Cigarettes and Alcohol

Oasis has released their seventh album called "Dig Out Your Soul" in hopes of resurrecting the fame they once knew. Its not that the album isn't good, sure the tracks are catchy, and you can sing along to them, heck you can even download them onto rockband if you so desire. However, like Green Day, I feel as though I have heard these songs before, as though I should saddle up for the ride on this one trick pony one more time. The Gallaghers can still make a killer rock song, but its still the same old thing, like the turkey leftovers that you haven't finished from Thanksgiving. Do I really have to pretend to enjoy this again?

"The Shock of the Lightning" has been the single from the CD to get radio play, but I much prefer "Bag it Up," even though the chorus leaves you wondering if you didn't just hear Lady Marmalade singing "more, more mooooore..."
Liam Gallagher apparently tried his hand at the song-writing process on this CD, which is probably why it has so many damned Beatles references in it, I mean, didn't John Lennon come back reincarnated as Liam Gallagher? Seriously!
The first five tracks on the CD are reminiscent of the old Oasis we loved, just more weather-beatan from all those drunken nights of passing out in the alley behind the pub. But really, now that Oasis is sober and there are no mind-altering substances used as inspiration for the new CD its no wonder that they haven't had a hit since "What's the Story Morning Glory?" At this time, the boys were dabbling in crystal meth and living a real rock-n-roll lifestyle. Now they are just two burned out english blokes with rotten teeth and caterpillar-thick unibrows, not that they weren't before, but now they just have that arrogant rock-star attitude to boot.





Oasis recently preformed in Vancouver, but I was reluctant to spend the fifty dollars on the show since it was only a mere nine years ago when they caused a fiasco here by storming off stage after a shoe had been thrown at them. I think it is becoming quite evident in the Gallagher brother's career that its possible their fighting and onstage antics have become more entertaining than their music.