CTS Album Review: OASIS-DEFINITELY MAYBE

Taken from Season 4, Episode 31, this is our first time covering an album from Oasis.
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[@marvinbohme7575]

Oh boy, 90s Britpop is the ultimate musical definition of a "mixed bag" for me. While I do like Blur and some Pulp tracks because they're trying something forward-thinking and don't shy away from doing odd sounds/compositions and experimentations, something like The Verve on the other hand is barely listenable for me. Verve is the half of anything of the early 90s (especially watered-down shoegaze) and a soporific copy of 60s traits (psychedelia and late rock n roll) with just contemporary production. And I remember one of you guys coined the phrase "McDonalds of Music". Well, there's hardly a better depiction of a band that tried so hard to be popular so effectively by having little ambition than Oasis. While I can see the appeal to people who need some songs to sing collectively and don't need lyrics that need to make sense, it was one of the big bands able to crack international charts that I've liked only one song of. "Don't Look Back in Anger" is the one and nothing else. I tried to listen to "Definitely Maybe" and "What's the Story Morning Glory?" since your episode came out by thinking "Well, maybe I was exaggerating my claim Oasis is the worst biggest band out of UK". And after finishing it, I came to realize that my take didn't change that much, but I now lean more to the side of saying "This band is doing nothing that makes me wanna move, dance, sing along, laugh, cry, dive into nostalgic feelings, hit the punching bag, workout or anything else. It's just downright boring and misses any of my feelings for music." With that being said, your takes are still acceptable for me and pointing out the fact they wanted to appeal to the masses as much as possible and they certainly knew how to do it. Would be interesting what you'll say to the follow-up!

[@combingthestacks1470]

Completely understand: that was what I was arguing in this specific clip as probably the most neutral on this album of the crew. One of the reasons we always joke around about being "amateur podcasters" is that we reserve the right to like music that we also recognize as musical junk food. In that way, our goal is let people know that sometimes we like music simply because, "I like the way this generic music sounds" while also recognizing, through having listened to over 700 plus albums at this point, that "this is generic/derivative music." exists. That line between being a discerning eye and defaulting to a greater level of musical populism is tough. For Matt and Josh, Oasis is both recognizable as generic music, but it sounds appealing to them. That is why we tried to quantify that we're seeing a hierarchy of Britpop in terms of talent/inspiration as we become more aware of it. I'm probably guilty of liking stuff that is definitively not great music (70s/early 80s KISS, some of the cheesy R&B of the early 90s, and I'm sure "What's the Story Morning Glory" when we get to it). I chalk it up to that line that exists between "trash taste" and "critical taste." To me a balanced diet of music has mostly interesting/new/innovative stuff, but I need some junk food from time to time as a reward.

[@curly_wyn]

One of the overrated bands ever, and I really can’t stand Liam Gallagher’s voice or really the brothers themselves in general. Idk what it is, they’re basically musically conservative Beatles-copyist dad rock 😅

[@combingthestacks1470]

I would agree with your second sentence, but I can't argue that Liam doesn't have a great voice!