Without Jones, there's no "Black Dog" or "The Ocean" or "No Quarter." Or those string arrangements for "The Rain Song" and "Kashmir." Or those great chord changes in "Since I've Been Loving You." Take him away and you'd still have a good band, but not a great one.
December 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Without Jones, there's no "Black Dog" or "The Ocean" or "No Quarter." Or those string arrangements for "The Rain Song" and "Kashmir." Or those great chord changes in "Since I've Been Loving You." Take him away and you'd still have a good band, but not a great one.
Jones talking about how he got into arranging - he'd never done it before, but his dad always told him to never turn down work - made me laugh out loud.
December 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Jones talking about how he got into arranging - he'd never done it before, but his dad always told him to never turn down work - made me laugh out loud.
Jones has made that point for years, but the film is very good at explaining what he means by laying out the different backgrounds and experiences and talents the 4 of them brought to the table and how they complemented each other and made the whole greater than the sum of the parts.
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Jones has made that point for years, but the film is very good at explaining what he means by laying out the different backgrounds and experiences and talents the 4 of them brought to the table and how they complemented each other and made the whole greater than the sum of the parts.
Any room for PKD here?
December 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Any room for PKD here?
So I looked up their album sales at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_d..., and you've got a very good point. The sales of their 1st 3 albums in the U.S. were nothing to sneeze at, even if they never had anything like the pop-culture status in the U.S. that they had in the UK.
Oasis discography - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
So I looked up their album sales at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_d..., and you've got a very good point. The sales of their 1st 3 albums in the U.S. were nothing to sneeze at, even if they never had anything like the pop-culture status in the U.S. that they had in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/music/2022/s... - Miki Berenyi's autobiography has at least one unflattering anecdote about Liam and his attitudes (at the time, anyway) towards women.
Miki Berenyi: ‘The claim that Britpop celebrated sassy women in bands was a veneer’
In this extract from the former Lush singer’s memoir, she recalls how Britpop sanded the edges off a thriving UK music scene and enshrined a culture of nasty, relentless sexualisation
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
www.theguardian.com/music/2022/s... - Miki Berenyi's autobiography has at least one unflattering anecdote about Liam and his attitudes (at the time, anyway) towards women.
Back in the Britpop days, I'd periodically see/read some commentary that asked some variation of the question of why Americans "don't get" Oasis. And I'd think, "well, maybe we do get Oasis, and that's why they're not that popular over here."
September 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Back in the Britpop days, I'd periodically see/read some commentary that asked some variation of the question of why Americans "don't get" Oasis. And I'd think, "well, maybe we do get Oasis, and that's why they're not that popular over here."
“Clement Attlee once said 'a period of silence from you would be most welcome'… sage advice Andy Burnham might want to take?”
Bridget Phillipson: “Clement Attlee was a very wise man.” 👀
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Bridget Phillipson: “Clement Attlee was a very wise man.” 👀
@lewisgoodall.com | @jonsopel1.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Not really. If anything important had come up, you'd have been added to a Signal group chat about it. 😊
April 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Not really. If anything important had come up, you'd have been added to a Signal group chat about it. 😊