Seems strange how my upload of bootlegs was removed, but you can link to anything you want from YouTube. Actually the Up In the Sky Acoustic version which was linked in this thread was one of the bootlegs in my original post, recorded sometime in 1993 (ie before their first single, before they had recorded any of the first album). The rest of them were basically live tracks or demos, I'm sure if I uploaded them to YouTube then there would be nobody crying about it being illegal, even though it is exactly the same thing.
Anyway, it only took 8 pages before somebody actually got the point of the thread, thanks to nero120 for that. He brings forward something else as well, that (at least in London anyway) there are countless bands who bring along their mates to every gig and they worship them no matter how bad they are.
Noel has said it was 18 months of rehearsing until he thought the band was good enough to go somewhere, so that must do something to dispel the myth that it is mostly luck that will get you signed. How many bands do you reckon put the effort in to rehearse 5 days a week for 2 years without getting anywhere? Infact probably over half of Oasis songs from the first two albums have lines in them that stress the importance of working hard or being yourself. Obviously to become the biggest band in the world you have to have more than just music, but that is what sets apart the good bands and the great bands. There are good bands with just the music, and then there are great bands who manage to change the way people dress, think and speak or spearhead a new genre of music.
I don't think Oasis are anything new or original, moreso that they are just a rock band that have taken inspiration from many great bands before them, rather than completely trying to imitate one. The Beatles, Sex Pistols, Who, Kinks, Rolling Stones.. You only have to look at Liam's singing to see the mix. The falsetto, the way he pronounces shine, the sneer from Johnny Rotten.. Infact the production on What's the Story Morning Glory reminded me strangely of Never Mind the ********. But then again, some of you will claim the Sex Pistols were the worst musicians of all time, despite the producer Chris Thomas describing Steve Jones as the tightest guitar player he has heard in his life and having also worked with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, and The Who.
The basis of half the arguments on here are that if the music is easy to play or has simple chord progressions it is automatically bad. That really doesn't cut it. Just because a song is easy to play on your acoustic doesn't mean the band are awful musically. How many times have you seen a local band manage to murder a song like My Generation? There is a lot more to being a musician that just how difficult the song is physically to play.
