Originally posted by Relaxer:
There was quite a bit of hype this year around early Oasis, with the re-issue of Definitely Maybe and the best-of compilation. And back in the mid-90s, I really loved Definitely. So I gave it another spin and... it's not aging well. The drums are exactly the same -- and lame -- in every song, and the whole thing just sort of plods along at mid-tempo.
I pretty much agree with this but have a little bit different take on them.
To me, Oasis are a band that had several really great songs early on. They sounded a bit different than a lot of the crap that was getting airplay back then. (You have to first understand that I've never liked most Grunge nor most of the music that got the airplay around here at that time.) Oasis had that sound that I liked. When I'd play their CDs, the filler helped to hold me over between the songs I liked the most. Not bad songs at all but not their best, which is true for just about any CD by anyone.
After a bit of time goes by, you can only keep playing those same songs over and over again without wanting, or needing, something more. As a listener, I'm sick of them. As musicians, they got very boring and dropped the great songs and just keep on replaying and revising (barely) those same few songs which left me, among many others, off the Oasis bandwagon chasing other sounds.
