ARTIST: Oasis
TITLES: “Nothing On Me,” “I Wanna Live A Dream,” “Stop The Clocks”
WEB DEBUT: May 6, 2008
ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: Wow, Oasis are seriously changing up the game on our asses. You’d think this was the Dukes Of Stratosphear or something, the way they’ve suddenly started taking on Beatle-isms! “Nothing On Me” mixes brash guitars and snide, Lennon-esque vocals from Liam Gallagher that plead for “truth.” “I Wanna Live A Dream” flows from wan acoustic strumming with Noel Gallagher’s blank vocals into a stomping, psychedelic coda familiar to fans of homages to “I Am The Walrus.” “Stomp The Clocks” also flows from wan acoustic strumming topped by Noel Gallagher’s blank vocals into a stomping, but the volume takes a lot longer to rise, and when the drums suddenly crash in, followed by a loud guitar solo, it’s really more of a classic Radiohead-type of thing. I guess that’s progress?
NEW OASIS SONGS [MySpace via Independent Music]
Liars! The Beatles? There is no way this is true.
Liam’s looking…not entirely there.
OK, I’m showing my age and my pro-rock star bias, but DAMN is Noel still a cool-looking dude.
Liam’s not there because he’s doing blow with a bevvy of models in the hotel bar, of course.
My dreams die hard.
Liam looks like Tommy Scott from Space…just as runty.
The whole “these are just old demos, don’t bother” damage control has kicked up from their camp.
best promo shot ever. it perfectly encapsulates everything Oasis has ever done and will ever do in one nifty photo.
Stop The Clocks has been floating around for almost a decade now. Will Noel just finish the thing already?
sorry - that was confusing.
Liam’s “been” doing blow….
FUCK, those dudes need tans.
Andy Bell looks so defeated! I guess I would be too if I made a record like Nowhere and was now stuck as an Oasis lackey.
Yeah, I was going to say something about that but then I thought the poor guy had suffered enough by now.
I wonder if they are still as unoriginal now as they were in the mid 90’s?
@GhostOfDuane: Agreed.
“Well…here’s more of THAT then. Check please.”
The thing I find strange about this is, nobody cared about their last actual album, so why are people hyping leaked demos from a new album?