Oasis: New Beatles Is Pointless!

Oasis have done the unthinkable; something I never thought they'd do.

Criticise The Beatles.

What's more, is it a bad sign when you agree with something that Noel and Liam have said? NME report:

"It's a pointless exercise," said Noel Gallagher, adding that he turned the new collection off "after five songs".

His brother and frontman Liam Gallagher was more scathing declaring the album of tracks re-produced by Beatles producer Sir George Martin and his son, "rubbish!".

"If you haven't got The Beatles by now you're not going to get it," declared the singer and John Lennon fan. "I'm all Beatled-up!"


Remarkably (or not) an ad for Love came on just after I'd watched the edited version of the Oasis tour documentary Lord, Don't Slow Me Down, and I spent the next half hour arguing with my flatmate over how pointless the whole exercise was. Okay, so the new mixes are decent enough; but surely the definitive versions of these records were released 40 years ago? Why do we need eternal remixes and remasterings and new versions by the original producer? The songs sounded good enough already; do they really need to be shinied up for a new audience - or to extract yet more cash from the legions of Beatles fans who already own everything?

One thing that Lord, Don't Slow Me Down reminded me of, though, was how much excellent material Oasis have produced (not entirely cancelled out by the risible "Laila"). In order to promote their new best of Stop the Clocks, Oasis have released a new (Beatles-referencing, of course) promo video for epic-former-B-side "the Masterplan".

(how great is Liam's walk in this video?)

Oasis - The Masterplan