"Maybe...you're going to be the one that saves me."
It only seems right that since I'm doing a music blog, that I start off with my favorite band....Oasis. I suppose I should explain just how a girl like me got into Oasis. Start this off right, yeah?
Well, then. The year was 1995. I was a high school freshman. I listened to music a bit, but most of it was the soft rock station variety, with the occasional dabble into hip-hop or whatever was popular at the time. Back then, MTV was rock-centered...no boy band in sight. There was the "gangsta rap" war going on between Tupac and Biggie, but I couldn't be bothered. It was in this period where I religiously watched MTV and VH-1...just watched music videos. There were a lot of good ones, videos that if I watched them now...would just bring me back to those days. Nada Surf's "Popular," Superdrag's "Sucked Out," "Ironic" and "Hand In My Pocket" by Alanis Morrisette, Collective Soul's "The World I Know," etc etc....the list goes on.
One of those videos just happened to be Oasis' "Wonderwall." Yes, I attribute MTV with introducing me to Oasis. In 1994, Oasis had a brief hit in the US with "Live Forever" off their debut Definitely Maybe. I liked the tune, but was not really into the rock....yet. Next year with Wonderwall. I saw the video (well, halfway through), and I slowly began realizing that I had heard this band before. The voice....Liam's...distinct. That British band...with that song.....Live Forever! Yeah! Oasis! Cool!
It took about the 3rd time watching the video, and I knew I was addicted. Oasis would go on to release "Champagne Supernova" as a single in the fall, and I loved that track as well. I didn't buy the cassette(yes, cassette) until the summer. What I did instead was take a blank cassette tape and tape the songs as they were played on the radio. Ah, the old days. Hahah. I finally did get the cassette tape of WTSMG one day after summer school. I bought a cheap calculator with it...total: $15 EVEN. I still remember that.
Then I went home.
Popped the cassette into the radio.
And listened. The first track, "Hello" started off with a faux-Wonderwall beginning. It sort of just faded in. I did have a brief impulse to just go and listen to "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova," but I thought I'd listen this cassette through. So I did, and once I thought I had a defect of a cassette...
BAM!
Before I realized, the faux-Wonderwall intro was pulled back and a loud, brash guitar riff replaced it instead. When Alan White (ex-Oasis drummer) came in with the drums....I WAS HOOKED. Liam hadn't even sung a bloody word...and I knew. I KNEW this was MY band. That was the beginning of my Oasis addiction and the beginning of my foray into rock n roll.
Now, it's been 10 years. It blows my mind. They've gone up and down...but they always come back. Now, Oasis isn't as widely popular in the States. Here in Hawaii, I'd be hardpressed to find someone who knew anything outside of "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back In Anger." I guess I should be happy, but I don't think any hard-core [put your favorite band] fan would appreciate that I'd go up to them and be like, "I LOOOOOOVE that one song they do!" And that just happens to be the one hit that band has, that everyone knows....which probably drives that [put band name here] nuts.
I was planning on chatting on their albums, but I think this is a good start. I'll just review each album here and there. I'll just go ahead and recommend a few tracks off that WTSMG era. Download em, pay for em.
Get these: Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger, Champagne Supernova, Cast No Shadow(if you haven't got these, mad cow...haha), Some Might Say....Oh what am I saying. JUST BUY THE ALBUM.
B-sides: The Masterplan, Talk Tonight, and...heck. Bonehead's Bank Holiday, and Half The World Away.
Still an Oasis fan, always an Oasis fan,
Juvs.
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