Line #115 Music/Oasis


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Oasis' lineup back in 1992.]]
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4	[floatboxright:
5	Influenced by:
6	+ Music/TheBeatles, Music/TheJam, Music/TheKinks, Music/TheLas, Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}, Music/TheStoneRoses, Music/SexPistols, Music/{{Slade}}, Music/TheSmiths, Music/TheWho
7	Influenced:
8	+ Music/ArcticMonkeys, Music/{{Aurora\|Singer}}, Music/LewisCapaldi, Music/CatfishAndTheBottlemen, Music/{{Coldplay}}, Music/SamFender, Music/NellyFurtado, Music/GirlsAloud, Music/TheKillers, Music/MarsArgo, Music/ThePrettyReckless, Music/LouisTomlinson, Music/{{Weezer}}
9	]
10	->''"The funny thing is, that mouthing off three years ago about how we were gonna be the biggest band in the world, we actually went and done it. And it was ''a piece of piss''."''
11	-->-- '''Noel Gallagher'''
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13	Oasis was a British AlternativeRock band most prominently associated with the [[The90s '90s]] {{Britpop}} movement, along with their archnemeses Music/{{Blur}}.
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15	The band was established (initially as The Rain) in 1991 by vocalist Liam Gallagher, guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs, bassist Paul "Guigsy" [=McGuigan=] and drummer Tony [=McCarroll=]. They debuted to little success until Noel Gallagher, Liam's older brother, came out of the blue and took total control of the band – which nobody protested, for he and his songs were just that good.
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17	Led by the older Gallagher, the band went on to achieve stellar success in the mid-'90s and onward, the zenith being "the Battle of Britpop" with the aforementioned Blur (a media-spurred rivalry between the bands), and their second album ''Music/WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory'' shifting over 4.6 million copies in the UK (it currently ranks as the country's fifth-highest-selling album ever; third-highest if you discount [[GreatestHitsAlbum greatest hits albums]]).
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19	As the Britpop trend died out towards the {{turn of the millennium}}, Oasis survived and prospered into the new century, managing in total to produce seven studio albums (all UK number ones), go 14 years without missing the Top 5 with a "proper" single, and ultimately sell over 70 million albums worldwide.
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21	The band were known for their laddish, over-the-top rock and roll attitude and perennial fixation on Music/TheBeatles, which many times eclipsed their musical aspects; Noel Gallagher was also known to "borrow" musical snippets and riffs from older songs, which didn't help the case. The Gallagher brothers were infamous for their fistfights, rude remarks, and most importantly, [[SiblingRivalry quarrelling amongst themselves]]; Noel was particularly known for his entertaining wit and antics during interviews. Musically speaking, Oasis were defined largely by Noel's status as a PromotedFanboy, and can be pretty much summed up as classic British pop/rock (The Beatles, Music/TheWho, [[Music/MarcBolan T. Rex]], etc.) updated with more modern influences (Music/TheStoneRoses, Music/TheSmiths) and played with a wall-of-sound approach indebted to PunkRock and {{Shoegazing}}.
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23	Oasis's future finally came into critical doubt (after the best part of 20 years marked by internal squabbling and irregular rifts of greater or lesser severity) in August 2009, when Noel – who wrote most of their singles and best-known tracks, and decided their artistic directions – announced his departure; according to a statement from him later published on the band's website, he "simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer." The rest of the band were ambiguous as to whether they would carry on, until Liam announced a split later in the same year; he later announced that they would "continue the project" in 2010, albeit perhaps with a different name.
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25	This came to pass, as some time after the breakup, Liam and the rest of the band reconvened under the name [[TheBandMinusTheFace Beady Eye]], releasing their "debut" album ''Different Gear, Still Speeding'' in February 2011, following up with the slightly better-received ''BE'' two years later. They split up in 2014, and Liam began his solo career, releasing his debut album ''As You Were'' in 2017, followed in 2019 by ''Why Me? Why Not.'', and ''C'mon You Know'' in 2022. Noel came out of hiding more belatedly, confirming that he's going onto a solo career under the name [[IAmTheBand Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds]]; both of the albums he's released under this name (his [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut album]], released in October 2011, and 2015's ''Chasing Yesterday'') have gone straight to #1 in the UK, and have performed decently internationally as well. His third album, ''Who Built the Moon?'', was released on 24 November 2017 and went straight to #1, making Noel the first UK artist to ever have 10 straight #1 albums in Britain.
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27	Prior to the breakup, the band had also gone through some less terminal lineup changes:
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29	* [=McCarroll=] was kicked out and replaced by Alan White as drummer (not that [[Music/{{Yes}} Alan White]]) in 1995.
30	* Bonehead and Guigsy left in 1999. After recording subsequent album ''Standing on the Shoulder of Giants'' as a three-piece, guitarist Colin "Gem" Archer and bassist Andy Bell (formerly guitarist and co-lead singer for the shoegazing band Music/{{Ride}}) were brought in.
31	* White left the band in 2004. He was unofficially replaced by Music/RingoStarr's son Zak Starkey, who played in the studio and live with the band but was never an official member. After the recording of ''Dig Out Your Soul'', Starkey was replaced by Chris Sharrock, former drummer for The Icicle Works.
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33	The band received one last stint in the spotlight on April 13, 2020, where, in the midst of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, Noel dug out an old demo and released it as a promotional single titled "Don't Stop..." under the Oasis name. It was the band's first release since the "Falling Down" single in March 2009.
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35	Not to be confused with the indie game named ''VideoGame/Oasis2005''.
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37	!!Discography:
38	* ''Music/DefinitelyMaybeAlbum'' (1994)
39	* ''Music/WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory'' (1995)
40	* ''Music/BeHereNow'' (1997)
41	* ''The Masterplan'' (1998) (B-sides collection)
42	* ''Standing on the Shoulder of Giants'' (2000)
43	* ''Heathen Chemistry'' (2002)
44	* ''Don't Believe the Truth'' (2005)
45	* ''Dig Out Your Soul'' (2008)
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47	----
48	!!Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna trope it back to you:
49	* SixtiesHair: Taking Music/TheBeatles as direct inspiration for their music, the band wore (and some members still wear) moptop haircuts like the Fab Four.
50	* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable:
51	** Liam needs some time in the sunsheeyine. ("Rock'n Roll Star")
52	** These are crazy days but they make Liam sheeyine. ("All Around the World")
53	** [[RuleOfThree Liam could wait for a lifetime, to spend his days in the sunsheeyine.]] ("Cigarettes and Alcohol")
54	** [[OverlyLongGag Liam's heard that the sheeyine's gone out of your life.]] ("Up in the Sky")
55	** [[WindsOfDestinyChange The wind that brings on the cheaynge is taking Liam over.]] ("Cloudburst")
56	** {{Averted\|Trope}} in "The Hindu Times"
57	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQHChSSpSmM Right Here.]]
58	* AfterTheEnd: The music video of "[=D'You=] Know What I Mean?", complete with helicopters, a crowd of people clad in army fatigues, and crumbling concrete buildings in the distance.
59	* AlbumTitleDrop: Noel Gallagher didn't like naming albums after songs, so working them quietly into the lyrics instead was a common practice. A subversion is "Morning Glory", from ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'', in which the remainder of the album title is sung in the chorus.
60	** Also, the track "To Be Where There's Life" goes "''Dig out your soul'', here we go".
61	** There's also the song "Be Here Now" off ''Music/BeHereNow'', which had a NonAppearingTitle.
62	* AloofBigBrother: Noel is considered this to Liam Gallagher. Especially when the band split and the two released the debuts their own projects (High Flying Birds and Beady Eye respectively), where many liked to invoke this trope.
63	* ArtImitatesArt: The animated video for "The Masterplan" is in the art style of the well-known Lancashire artist L S Lowry.
64	* AnachronicOrder: The music video for "Stand By Me", which begins with people doing illegal acts (tackling a woman, breaking into a car, stealing computers from a store), but ends with the clips played again with more context, which reveals they were helping people (getting her out of the way of an oncoming motorcycle, helping a man open his locked car, and getting heavy boxes off of a motorcyclist who crashed through the shop's window, respectively).
65	* AnimatedMusicVideo: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPPi2D6GK7A "The Masterplan"]]
66	* AnimeThemeSong: [[Anime/EdenOfTheEast "Falling Down"]].
67	* AttentionWhore: The brothers, to some people. Or perhaps a lot.
68	* AudienceParticipationSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhcV85h5sqo "Don't Look Back in Anger",]] "Half The World Away", "Lyla". "Wonderwall" could count, but the others are more effective in this.
69	* BandOfRelatives: Again, the band's most notable members are the Gallagher brothers.
70	* TheBandMinusTheFace: Beady Eye, after Noel's departure. There are also those who say that the High Flying Birds are this with regards to Liam.
71	* BiggerThanJesus: In TheNineties, the music periodical ''New Music Express'' (''NME'') spoofed the band's thrall to Music/TheBeatles and their tendency to plagiarize with a fictitious interview in which Noel Gallagher claimed to be "bigger than God." In RealLife, [[HilariousInHindsight Noel Gallagher made exactly the same claim]] just ''a year later'', though the entire point to Music/JohnLennon's original remarks in 1966 seemed [[ComicallyMissingThePoint completely lost on him]].
72	* BlasphemousBoast: One quote attributed to Noel does this in a roundabout way:
73	--> John Lennon had a problem: he thought he was God. My problem? I think I'm John Lennon.
74	* BuriedAlive: Tony [=McCarroll=] in the first video for "Live Forever".
75	* CallBack[=/=]BookEnds: Single B-side "Those Swollen Hand Blues" begins with the same sound effect "Mucky Fingers" ends with, only in reverse.
76	* TheCameo: [[Music/TheJam Paul Weller]] plays guitar in "Champagne Supernova" and "The Swamp Song" (where he also does the harmonica), Creator/JohnnyDepp plays slide guitar in "Fade In-Out", and Music/JohnnyMarr plays guitar in some ''Heathen Chemistry'' tracks.
77	* CanonDiscontinuity: ''Music/BeHereNow'', to Noel Gallagher and [[BrokenBase many fans]]. With the only exception being the ballad "Don't Go Away", which was one of the band's biggest hits in America.
78	* CastsNoShadow: "Cast No Shadow" is about a man who can't express what he really wants to say and has allowed himself to be dominated by others.
79	-->Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say\
80	Chained to all the places that he never wished to stay\
81	Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say\
82	As he faced the sun he cast no shadow.
83	* CeilingBanger[=/=]LoudOfWar: The music video for "Morning Glory", where the band is performing loudly in an apartment and the building's other tenants come up to the door to bang on it and yell for them to keep it down.
84	* ChildhoodFriends: One of their highly praised B-Sides, "D'yer Wanna Be a Spaceman?", is an acoustic ballad about two childhood friends who reunite, one of them having [[GrowingUpSucks lost his past enthusiasm due to newfound adult responsibilities]].
85	* ClipShow: The music video for "Some Might Say" is this, due to Liam not showing up for the video shoot. The director was forced to just compile a series of unused clips from three of their previous videos ("Supersonic", "Cigarettes and Alcohol" , and "Whatever").
86	* ControlFreak: Noel only accepted to join Liam's band if he could write all lyrics and such. Eventually he opened up to more outside collaboration.
87	* CoverVersion: A few, such as Music/TheBeatles' "I Am the Walrus" (B-side to ''Cigarettes & Alcohol'' and a regular Concert Closer in the early days), Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}' "Street Fighting Man" (''All Around The World''), and Music/{{Slade}}'s "Cum On Feel the Noize" (''Don't Look Back In Anger'', Walrus' successor as go-to finale song).
88	* ClusterFBomb: The interviews.
89	** Also at the beginning of their cover of The Rolling Stones's "Street Fighting Man".
90	* ConceptVideo: Mostly averted, as most of their videos are full of things that have nothing to do with the song or almost no plot. "Stand by Me" attempts this, with some sort of crime-driven video, but if Noel's commentary on the ''Time Flies...'' special is any indication, [[SelfDeprecation they didn't do a very good job]].
91	* DeadpanSnarker: Noel is famous for his caustic wit on pretty much every topic.
92	* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler: One of the twin sisters]] in the "Stand by Me" video dies by simply falling over and hitting her head lightly on the sidewalk.
93	** This is likely down to the "didn't do a very good job" video noted above; the obvious intention was that dead sister sees motorcycle guy about to hit her twin, shoves her out the way and gets hit and killed instead.
94	* EpicRocking: "Champagne Supernova" and "All Around the World". Also "Columbia", "Slide Away", "Listen Up", the live version of "I Am the Walrus"... they could go on when they wanted to.
95	** ''{{Music/Be Here Now}}'' lasts an incredible ''hour and twelve minutes'', which is about twice as long as albums usually are.
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97	* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The music video for "D'You Know What I Mean?" has phrases "Buď zde" and "Víte, co tim chci říct?" [[note]](the last two words in that one are obscured, though)[[/note]] written in the background. These are Czech translations of "Be here (now)" and "Do you know what I mean?" respectively.
98	* GreatestHitsAlbum: Taking until over twelve years into the band's hitmaking career, with 2006's end-of-record-contract ''Stop the Clocks'' – and even then this doesn't feature all the hits, being Noel Gallagher's personal selection: on the sole basis that he didn't want a GreatestHitsAlbum while the band were still active, but if he didn't involve himself, then ExecutiveMeddling would result in a substandard compilation.
99	** The situation was rectified eventually, post-split, by 2010's two-disc singles collection ''Time Flies...1994-2009'', containing all the band's 27 A-Sides.
100	* GrowingUpSucks: ''The Masterplan'' has both sides of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism on this, "Stay Young" (feeling young no matter how old) and "Fade Away" ("while we're living, the dreams we have as children fade away").
101	* HiddenTrack: "The Cage", an instrumental track at the end of ''Heathen Chemistry''. ''Time Flies'' includes "Sunday Morning Call" as one outside North America, where instead the compilation's hidden track is "Don't Go Away.
102	* HotBlooded: The Gallaghers, especially Liam, are notoriously impulsive, crass, often angry, and very brash.
103	* IAmTheBand: Oasis is Noel/Liam Gallagher. Without both of them, the band simply weren't Oasis as shown by Liam and company starting a new band without Noel. The exact same thing would most likely have happened if Liam had been in Noel's position too.
104	* {{Instrumentals}}: "The Swamp Song", "A Quick Peep" and hidden track "The Cage". "Fuckin' in the Bushes" might also qualify - the only vocals are samples from a documentary film.
105	* {{Irony}}: For all the hostility between the Gallaghers, Noel's favorite song on ''Heathen Chemistry'' is "Songbird", the first song released as a single written by his brother. It's also the only song from the album he chose for the compilation ''Stop the Clocks''.
106	* {{Jerkass}}: The Gallaghers are known to be quite arrogant and surly at times, Liam especially.
107	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While Noel ''does'' have a big ego and can be crass and rude, it's clearly shown he's very capable of being friendly, and still ''does'' have a softer side.
108	* JumpCut: The music video for "Songbird" features a pretty awkward one audio-wise. Liam is shown playing guitar under a tree and then the song suddenly jumps in. It's clear the editor was trying to get Liam's notes to blend into the song, but they didn't do a very good job.
109	* KickTheDog: Both Liam and Noel have a nasty habit of harshly criticising and outright bullying their fellow musicians and artists. Frequent targets of their abuse include Blur, Phil Collins, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue and Radiohead.
110	* LastNoteNightmare: "Guess God I'm Abel" on "Don't Believe the Truth" goes from being a gentle ballad, to the drums suddenly coming at the end of the song with the last 20 seconds of eerie sounding feedback.
111	* LesserStar: Anyone without the surname Gallagher. Although during their heyday in the mid-90s, Noel once stated that Bonehead would go up to people in the street and inquire to them if they knew who he was, and each time being told by the person ''with a look of bewilderment'' that he was Bonehead of course, meaning that for a time at least, the other members weren't ''those other guys''.
112	** Arguably, Liam was this to Noel, considering that Liam rarely played an instrument that wasn't the tambourine and Noel was the primary Songwriter (even though Liam penned a few B-sides as well as the singles "Songbird" and "I'm Outta Time").
113	* LineOfSightName: On the album names ''Standing on the Shoulder of Giants'' (a [[BeamMeUpScotty misspelling]] - it's shoulder'''s''' - of the UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton quote on the side of [[http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/18574/wm/pd1106351.jpg two pound coins]]), and ''Heathen Chemistry'' (a T-shirt Noel saw), which also includes a song with that in "The Hindu Times". Even the band's name is this, coming from a poster advertising their gig at The Swindon Oasis leisure centre.
114	* LongestSongGoesLast: This happens on a couple of their albums:
115	** "Champagne Supernova" (7:27) closes ''(What's The Story) Morning Glory?''.
116	** "Roll It Over"(6:30) closes ''Standing on the Shoulder of Giants''.
117	** Zigzagged with ''Heathen Chemistry''. "Better Man" (4:20) isn't the longest song on the album nor is the hidden track "The Cage" (4:50). However, they are on the same track and are separated by nearly 29 minutes of silence and this combine makes it the longest track on the album.
118	* LoudnessWar: The success of ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'' (a very loud album, BTW) is accused of starting this.
119	** All their albums, really. Even ''Definitely Maybe'' is very loud by 1994 standards and clips to a certain extent. ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'' and pretty much all their albums after are even worse. ''{{Music/Be Here Now}}'' takes this trope up to eleven.
120	* LyricalDissonance: Arguably [[BreakupSong "Married with Children"]].
121	* MindScrew: Noel's reaction to the "Stand By Me" music video, which is a story played in AnachronicOrder.
122	* MysteriousStranger: The protagonist of "Underneath the Sky":
123	--> ''Underneath the sky of red is a storyteller sleeping alone''
124	--> ''He has no face and he has no name''
125	--> ''And his whereabouts are sort of unknown''
126	* NiceGuy[=/=]TheQuietOne:
127	** Guigsy was described by Liam and Noel in the ''Supersonic'' documentary as a quiet, calm, mellow, gentle soul. Probably on account of being TheStoner.
128	** In the same documentary, Bonehead describes the first drummer Tony [=McCarroll=] as being quiet and reserved.
129	* NiceToTheWaiter: For as crass and crude as he can be, Noel is known for being quite chatty and affable with interviewers. He's also been elected as a rock ambassador in Italy for ''Virgin Radio''.
130	* NonAppearingTitle: "Digsy's Dinner", "Married with Children", "The Importance of Being Idle" and "The Hindu Times" just to name a few.
131	* NoTitle: Two tracks on ''Morning Glory'' have just blanks where the titles should be. They are both excerpts from "Swamp Song".
132	* OopNorth: The band hailed from Manchester and caused great deal of non-English-speaking fans to try and learn English with a Northern twang.
133	* PepTalkSong: One of Noel's favorite themes (see his quote on TakeThat below): "Live Forever", "Whatever", "Some Might Say", "All Around the World", "The Masterplan", and "Stop Crying Your Heart Out".
134	* PowerBallad: It's been said that the Oasis rule of thumb is "for every rock out, there must be a heartbreaking follow-up."
135	* QuestioningTitle: "D' You Know What I Mean?", "Who Feels Love?", "Where Did It All Go Wrong?", and "Can Y'See It Now? (I Can See it Now!!)".
136	* RetCanon: Noel stopped playing the original version of "Wonderwall" and started using Music/RyanAdams' version until Liam basically forced him to stop. Which form is better has been subject of debate.
137	* OdeToIntoxication: "Cigarettes & Alcohol"
138	** "Morning Glory" has a few not-very-subtle cocaine references; it's not the only example in their discography.
139	* PachelbelsCanonProgression: "Whatever" and "Don't Look Back in Anger" both use a common variation.
140	* RedOniBlueOni: Noel is the blue to Liam's red. When compared to Gem Archer, he's the red.
141	** The band as a whole are the red oni to their Britpop rival Music/{{Blur}}.
142	* TheRival: With Music/{{Blur}}, to the extent that the rivalry grew heated in their respective fanbases.
143	* RockstarSong: "Rock 'N' Roll Star", among others.
144	* {{Rockumentary}}: ''Lord Don't Slow Me Down'' and ''Supersonic''.
145	* {{Sampling}}:
146	** "Hello" begins with the intro to "Wonderwall", which ends abruptly.
147	** "Fuckin' in the Bushes" contains samples from Murray Lerner's film ''Message to Love-Isle of Wight 1970''.
148	** "I'm Outta Time" contains a clip of a Music/JohnLennon interview.
149	* SelfDeprecation:
150	** They began selling 'Quoasis' t-shirts when their rivals Music/{{Blur}} compared them to Music/StatusQuo.
151	** The hilarious DVD commentary on ''Time Flies'' has Noel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNqyjZcleI mocking just about every video they ever made]]. The SurrealMusicVideo for "All Around the World" especially so:
152	--->"Is that a man with legs made out of sausages? That's not real. I know for a fact that has nothing to do with this song."
153	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Noel is the sensitive guy to Liam's manly man.
154	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll
155	* ShoutOut:
156	** "Wonderwall" is a shout-out to Music/GeorgeHarrison's album ''Music/WonderwallMusic''.
157	** The video for "The Shock of the Lightning" opens with [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/thumb/d/d3/Oasis_-_The_Shock_of_the_Lightning.JPG/480px-Oasis_-_The_Shock_of_the_Lightning.JPG one]] [[http://www.soundstagedirect.com/media/rolling_stones_hot_rocks_1964_1971.jpg to]] Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}.
158	** The title of "Don't Look Back in Anger" is derived from Music/DavidBowie[='s=] "Look Back in Anger", from his 1979 album ''Music/{{Lodger}}''.
159	** The cover for the "Don't Look Back in Anger" single features the studio the band recorded in, decked out in flowers. This was a homage to Music/TheBeatles. During the sessions for ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', Ringo Starr left the band abruptly, feeling that his bandmates were treating him like a lesser member of the band and upset at Music/PaulMcCartney for making constant criticisms about his drumming. The other bandmembers convinced him to come back, and when he returned to the studio, George Harrison had his drum kit decorated with flowers.
160	* "Be Here Now" album name drops the song names from The Beatles rather frequently from "Let It Be" to "Helter Skelter".
161	* SiblingRivalry: The Gallagher brothers are notorious for their disagreements with each other.
162	** The band once even did a rather ironically titled 'Tour of Brotherly Love' of North America with Music/TheBlackCrowes and Spacehog, two other bands that were famous for having brothers that would fight publicly.
163	** Stories are known to include the phrase "And we both looked at the cricket bat and I knew, if he got there first, he was gonna kill me". Rivalry indeed.
164	** Further, famously, a fourteen minute argument between the two during an interview for NME was released as a single... and actually charted ("Wibbling Rivalry", peaking at #52 in the UK Charts).
165	** This eventually led to the demise of the band, as the brothers simply could not stand each other any longer.
166	* SillyLoveSongs: Their SignatureSong is a prime example. Straight men, take note: if you can play "Wonderwall" on guitar, women ''will'' like you. {{Deconstructed}}, meanwhile, with "Married with Children".
167	** Mostly averted (Noel wasn't known for lovey-dovey lyrics). Two notable exceptions are "She's Electric" and "Songbird", the latter of which Liam wrote.
168	* SingingVoiceDissonance: Noel's singing voice is notably less Mancunian than Liam's.
169	* SirSwearsALot: Both Liam and Noel. It usually seems like the only time they're ''not'' swearing is in their song lyrics (with a few odd exceptions).
170	* SitcomArchNemesis: With Music/{{Blur}}.
171	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Noel's lyrics frequently lean on the idealistic side.
172	** "Live Forever" has an extremely optimistic chorus of "You and I are gonna live forever".
173	** "Supersonic" states that "You need to BeYourself / You can't be no one else".
174	** "D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman?" has a verse that says, "If you wanna be a spaceman / It's still not too late".
175	* SmallNameBigEgo: Both Gallaghers, Noel mostly. Especially in the early days where their fame was considerably less and their ego considerably more pronounced.
176	** Noel's reputation got better as of late, as the rock 'n' roll world steadily moves away from the '90s and pangs of nostalgia began to set in.
177	* SpiritualSuccessor: Beady Eye and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
178	** TheBandMinusTheFace: Beady Eye is Oasis minus Noel. The High Flying Birds are Noel minus Oasis.
179	* SplashOfColor: During the black and white scenes in the "Live Forever" music video, the only color that is shown is the green in the bushes and plants, [[FauxSymbolism although it doesn't appear it's supposed to mean anything important]].
180	* SomethingBlues: "Those Swollen Hand Blues".
181	* TheSomethingSong: "The Swamp Song".
182	* SongOfSongTitles: Oh so many.
183	* SopranoAndGravel: Liam's gritty, nasal voice vs. Noel's higher and cleaner voice.
184	* StageNames: Colin Murray "Gem" Archer. His predecessor Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs, not so much given he still used the given name along with the nickname.
185	* StartMyOwn: Both brothers after the demise of Oasis, although the High Flying Birds are a more fitting case (see SpiritualSuccessor). Liam even accused Noel of breaking up the band on purpose just so he could release a solo album.
186	* StepUpToTheMicrophone. While Liam was the lead vocalist, Noel actually sang lead vocals on around a quarter of their songs. However most of the band's singles, including their early breakout songs and their biggest hits, have Liam on vocals making his vocal contribution appear less than it actually was. It took until their eighth single ("Don't Look Back in Anger") before Noel featured on lead vocals on a single.
187	* TheStoner: Guigsy ''loved'' weed in real life. Noel was also this.
188	* SuddenlyShouting: The group scream right before the guitar solo in "Fade In-Out". Doubles as a pretty effective JumpScare as well.
189	* SurrealMusicVideo: "All Around the World", which even features an WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine.
190	* TakeThat: "Live Forever" was written in response to the song "[[Music/{{Nirvana}} I Hate Myself and Want to Die]]"; although Noel Gallagher admired Music/KurtCobain, he found the song too depressing for his tastes:
191	-->"''At the time . . . it was written in the middle of {{Grunge}} and all that, and I remember Nirvana had a tune called 'I Hate Myself and Want to Die', and I was like . . . 'Well, I'm not fucking having that.' As much as I fucking like him [Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain] and all that shit, I'm not having that. I can't have people like that coming over here, on smack, fucking saying that they hate themselves and they wanna die. That's fucking rubbish. Kids don't need to be hearing that nonsense.''
192	** Being rivals, they naturally took some shots at Music/{{Blur}}. One notable is them singing a slightly modified version of "Parklife".
193	--> '''Noel & Liam (singing):''' All the people, so many people, and they all go hand in hand, hand in hand through their...
194	--> '''Noel (shouting)''': ... marmite!
195	--> '''Liam (finishes singing): ''' ...shitelife!
196	* TemporarySubstitute: During their 1995 tour of America, Guigsy briefly left the band, citing nervous exhaustion. He was replaced by Scott [=McLeod=], formerly of the Ya Ya's, who was featured on some of the tour dates as well as in the "Wonderwall" video before leaving abruptly while on tour in the US. [=McLeod=] contacted Noel, claiming he felt he had made the wrong decision. Gallagher replied: "I think you have too. Good luck signing on". Guigsy was persuaded to return to the band to complete the tour.
197	* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Not as stripped-down as some other examples, but they deliberately used simple musical formulas on ''Definitely Maybe'', though they eventually moved on to more complex compositions.
198	* TruckDriversGearChange: "All Around the World" begins with several verses and choruses in B, hops up to C for a couple of choruses (but only one in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MywWolXGIx8 the music video]]), and then concludes in D for the final twenty- or thirty-ish chorus repetitions. (Some sheet music transcriptions of the song also notate a few bars as being in A: the "It's gonna be OK" repeats between the C and D choruses.) Noel Gallagher [[http://www.musicfanclubs.org/oasis/beherenow.html commented]], possibly with tongue in cheek: "Imagine how much better '[[Music/TheBeatles Hey Jude]]' would have been with three key changes towards the end!"
199	* VerbalTic: Noel often finished sentences with, "D'ya know what I mean?" To the point it even became a song.
200	* VitriolicBestBuds: The Gallagher brothers--except the "best buds" bit is uncertain.
201	** Since they often can't be in the same room together (for fear of the inevitable fist fight), they do always say how much they love each other. They just don't ''like'' each other.
202	* VocalEvolution: Liam. Arguably also VocalDecay.
203	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LmIZhXYh1g This mix / compilation of various performances of "Live Forever" shows just how Liam's voice has been progressively changing throughout the years, going from youthful clarity in 1994, eventually turning into lifeless grunting and shouting]].
204	* VocalTagTeam: Though Liam is the only singer in ''Definitely Maybe'', [[StepUpToTheMicrophone after Noel sung "Don't Look Back in Anger"]] it was progressing toward this.
205	** In a one-song basis, it's done most famously in "Acquiesce", where Liam sings the verse and Noel the chorus. Liam has admitted that he simply can't sing in the higher register the chorus is in - when he performs the song solo, he gets the crowd to sing the chorus for him.
206	* WordSaladLyrics: A lot. Noel Gallagher admitted he doesn't understand many of them.
207	** ''Some day you will find me/Caught beneath the landsliiiiiiiiide/In a champagne supernova in the skyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...''
208	*** An excerpt of this song has something that frequently enters "worst lyric ever" lists ("slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball...")
209	** The lyrics of "Shakermaker" were written by watching TV and literally writing down whatever happened to be on. Unsurprisingly, this got them into legal trouble later on.
210	** And if you thought "Champagne Supernova" was bad...
211	*** "Magic Pie" features the chorus: ''Cause you see me, I've got my magic pie/Think of me, yeah, that was me, I was that passerby/I've been and now I've gone''
212	*** "Some Might Say" has the last chorus ''The sink is full of fishes/She's got dirty dishes on the brain/All my dogs been itchin'/Itchin' in the kitchen once again''
213	*** "Hey Now!" features: ''The first thing I saw as I walked through the door/Was a sign on the wall that read/"It said you might never know that I want you to know/What's written inside of your head"''

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