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All right, let me get straight to the point: I am a failure as a fan. Oasis is the only band that I’ve ever adored enough to actually choose over the wonders of free Internet download, and yet, I’ve somehow managed to completely bypass the mind-blowing news of their split.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134405 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1732449 [AuthorName] => Samantha King [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 22202 [Title] => The importance of being idle [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-10-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135417 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510110 [AuthorName] => Matthew Estabillo [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 327894 [Title] => Chemical brothers [Summary] => Noel Gallagher said a while back that he doesn’t care if they sell another CD or not. I’m sure he didn’t really mean that, but Oasis’ magical influence on the record-buying public has indeed significantly dwindled since the late 1990s. Their last studio album "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants," while a vast improvement musically, was not a commercial success. And even Gallagher and his young brother Liam had to admit that they were no longer on a pedestal.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135416 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510110 [AuthorName] => Matthew Estabillo [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 281078 [Title] => What’s the story, evening glory? [Summary] => Fact is, the brothers Gallagher (Noel and Liam) no longer look back in anger. Well, at least not on the latest album "Don’t Believe the Truth."

A digression: A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away), I wrote an obituary of Britpop, which came out in Pulp. I know that sounds silly today, but at that time it felt as if I were a man on a mission, or at least a mason on commission. (Regret is like a bad hangover.) It went something like this:
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