage, and is super funny when he talks between the songs.
Saw them in Reading or Glastonbury (don't remember) in the nineties and it confirmed the fact that they were poor imitations of the real british rock bands that existed before them. There are lots of stoned musicians that produced way better music in the 90's than the insufferable "wonderwall".
And it's no wonder he hated Damon Albarn, the guy is actually able to write pop, rock and very different styles of music and is incredibly productive. (and made Gorillaz)
Sidenote : Pulp was fantastic in concert. Jarvis Cocker is incredible on stage, and is super funny when he talks between the songs.
Ollie Pooch
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This made me burst out laughing at my desk at work and I got looks. LOL.
What a great interview. Some good quotes.
Honestly I think he just tries too hard to be what he thinks a rockstar is.
It's fucking hilarious, but I really do think he's a giant prick. Oasis have some great hits, but they were never really up there for me.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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What a hero.
The main reason they stiffed in the US, was they were never really prepared to put the effort required to break into the States. Even as late as the 90's a starting band had to constantly tour press the flesh with the local radio stations, tour some more. Even given the unreliable nature of Oasis, it's always been hard for successful British bands who can get fame quickly in the UK to 'slum' it in those opening US tours. Oasis didn't have the will power for that.
Oasis as Noel admits could never really get a run at that. At their 'peak' the Morning Story US tour consisted of 3 legs over 15 months of about 8-12 shows each, with a number of cancellations and Liam walking out of a tour. They never really recovered from that, and as the quality of their output fell off a cliff they missed the boat.
zorlaczerohero
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Without a doubt, they never came close to touching the Stone Roses debut album, but then very few did.
Is it wrong that I'm a Northerner and preferred Blur to Oasis.
Always-honest
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Absolutely. I never understood any love for Oasis.. Dumb hair, misplaced arrogance and really really boring pop-songs.
No man. Damon Albarn alone is way more talented than the whole fucking band of Oasis. And i'm not even a big Blur fan (though i def. like some of their songs and some of Albarn's projects)
So good. I watch this regularly when I need a good chuckle. "I look like fookin' Columbo".
Daffy Duck
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He's not wrong. I saw him Jonathon Ross a while ago and he was brilliant on that too. Guy is "interesting".
Chips Fission
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Meh, Oasis is dad rock at its worst. I guess they inspired one generation of brits but they really are icon of dad rock. I don't care about the personas of band members.
If anything more bands should be more like Radiohead. Just make good music. I don't care about how much you can snort cocaine and how many models you bang.
If anything more bands should be more like Radiohead. Just make good music. I don't care about how much you can snort cocaine and how many models you bang.
Don Draper's Hat
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What do you want the authorities to do? Arrest him? Imprison him for a few years?
teruterubozu
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You want people to be retroactively incarcerated for getting high in the past?
I swear that Noel and his idiot brother are like the Jeremy Clarkson's of low rent rock 'n' roll. They seem to only exist to create nonsensical, ludicrous opinions.
Never a truer word said.
Never a truer word said.
PJV3
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Seriously, take half an hour and just YouTube 'Noel Gallagher interviews'. He rarely disappoints in any
I can picture the twat pissing with his hat on, I would have wet myself as well.
This isn't America.
Outdoor Miner
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I wouldn't even put Oasis ahead of fucking Suede let alone Blur and Pulp.
diffusionx
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This is true.
Oasis was my first concert so I have a soft spot for them. I was all-in until BHN but drifted out. I like High Flying Birds. Maybe one day I'll swing back.
(1) Radiohead is putting on an act too, it's just one you're more personally fond of, and (2) when was the last time they made good music?
RedNumberFive
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Noel dropping truth bombs as per usual.
I saw his band a few months ago in Chicago. He's still got it.
I saw his band a few months ago in Chicago. He's still got it.
No one would really, that's what is still niggling him.
Britpop captured the times, but in all honesty it wasn't very good. It was just British music eating itself, recycling the 60's as something new to sell to a country that wanted to feel great again. It doesn't really hold up because of that. The Madchester bands which predated it - The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Happy Mondays, The Charlatans - and Blur who literally left the UK to escape it come out better looking back.
No one had really anything to say apart from this is how we can get rich. Britpop was all quite cynical, and it fell apart when they did. Pulp's Different Class stood out amongst it all because it actually had some substance to it, but it was the exception and the public didn't take too long to catch on.
For all his rock and roll tales, this is the image of Oasis and Britpop:
It was all a bit bollocks.
We're posting Noel Gallagher interviews, we gotta post one of the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo98wLez8dQ
Chips Fission
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(1) Haven't really seen them putting up on an act. Then again I haven't seen nor read all that many Radiohead interviews. So maybe I have missed their best bits. What's their shtick? If Noel's is "grumpy old rocker who tells it like it is" then what are Radiohead? edit. only "act" I remember was that Miley Cyrus spat that wasn't really a spat.
(2) For me their last good album was In Rainbows. Nothing wrong with King of Limbs, it's just not for me. I'm glad Radiohead at least try doing something new and creative instead of same sounds over and over again. Noel's solo stuff sounds like 90s brit rock. Yorke's solo stuff is acid to my ears but it's still better then Noel's dad rock. Greenwood has been pumping out good stuff alone, man can do no wrong.
poppabk
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Did he really say 'in the dole' or is that a misprint?
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