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Oasis – back for good?

OASIS

Oasis are rock’s Starbucks. A brand of flimsy quality but all too convenient to pop in for a cuppa when you’re out and about. Or so James Berry contends. And yet still we have belief. The talismen of Manchester rock return with The Hindu Times this week.

14/04/2002

There are regularly reincarnated cats utterly bewildered by Oasis. We’ve lost count of the life count they’re on right now as we speak, but what we are sure of is that the last two albums were largely (though not quite 100%) egotistical, cocaine bloated fuck-ups. Full stop. No arguments. Not that many would honestly try and contend that one. Yet somehow they remain one of the biggest rock ‘n’ roll bands on the planet, or if they’re not, in Britain at least they certainly seem it. You don’t need any excuse for wondering how.

So here’s the comeback then, another in a long line of promised returns to form, The Hindu Times. It’s a roaring scuzzy grower of a rock tune with a nagging lead riff, that no doubt has and will continue to draw comparisons with conception period Oasis, when The Who, Led Zep and The ‘Pistols were the lifeblood of one Mr Gallagher and the over-quoted songwriting of The Beatles the heartbeat. It makes little dent on first listen, second it doesn’t get much better, then all of a sudden it flowers into something that starts orbiting your head, clawing at your heart and insisting you throw your arms behind your back and holler with a smoker’s lungs those immortal three words: “Raaaaawkk nnnnd rooowwwwal”.

As use of those three words goes, it isn’t ‘Rock N Roll Star’ and it sure as hell ain’t ‘Whatever Happened To My Rock N Roll’, but there are no other words that sound much better echoing from Liam’s lips. There’s probably more behind this song as choice of single than just the tune. With lines like “I do believe I got flair, I got speed and I walk on air”, “I get so high I just can’t feel it” and “God give me a soul in your rock ‘n’ roll babe” they can only be trying to convince your of their reinvigoration, that they’re back to being the inspirational good time rock band with their finger on the adrenaline driven pulse, for all the right reasons. Either that or Noel is trying his hardest to convince you that this about-turn isn’t all down to mortgage repayments.

The fact is, with the new line up on record and on video (an effective black n white rootsy performance with post-September 11 overtones and a confusing metaphor involving milk) for the first time, they do look like the scruffy Manchester band they once sounded like for the first time. In fact, with Andy Bell and Gem Archer now filling out the front row, Noel’s under-charismatic performances are beginning to make him look like the only one out of place. The rest of the album will obviously settle the ‘are they really / aren’t they’ debate as they do have a habit of handing out free rose-tinted specs with their first singles. The b-sides don’t seem to give away much, ‘Just Getting Older’ being average Noel acoustic fodder and lacking the attitude of the A-side. And ‘Idlers Dream’ half-inches REM’s piano from ‘Nightswimming’ and hands it over to John Lennon. And we can only hope Liam’s much trumpeted songwriting on this record wipes the dreadful, woeful, regrettable ‘Little James’

The fact is, Oasis are rock’s Starbucks. A brand of flimsy quality but all too convenient to pop in for a cuppa when you’re out and about. Why take a chance on those characteristic small coffee-houses when you already pretty much know what you’re getting there? And if nobody’s stepped in to wipe out their reign while their back’s turned they must still be the one, the only. Right? As far as stony-faced, we’re bigger than God and whadya gonna do about it, OTT worldwide rock thrills go, who else is stepping up to ‘av a go? Travis? Stereophonics? Ha! Liam still churns out rubbish come-n-av-a-go-if-ya-think-yer-ard-enuf rock star babble like he’s on fire. Check any interview or 2000’s Wembley gig for proof.

So they’re still setting records (July’s mega Finsbury Park threesome of gigs sold out in record time, Belfast’s Odyssey arena gigs did the same) , getting on prime time TV and radio, pouting on the covers of magazines for no reason than that they’re Oasis. And for the same reason they can put out appalling records and get away with it. But, y’know, we thank them for it. The album’s available on various file-sharing applications across the web right now. We’re personally waiting for the release in an all or nothing prove yourself judgement day type affair. But if it is crap, we’ll probably give them yet another chance. They’re the only band who could encourage that sort of belief despite everything. So we just say, don’t blow it this time – there has to be only so many times you can come out the other side.

James Berry for Crud Magazine© 2002



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