Has to be between Oasis Radiohead & The Strokes I reckon.

Oasis win this I think. I see their influence as nothing but malign, their rise as nothing short of a crime of silent cowardice on behalf of the music press, and their continuing ability to prise the comment 'yeah, but there's no denying there's some good songs there' from people you might otherwise consider acquantances, all equally infuriating and depressing. From Embrace to Starsailor, Kasabian to The Enemy they've contributed nothing but shit to the world.

I almost entirely blame Radiohead for Coldplay, James Blunt and all their ilk: y'know that little vocal tic, that horrible altarboy swoop that Blunt does - he got it from Martin who got it from Yorke (who I guess got it from Jeff Buckley - and there's another over-rated pile of cunt as well) . 'kin corduroy choirboys. Here I'll admit there are some 'good' songs but the legion of po-faced cack that's come since from all kinds of wankers wouldn't be quite as earnestly nauseating without Yorke's cheerless vaguery as it's spiritual crutch, the faux-profundity of all those Qmag-friendly cunts with acoustics can be traced directly back to 'The Bends' & 'OK Computer' I think. And Ratboy out of Muse.

You can blame alot of shit drainpiped bands on the Strokes being so fucking ace I think for that first album and a fair chunk of the second n'all. Not their fault really. And out of all the above's recorded output, Radiohead included, I think 'Is This It' is the only thing I still would wanna listen to.

The reason I ask is cos, isn't it about time Oasis started getting called out & slagged IN PUBLIC, in the press, on the radio, everywhere for how shit they've always been ? They've been getting away with this bollocks for fucking ages.