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Post by webm@ster on Dec 18, 2003 23:09:44 GMT -5
OASIS fans had better prepare themselves for a shock. For Burnage's most famous son has hinted that he may not be touring for much longer.
At 36, the group's guitarist and chief songwriter, Noel Gallagher, admits he now compares notes with fellow dad-rocker, Paul Weller, on how old is too old to be a rock star.
"If he packs it in, I won't be far behind," he told this week's City Life magazine.
Gallagher was speaking exclusively at a Worsley hotel, where the group were filming for a 10-year retrospective DVD about their debut album, Definitely Maybe.
He says: "You start to dress very differently in your thirties. Sometimes, I have to have a long hard look in the mirror and ask myself: `Do I look a ****?'"
And the prospects for Oasis touring into their dotage like The Rolling Stones? "The longer you do it, the more you do fear it, yeah," he says. "At some point, you've got to accept that music has moved on and you're not the cat's whiskers any more.
"What brings it home to you is when people stop you in the street for autographs, and they're quite old these days."
But, 10 years on from the dawn of Britpop, it seems Gallagher still cannot resist raking over the embers of that infamous Blur-Oasis feud.
And, just for good measure, he has taken a pop at another rock luminary, Suede frontman Brett Anderson.
"I think Blur and Suede suffered from the same thing - their singers became egomaniacs. Brett Anderson wanted Bernard Butler out and Damon Albarn is now running away with his band." And he's not finished there. Of the music of retro-rock darlings The Darkness, he says: "I just find it really, really inoffensive. It doesn't do anything for me."
Gallagher Snr huffs oddly: "Cat Deeley bands - that's what The Flaming Lips and The Darkness are. But nothing against Cat Deeley, I'm sure she's a very nice girl."
As for The Strokes, Noel loves them, but the second album is "dog****", while The Vines and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are "top live, but the music is ****." Only Coldplay get an unqualified Gallagher thumbs-up.
Meanwhile, Oasis go into the studio next month to record what he promises will be "a proper psychedelic rock 'n' roll record".
It is also likely to be a collective effort, with brother Liam apparently writing "too many songs" for Noel's liking after learning how to play the guitar.
source: Manchester Online
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Post by ListenUp on Dec 18, 2003 23:55:04 GMT -5
Thanks for the article Webm@ster. ;D
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Post by Columbia on Dec 19, 2003 5:52:16 GMT -5
thanx webby. interesting, Psychedlic? does that mean the songs will sort of like Gas Panic?. Interesting also about the DVD sounds cool wonder when that will be out.....
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Post by maketradefair on Dec 19, 2003 7:41:39 GMT -5
i hope they dont muck it up by being too different. i liked the way they went back to bascis on the HC tour and album. more of a morning glory sound, thats what i would like to hear.
only time will tell...
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Post by chocolate st*rfish on Dec 19, 2003 10:54:10 GMT -5
i hope they dont muck it up by being too different. i liked the way they went back to bascis on the HC tour and album. more of a morning glory sound, thats what i would like to hear. quote]  but since DIV are producers we can be sure taht a lot of electronics are gonna be employed on the next record. |
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Post by drunkbyname on Dec 19, 2003 11:31:58 GMT -5
I hope the next album is different from Heathen Chemistry. It was good to get back to old school rock and roll with Heathen Chemistry, but they have to change their music once in a while to stop it going stale.
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Post by mape on Dec 19, 2003 22:24:47 GMT -5
hmmm they're doing a dvd as well? now that's what i want to hear!
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Post by Tomo on Dec 20, 2003 14:51:54 GMT -5
As for The Strokes, Noel loves them, but the second album is "dog****" Too fucking right |
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Post by rkid256 on Dec 21, 2003 8:58:18 GMT -5
I'm sure there are gonna be zillions of you who'll disagree with me, but i actually hope Liam doesn't write too many songs, coz IMO Noel is much better.(not that Liams songs are crap, theyre v v good) Then again, Liam will always be gettin better at it, and he hasnt really had as much practice (as such) as noel has had over the years i guess. Maybe Liam should start off on the b-sides and then when he's up to DLBIA quality he can take over from noel- or am i being a little harsh...
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Post by chocolate st*rfish on Dec 21, 2003 9:26:57 GMT -5
well you're not wrong.. liam tends to write a lot of crappy songs in a while. like the one that mentions all their singles from 94 to 03 in the lyric.. Take Me is another horrible example.
it is a huge risk to let liam contribute more than 50 % to an oasis album. on the other hand (part of) his songs sound very fresh and catchy and thats what it's about isnt it??
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Post by Berny on Dec 21, 2003 10:29:11 GMT -5
He shouldn't set out to write a b-side. The whole band (excluding Alan) should write the best songs they can, the select the best out of them. There should be no deciding which tracks should be on the album before they are written.
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Post by rkid256 on Dec 21, 2003 11:24:44 GMT -5
yeah, fair enough, if he (or anyone in the band) comes up with a cracking song then by all means stick it on the LP but what i mean is that hopefully theyre not gonna put some of his songs on just so itll say 'track x by Liam Gallagher' on the sleeve. But judging by the evidence of Liams efforts so far as previously mentioned, thats why methinks Noel should still have most of the songs down. And as for b-sides, maybe they could be used as a kind of proving ground for Liams songs? Not that he should set out to write them as b-sides. That way the fans would be able to hear how he progresses, and leads upto an amazing number 1 in the future.
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Post by SeanyBoy on Dec 22, 2003 18:13:05 GMT -5
What does Psychedlic mean?
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Post by Rain on Dec 22, 2003 18:35:43 GMT -5
What does Psychedlic mean? From American Heritage® Dictionary psy·che·del·ic adj. Of, characterized by, or generating hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered states of awareness, and occasionally states resembling psychosis. n. A drug, such as LSD or mescaline, that produces such effects. –psyche·deli·cal·ly adv. I hope that helps lol   |
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Post by masterplan200 on Dec 22, 2003 18:44:04 GMT -5
Oh No! Oasis doing Progressive Rock?
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Post by chocolate st*rfish on Dec 22, 2003 18:53:28 GMT -5
don't worry. they won't turn into the next prodigy (imagine noel and gem with pierced nostrils).
noel is just planning to recreate a SOTSOG/born on a different cloud vibe..
(this time he shud care about the tracklist and songwriting!)
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Post by mape on Dec 22, 2003 21:02:44 GMT -5
oh no, i hope we don't see another sotsog. please no!
he's a firestarter?
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Post by chocolate st*rfish on Dec 22, 2003 22:45:50 GMT -5
psychedelic!!! not psycho  |
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Post by ///\\\ on Jan 5, 2004 2:15:57 GMT -5
Why are you guys surprised with a psychedelic rock 'n' roll record ?  Listen to (probably) all in the mind and see what is psychedelic.... ;D |
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Post by webm@ster on Jan 5, 2004 14:40:42 GMT -5
.... you guys don't dig 'Gas Panic'  I reckon songs along those lines to be on the new one, might all be a pile of bull to feed the media something to write about... |
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Post by Columbia on Jan 5, 2004 14:45:13 GMT -5
gas panic is the best song on sotsog i love it  |
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Post by LIVERPUDLIAN on Jan 5, 2004 15:12:38 GMT -5
From the sound of this I'm expecting a few tracks along the lines of Gas Panic, BOADC, Scorpio Rising etc.
I'm fine with that but for that to work I'd like a few Go Let it Out style tracks just to keep it all distinctively Oasis!
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Post by Tomo on Jan 6, 2004 17:06:39 GMT -5
Id love them to do a downright sleazy rock n roll track again, something like Cigarettes & Alcohol.
But then again, it may be faking it a tad bit.
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Post by Apridros on Jan 8, 2004 13:13:21 GMT -5
I hope the next album is different from Heathen Chemistry. It was good to get back to old school rock and roll with Heathen Chemistry, but they have to change their music once in a while to stop it going stale. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YES-TELL NOEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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