WELL: I would give perhaps as much as ten whole U.S. Dollars to anyone who could get Blur's "Country House" out of my head, where it's been for the last week.
As a longtime Oasis fan (who thinks their first two albums are the best two albums put out by any band in the 90s whose name does not rhyme with Playdiohead or Shirvana), I get frequently worked up when people bring up the whole "they were just stealing from the Beatles" thing... they stole from Gary Glitter, T. Rex, a bevvy of 1960s Detroit-area bands, but not from the Beatles.
"Country House," however, has the most obviously Beatles-y backing vocals ever. And all of their other songs are like that. Sickening.
p.s. for a serious treat, find the Oasis version of David Bowie's "Heroes"... ah, the wall of sound...
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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