WHATEVER - OASIS - A year of grace for English Brit-pop, with dazzling names such as: Suede, Blur, Radiohead, Mansun, The Verve, Kula Shaker, and so many more! The Oasis group, in 1993, swept away the competition, arriving at the first place in just a few months with their debut "Definitely Maybe", even silencing the tenor trio Domingo, Pavarotti, and Carreras (the legendary phrase from a group spokesperson celebrated the second place of Pavarotti and co.: "Three fat guys yelling won't stand a chance against Oasis").
I mentioned earlier, if Definitely Maybe reestablishes and clearly redraws the lines of new post-Beatles British music, our heroes, around Christmas, after the revelry of the previous months, release a single that calling "out of this world" is an understatement. Brilliant, super catchy, and instant upon first listening. Music and lyrics by the great Noel, on a backdrop of strings by English composer Nick Ingman. After this single, in the English and American (partially, not entirely) music scene, nothing would be the same again.
Lessons in arrangements and rhythms that would influence at least 20 years and beyond.
Magnificent melody, here Liam sings divinely like never before (his last sporadic great vocal lines would last until '97, in the studio obviously, to then disappear entirely among alcohol and extravagant vices).
Someone shouts about it being too much like the Beatles, nothing could be more wrong. Here there's just a great piece that resonates and breaks down many barriers. Cute video, indeed super cool on MTV, where a very young Liam sings in playback, first shot from the side, then the front, then behind... nothing original but maximally alternative. Noel eating chips while playing the guitar, while the other Oasis members drink red wine.
The single also includes two unreleased tracks that somehow manage to keep the British flag flying high, one is titled "half a world away" sung and played (guitar, voice, and drums) by Noel "The chief" Gallagher, the other single "it's good to be free" doesn't add anything new to what the quintet had already written and sung.
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