Monday, October 02, 2006

A Never-Ending Oasis

If anyone who reads this (which is probably all of 2 people) is in their early 20s, they grew up listening to Oasis. When "Wonderwall" hit the radios in the mid-90s, I was in the 7th grade and immediately loved this band. Like everyone else, I had proclaimed the new Beatles were here for my generation. Sadly, the band always fell in its own shadow and never became what they were supposed to be. After re-listening to their first CD "Definitely Maybe," I actually felt sorry for them. Here is a band with great anthems of love and despair and rejoice. They have such beautiful songs but, alas, they became perfect examples of fallen rock stars. Now supposedly, Charlie on "Lost" and his brother were modeled after Liam and Noel Gallagher. I only hope that Noel get stuck on a deserted island with strange polar bears and cocaine in Virgin Mary statues so that he may have an epiphany and realize his band was the best band of the 90s and could still recapture the glory if he wanted it.

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