The sneering about Oasis was that he was using discarded Beatles middle eights to build entire songs around.
Harsh but fair.
Having just listened to Holy Mountain from the new album it appears that he’s moved on to using drum tracks from The Sweet. Maybe Ram Jam.
Progress.
Always thought Oasis were more indebted to Status Quo than The Beatles
@ Shibusa
The New Seekers is closer to the mark. Aren’t all their songs slowed down variants of “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing””?
Speaking as one who is Manc born, I think the Oasis Twins should be made honorary Scousers.
The Sweet?
Now I have two reasons to hate Oasis.
It’s been 40 years and I still haven’t recovered from The Damned covering “Ballroom Blitz” in their live shows.
@Dennis the Peasant
Treat this as therapy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLU0uqsyIs4
Treat this as therapy
I really hope Iggy Pop meant that as comedy, but for some reason I doubt it.
Nowt wrong with Sweet. The glam rock crowd turned out some cracking tunes between them. And now it’s the time of year when we get to hear Noddy Holder belting out the hands-down number one Christmas song of all time.
Aaaagh!
For me a certain amount of nostalgia is attached to “Merry Christmas” by Slade as a result of happy times to which it formed a soundtrack.
But considered just on its merits as a song it is poor. Spoiled mainly by its monotonous tune.
Burn the heretic.
Yes, I’m sure Iggy Pop gets all the jokes. I once read a rider he prepared.for a UK tour in which he ‘demanded’ for his dressing room “A Bob Hope impersonator to regale me with stories of Bing Crosby, golf and Vegas in the early days (God how I wish I’d been there)”.
Noel’s on record as being a big fan of Slade
Had to supply Iggy with nurse and oxygen cylinder once, he used neither much to my disappointment.
In fairness to the Sweet, I believe that their B sides represented the band they really wanted to be, as opposed to the Chapman/Chinn stuff that sold vast quantities to the teenybopper market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_3vvo6Ebb4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0hG3Gib-Is
There’s also an interesting cover of Wigwam Bam by the Afghan Whigs, featuring Whigfield on lead vocals. Actually I made that bit up.
Which is the one with the really punchable face? Liam, I think. Saw him in Hampstead a few years ago. The blood lust rose. If I haven’t confused the two, Noel is almost likeable.
Uninterested in the, er, music. A cacophany of mangy Mancs in deliberately shoddy clothing.
They paid a fortune for those duds Edward Lud. It’s just that they wear them like they’ve shoplifted them.
BICR – if you like Noddy Holder, check out this more mature (and sadly curtailed ) rendition of ‘Cum on Feel the noize’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00f0Bf83PAc
Seems the original master is lost, which is a shame.