Since Oasis split, people have been dividing themselves up into two camps – Camp Liam And His Beady Eye and Team Noel And His High Flying Birds. Weirdly, all this taking of sides clouds the fact that both parties are prone to releasing very average music.
The irony here is that the feuding siblings are actually turning into Lennon versus McCartney, whom they both so dearly admire. Alas, their heroes were also prone to making distinctly average solo records after the Beatles split.
So if Liam sees himself as the aggressor with forays into manly sensitivity, then Noel is fast becoming the Macca, complete with cod-thoughtful lyrics and a little more musical adventure than his brother who is determined to fly the flag for rock ‘n’ roll (which has been dead for years).
Lennon, post-Beatles, obsessed himself with showing everyone that he loved good time rock ‘n’ roll, as well as forcibly telling everyone “I do have feelings y’know?” with various ballads. Liam has clearly decided to fulfil this role, paving the way for Noel to produce The Death Of You And Me, which is generally More Musically Gifted Than The Brutish Beady Eye record.
And here, the lines are drawn: It’s attitude versus skill. Who will win? Well, in fairness they’ll both win because this musical war covers up the fact that both artists aren’t making particularly adventurous music (then again, they never did and probably don’t want to).
Fact is, Noel’s new record will be hoisted aloft simply because it isn’t Liam, regardless of whether it’s much cop or not. Same goes for anything Liam does from now on.
This new track is going to divide some, while uniting the die-hard Oasis fans into saying “I LIKE THEM BOTH FOR DIFFERENT REASONS, OUR KID!”
Hopefully, if this is Noel’s foray into McCartneyisms, then we can look forward to him creating his own version of Temporary Secretary or Check My Machine.
Until then, here’s Noel’s new single for you to berate, fawn or feel absolutely nothing toward.
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Jake Appleby, uk says
“Alas, their heroes were also prone to making distinctly average solo records after the Beatles split”
Imagine!!! but yeah Paul McCartney turned shit!
Simon R. Gladdish says
I bought Oasis’s ‘Stop the Clocks’ and was desperately disappointed with it. As George Harrison once pointed out the Beatles were infinitely superior and always will be. At least the feud between Lennon & McCartney was vaguely interesting.