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Post by AlexTHFC on May 24, 2005 3:00:39 GMT -5
The "mainstream" in america is right wing anyway though. Its good to hear there are some left-wing publications too!
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Post by sunshiiiiiiiiine on May 24, 2005 10:39:49 GMT -5
oasis pissed off a lot of american mags and radio presenters by not playing the game years ago, you only need to watch vh-1's behind the music of oasis and there's some american talking for 'rolling stone' on there who says 'oasis did claim to be the biggest band in the world and they were wrong but that made them a good band', so they'll never get credit by them i mean oasis sold more records than anyone else for a 2 year period and played to more people than anyone else so if that does'nt make you the best i dont know what you need to do to make them take notice, oh i know have a long intervew exclusive back then which noel refused and i bet the geezer never even give it a good listen and just give it an in between review to be safe.
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Post by Columbia on May 24, 2005 10:52:15 GMT -5
NME is the shittest mag in the world. the best critic is yourself, fuck the rest true.  |
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Post by Lennon25 on May 24, 2005 11:21:13 GMT -5
Here's the RS review: 3.5 of 5 "Watching Oasis' precipitous decline from Brit-pop superstardom has sort of been like watching the Yankees blow it last October: You knew they had it coming, but it was still kind of sad to see. Don't Believe the Truth, their seventh album, isn't the comeback fans have long been praying for, but it's the first Oasis album in years that doesn't sound like pale self-imitation. The bigger presence of guitarist Gem Archer as well as an increased emphasis on texture - including plenty of subdued psych-rock atmosphere - rescue confidently rockin' winners such as "The Meaning of Soul" from the kind of dunderheaded grand gestures Oasis had gotten increasingly worse at writing, and tracks like "The Importance of Being Idle" channel laid-back Sixties-pop cool. So: Now that they've fought off complacency and cocaine, can we get that Behind the Music episode?"  I was also wondering, maybe I'm reading it wrong, but did he ask for a Behind the Music episode? If he did is freakin retarded. They made a BTM episode around the release of SOTSOG. Writers these days are about the most uninformed people on the planet anymore. |
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Post by LuckyJim on May 24, 2005 11:47:04 GMT -5
God help me, I'm about to defend Rolling Stone…
Okay, it's a crappy mag. I read it, but usually any hot new band they're touting I've known about for ages (thanks to the NME. I'm a Yank, by the way), and I think they are in way too deep with some of the big American entertainment conglomerates — at least that's my take on why they tend to go ga-ga over bad acts (50 Cent) and turn second-raters like the Strokes or the Killers into the saviors of rock n' roll (the Strokes are fine and all. I like them. But they were NEVER going to be the saviors of anything).
BUT, I think we should put the review of DBTT into perspective. 3.5 stars is NOT a bad review by any means, and the review itself, though flippant and lightweight, wasn't bad either. In fact, though I'm sure you could find plenty of snarky things said about Oasis in the pages of RS, as far as album reviews go, RS has been pretty nice to Oasis. (WTS) MG was featured in their "Classic recordings" column last year, and in that column, they also recommended DM and "The Masterplan," giving 4 stars to both (which is kind of funny, since when The Masterplan was originally released, it received the only negative review I've read in Rolling Stone of an Oasis CD, and only got 2 stars. I guess they reconsidered). None of Oasis 6 regular studio album has received lower than 3 stars from them.
So, please, I'm not defending Rolling Stone, just trying to put things in perspective. Think of it this way: like it or not, RS is probably the most recognizable and well-known music-oriented magazine in the English speaking world. And they just said your favorite band's new album — an album a lot of lazy critics were probably ready to bash without even giving it a shot — is pretty darn good. So, not bad.
You want to see the album REALLY get trashed? I don't know if NME has published their review of DBTT, but I'm betting you they'll take a baseball bat to it (see what I said about lazy critics above).
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