If you play "Free As A Bird" by The Beatles backwards, look what you hear.

[LoZoccolo]

Here's to my sweet Oasis.
The one whose little path would make me sad whose power is Oasis.
They'll give you, give you Definately Maybe.
There was a little toolshed where they made us suffer, sad Oasis.

I think it's excellent (and very classy) of The Beatles to tip their hats to these emerging superstars when they recorded that song, especially since Oasis were on the verge of becoming more popular than The Beatles around that time.

[Blue_State_Elitist]

1. Is this legit?

If so, right on!

Oasis, I'm "madferit" mate.

[Blue-Jay]

2. I'm still trying to wrap my head around "looking at what I hear"

[LoZoccolo]

4. It's like "slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball".

Or even "definately maybe".

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. The live Oasis version of Neil Young's "Hey, Hey, My My"...

...makes me want to stick a hot fork into the part of my brain that allows me to hear Oasis.

The only thing worse is their version of "Helter Skelter," from the same album.

I believe our friends "across the pond" have a special nickname for the Gallagher brothers:

GIT. Actually, "a pair of gits."

:evilgrin:

[Blue_State_Elitist]

5. You fookin wankah

Oasis is fookin brillyent!

[LoZoccolo]

7. Spot on! n/t

[Blue_State_Elitist]

8. haha

Spent enough time deciphering what Liam tries to say in his interviews. You get the hang of it pretty quick.

[mr blur]

19. Not familiar with that one,

but I'd certainly say a couple of wankers. What a state British music was in in the 90s when this glorified pub-rock band could be seen as the future of anything.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. That's unusual, because...

it is said that if you play Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" backwards, the (heard forwards) phrase "if there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now" becomes "here's to my sweet Satan." I mean, what are the odds that the nearly identical phrase "Here's to my sweet Oasis" would appear in a song recorded years earlier by another group?

Yes, I do own a turntable that can be coaxed, easily, into running counter-clockwise at 33-1/3 rpm. It's the old AR, the classic belt drive turntable widely sold in the sixties and seventies. Great turntable, by the way.

Does LZ really say "here's to my sweet Satan?" If that's what you want to believe, fine with me, but it's a stretch.

Edited to add:

Google for here's to my sweet satan to get loads of links for satanic sayings all over the place. Or so it is claimed.

[LoZoccolo]

9. Kick.

Maybe, I don't really wanna know, how your garden grows, baby I just wanna fly.

:kick:

[LoZoccolo]

10. Kick.

The daytime crowd should see this.

:kick:

[Borgnine]

11. Paul died very bloody.

That's still my favorite backwards message ever.

[liberalpragmatist]

12. I like Oasis - "Slide Away" is my favorite song

Big fan of Brit-rock here. Love The Beatles, The Kinks, Led Zep, The Small Faces, to a lesser extent the Stones, the Who, and modern day I love Oasis, The Stone Roses, Blur, The Verve, Supergrass and to a lesser extent Pulp. Oh and modern as in current day - Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand. The Libertines are too hard-rock for me, and I like Travis and Keane but they're a little too mopey for me to listen to them much.

As for Oasis - I think they're great, although I find their post-1996 career less than stellar (as do most people). Although I like them and I especially enjoyed 2002's Heathen Chemistry, I do sort of wish they'd broken up after Morning Glory. They'd have a lot more respect were their catalogue limited to their stuff from 1994-1996 which is uniformly great.

For all the stuff about them being Beatles-copyists, it's never really bothered me too much. I LOVE the Beatles and certainly the Beatles were a more influential, more artistic, and more complex band. However, I think people dismissing Oasis as mere Beatles' copyists is silly. For one thing, Definitely Maybe (one of my FAVORITE albums) doesn't really sound anything like the Beatles - oh you can tell there's some influence of Revolver in there and yeah there's some influence when it comes to melody, but it sounds more like a fusion of post-punk, punk, and '60s british invasion stuff.

Morning Glory is far more Beatlesesque but why is that term used to denigrate Oasis when it's used to praise other bands? Oasis sounds no more like the Beatles on that record than so many modern bands do - Oasis is just much more upfront about their influences.

Where I do think the Beatles-stuff when too far was on Be Here Now when Noel just started randomly throwing in Beatles song names b/c he got too lazy around that point to write lyrics. Oh, and "All Around the World" is a Hey-Jude-Meets-All-You-Need-is-Love DISASTER. If there was one thing that ruined Oasis' reputation in this country and in most musical circles is that BHN, despite having some good songs, is a virtual parody of themselves.

Oh, but then I just have to listen to "Slide Away" and "Live Forever" and all is forgiven!

Oasis - Slide Away Lyrics

Slide away - and give it all you've got
My today - fell in from the top
I dream of you - and all the things you say
I wonder where you are now?

Hold me down - all the world's asleep
Need you now - you've knocked me off my feet
I dream of you - and we talk of growing old
But you said please don't !

Slide in baby - together we'll fly
I've tried praying - and I know just what you're saying to me...

Now that you're mine
We'll find a way
Of chasing the sun
Let me be the one that shines with you
In the morning when you don't know what to do
We're two of a kind
We'll find a way
To do what we've done
Let me be the one that shines with you
And we can slide away...
Slide Away...
Slide Away...
Away...

[liberalpragmatist]

13. Oh - one other thing - is this real?

I highly doubt the Beatles say that on Free as a Bird. The surviving Beatles were famously ambivalent about Oasis - Ringo likes them and Paul liked their early stuff then grew disenchanted with them. George hated them all along.

[LoZoccolo]

14. You don't think my posts are real?

You should see my original Oasis thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2509947

[liberalpragmatist]

16. Haha - ok, you got me

So do you actually dislike Oasis or do you like them and just like being ironic and pissing off most Beatles fans?

[LoZoccolo]

17. I like Oasis so much it offends people.

I can't believe you think I'm fooling people around.

[liberalpragmatist]

18. Okay, okay, sorry I DIDN'T Get it, but I get it now

I looked at the responses to your previous thread and a bunch of posters were like, "Oh, I just figured you out!" so I thought maybe you were just posing.

But no worries.

[LoZoccolo]

20. Read this one too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2522757

[Zenlitened]

15. Hmmm... sounds very similar to...

... Led Zep's 'Stairway to Heaven' played backwards:

Oh, here's to my sweet Satan!
The one whose little path would make me sad,
    whose power is Satan.
He'll give you, give you 666.
There was a little toolshed where
    he made us suffer, sad Satan!

http://www.abum.com/?show_media=876&file_type=Animations

That Satan, what a slacker! He really needs to get some new material!

:evilgrin: