I've always been firmly of the opinion that our likes and dislikes are as much about the stage in life we heard that music as anything else.
I first saw Oasis a couple of months before they released their first album. It was a free music festival on Avenham Park in Preston and I remember they played Supersonic. As an aside, I saw Kirsty MacColl there but perhaps a year or two earlier.
Anyway, I was 18 at the time, and I've enjoyed seeing all the bands mentioned in this thread. I never an 'x camp or y camp' but enjoyed most of that era. Whether bouncing into the student union to the sound of Blur's Girls and Boys, Shed 7, Catatonia, Oasis, Supergrass, Super Furries, Pulp, Radiohead, Bluetones, Boos, Underworld, Super Furry Animals, Prodigy, Ash, host of others. I was also heading into Manchester and Liverpool - Cream/Nation, Home and other clubs with friends into the DJ scene with Sasha, Digweed etc.
To what degree was I critically considering the value of the music, its relation to its predecessors, the skill of the instrumentalists.... Not much. It was simply about enjoyment, a shared experience and feeling alive. My memories of all those bands are positive - they trigger reminders of pure enjoyment in music unfettered by the hassles of adulthood that follow. That does not mean of course that I'd buy a new Oasis album today, nor that I'd feel the same had I been 30 when they appeared...
Live music is still a huge deal for me and after the freeze of the last 18 months I am very much looking forward for an intense period of rescheduled gigs over the next 12 months.
Rob
I first saw Oasis a couple of months before they released their first album. It was a free music festival on Avenham Park in Preston and I remember they played Supersonic. As an aside, I saw Kirsty MacColl there but perhaps a year or two earlier.
Anyway, I was 18 at the time, and I've enjoyed seeing all the bands mentioned in this thread. I never an 'x camp or y camp' but enjoyed most of that era. Whether bouncing into the student union to the sound of Blur's Girls and Boys, Shed 7, Catatonia, Oasis, Supergrass, Super Furries, Pulp, Radiohead, Bluetones, Boos, Underworld, Super Furry Animals, Prodigy, Ash, host of others. I was also heading into Manchester and Liverpool - Cream/Nation, Home and other clubs with friends into the DJ scene with Sasha, Digweed etc.
To what degree was I critically considering the value of the music, its relation to its predecessors, the skill of the instrumentalists.... Not much. It was simply about enjoyment, a shared experience and feeling alive. My memories of all those bands are positive - they trigger reminders of pure enjoyment in music unfettered by the hassles of adulthood that follow. That does not mean of course that I'd buy a new Oasis album today, nor that I'd feel the same had I been 30 when they appeared...
Live music is still a huge deal for me and after the freeze of the last 18 months I am very much looking forward for an intense period of rescheduled gigs over the next 12 months.
Rob