I started listening to Oasis in my mid teens and now I'm a few years older than they were when they made Definitely Maybe. That feels weird sometimes ... I used to sort of look up to them, not like wanting to be like them but the way a high school student wants the seniority of someone the next couple of grades up, just on age alone, you know?

Then when I was 21, they felt more like "equals." Like I was listening to a friend of a friend's band. Not bad, not as good as it was when I was 15, but I was still relating to them.

Now I'm 25 and I still really dig the album, but then that stigma starts creeping in and I start feeling like, "what were these little whipper snappers on about?"

And no matter how old I get, they'll always be the same age on that early stuff. I wonder how that's gonna feel. Sure, they're still putting out stuff now in their mid thirties, and that's great because I still have that looking up feeling, just in a different way. But someday we'll have to hear our last Oasis album, and I just wonder how their music is going to age with me on a personal level.

Then there's all the years of experiences and feelings mixed in with it ... I think part of why the last album still has the "new album" feel to me is it hasn't aged and refined like the others have.

I'm not thinking about it too much, just a feeling I get every now and then.

Does anyone else get this way?