Like the headline so succintly says, Oasis - or their 'people' - have revealed the tracklisting for their forthcoming best-of compilation, Stop The Clocks.
The record's in shops on November 20. Don't be buying it for me this Christmas, yo.
'Some Might Say'
'Don't Look Back In Anger'
'D'You Know What I Mean?'
'All Around The World'
'Go Let It Out'
'The Hindu Times'
'Lyla'
'The Importance Of Being Idle'
'Masterplan'
'Half The World Away'
'Acquiesce'
'Champagne Supernova'
'Rock 'n' Roll Star'
'Supersonic'
'Wonderwall'
'Whatever'
'Boy With The Blues'
'Stop The Clocks'
DiScuss: So, have they missed any classics?
no
no Columbia either
some well-meaning relative is bound to buy me this for christmas.
I'm not sure about classics
but they seem to have missed most of their best songs.
Wot no
Cigarettes & Alcohol?
Innit
Fucking mugs
they've managed to miss 3 singles off the first album but still included All Around The World.
Wait, why do I care?
No Live Forever?
Wut?
I wish they'd
stop now. Who is going to buy this? Sadly MILLIONS of people will. It should be electronically tagged and linked in with the wonky NHS database so that buyers can be Mickey Finned with contraception to STOP THIS DECLINE.
That is the
most bizarre tracklisting ever. Seriously, did they just have a raffle to decide this? How else would The Hindu Times make it?
Bizarre.
Dude, stop writing articles about Oasis
you are just encouraging them
No
Please don't use the word Dude, in no way does it sound cool, and it will end up just invalidating all your comments, which would be a shame.
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'Some Might Say' = It's Shit
'Don't Look Back In Anger' = Contrived "Anthem"
'D'You Know What I Mean?' = No
'All Around The World' = Fuck right off
'Go Let It Out' = Keep it in.
'The Hindu Times' = the sound of George Harrison clocking up 75 RPMs
'Lyla' = Ugh!
'The Importance Of Being Idle' = EUGH!
'Masterplan' = Concoct half-baked pub tunes. Sell to chavs. Repeat.
'Half The World Away' = Half a good idea.
'Acquiesce' = Kill yourself
'Champagne Supernova' = Cocaine Quasar
'Rock 'n' Roll Star' = How do you transpose the least boring occupation into a boring song. Listen and learn.
'Supersonic' = Ironically mid-tempo?
'Wonderwall' = Rhyming couplets should be outlawed
'Whatever' = Exactly
'Boy With The Blues' = I've never heard this. It will be shit.
'Stop The Clocks' = This will be muscular shit. Horseshit, as it were.
Contrary to all this, I don't dislike Oasis. I nothing them.
It's probably unfair to say that all Oasis have done is shit.
I'm not an Oasis fan and haven't cared at all about them for many years but i's ludicrous to claim all Oasis songs are terrible.
Whilst I don't care for most of Oasis' output (and I can't even remember the Hindu Times), I'd say "Don't Look Back In Anger", "The Importance of Being Idle", "Masterplan", "Supersonic" and "Acquiesce" are really strong songs.
Of course "Live Forever" is their best song and not on here.
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It's only ludicrous to claim all Oasis songs are shit until you think about it.
And really that's when the whole excercise falls down: Oasis fans clearly don't think.
I fang yew!
Hmmm.
I love how people waste a good few minutes of their day to think up 'amusing' lists to unfoundly criticise music :)
witty
You should write film reviews for tabloids. You have a Paul Ross element to your writing. I could see you saying "Four Years in Tibet??!! Four Yawns and To bed more like" and marvelling at your wit.
Put a bit more effort into slagging off a bands back catalogue, you just look bitter more than anything.
Good Shout...
especially that 4 yawns and to bed. I like. Cracks me up when some Oasis news comes out, prompting the hataz to pipe up. Anyone with an informed musical bent would appreciate the importance of Oasis' tunes to modern music whether they're fans or not...unfotunately these folk's views are often swamped in the quagmire that is bitterness...
Slide Away should've been there.
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Got five posts out of it. And it didn't hardly take a minute.
Incidentally, your comment about Oasis' importance to modern music would have merit had they been anything more than a shameless throwback to better bands that existed 30 years before they did - unless you're seriously suggesting that coming up with two guitars, bass, drums, and 4 chords between the lot is somehow innovative?
??
I thought thats what most guitar bands did? There are almost no genuinely innovative bands around as most things that can be done with a guitar has been done. The quality of a band shows through when they can do music that sound like them, yet is still heavily influenced by other people, and Oasis have managed to do that, whether you like them or not.
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Horseshit. You just haven't heard any innovative music. This doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
And I'm not impressed by Oasis fans liking Oasis anymore than I'm impressed by Stalin's commitment to communism.
Man you love
horseshit don't you?
Anyways i think you're slightly losing track of the argument here...i don't think anyone's claiming Oasis to be innovative, i'm just stating the fact that Oasis are a hugely influential band, not only through the style of music they played in the 90s but also through their 2-fingers, working-class attitude and live forever philosophies. Music was slightly less pretentious then as well so their vast array of supporters were made up mostly of people subscribing to these ideals, and not the scenesters which pack out venues today...
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You're equating 'influential' with 'of good quality'. This is so far from the case it's impossible to say without a Thesaurus and a stiff drink.
Luckily I have access to both: Oasis are lowest-common-denominator garbage. They are popular because like them, their fans don't care for knowing much more than the basics of music. They don't understand it and when exposed, it manifests itself in a virulent dislike. They use words like "pretentious" without truly comprehending the meaning of it. Verse/Chorus/Verse/Solo/End is all they've ever known and all they want to know, and they're happy in their ignorance.
Far worse than that are the people who try invest meaning in something that has none. As if that cretin Liam Gallagher could ever form any kind of philosophy beyond eating and sleeping in between performing with his band and getting rich. For Oasis, there are no ideals, no philosophies, there are only truncated versions of better bands' songs with all the originality and innovation carved out.
And if that's bitterness, then good; I see nothing wrong with being bitter about the success of an inferior product while obviously better things go unnoticed by a greedy, bloated and homogenous industry.
You really shouldnt assume
that Oasis fans don't like/understand other music.I like so many bands,many of which (gasp in horror)that you might well like to.Don't immediately pigeon hole them into a group of stupid chavs.There are many chavs who like them,but this is more due to the fact they are a massive band and are in their consciousness more than most others.When you insult the fans in such a sweeping way you show yourself to be far more insular and ingnorant than the people you are criticising as I think you'd be astonished as to how many people in certain fashionable circles genuinely still love them,but know they'd be hung drawn and quartered by people like you,who they need to buy their music if they ever said so openly.
Blimey...!
Roget's has a lot to answer for. Now lets put a few things to bed:
Firstly, I've not equated 'influential' with 'good quality'. At no point have i said Oasis are quality...i may quite like them but this has been left from my argument as i'm focussing on their undoubted influence on today's music, which unlike me saying they're great and you saying they're shit, can be reasoned fairly objectively.
Secondly, my posting history on this subject has been concentrating solely on their influnce as a band, as leaders of a kind of movement which caught peoples imagination. I, again, have never claimed the musicians in the band to have inspired a new wave of budding Hendrixes (Hendrixi?)for example.
Thirdly your Liam comments kind of betray you...Liam's appeal and Oasis's in general was their don't give a fuck attitude...Liam doesn't care if you think he has no philosophies, he probably doesn't. He's a meathead rock n roll star and that's it. Again, we're not talking about the music.
nice
you really raised your game by comparing your feelings of Oasis fans to that of Stalin....Bravo
No, no, no...
It is without doubt that a whole load of modern guitar music is indebted to Oasis' work in the 90s. Obviously they have their own influences, some more obvious than others, but during 1996 (in particular) their impact on the youngsters, now strutting their stuff as rock stars today, was immense. Nothing has captured the UK's musical imagination like they did whilst leading the britpop charge during it's pomp. And whether you've always hated them or have jumped on that particular bandwagon, you'd be categorically wrong to say they're not or have never been an important band.
Argh
In my area the only people who like them are either young "yeahhhhh im the fuckin dogs bollocks mayyyyte, gettin a moped yeahhhh" idiots, or fat, balding football hooligans who like to sing along drunkenly to them with the wrong words. One of my most hated bands ever.
I'm from Stoke too
:(
no live forever!
brilliant! oh i do dearly hate oasis
She's Electric?
That's the one I like. Acquiesce is alright. The rest is pretty poor.
Where is WHATS THE STORY!?
The best song of the 90's isn't even on the bloody record.
hang on
This is a best of, not a greatest hits!
Amend thy headline!
Yes.
And its their best song!
me,
I only like Columbia and Cast No Shadow
i like thjem when
they first came out...i was 16 at the time and agree or not, they were a kick up the arse for the alternative scene at the time. i first watched them along with about 500 people in a dingy nightclub in cardiff and it was absolutely awesome! a night i will never forget
admittedly they have gone downhill but what band that gets to that level of fame doesent? they are just like a pub band now and liam and noels outspoken views just seem cringeworthy.....but for a moment i thought they were superb.
music snobs will obviously disagree...
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I obviously disagree.
If you thought they were superb...
..how can I disagree with that?
Though, I can say that *I* never thought they were superb. And that, Champagne Supernova aside, I can't think of a single Oasis song I have ever liked. But even I find that tracklisting just a little bizarre - I actually only read this article to see if they opened or closed with Live Forever! :-s
Meh, as you were...
Mad For It
Wot No Little James????
wasn't the macarena in the 90's
?
Lazily
attacking Oasis is the new lazily attacking the NME.
People in their teens during the early 90s liked them. Listening to the old stuff provokes fond memories of growing up. The new stuff isn't that great.
Everyone else knows they need not apply.
As for this album, it's a joke of a tracklisting. No Fade Away? Simply terrible.
Wrong!
Oasis, and Liam in particular, may talk utter bollox but it is without pretention and it is consistent i.e. Liam may say he hates a band for no real reason, but he sticks by his views, whereas the NME contradict themselves on a weekly basis, depending on who's paid the big bucks for the front cover. Fact. Note who was slagging off the new arctic monkeys single recently. AND i know an NME hack and he's a bit of a knob at times...
your second paragraph basically says all that need be said on this thread.
ace.
not you reckoning
you only had one paragraph. rightly so, splitting that into two would have made each look scanty.
they
were incredible 10 years ago.
i dont care now.
Acquiesce
Is actually quite brilliant.
I
saw them at V and thought they were good. Mind you what does that say about me?? Ohhhh my God not a commercial festival ...heaven forbid anyone should have a good time at a commercial festival !!!
Bad track listings on this album mind.
i agree
with reckoning...
when i was 16 they were as important to me as the pistols probably were to a lot of teens in 1977....and the beatles in 1966. there is nothing wrong with that....when has the NME mattered anyway. i used to buy the NME in 1994 and they could not be more up oasis arses if they had tried
i have always had a soft spot for bands who have spent hours rehearsing in a garage on a council estate...whilst being on the dole. the idea of paying to watch a load of art school fopps disagrees with me (although i did it with blur).
wish oasis, like it or not, you had a breath of fresh air and a frontman that backed up how he looked, with a singing voice and stage presence.
people may not like the music and thats fine...but attacking them just says to me that you probably wish you were like them!
They've already done a best of
It's called Definately Maybe
blur are about 10 times better than oasis though
which kind of makes the art school fops thing irrelevant. not that it was ever relevant in the first place.
If the tracklisting looks shit, it's probably because the band have intended to leave a couple of their best songs off. Noel has always said that he never wants to release a Best Of or Greatest Hits until they split up and that it should feature all of their singles chronologically. I think they're desperate to leave Sony and have put this out to honour their deal.
Still can't wait for the inevitable outcry when someone posts this on some Oasis messageboard and they all get on here slagging youse off...
Don't believe the inevitable subject header
This isn't the tracklisting. It's the one The Sun "revealed" last week, and is wrong.
Not that I know what is on it - but I can't imagine if, as is claimed, it's the band's choice that Noel Gallagher would pick Lyla ("6th best song on our last album") over Live Forever.
I bet
The_Glory will buy this
why would he?
He must already own all of these tracks in physical form already, so he'd have to be pretty-
Actually yeah he will.
Oasis - Greatest Hits
So, to follow so many indier than thou comments, I'm going to add something sensible.
This album is missing Cigarettes & Alcohol, Live Forever, Fuckin' In The Bushes, Shakermaker and probably the rest of Definitely Maybe. All tracks post ...Morning Glory are undeserving.
Interesting to see they've included 3 B-sides, all deservedly so. Back in the days of Britpop, the single was far from dead...
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headshrinker is their best song.
Is it possible...
That they have a volume 2 planned as well???
I agree that lots of good songs are missing.
I used to love them before I came to the UK.
Now I don't, cause I realised what kind of lads the brothers used to be, and I can't stand that type of people much.
I'm happy about Whatever making it onto this, as it was on none of the albums.
I thought the B-side Masterplan CD was their best.
so i don t really know
but still it amazes how negative some people may be. yes, oasis has written some shit songs and some nice songs. so what. it s great to have them around.
what? hello?
where's 'fucking in the bushes'?
probably one of their few songs that you can actually go apeshit with a guitar to
hmmm
Oasis make me happy. They remind me of a time when the world was in less of a mess than it is now. Yeah maybe they shoudlve stopped after the Masterplan but no-ones saying its hugely credible music, its appallingly simplistic and thats why it appeals to the masses (which seems to be the issue for many here) and largely borrowed from other musicians, but it makes me smile. Its still the starting point for many kids listing to guitar music and if it inspires them to pick up a guitar isnt that better than a knife? Maybe not if they write little james 2, yes, but you get my point. Slide Away should've been on there
i'm not sure the world was in any less of a mess
just we were younger and didn't realise so much.
Ex-cynic...
Your name belies your true intentions...or maybe you're having trouble exorcising the ghost of cynicism past. Anyhoo in future i'll write at least 3 paragraphs so that hopefully you'll find salvation in one and comment accordingly.
Die
Oasis!!!! Die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best Of 2 then?
they've left out a whole bunch of hits.
funny really, thay left out the 2 singles that made them famous in the 1st place.
"Live Forever" & "Ciggs & Alcahol"?????
they are just probably trying to justify the last 10 years of shite records. i mean
putting the likes of "Lyla" & "All around the world" over some of their earlier stuff is just stupid arrogance.
wait stupid arrogance = gallagher
this album is perfect.....
you're a bunch of nob-heads
whoever doesnt like oasis is just a fuckin prick Oasis are the best band in the world, they write the best songs in the world and they're total fuckin rockstars. Get some fuckin musical taste you bunch of knackers
how u cunt listen to thid
this one goes out to stealthy, or whatever hes fuckin called..You're a total jealous fuckin tit! unlucky! If u wrote songs as good as Noel you'd be a rockstar..but u dont and you wont now fuck off