{"id":429,"date":"2007-03-27T00:20:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T04:20:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-03-27T00:20:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T00:20:17","slug":"an-oasis-of-hooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/an-oasis-of-hooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth Chart: Oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/oasis.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=i_really_liked_this_song_a_lot_oasis&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=i_really_liked_this_song_a_lot_oasis&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\"><strong>Gerry Todd&#8217;s recent All-Star Jam<\/strong><\/a>, which drew comparisons between an <strong>Oasis<\/strong> song and an old number by <strong>The Stranglers<\/strong> got me thinking about the 2005 album from Oasis, <em><strong>Don&#8217;t Believe the Truth<\/strong><\/em>. It&#8217;s not a bad album, but that&#8217;s not what I care to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s never been a secret that Oasis has <strong>lifted hooks<\/strong> from the great works of others, but what&#8217;s been overlooked in reviews for their last few albums is that the band is branching out in its recycling of classic rock riffage. Here&#8217;s a song that demonstrates the band&#8217;s newfound skills. Let me know what you&#8217;re hearing in this one &#8211; the lifts may be multi-faceted &#8211; and in coming days I&#8217;ll roll out some other examples of what passes for growth.<\/p>\n<p><!--Media Player file:http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/oasis\/muckyfingers.mp3--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/oasis\/muckyfingers.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/oasis\/muckyfingers.mp3\">Oasis, &#8220;Mucky Fingers&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Todd&#8217;s recent All-Star Jam, which drew comparisons between an Oasis song and an old number by The Stranglers got me thinking about the 2005 album from Oasis, Don&#8217;t Believe the Truth. It&#8217;s not a bad album, but that&#8217;s not what I care to discuss. It&#8217;s never been a secret that Oasis has lifted hooks <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/an-oasis-of-hooks\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}