Stop The Clocks - Oasis

The Britpop debate of the 90's divided the nation. Many loved Blur. They loved Damon Albarn's impish charm and cheery delivery, and the coquettish way that Alex James threw his hair around whilst playing bass. I, on the other hand, thought they were a bunch of soft namby-pambies and thought of Albarn as nothing more than an irritating weasel, capable of delivering the odd reasonable song. Oasis, however, was the colossus of the genre, delivering in your face, arrogant rock to a disenchanted and sceptical youth, who were desperate for change at a time when a disenfranchised Conservative government were widely distrusted. "This is the real world" could have been ...

Stop the PRESS let alone the clocks its quite possibly the greatest "greatest hits" album from my favourit band....... but be warned if you have loved oasis from the start, there is nothing new for you here. This is a very strange review for me to have to write beacuse even though OASIS are probably my favourite band of all time, I have to admite I am really not excited about this CD in the slightest..... but I can explain why... For me Oasis are the defining band of not only the BRIT POP movement of the mid-ninties, but as a young impressionable teenager at that time they also defined my entire music interests and tastes. For me Oasis is ...