(What's the Story) Manchester Hotels?

[Pigmy Pony]

Doesn't affect me this - if Oasis were performing in my street I'd shut all the windows and turn the telly up... but I do feel sorry for their dedicated fans who are going to be rinsed left right and centre it seems. To see them at Heaton Park looks like it will be about £130 a ticket. Fair enough if that includes a park bench to kip on afterwards, but chances are many will be wanting a hotel room. Maldron Hotel looks like it'll have some availability, but you'll have to be minted:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c935v1kkzjvo

[mikeyb]

Dynamic pricing is the spawn of the Devil.

Unfortunately everyone complains about it but they still pay up.

[Macca]

I didn't think this would be a big deal. I mean they've not done a decent album since 1995, couldn't imagine they still have any mass appeal 30 years on.

But 2 of the youngsters at work are in the ballot to get tickets. One born 1990 the other 2001.

Death where is thy sting?

I saw them years ago, at Maine Road. Richard Ashcroft was the support.

[Pigmy Pony]

I saw them at Glastonbury 1994, they were on in the afternoon on the NME stage iirc. I should have paid more attention, I might have ended up liking them. They headlined there the following year, and I had a ticket, but all my mates missed the boat due to the festival selling out early. Sold my ticket on the local paper's classifieds and we all went to Phoenix festival instead.

[Alex_UK]

I proudly own no Oasis records and never will. So I certainly wouldn’t be paying £130 to see them, park bench or not. I was more Park Life. [emoji4]

[Pete The Cat]

Back in the day I liked DM and the early b-sides. I saw Oasis in '95 and they were on at a couple of festivals I went to over the years but honest to God they're the dullest live band going, just stood in parkas. Watching a bus shelter is more interesting. They rely on the audience to provide the atmosphere but you can get that at any crowd event.

From that era The Prodigy were a far, far better live spectacle and are still riveting.

And musically Blur won the Britpop "war" easily.

Pete

[Lawrence001]

Although Pulp were better than either of them [emoji16]

[Macca]

Was never that keen on Blur, they had that faux cockney Chaz n Dave thing going on that never sat right with me, even thought they did do a few good tunes.

I have got a couple of Graham Coxon's solo albums though.

[The Black Adder]

Although Pulp were better than either of them [emoji16]

+1

Pulp still are totally FAB.

[The Black Adder]

Blur were just annoying. I prefered James to Blur. Oasis were good, but I only liked their first album. Whats the Story was pants, apart from the very last track, Champagne Supernova. Of course, it was made good because Weller was on it.

Their debut album was like a fist in the face, confident, good tunes. It blew all the other chart stuff out of the water. The 90s were pretty awful for music apart from the indie scene.

Pulp were real and I knew Jarvo quite well back then... but being from Sheffield, I might be a little biased. :)

Glad Oasis are back on tour, though. They have a massive fan base.

[rmcin626]

Brit pop passed me by for some reason, I think the closest I have is CD by the Verve. I streamed the remastered Oasis release the other day and turned it off after a couple songs, didn’t like the vocals 30 years ago and still of the same opinion.

[The Black Adder]

Yep, Liam's voice gets annoying after a bit.

Sunsheeeeiiinnneh

Didn't Johnny Rotten tell him to stop ripping his style off at some point.

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[Barry]

I have their first two CDs. Don't play them much, but they are a reminder of an important time and place in my life.

[The Black Adder]

Me too... Crazy days.

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[Pigmy Pony]

Blur were just annoying. I prefered James to Blur. Oasis were good, but I only liked their first album. Whats the Story was pants, apart from the very last track, Champagne Supernova. Of course, it was made good because Weller was on it.

Their debut album was like a fist in the face, confident, good tunes. It blew all the other chart stuff out of the water. The 90s were pretty awful for music apart from the indie scene.

Pulp were real and I knew Jarvo quite well back then... but being from Sheffield, I might be a little biased. :)

Glad Oasis are back on tour, though. They have a massive fan base.

If you liked EDM you were spoiled for choice though - Prodigy, Orbital, The Orb, Faithless, Underworld, Leftfield, Chemical Brothers - I could go on, and often do... then there's Screamadelica, that was quite special :)

[The Black Adder]

Yeah, loved all those. Especially Leftfield and Chemical Brothers.

And screamadelica brought it all together. An amazing album.

Loved KLFs Chill Out too.

Good times.

With bands like The Roses, Teenage fanclub, Wedding Present, My Bloody Valentine, Spiritualized, Pulp, Neds, Charlatans, Inspirals,... It was a great time for music.

Its not until you watch (or try to watch) a 90s version of Top of the Pops that you realise how much music was in two totally different camps.

There was so much dross. I remember stopping watching it around 89/90 onwards.

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[Barry]

I remember the '80s as being a time when a lot of vinyl records were being sold off cheap in newsagents. Bought a lot of stuff which on playing I would describe as "ephemeral" - of its time and not really worth keeping: acts such as 'Bow Wow Wow' and 'The Damned', as well as others whose names I have forgotten.

[Pigmy Pony]

Yeah, loved all those. Especially Leftfield and Chemical Brothers.

And screamadelica brought it all together. An amazing album.

Loved KLFs Chill Out too.

Good times.

With bands like The Roses, Teenage fanclub, Wedding Present, My Bloody Valentine, Spiritualized, Pulp, Neds, Charlatans, Inspirals,... It was a great time for music.

Its not until you watch (or try to watch) a 90s version of Top of the Pops that you realise how much music was in two totally different camps.

There was so much dross. I remember stopping watching it around 89/90 onwards.

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I blame The Wedding Present for my partial deafness, they should have told me not to stand so close to their speaker stacks :(

[Wakefield Turntables]

Pulp all the way, the thinking man's group of the 90's.

[Macca]

No one mention 'The Pixies'?

I'd rate them above any of them from that early 1990s period I think.

[The Black Adder]

Pulp all the way, the thinking man's group of the 90's.Indeed... They kept things real.[emoji16][emoji41]

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[The Black Adder]

No one mention 'The Pixies'?

I'd rate them above any of them from that early 1990s period I think.Yeah, they were good too. I liked Sugar too... Some of Nirvana was good, not a big fan. I only bought Nevermind.

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[Macca]

Yeah, they were good too. I liked Sugar too... Some of Nirvana was good, not a big fan. I only bought Nevermind.

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'Nevermind' was the only good thing they did I thought. Their first album is okay but nothing special.

There was a lot more good rock going on in the US back then than in UK, but was thinking really of just the UK scene with The Pixies and that.

[Macca]

I think somewhere I have a big roll of gig posters from the era 1989 - 1992, a lot of the Indie bands of the time.

They won't be in great nick but I'm wondering now if there would be any interest in them?

[mikeyb]

Sorry but they were all s***

I'd rate BritPop as bad as Jazz, I'd rather scrape the bottom of an aluminium pot with a fork [emoji1787]

[Barry]

Sorry but they were all s***

I'd rate BritPop as bad as Jazz, I'd rather scrape the bottom of an aluminium pot with a fork [emoji1787]

Given that criterion, your opinion is just that: a grossly subjective and sweeping opinion, which your emoji does little to ameliorate.

So you don't like Jazz - millions do. Sometimes if you can't say anything good, it's best to say nothing at all.

[Pigmy Pony]

No one mention 'The Pixies'?

I'd rate them above any of them from that early 1990s period I think.

The Pixies shone really bright for a while. I thought I was maybe the only person here that liked them, turns out there's three of us! I saw them in about '89, touring their Bossanova album, one of the best gigs I've been to.

[mikeyb]

Wasn't grossly subjective or sweeping I meant what I said.

But anyway, I'll refrain from posting as you obviously have no sense of my humour.

I'm out.

[Lawrence001]

Sorry but they were all s***

I'd rate BritPop as bad as Jazz, I'd rather scrape the bottom of an aluminium pot with a fork [emoji1787]What genres do you like?

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[Lawrence001]

No one mention 'The Pixies'?

I'd rate them above any of them from that early 1990s period I think.I thought we were just talking about British acts. Pixies were great, and Sonic Youth. I preferred the shoegaze scene myself though.

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[Macca]

I thought we were just talking about British acts. Pixies were great, and Sonic Youth. I preferred the shoegaze scene myself though.


Have to say I didn't realise The Pixies were American.

Sonic Youth - I got 'Daydream Nation' when it came out but never got into it.

[Pigmy Pony]

I've got a Sonic Youth CD round here somewhere. Played it once, made my ears bleed.

[Pete The Cat]

If you like Nirvana's combination of crunching electric guitars and catchy melodies, then Pixies' Doolittle and Sugar's Copper Blue are very highly recommended (they were both "album of the year" material back when we had music papers/magazines). Those two bands paved the way for so-called alt rock to get mainstream appeal and Nirvana capitalised on their groundwork.

Sonic Youth were a different kettle of fish, other than odd moments like Kool Thing tunes weren't an obvious part of their DNA. Style over substance IMHO.

Pete

[Pigmy Pony]

Yeah, Pixies were great back then, and Doolittle the best of the bunch. Combined elements of Black Francis' interest in UFOs/aliens and surf music (at least that was what I was hearing). I lost interest after "Trompe le Monde", but since the version of "Que Sera Sera" they put out as the theme song for the US TV series "From" (I didn't realise they were back together again), I am curious to hear what they are like these days.

Of course bassist Kim Deal is long gone, I think it was a clash of egos with Francis.


https://youtu.be/PDd-180FQ8U?t=13