And the coolest thing I heard all day...

--------->Lyla.

The first single from the new Oasis album was leaked yesterday on a Polish radio station, and within hours it was posted absolutely everywhere. I pulled an Erik (who is notorious for burning one song on a cd and listening to it over and over again - sometimes I think it's just to torture me) so I could listen to it on the way home, and have probably listened to it a couple dozen times by now. It's good, it's happy, it's not that different from their last few first album singles. The first single is usually "safe". I also find it highly amusing that NME gets most of their "exclusive information" on Oasis, directly from the forums. (Like today's news!) The rumour about the new album being titled I Stand Alone was a rumour started by a post on a forum, and it spread until NME, HMV, Amazon and god knows who else actually listed that as the new title. All other information is mostly from the mouth of Noel Gallagher, who, in attempting to confuse and delay the leak of information, has actually lied about the album and song titles. That man is a comic genius. No really, he said so himself!

Most of the forums have a policy regarding posting songs that are or will be released, which is fair, but clearly (and thankfully) people post the stuff anyway. The mods must have had one fun day yesterday trying to delete everything. The official board is down right now, the mods are probably doing some damage control. It is inevitable; if/when a song (or the entire album) is leaked, it will be spread across the globe. I love da internet. I have no qualms about hearing the stuff early - I'll still buy the album the day it is released, and I'm not worried about spoiling my first experience hearing it. Their last album leaked a couple of months before it was to be released and I couldn't have been happier hearing it! A lot of the time when a band tours to promote a new album, the shows are scheduled within weeks, even days of it's release. I like to know the songs I'm going to hear; I go because I have the album and want to hear the stuff live, not because I need to be enticed to buy it. Like the new David Usher album is scheduled to be released on the day of his show in Toronto. Duh. And likely it will not be leaked, cause few people care or know who he is. Although his first single is #74 on itunes top 100 downloads...

Now here's where I draw the line. Sharing music is one thing, but when people start making a profit off of something that is not theirs to sell, I personally think they are big-ass scam artists. Like people selling bootlegs on Ebay. Like this f*cker who claims to be selling a recording of a song that was only played once live, and although it was recorded by someone, that person swore to keep it to himself until the new album was released. Wank.

May 31st is getting closer y'all.


Don't Believe The Truth.