Rip Little Richard

[tiggerblue10]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/little-richard-dead-48505/

[Mozz71]

Still Andy, a majority of his music was shockingly bad.

Oasis: I admit it, Definitely Maybe was a blinding album. Unfortunately that's where it ended for me. Maybe two or three decent singles after that (Whatever, Don't Look Back In Anger, All Around The World) and, aside from some really good b-sides (credit to them, their singles were always value for money. Acquiesce, Half A World Away and The Masterplan are among their best songs) thats about it.

That world be a good end product for most bands, but was it enough to merit the hype and adulation they got? Nowhere near.

[andy-hughes]

Mozz - // ... but was it enough to merit the hype and adulation they got? Nowhere near. //

There I would agree.

But I think we would have to agree that we had the lion's share of the era of truly great music.

Today absolutely has some really great artists, but the drive and ambition is no longer there.

Musicians have instant access to fame and and audience, the simple evolutionary system that meant that only good bands got to tour and build a fanbase and then make a record, is long gone, and literally anyone can do it now.

That means that sadly, there is a far far greater pool of indifferent and bad music cluttering up the space, making it harder for really good music to get through.

It also means that the media still need to hype and promote, even when there is nothing really there that merits that much effort and attention.

That is why we got the utter nonsense of the 'Britpop' (loathsome label!) wars with Oasis and Blur.

When the relative sales of indifferent records between a Beatles copyist outfit and sub-Cockney bunch of art school chancers makes national news, things really are in a bad way!!

[royfromaus]

Oasis make an amazing sound live but visually it is like watching a bunch of mannequins

[Mozz71]

Strangely enough Andy, I thought Blur were far better of the two, but Albarn was just as influenced by Ray Davies and Steve Marriott as Gallagher was with Lennon and Weller.

There were far better bands than either in that whole "Britpop" (I agree, it's a terrible name) genre: Pulp, Supergrass, The Verve all spring to mind.