Oasis - Live Forever (UK & US videos, demo, Glastonbury 1994, Wembley 2000, Edinburgh 2025, Noel & Liam on the song)

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3. You're very welcome!

I enjoy writing about music, and unlike in olden days, there are all these wonderful videos to include.

As I've said elsewhere here, I wasn't that impressed by Oasis when I first heard their music in the mid-1990s. I didn't have much time then for listening to new music, but I did skim a lot of magazines (back in the day when we all had a lot of magazine subscriptions), and what I read about their arrogance and sibling rivalry was very off-putting (and as I recall this was before I'd heard any of their music). So I really never gave Oasis a completely fair listen till recently.

Would I put them in a rock-god pantheon with the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Stones and Pink Floyd? No. But the more I listen to them, the more I think they were arguably the best rock band to emerge in the 1990s. Something I couldn't have admitted then in part because of a friend working with another UK band that I'd hoped would become the most successful young band heavily influenced by classic rock. Now, though, I wish I'd given Oasis a lot more attention back then.

Of course, not doing so spared me hearing much more than I'd've wanted to hear about their sibling rivalry. I have two feuding kid brothers of my own. And back then I had very little sympathy for squabbling brothers I thought should grow up.