Perhaps taking a cue from his tourmate Ryan Adams, Oasis’ Noel Gallagher has started a blog, although for some reason (well, probably a reason that’s rooted in some marketing initiative or another) it’s registration-only. So you’ll only be able to hear about Noel’s irritability with autograph-seekers and all-night vodka/Neu! parties if you give up your e-mail address and a few other identifying markers. But if you do, oh, what treats await you! Like this glimpse into Oasis’ dressing-room debate over the 10 best bands of all time, ever. Sure, he went the “list-as-content” route early, but c’mon, if there’s one thing Noel Gallagher probably knows, it’s that the Internet loves nothing more than to argue over semi-meaningfully quantified groups of artists, songs, and other cultural curios. I bet you can all guess who took this list’s top spot…
In the dressing room the traditional debate has started about “The Top 10″. This means the top 10 bands of all time. No solo artists allowed. No female artists allowed. No collectives allowed (Public Enemy etc.) This is the 1,000th time we’ve been here with this. It never gets any less interesting for me. For the record, THE DEFINITIVE top 10 is this..
1. The Beatles
2. The Rolling Stones
3. The Who
4. The Sex Pistols
5. The Kinks
6. The La’s
7. Pink Floyd
8. The Bee Gees
9. The Specials
10. Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac
End of.
Why am I not surprised that someone who stipulates “no female artists” would have a top 10 that includes Pink Floyd?
TALES FROM THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE [Noel Gallagher's Blog]
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The La’s is the most perplexing inclusion I’ve seen on one of these lists. There’s hundreds of other bands to put on that list. My head hurts thinking about it.
@relaxing:
You are over thinking this. It’s simple, Pink Floyd are proggy, smelly and masturbatory and so are the people who list them in a top 10.
The misogyny is a symptom, not a cause.
As if I couldn’t be irritated enough by this idiot already. He lists the freaking Bee Gees over the Specials???!?!? Stop the madness (no ska pun intended, of course)
Oasis should be opening for Ryan Adams and the Cardinals.
@SlrRlz: THANK YOU.
@Dickdogfood: So am I. If they weren’t #1, i’d thought that Noel would show some fake modesty and put themselves at like #9 or something.
But The La’s? They made ONE song.
I am genuinely surprised Oasis isn’t on this list.
Pink Floyd is probably the only legendary band with just so much awful material out there next to their great material.
Why no female artists? I mean, I get no solo artists, fine, but what about bands fronted by women? Jefferson Airplane? Heart?
I mean other than that he’s sexist.
@Dickdogfood: winner
I’m not sure why you’re unsurprised. Were the Floyd notorious misogynists? (I guess The Wall was fairly anti-female, but then it was basically anti-anyone not named Roger Waters.)
And Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac featured Christine Perfect on keys… wait, why the fuck am I defending Oasis?
Syd Barrett alone puts Pink Floyd near the top of any Best list.
That top 5 is pretty much what I would have written if I wrote a fake blog called “Noel Gallagher’s Favorite Bands.”
Also - No Stone Roses? Noel Gallagher 1994 would like a word with you, Mr. Gallagher.
Number of bands that peaked after I turned three years old: two
Number of bands that still put out new and interesting music when I was in high school: zero
It doesn’t surprise me that The Clash don’t make their list, but it doesn’t irritate me any less knowing that it’s Noel who left them off.
The La’s? The list reads like an AOR playlist until then…
After “There She Goes” is there anything left?
Other than NRBQ.
11. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
11. Gay Dad
11. Blur — no, wait, dammit
11. Dread Zeppelin
No female artists allowed?!?!?!
Grrr.
no collectives?
i’d like noel to take his head out his ass and try to explain the difference between the beatles and public enemy besides the fact that one isnt pre-90s Brit rock.
now the wu-tang, THATS a collective.
Where’s Led Zeppelin?
And no non-British bands? I mean, I guess The Bee Gees sort of qualify, being sort of Australian, but still…the Bee Gees?
Hey What about The Band. They should be #2. Id put Zep in there with Floyd.
The Romones were wacky when they came out. They were Revolutionary.
It was a good time to be around when that stuff first came out. The La’s
What? toot toot!