HW:Calvert influences

[Jonathan Jarrett]

        I'll agree with that one too. I can muster some interest for parts
of _What's The Story_ but _Definitely Maybe_ is actually blessed with
quite a few good songs. It's pub-rock writ large but it's done quite well
and it is possible to enjoy it just as fun music. Then they started trying
to do it `properly' and discovered they couldn't. Also, one of those bands
whose B-sides generally should have been on the album instead of half of
what was. Yours,
                 Jon

ObCD: Wellwater Conspiracy - _Declaration of Conformity_ (for those who
are stuck in the past, definitely :-))

On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 02:38:18PM +0100, Layla Thompson wrote:
> Oasis and America are two things that were thrown together for the sake of money and popularity...
>
> If you would care to take a step back about 2 or 3 years before songs such as Wonderwall and Dont Look Back in Anger were released, to the days when Oasis played for the love of it and not for the PR groups. I am sure that you would be pleasently suprised at the level of quality of the songs..
>
> Definatly Maybe is one album that I would very happily recommend to any self respecting "rock and roll" fan....
>
> (not, however, to one that was perminantly stuck in the past!! :p )
>
> That album and the B sides to their early singles are all great songs.. their later stuff DOES tend to be a little "wishy-washy".. but, all good things must come to an end..
>
> >>> blackblade at BHALLIGAN.COM 09/07/01 05:54pm >>>
> Nick Medford wrote:
> > I don't know how well known the execrable Oasis are in the States, but you
> > could have a field day with them.
>
> Oasis, like every rock band that becomes massively popular in the US today,
> only had two songs consistently played on the radio. "Wonderwall" was in
> such heavy rotation for a while that it would sometimes be playing on two
> separate stations at the same time...and Rochester is a relatively small
> radio market. Fortunately, I haven't heard any Oasis on the radio for a
> couple of years now.

--
Jonathan Jarrett, part-time bookseller's assistant & medieval historian
Pembroke Cambridge   "I flatter myself that we are almost the only people
Birkbeck London       who understand and relish _nonsense_." (Hazlitt)