Old Rock, New Rock

Out with the old, in with the middle aged:

While Oasis enjoyed a decent amount of popularity in the United States, with three Top Ten albums and one Top Ten hit (“Wonderwall”) to its credit, during its heyday starting in the mid 1990s and running through the 2000s the band was insanely popular worldwide, especially in England where each of its studio albums topped the charts and the band racked up 22 consecutive Top Ten hits. Oasis’ sophomore album “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” has to date sold over 22 million copies across the globe and is the third-biggest selling studio album of all time in England. Oasis didn’t invent anything. Listening to the band, it quickly becomes apparent that the Gallagher brothers studiously listened to their parents’ Beatles records, seizing upon Paul McCartney's melodic gift and adding to it John Lennon’s edge via incorporating equal amounts of 1980s electric guitar chime and 1970s punkish crunch. The result was a band that quite nicely checked off all the boxes, one that, despite the overshadowing and often overriding nature of the internecine warfare between the Gallaghers, created a body of work that holds up well. Quality songwriting will do that for you. The Oasis fanbase, now firmly ensconced in middle age, greeted the band with an enthusiasm level that made the screaming hordes of young girls at a Taylor Swift concert seem utterly tepid. This was their moment not only to pretend to be young again, but also to believe that they could successfully navigate life’s seemingly insurmountable hurdles. If it were possible to reunite Noel and Liam, who have a thoroughly chronicled über-fractious relationship, back on stage together, then nothing is impossible to accomplish.

What's old is old again...