... I'm just not one of them. We'll just put it down to my tin ear!

a lack of time and being turned off by their sibling rivalry and arrogance, and I regret that now.

Btw, as far as I've been able to learn, they never "beat each other up on stage" as you said above. Only onstage disagreement that turned violent was the Whiskey A Go Go show in 1994, before which they'd been given powdered crystal meth and told it was cocaine. They were all fucked up, but lead guitarist and older brother Noel was the most messed up. Liam was singing quite well at the start of the gig, but Noel couldn't keep track of what song they were doing and was playing so loudly, and singing loudly and apparently deliberately off-key, apparently trying to drown Liam out, that Liam finally told him to fuck off and hit him on the head with his tambourine. I haven't seen film of that, don't know if it was just an irritated light bop on the head after Noel had been deliberately aggravating for several songs, with the band and Noel especially sheer chaos while Liam tried to sing and even had them redo the first song to try to get everyone on track. I wouldn't have advised hitting Noel with a tambourine (a light enough hit they just continued with the concert), but after seeing video of what Noel was doing, I think a giant hook to yank him off the stage would have been perfectly appropriate. After that gig Noel took off for San Francisco and talked about quitting the band. But they'd all been completely messed up that night, and Noel had been the worst. Whatever drug they'd been given, they didn't sleep for days.

They were brothers only 5 years apart in age, had grown up sharing a room and fighting, and had an alcoholic, abusive father who would beat them and sometimes beat Noel unconscious. And a mother who really should have left their father earlier, but hesitated because of the Catholic Church. (My mother and two of her sisters stayed too long in bad marriages for the same reason, so I know how that goes. I've never forgiven the priest in St. Paul who took one look at the house and Lincoln Continental and told my mom not to leave my dad, but to get him to start tithing.)

Anyway, the more I learned about the Gallagher brothers, the more their behavior seemed understandable. And once I really listened to their music...

I'm glad they patched things up after 15 years apart. My own brothers still refuse to have anything to do with each other most of the time. They're 4 years apart in age.

... At the same time, I love the Beatles. Go figure.

best songs are can get incredible variations from people who all love that artist. How often do you run across an article listing so-and-so's 10 best songs and think they must be crazy or deaf?

The music of theirs that I've heard is just bland and indistinguishable from most other 90s bands.

The only song I found that would make me want to hear more is this Wonderwall

bothered to try to make any decisions about that. It's always seemed a bit bland to me.

I've noticed that journalists/critics differ a lot on what they consider the band's best songs. (The same is true for fans, of course.) Out of curiosity, I looked at a lot of magazine and newspaper lists of their best songs last night, and despite how successful Wonderwall was, there seemed to be as many lists leaving it out of the top 10 as including it, and it didn't always make the top 20.

We all have different taste, and IMO those journalists having very different favorites - picking so many different Oasis songs they consider the band's ten best - helps explain their wide appeal.

I'd posted those two concert videos of Cigarettes & Alcohol mainly to show the crowd response, 29 years ago and now.

I posted my favorite 10 Oasis songs earlier, in another reply to you.

rave reviews, and a podcast about them even from John Heilemann. Something important's going on, which is why I've been posting so much about them.

Taylor Swift gets rave reviews and I don't like her music. I certainly don't hate it but I don't like it so rave reviews don't mean much to me.

"delight" of certain Gen X and Millennials? I am not sure they appeal to many Gen-Z, but I certainly don't know.

They are an English band, and while their current tour is getting lots of attention, the only new item I could see discussed is the release fairly recently of another album--one which marks the first time a band has used AI vocals. The latter incenses me if true (and I assume it is as it appears on their Wikipedia page.

AI than I have?

Yes, this paragraph about something done without permission was on their Wikipedia page:

states it. That which YOU posted:

that his AI voice sounded mega. That was not approval of the album, and I should have pointed that out.

There has been no approval of the AI album from the band.

There is AI slop all over YouTube. I'm not aware of any artist who's succeeded in getting everything copying their voice removed. Especially when some misguided fans are doing it.

Noel made his opinion clear, and he runs the band. Younger brother Liam is known for saying whatever pops into his head, and he was apparently surprised by how much an AI voice could sound like him.

And btw, Oasis didn't reunite until a year or so after that group of Oasis fans did that album.

The Wikipedia paragraph misrepresents what happened.

including videos and song lists that can help those "discover" or "rediscover" this band.

I have major issues with AI and its decimation of creativity. If Wiki got it wrong, they should correct it.

very successful solo careers in the meantime. Hit albums and singles, sold-out concerts. Including Liam selling out consecutive nights at Knebworth.

But their work together was missed.

And I do expect this tour to bring a resurgence in guitar rock, which we really need now.

I appreciate your efforts. On the AI score, I know that Rick Beato is getting really singled out right now by the POWER guys (UMG) re: copyright vs fair use, but he has really nailed the issues...

I will give Oasis a new "listen"-promise.

I agree with you re Rick Beato being targeted unfairly.

Btw, Rick interviewed Noel Gallagher of Oasis a few days ago, posted about it on Instagram - then quickly took that post down. I'm guessing they didn't want him boasting about the interview, at least not yet, when they'd said they wouldn't be doing any interviews on this tour. Noel did call in to his favorite sports talk show in the UK to talk about how happy he is with the tour and how proud he is of Liam. But that probably didn't lead to a tsunami of requests for interviews like what they must've gotten after Rick Beato posted.

and I've been posting about them since the first concert and first rave reviews on July 4.

https://democraticunderground.com/1034147511

I think the oldest of the threads I've posted on Oasis are about 20 pages back. There are a lot of them - all worth reading if you want to understand why they're so popular. Beside posting their music including a lot of video from the concerts, I've posted documentaries, interviews and articles.

And lots and lots of the rave reviews they're getting.

They're a great band. I didn't give enough attention to them in the '90s. Apparently neither did most of the people here.

There's one documentary especially that you should watch to understand their success:

https://democraticunderground.com/1034149416

As for their best music - this would be my top 10, if I had to narrow it down:

Champagne Supernova
Don't Look Back In Anger
Cigarettes & Alcohol
Live Forever
Rock 'n' Roll Star
Slide Away
The Hindu Times
Supersonic
Acquiesce
Stand By Me

My bad.

my attention first because as of yesterday they'd been getting tons of media attention and rave reviews for just over two months (the tour started July 4). They weren't merely this week's hot topic. LOL. So I responded to that instead of what's considered the best of Oasis, which people will disagree on. Though anyone just wanting an introduction to a lot of their best songs could start with the setlist for the reunion tour, which you can find here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_Live_%2725_Tour

and in lots of reviews.

which does show up fairly often on lists of their 20 best.

And as I mentioned in the thread I posted about the song

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034149968

it's Johnny Marr's very favorite Oasis song. He played a role in their early success, but it was this song from 2002's Heathen Chemistry that became his favorite.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/04/they-made-me-feel-i-could-do-something-with-my-life-indie-music-legends-pick-their-favourite-oasis-songs

If I survive Trump.

all ages enjoying themselves.

I've been finding their music and all the concert news a perfect break from Trump, even if for only a few minutes at a time.

it could be that I avoid what is currently popular, (unless I discovered it first!)

I admit being late to REM. They didn't do much for me, despite the hits. It was years later that, listening a little more carefully, I decided they were actually very interesting. The way the instruments played off each other was much more involved than I thought.
Also, I got fooled by the Nickelback flogging. When I finally ignore that & listened, I found those were some really good songs, executed superbly.
Oasis was that way for me, but I recognized them well before now. But, they were already nearing their end when I realized they were good.

a while as if there was another trip to the ER almost every week. I used to joke that I could find my way around the nearest hospital blindfolded, since I'd spent so many hours there, a lot of that time wandering around the hospital in the wee hours. In retrospect I probably could've listened to music then, but I wouldn't've been able to focus on it. And at home there really wasn't a good time for listening to music during the day, because I had to be able to hear if there was an emergency. I'd often be awake hours after she was asleep, so I'd sometimes catch up on music including new music then, but there was also writing/email to take care of, and I'd stop listening to music at times, take the headphones off, to make sure there wasn't any sort of emergency. So I wasn't going to pay much attention to a very brash young UK band with two squabbling brothers. Then by 1996, even with Oasis having done those triumphant concerts at Knebworth, I was interested in a different young British band, because of a friend, and hoping they might become more successful than Oasis (nope).

Even if we can spend a lot of time focused on music, it's impossible to keep up with all of it.