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“I genuinely believe Oasis are the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history. It’s easy to attack them for being musically regressive: after all, they didn’t just Stop The Clocks, to quote the title of their 2006 best-of, but rewound them by 30 years. But the real problem is that they set social attitudes back even further.
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It’s no coincidence that Oasis are the band of choice for flag-shaggers and Reform voters”
@aral Hey now, that's not nice! Neanderthals were probably pretty decent people!
(also, this was the first time I've heard about the flag being called "the butcher's apron", and it does fit)
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Oasis simply camped on a prevailing oft repeated mantra that the 60s were better common in peak viewing/listening media broadcasts in the UK.
You could argue the Sex Pistols were worse culturally. Take a look back through the lyrics to "Bodies" for example and compare the arguments presented to current political discourse.
The only antidote for decades was John Peel.
@aral My thanks for this precious link.
@olleolleolle @aral i enjoyed it a bit too much
@unknown8bit @olleolleolle It does deliver a rather cathartic barrage of brilliantly bristly burns.
@aral I remember when Noel slagged Jay-Z off ahead of his Glastonbury appearance in 2008, who dissed him on stage and went on to deliver the best performance at that year's festival. Then when Oasis split up the following year, Jay-Z joked that he wanted to collaborate with Liam (https://www.clashmusic.com/news/jay-z-oasis-team-up/)