http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:11:06 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/08/14/220511.php#comment-98946 I think Oasis are not a bad band at all. In todays world music is not an art, it is business - especially in the US. Music should speak for itself and bands from the UK or anywhere outside of the US should not need to stick their heads up the back sides of record company executives, marketing men and radio promoters in order to be successful. I think the US have many talented artist but at the same time they have many brown noses. 98946@blogcritics.org Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:11:06 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/08/14/220511.php#comment-104 Maybe they should create a webcasting station for their acts. After all, there is an untapped market... 104@blogcritics.org Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:47:02 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/08/14/220511.php#comment-103 The idea of a "United Kingdom Music Office" - as if UK pop/rock/whatever is some kind of passive product that needs to be pushed on foreigners out of some sort of benign governmental interest - is just another sign that the whole business has got itself stuck up another blind alley and something akin to punk is required to unblock it again. Any band that gets itself aligned with this might as well get their moms to drive them to gigs for all the credibility it will give them. As for Oasis, it's only their lunkhead antics that get them noticed these days. Since their first album they've just been ripping off other bands riffs - it's just been one long Mott the Hoople B-side.... If their music had a tenth of the thudding, obnoxious thuggishness of their public utterances they'd be worth a listen. If any good music is coming out of the UK it's going to get to America via unofficial channels - which is how it should be and has always been. (And whether it makes the "music business" any money shouldn't be of concern to anyone.) 103@blogcritics.org Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:41:24 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/08/14/220511.php#comment-102 And British rock is almost dead. I might be getting old, but I don't think our music has ever recovered from the scorched-earth times of punk in the late 70s. Any music with any level of musicianship or compositional skill is decried as "self indulgent" and "rockist". One problems we Brits have is the clique of Stalinist music critics that very much toe a party line when writing about new bands, and too many people pay far too much attention to what they say. They've always valued 'style' and 'attitude' over content; therefore too many bands are devoid of real content, and the 'attitude' is the juvenile behavour of louts like Oasis. I find the near-deification of Oasis totally mystifying; every note they play is pure cliché, the lyrics are drivel. Yet our scribblers claimed they were the saviours of rock. Meanwhile any music with real content is forced underground, and must struggle to be heard. Almost any decent British band seems to be better-known on continental Europe than in their own land. 102@blogcritics.org Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:40:57 EDT