Oasis

Oasis is probably one of my favorite bands, if not my favorite band, and I would pay an exorbitant amount of money to attend an Oasis concert, but alas that will never happen. They're an English BritPop Alternative Rock band that formed in the early 1990s, but have since disbanded. I'll start this post out with an Oasis song I believe everyone knows, and I would say it is their most popular song. Wonderwall. This song is described by its writer, Noel Gallagher, as being about "an imaginary friend who's gonna come and save you from yourself" (BBC).

The band was originally formed by Liam Gallagher and was called The Rain. They were joined by Noel, Liam's younger brother, and they became the band known as Oasis.  The band saw their main influence as The Beatles, and were even said to be obsessed.  Many bands have cited Oasis as an influence including The Kooks, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, The Strokes, and many more.

Throughout the bands career the brothers had argued, disagreed, and fought. This led to the bands break up in 2009. Following a backstage fight between the Gallagher brothers before a concert on August 28, 2009, Noel posted a statement on the band's website saying that "with some sadness and great relief...I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."

The following are Oasis songs that I particularly like. It is hard to choose just a few songs from so many.

Liam Gallagher vowed to continue with the band despite Noel's absence. Liam took the remaining members and formed the band Beady Eye. I am unfamiliar with Liam's band, but I will most definitely have to look into them. 

Noel Gallagher later, in 2011, formed the band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. The band has since released one album. Here is my favorite track from that album. 

 Also on the album is the song Stop the Clocks written by Noel Gallagher and originally recorded for the Oasis album Don't Believe the Truth in 2004.

Since Oasis' break up an album titled Time Flies... 1994–2009 has been released that contains all of Oasis' 27 UK singles released by the band between 1994 and 2009 in addition to some live performances. This album is a must for any Oasis fan or anyone interested in listening to Oasis. 

The following is a video of a live performance of the Oasis song Don't Look Back in Anger performed in 2009 shortly before the band's break up. It is such an amazing and emotional representation of the band's music. I believe this is one of the best live musical performances ever. I get chills every single time I listen to this live version. I hope you will enjoy and appreciate this performance, as well as the band Oasis, as much as I do. 

Blink-182 & Tom DeLonge

For those of you familiar with Tom DeLonge you probably know he is the lead vocalist and guitarist of the well known pop punk band Blink-182. I've known and loved Blink-182 for a long time now and I recently made a few new discoveries about Tom DeLonge as well.

I feel like everyone is familiar with Blink-182, so I don't have much to say about them. They were in town a year or two ago and I really regret not going to their concert at Blossom. Here are some of my favorite Blin-182 songs.

I was just looking through my collection of CDs a couple of months ago and I found my very first ever burned mixtape, it has to be close to 10 years old. I listened through it and it sure did bring back memories. There was one song that I just had to look up because I remembered it and liked it so much. I loved it because the singer's voice reminded me of Blink-182! Well what do ya' know, the lead singer of this band, Box Car Racer, was the same as the lead singer of Blink-182.

Box Car Racer was only together for two or so years and I really only like a couple of their songs. Here is my favorite.

After discovering that DeLonge had other music other than Blink-182 I delved further into his musical career. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that he had formed another band as well, Angels & Airwaves. I had definitely  heard of this band before but I was unfamiliar with them and had no idea that DeLonge was a member. 

From my basic research Angels & Airwaves was a band that Tom DeLonge started when the members of Blink-182 decided to take an indefinite hiatus in 2005. It seems that DeLonge found some other musicians and formed Angels & Airwaves, while other members of Blink-182 formed the band +44. I am unfamiliar with +44 although now I may decide to look into them. Since Blink-182's reformation in 2009 +44 has broken up, while Angels & Airwaves has continued to create music. Here are a few of my favorite Angels & Airwaves songs, In addition to a single off of their most recent EP.

 

 

 

Windoview

I found this band a while back on some website or something, but I forget. I really like their simplicity and the lead singers voice. They're basically a simple acoustic trio.

Their music is available here. 

Oberhofer

So A few months ago I went to a Matt & Kim concert. I love Matt & Kim. And there was this opening band, and my friend that I went with was like, "Oh, they're good, you'll like them." I did. They just had such a great feel and sound to them, how could anyone not like them. I liked the name to, Oberhofer. I thought it was a cool kind of like German name or something. Then I looked and found out it was the lead singers last name, I found that sort of selfish or narcissistic. But whatever. The lead singer was crazy in concert, but that was probably due to a large amount of LSD. Here's a video of one of their songs I like. This song, Homebro, is a little more laid back than their other more dance and punk type songs. Like the The Kooks song I posted this is a live performance, although not in concert. I seem to like live performances better and I often attend a lot of concerts.

The Kooks

Thought I'd start off my new blog by throwing some music out there. I have an interesting cycle in music. I often find an artist, download some music and what not, then forget about them for months. Then, out of no where I'll see them on my iPod and be like, "oh hey there, I haven't seen you in a while." Then that'll be all I'll listen to for a few weeks. My most recent rediscovered artist is The Kooks. They're an English Indie Rock Band. Here's a live performance of one of their songs that I fancy.