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[zorlaczerohero]

Did he really say 'in the dole' or is that a misprint?

Either is possible.

And the best song from the whole 'britpop' debacle. This will outlive anything Oasis did. Catchiest fucking tune of the 90's.

I still rate James as the best Manchester band ever (I recognise it's personal preference, but they were fucking brilliant back in the day, even live they were great), followed by The Stone Roses, The Smiths, Inspiral Carpets (TUNE!!!), New Order, The Happy Mondays, 808 State, etc..... There are a shit load from Manchester before Oasis come into the conversation.

 

[Switch Back 9]

And the best song from the whole 'britpop' debacle. This will outlive anything Oasis did. Catchiest fucking tune of the 90's.

Well you aren't wrong about that.

 

[zorlaczerohero]

Well you aren't wrong about that.

Play it anywhere, Metal gig, Rave, Indie gig, Coffee shop, old people's home etc. and people will bop along.

I met my wife a year or so after it came out and we both sang the wrong lyrics, years later we learned he didn't get his head shaved by 'Egon Bojay', but a 'Jumbo Jet', life changing to be honest.

 

[Dr.Acula]

Wow, all this talk about great British rock bands through history and no one has The Clash in their top-10? I love Pulp and The Stone Roses, but when you're including them you're not really starting from the most sound base.

Spoiler

Okay, maybe the Roses sneak in

 

[JimtotheHum]

I always felt Oasis were a mediocre 90's band. They pulled from the self promotion handbook of one of the other most overrated rock bands ever, Kiss, and now people tend to overrate Oasis in terms of importance in rock history. They were a level above Third Eye Blind, that's it.

 

[xenist]

Oasis were never my jam but his opinion on today's "rockers" is spot on. They're as hard as Bud Lite.

 

[Heavy_D206]

I believe when I saw Oasis in Seattle some years back it was their last North American concert ever.

God Damn that was a good show.

 

[pbsapeer]

http://youtu.be/8uJ7-jAlq9c

Classic clip from SOCCERAM
Really like Noel

 

[Renekton]

Im pretty sure Kanye West is legit insane. I guess thats why he qualifies.

He's not self-destructive though.

 

[zorlaczerohero]

Wow, all this talk about great British rock bands through history and no one has The Clash in their top-10? I love Pulp and The Stone Roses, but when you're including them you're not really starting from the most sound base.

Spoiler

Okay, maybe the Roses sneak in

Clash are in my Top 5, I was talking about Manchester bands from the 80's/90's. Chances are that except for The Stone Roses and James none of them have made an album in my top 5.

 

[Meier]

Play it anywhere, Metal gig, Rave, Indie gig, Coffee shop, old people's home etc. and people will bop along.

I met my wife a year or so after it came out and we both sang the wrong lyrics, years later we learned he didn't get his head shaved by 'Egon Bojay', but a 'Jumbo Jet', life changing to be honest.

Prepare to have your mind blown.. AGAIN. He didn't get his head shaved. He got it checked.

I was watching some recordings of a few songs he did live with Gem recently (http://www.nme.com/news/noel-gallagher/90186, absolutely amazing as you'd expect) and got down a video hole from the bottom of the page. I loved this bit from a video interview he did early in the year (maybe from 2014, but I think this was early 2015) about the state of pop music in the UK: http://bcove.me/wbo1u5pt. It's worth 3 minutes in general, but this part at the end was really poignant (as usual): "We were all brought up listening not only to The Smiths, but The Smiths in the charts and in the top 10...Little did we know it in 1995, at any given point there's like 6 great alternative bands in the Top 10 that that'd be the end of it. It's a travesty now."