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here’s the whole rockfield chapter from john robb’s live forever: the rise, fall and resurrection of oasis.

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Membranes-Dragonfly

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Membranes-Cor Blimey Ain't England Snidey

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Gigantic, roaring and life-affirming, these are the anthems for the next pop generation. The album's themes are of youth, love, drugs, carefree abandon and lust for life. An invigorating blast in a decade that's too used to the introspection of Grunge. They kick off with 'Columbia', a juggernaut of a song; 'Bring It On Down' piledrives like prime-time Stooges; 'Up In The Sky' is a blast and even 'Digsy's Dinner' rocks. Then come the three singles: 'Shakermaker', with its spooked intro and rolling onslaught, the smouldering 'Live Forever' and the cocky 'Supersonic'. Liam is hunched over, glaring at the crowd, mumbling inanities and slouching on the mic stand. It sounds crap, but it works. He's already a great frontman, all cheekbones and carefully dishevelled hair. Yet although he looks ice cool, he sweats like a pig under the mean glare of the lights. Between-song communication is limited to a glare and a victory sign. Liam tells the crowd off for chanting "City": "Less of that," he mutters. He's already up there with Lennon or Lydon—the only two singers he's ever shown any respect for. All attitude and arrogance, like the best pop demands. Casually tossing off the T Rex-driven 'Cigarettes And Alcohol' is the closest they come to a statement: a surging ode to laddism and paean to the good times. 'Slide Away' is a wistful surge, with the crowd looking almost dewy-eyed for a few seconds. As ever, they end with the crunching exit of 'I Am The Walrus'. This is their definitive moment. They capture Lennon's sneering, raucous vocal and in one stroke point out that The Beatles were darker and harder than the Stones, who never wrote such a nasty song. Like the Primals chewing up the Stones' myth and coming up with three Keefs, Oasis have turned The Beatles into a couple of Johns and no Ringos. Liam grabs the song and snarls his way to the climax. They turn an acid anthem into a blistering wall of sound, it builds and builds—'Oook Coo Gt Choo' spits Liam defiantly, and leaves the stage. The rest leave one by one. There can be no encore.

—Man City Slickers | Gig review of Oasis playing the Haçienda | written by John Robb | Vox November 1994

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Punk Rock Ruined My Life - John Robb

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"It's 11 July Manchester. The boys are back in town. (...) and the weather is for once matching. For days an unusually sun- drenched city has had a carnival atmosphere." Does that mean Noel waited for climate change to make an Oasis reunion possible? Explains a lot. A lot.

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Will Larak, Qeshm, or Hormuz Island be the first boots on the ground?