sally_cinnamon

I'd love to meet the bloke sat behind us at Carrow Road last season. Once everyone had stopped singing Delia, Show Us Your Tits"he started singing Delia, Show Us Your Tw*t. His carer told him to "shut it, there are ladies present" and looked at me apologetically.

Thanks for the advice, Blandy - appreciated...

No - actually, scrub that, will have to ask my boyfriend...am sure he's got it.

Have been listening to Smiley Smile and Wild Honey this morning, Rob - absolutely astonishing albums.

You can't write off an entire band's oeuvre like that, especially 13 albums' worth of songs; Stipe's a bit irritating but he means well. I like Murmur, and Automatic For The People is a great pop album: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=MIW050507040805&sql=11:eif1zfg7eh5k~T2

Okay, so now we're all forced to define our terms - what exactly are we arguing about here? Does 'better' mean 'more record sales'? Or bigger audiences? In that case Oasis win, and the Oasis fans shouldn't be arguing at all, because the facts speak for themselves. Except it seems that the Oasis fans are the ones shouting the loudest... They're entirely different bands. In the same way that The Stones could never hope to rival the sheer volume of music composed by Lennon/McCartney (plus George and the odd song by Ringo), nor can Blur compete with the fact that most people prefer a 3-note singalong to an arguably more sophisticated sound. Oasis fans paradoxically distance themselves from 'pop' (preferring 'rock' as a term) yet Oasis themselves churn out nothing but 3-minute pop songs (and a succession of increasingly mediocre albums). And I mean pop songs in the nicest sense of the word!

It was a joke, I was merely commenting on the broad and all-encompassing tastes of Oasis fans In my defence, I think some of the Oasis fans on here are making rather too lofty a claim about their favourite band. Another song they ripped off, btw - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (She's Electric) - George nearly sued over that.

Yes. Not forgetting Northern Soul, too! But I don't suppose any Oasis fans have room in their collection for Cymande or Sly

Would you like to tell me what's wrong with so-calledPoppy Tunes? Pop music IS Oasis, Blur, Motown, Rock, New Wave etc. Any band who writes a great pop tune is achieving all there is to be achieved in terms of music. I think way too much importance is placed on the album as a medium. If more bands/artists used their talents to write amazing pop tunes, we'd have a much more interesting musical climate. Platty's bang on the money, Def Maybe's great but the rest is rock-oriented dross. The Gallaghers should expand their record collection, for starters (perhaps looking beyond a white, male, British tradition might help).

Blur. Of course Blur. This can be evinced using a quotation from Noel last week along the lines of, "I've been listening to Village Green Preservation Society a lot recently". Damon et al did that eleven years ago, so they win.

Every cloud has a silver lining (at least it did in March 1981)

Joe Dolce was Number 1 when I was born.