Holy mother of fuck. I didn't appreciate Oasis enough in the 90s.
I'm not sure how or why i got sucked into the Oasis fandom. I was definitely big on alternative rock toward the end of the 90s, once i finally started discovering music on my own and realized there was more out there than what my parents listened to. But while i was digging deep into acts like Third Eye Blind and Smash Mouth, which would not survive the test of time, as far as i ever got with Oasis was "Champagne Supernova is pretty cool i guess."
In college, we'd go to Half-Price Books on a more or less weekly basis, and once i found the clearance rack, i foolishly started loading up on anything that seemed familiar. It's why i've got 4,000 CDs today, really; a lot of that was misguided college purchases. During that time, i accumulated most of Oasis's discography, based on Wonderwall and the aforementioned Champagne Supernova. But what's criminal about this is that i never fucking listened to them. I mean, probably once, but that's about it.
Being American didn't really help anything, either. I mean this whole side of the ocean pretty much looked at Oasis and shrugged. About as much Oasis as i remember from my MTV-watching days was when they had the Gallagher brothers fight each other on Celebrity Deathmatch.
I'm not sure what happened, but a few years ago suddenly i had an Oasis phase. I mentioned it in that year's PAC liner notes. It might have been residual from actually being in England the previous year. It might just be because i was building a 90s nostalgia playlist and researching alternative bands' singles, and noting how heavy the Oasis portion of that sequence was. Who knows. But suddenly, in 2014, i became obsessed - obsessed! - with the song D'You Know What I Mean?, and for a few months in 2014, suddenly i was just letting iTunes play through the Brothers Gallagher's entire discography repeatedly.
Then, as suddenly as it began, it stopped.
Then, as suddenly as it stopped, it began again.
And now i'm back to letting their discography play through for days on end. In particular, i'm still pretty hooked on Be Here Now, the album that D'You Know What I Mean? kicks off. So, while i'm 2,602 days too late to ever have a chance of being part of the Oasis mania (England essentially treated them as the second coming of The Beatles), or seeing them live, or having the joy of experiencing any newly-released Oasis material, i can still revel in what once was. I just wish i'd been paying more attention two decades ago.
I'm not sure how or why i got sucked into the Oasis fandom. I was definitely big on alternative rock toward the end of the 90s, once i finally started discovering music on my own and realized there was more out there than what my parents listened to. But while i was digging deep into acts like Third Eye Blind and Smash Mouth, which would not survive the test of time, as far as i ever got with Oasis was "Champagne Supernova is pretty cool i guess."
In college, we'd go to Half-Price Books on a more or less weekly basis, and once i found the clearance rack, i foolishly started loading up on anything that seemed familiar. It's why i've got 4,000 CDs today, really; a lot of that was misguided college purchases. During that time, i accumulated most of Oasis's discography, based on Wonderwall and the aforementioned Champagne Supernova. But what's criminal about this is that i never fucking listened to them. I mean, probably once, but that's about it.
Being American didn't really help anything, either. I mean this whole side of the ocean pretty much looked at Oasis and shrugged. About as much Oasis as i remember from my MTV-watching days was when they had the Gallagher brothers fight each other on Celebrity Deathmatch.
I'm not sure what happened, but a few years ago suddenly i had an Oasis phase. I mentioned it in that year's PAC liner notes. It might have been residual from actually being in England the previous year. It might just be because i was building a 90s nostalgia playlist and researching alternative bands' singles, and noting how heavy the Oasis portion of that sequence was. Who knows. But suddenly, in 2014, i became obsessed - obsessed! - with the song D'You Know What I Mean?, and for a few months in 2014, suddenly i was just letting iTunes play through the Brothers Gallagher's entire discography repeatedly.
Then, as suddenly as it began, it stopped.
Then, as suddenly as it stopped, it began again.
And now i'm back to letting their discography play through for days on end. In particular, i'm still pretty hooked on Be Here Now, the album that D'You Know What I Mean? kicks off. So, while i'm 2,602 days too late to ever have a chance of being part of the Oasis mania (England essentially treated them as the second coming of The Beatles), or seeing them live, or having the joy of experiencing any newly-released Oasis material, i can still revel in what once was. I just wish i'd been paying more attention two decades ago.
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