History Trivia / Oasis

** Both ''Music/BeHereNow'' and the song "Roll with It" for Noel, to the point where he said

** Later, with the exception of "Go Let It Out" (the only song he likes and personally chose for ''Stopthe Clocks''), Noel finally disowned ''Standing on the Shoulder of Giants'', conventionally seen as their lowest point, as a mistake, saying he wasn't on his best shape and "just wrote songs for the sake of making an album". The album also contains the Oasis song he hates the most, "Sunday Morning Call".

** As listed on DVDCommentary, the DVD for ''Time Flies'' has Noel spending much time mocking the band's singles from the late 1990s and early 2000s, going as far to ask why somebody didn't take him to one side and tell him to "just stop". He shows particular disdain for "Sunday Morning Call".

** Later, Noel finally disowned ''Standing on the Shoulder of Giants'', conventionally seen as their lowest point, as a mistake, saying he wasn't on his best shape and "just wrote songs for the sake of making an album".

* BlackSheepHit: "Wonderwall" to an extent, as it is their best-known song, yet it doesn't have too much of the Beatles-influenced sound that most of their work has.

** Things got relatively easier for the band in terms of recording material after that - it helped that Liam, plus new members Gem Archer and Andy Bell started contributing more on the songwriting front and thus reducing the need for Noel to come up with an entire album’s worth of material by himself every two years. However, the critical and commercial response was much diminished from their GloryDays. The band split amid yet more acrimony after 2009's ''Dig Out Your Soul''.

** "Stop The Clocks" was originally going to be included on "Don't Believe The Truth", but ultimately did not make the final track listing. In 2008, a demo of "Stop The Clocks" (believed to have been from the ''Don't Believe The Truth'' sessions) was leaked online. It was not until 2011 when Noel Gallagher officially released his final version of "Stop The Clocks" on his debut solo album.

** Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs and Paul "Guigsy" [=McGuigan=] were around for the initial writing stage and recording stage for ''Standing on the Shoulders of Giants'' before they departed in 1999. After their departure, all their material was either re-recorded or was unused. The only track which they had contributed to in the album was an unreleased B-side of "Helter Skelter", recorded during the ''Be Here Now'' sessions.
** Gem Archer and Andy Bell joined the band in late 1999 after the recording of ''Standing on the Shoulders of Giants''. One must wonder what could have happened if they had joined during the recording sessions and how ''Standing'' would have changed with their influence that they brought to the albums with ''Heathen Chemistry''.

* OneHitWonder: Played straight in the US, averted pretty much everywhere else. In fact, the only place where Oasis wasn't one of the biggest band in the world during TheNineties was the US. They had one top ten hit ("Wonderwall", which peaked at #8 in January 1996), and they only had two other singles chart there, and even then, they didn't reach very high ("Don't Look Back in Anger" peaked at #55 in April 1996 and "The Shock of the Lightning" peaked at #93 in October 2008). This can partly be blamed on Billboard, as many of their singles, despite being receiving considerable airplay and sales, were ineligible to chart, due to the controversial rule (redacted in 1998) that only songs released as singles could chart. Many of their songs weren't released as singles in the US until their popularity had died down. Thus songs like "Champagne Supernova", which reached the top 20 on the Airplay charts, couldn't be counted on the main chart. However, they fared better in the US rock charts, scoring 14 top 40 hits there, including nine top 20 hits.

* HostilityOnTheSet: The Gallaghers were noted for their SiblingRivalry that often got heated. The culmination of it happened in 2009, with a backstage fight that led to both the cancellation of a festival gig minutes before its scheduled start and Noel's departure that ultimately collapsed the band.

* OldShame: As listed on DVDCommentary, the DVD for ''Time Flies'' has Noel spending much time mocking the band's singles from the late 1990s and early 2000s, going as far to ask why somebody didn't take him to one side and tell him to "just stop". He shows particular disdain for "Sunday Morning Call".

*** The album was by most objective standards a success, selling nine million copies and there has been a certain backlash against the backlash in recent years - both Liam and Oasis manager Marcus Russell have defended the album, and producer Owen Morris believes the album is MisBlamed as the GenreKiller for {{Britpop}}. Noel for his part regards it as an OldShame, if not outright CanonDiscontinuity (only "Stand by Me" stayed in the band’s live setlist in later years and the retrospective compilation album ''Stop the Clocks'' ignored it entirely.)

* NamesTheSame:
** No, Alan White is not the drummer for Music/{{Yes}}.
** Andy Bell is also not the one from Music/{{Erasure}}. He's the one from Music/{{Ride}}.

** "Stop The Clocks" was originally going to be included on "Don't Believe The Truth", but ultimately did not make the final track listing. In 2008, a demo of Stop The Clocks (believed to have been from the Don't Believe The Truth sessions) was leaked online. It was not until 2011 when Noel Gallagher officially released his final version of Stop The Clocks on his debut solo album.

*** After facing (not entirely unfounded) accusations of ItsTheSameNowItSucks over ''Be Here Now'', Noel wanted to make its’ follow-up a NewSoundAlbum. He’d also kicked a nasty drug habit during the band’s hiatus, and wanted to curb some of the band's more excessive traits during the recording sessions in France (The fact that Noel was seemingly oblivious to the problems that, amongst others, Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, Music/JethroTull, Music/PinkFloyd and Music/DuranDuran had endured whilst recording in that country suggests a certain amount of CriticalResearchFailure on his part.)

* BlackSheepHit: "Wonderwall" is their best-known song, yet it doesn't have the Beatles-influenced sound that most of their work has.
* BreakthroughHit: "Live Forever". In the UK, it started a streak of 22 consecutive top 10 singles.

** "Songbird" was originally conceived with a much heavier rock sound than the more-poppy final mix, sounding akin to "The Swamp Song" or "Some Might Say". The demo can be heard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPiYA61BTPY here.]]

** Noel named "Supersonic" as his favourite single and he has kept playing the song live after the band broke up. He also named "The Masterplan" as the best of the band's B-sides.

* ReferencedBy: In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'', the mentally deranged [[TheDragon dragon]] to [[MadDoctor Cioccolata]], known as Secco, has a [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman bodysuit Stand]] named after Oasis, which allows him to liquify the ground and [[SandIsWater swim through solid objects]].

--->We should have never made ''Standing on the Shoulder of Giants''. I'd come to the end. At the time, I had no reason or desire to make music. I had no drive. We'd sold all these fucking records and there just seemed to be no point. Liam, to his credit, was the one who was like, "We're going to make a record, we're going into the studio next month, and you better have some fucking songs written". We should have gone to wherever it is Music/TheRollingStones disappear to, wherever the fuck that is. Rent a boat and sail around the Bahamas or whatever. But I went ahead and did it, even though I had no inspiration and couldn't find inspiration anywhere. I just wrote songs for the sake of making an album. We needed a reason to go on a tour. But at the time, I wasn't thinking like that. We all thought the song "Go Let It Out" was good. I was off [illegal] drugs, but to get off those I had to go on prescription drugs, which is fucking worse because they come from a doctor. It's just uppers and downers that replace the cocaine and booze. But after that, Gem [Archer] and Andy [Bell] joined the band, and we started to split up the songwriting duties because they wanted to write songs too. I'd slowed down as a writer and didn't feel like I could keep writing twenty songs every two years.

*** After facing (not entirely unfounded) accusations of ItsTheSameNowItSucks over ''Be Here Now'', Noel wanted to make its’ follow-up a NewSoundAlbum. He’d also kicked a nasty drug habit during the band’s hiatus, and wanted to curb some of the band's more excessive traits during the recording sessions in France (The fact that Noel was seemingly oblivious to the problems that, amongst others, Music/TheRollingStones, Music/JethroTull, Music/PinkFloyd and Music/DuranDuran had endured whilst recording in that country suggests a certain amount of CriticalResearchFailure on his part.)

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* QuoteSource: A quote from Noel regarding the lyrics to "Don't Look Back In Anger" is the page quote for WordSaladLyrics:
-->I get the odd night when I'm halfway through 'Don't Look Back In Anger' when I say to myself. 'I still don't know what these words mean!' I'm thinking what the... what the... 'stand up beside the fireplace'. Why?

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Noel named "Supersonic" as his favourite single and he has kept playing the song live after the band broke up. He also named "The Masterplan" as the best of the band's B-sides.

*** After facing (not entirely unfounded) accusations of ItsTheSameNowItSucks over ''Be Here Now'', Noel wanted to make its’ follow-up a NewSoundAlbum. He’d also kicked a nasty drug habit during the band’s hiatus, and wanted to curb some of the band’s more excessive traits during the recording sessions in France (The fact that Noel was seemingly oblivious to the problems that, amongst others, Music/TheRollingStones, Music/JethroTull, Music/PinkFloyd and Music/DuranDuran had endured whilst recording in that country suggests a certain amount of CriticalResearchFailure on his part.)
*** In particular he imposed a strict drinking curfew to try and keep brother Liam in good shape to record his vocals. YMMV on whether he veered into outright BadBoss territory, but this certainly didn't sit well with the other band members, Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs especially. Arthurs's frustrations got the better of him, and he drunkenly pranked one of the hired studio workers. When an irate Noel found out and pranked Arthurs himself in retaliation, the ensuing argument resulted in Arthurs quitting on the spot. Bassist Paul "Guigsy" [=McGuigan=] followed Arthurs out the door a few weeks later for reasons that remain unclear.

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Noel named "Supersonic" as his favourite single and he has kept playing the song live after the band broke up.

* ReferencedBy: In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'', the mentally deranged [[TheDragon dragon]] to [[MadDoctor Cioccolata]], known as Secco, has a [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman bodysuit Stand]] named after Oasis, which allows him to liquify the ground and [[SandIsWater swim through solid objects]].

* The original bassist Paul "Guigsy" [=McGuigan=], who left the group in 1999, along with original rhythm guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs.[[note]]While Arthurs's departure is credited to him having drunkenly pranked one of the hired studio workers, leading to an irate Noel pranking Arthurs himself in retaliation when he found out, and the ensuing argument resulting in Arthurs quitting on the spot, the reasons for [=McGuigan=] following Arthurs out the door remain unclear.[[/note]] According to Noel, Guigsy quit via fax and avoided phone calls from the Gallaghers in the following weeks. He declined to appear in the 2004 ''Definitely Maybe'' DVD, though a polite letter explaining his reasons for doing so appears as a hidden extra, along with a short segment with pundits giving their views on him. He also declined to be interviewed for the ''Oasis: Supersonic'' documentary, though archive footage of him was used instead.

*** The result was the sessions being a real downer for all involved, not helped by Creation Records going belly-up. Sure, Oasis were big enough to StartMyOwn record label by that time, but it did mean yet another of the cohort who’d helped them on their way, Alan [=McGee=], was now out of the picture. All three of the remaining band members were experiencing marital difficulties and Noel wasn’t feeling particularly inspired as a songwriter (to cap it all, his newfound sobriety meant the material he did write was far more somber than the band’s usual crowd-pleasing fare).

* ReclusiveArtist: The original bassist Paul "Guigsy" [=McGuigan=], who left the group in 1999, along with original rhythm guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs. According to Noel, Guigsy quit via fax and avoided phone calls from the Gallaghers in the following weeks. He declined to appear in the 2004 ''Definitely Maybe'' DVD, though a polite letter explaining his reasons for doing so appears as a hidden extra, along with a short segment with pundits giving their views on him. He also declined to be interviewed for the ''Oasis: Supersonic'' documentary, though archive footage of him was used instead.

*** In particular he imposed a strict drinking curfew to try and keep brother Liam in good shape to record his vocals. YMMV on whether he veered into outright BadBoss territory, but this certainly didn’t sit well with the other band members, Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs especially. Arthurs’ frustrations got the better of him, and he drunkenly pranked one of the hired studio workers. When an irate Noel found out and pranked Arthurs himself in retaliation, the ensuing argument resulted in Arthurs quitting on the spot. Bassist Paul ‘Guigsy’ [=McGuigan=] followed Arthurs out the door a few weeks later for reasons that remain unclear.

* RevivalByCommercialization: {{Inverted|Trope}}; "Shakermaker" ripped off "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)", and they were sued. Noel then joked that "Now we all drink Pepsi."
** And then parodied by the Oasis tribute band No Way Sis, who covered the Coca Cola jingle in Oasis' style.
** Then, quite amazingly Coca-Cola used "Whatever" in the 125th anniversary commercials.

--->'''''Noel:''' It's the sound of...a bunch of guys, on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck. There's no bass to it at all; I don't know what happened to that...And all the songs are really long and all the lyrics are shit and for every millisecond Liam is not saying a word, there's a fuckin' guitar riff in there in a ''Film/WaynesWorld'' stylie.