fange
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Listening to long jazz tracks
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Post by fange on Sept 27, 2021 10:35:10 GMT
They really did have a cultural impact, fishy; i was living in Tokyo the day Be Here Now was released, and a whole group of about 8 of us - Aussies, Brits and Kiwis - went down to the CD store to buy our copies. Whether they deserved it musically or not, Oasis represented a shared experience for many that can only be called a cultural moment. Also, my 18-year old daughter went with her Oasis-mad friend to see the Knebworth film at the cinema last week; for them, Oasis (along with several others in the britpop and grunge scenes) represent a special part of musical history. For about 18 months in the UK they were everywhere. Every pub in the country had at least one moment on Friday and Saturday night when groups of men and women sang Oasis in unison. Every goddamn pub and I've never seen anything like it. It was like being on a football terrace. It united people and it was a shared cultural moment regardless of what you feel about the quality of the music and given cultural changes that will never happen again. It's understandable that younger people will look at that moment with a sense of envy. Who else does your daughter and her peers rate Fange? A lot of the usual 90s big names - Blur, The Strokes, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Fiona Apple. She likes Arctic Monkeys and still has a lot of respect for Taylor Swift
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loveless
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Bringing ballet to the masses. Sticking to the funk.
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Post by loveless on Sept 27, 2021 22:34:23 GMT
I'm not a fan but I'd have been more interested to read an article praising the band, even offering some kind of rationale behind their ongoing success. I thought it was a perfectly valid hatchet job.
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Post by Sneelock on Sept 27, 2021 22:36:19 GMT
I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet job.
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Post by Sneelock on Sept 27, 2021 22:39:14 GMT
Liam's voice began to grate a lot after a while. 25 years!!!!
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 28, 2021 13:15:43 GMT
For about 18 months in the UK they were everywhere. Every pub in the country had at least one moment on Friday and Saturday night when groups of men and women sang Oasis in unison. Every goddamn pub and I've never seen anything like it. It was like being on a football terrace. It united people and it was a shared cultural moment regardless of what you feel about the quality of the music and given cultural changes that will never happen again. It's understandable that younger people will look at that moment with a sense of envy. Who else does your daughter and her peers rate Fange? A lot of the usual 90s big names - Blur, The Strokes, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Fiona Apple. She likes Arctic Monkeys and still has a lot of respect for Taylor Swift No Menswear? Kids these days!
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Oct 21, 2021 14:41:27 GMT
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loveless
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Bringing ballet to the masses. Sticking to the funk.
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Post by loveless on Oct 21, 2021 14:57:03 GMT
"Believe me, these were the only pull quotes we were ever gonna give the publisher. P.S. Innit."
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 21, 2021 14:59:57 GMT
Oh to be the ghostwriter on that one.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 21, 2021 15:25:43 GMT
Reading those quotes reminds me of that one about Reagan:
“You could walk through Ronald Reagan’s deepest thoughts...and not get your ankles wet.”
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loveless
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Bringing ballet to the masses. Sticking to the funk.
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Post by loveless on Oct 21, 2021 15:51:02 GMT
Yeah, I'm writing a thing right now about the sort of "folksiness" of politicians during election season (dropping their Gs, using slang), and...well, yeah, here we are.
(There's a character in the wonderful Australian comedy The Castle, an underqualified lawyer who keeps talking about "the VIBE of it" while representing his client, and Noel's quote is giving me serious flashbacks)
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Post by DarknessFish on Oct 21, 2021 16:09:02 GMT
Wouldn't their own story in their own words be the least readable book ever?
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Oct 30, 2021 18:49:01 GMT
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 30, 2021 21:09:48 GMT
I hear that song at least once for every three hours of episodic television I watch.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Oct 30, 2021 21:18:01 GMT
Well I think that's a pretty great performance. You can hear why everyone dropped their cuppas in 1994.
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 31, 2021 0:34:24 GMT
Wouldn't their own story in their own words be the least readable book ever? It would undoubtedly have the smallest vocabulary since Green Eggs And Ham.
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