Safe As Milk

The Guardian has a nice write-up on Oasis as they get ready to play Glastonbury. This passage made me a little sad:

“They are the 90s’ solitary contribution to a club largely comprised of 60s and 70s survivors - Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones among them - who remain a vast concert draw, despite rather than because of, their ongoing recording career. “You go and see the Rolling Stones because you know they’ll play Tumbling Dice and Brown Sugar - who cares about their new album?” says Harris. “That’s where Oasis are now. I don’t want to sound mean-spirited but I sincerely doubt whether their new album will be any great shakes. But it doesn’t matter because their new album is just a glorified press release that says, ‘we’re going on tour to play all our great old songs’.”

What makes me sad is that while I am eager to hear their new songs, if they tour the States I will be there singing along at he top of my lungs to ‘Headshrinker’.

[link found over at LHB]