History Trivia / Oasis

* BreakupBreakout: Noel outshone his former bandmates (who formed a new band called Beady Eye) by reaching #1 with all 3 of his ''High Flying Birds'' project. Liam though did manage to get a number 1 album himself when he went solo.

-->'''''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.

-->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.

-->'''''Noel:''' It's the sound of a bunch of guys, on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck.''

** 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."

* 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.

** "Songbird" was originally conceived as a much harder song, sounding akin to "The Swamp Song" or "Some Might Say". The demo can be heard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPiYA61BTPY here.]]

* CreatorBreakdown: Guigsy briefly left the band in September 1995, citing nervous exhaustion. He was replaced by Scott [=McLeod=], formerly of Music/TheYaYas, 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=] later contacted Noel claiming he felt he had made the wrong decision. Gallagher curtly replied "I think you have too. Good luck signing on." To complete the tour, Guigsy was successfully convinced to return to the band.

** And the band name 'Oasis' for Liam, who initially refused to play Oasis songs with Beady Eye. They got over this long enough to sing "Wonderwall" at the closing ceremonies for the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games and would add a couple of Oasis songs to their setlist around the same time.

* 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."

*** In January 1994, the band decamped to Sawmills studios in Cornwall with Noel and Mark Coyle producing and Anjali Dutt, a veteran of the TroubledProduction of ''Loveless'', handling engineering duties. Despite Noel taking a far more active role in things, the sessions still went nowhere and Liam still hadn’t recorded any vocals yet. It was left to Owen Morris, whose services had been offered to the band prior to starting recording only to be turned down, to salvage the situation. Firstly he impressed everyone by getting some first rate vocal takes from Liam, and then was able to take the existing recordings and turn it into the album most people know and love. ''Definitely Maybe'' went on to become one of the most acclaimed debut albums ever made by a British group.

*** The original intention to record to the iconic Abbey Road Studios was derailed by press intrusion (not helped by Liam getting busted by the police for drug possession) leading to changes of venue. The album is somewhat infamous for being compromised by the amount of drug use, with Creation boss Alan [=McGee=] being appalled at how off the rails the whole thing was. Morris for his part disputes this and argues that Noel’s indifferent songwriting and IAmTheBand tendencies coupled to poor relations within the band generally were as much to blame.
*** The album had a lot to live up to- ''Morning Glory'' was one of the biggest selling albums in UK history, despite getting SoOkItsAverage reviews at first. For ''Be Here Now'' the press arguably started PanderingToTheBase and gave it five-star reviews initially, which increased hype even more. The album posted impressive first-day and first-week sales, but eventually the inevitable HypeBacklash came, and many of the same reviewers that had initially praised it were now queueing up to stick the boot in.
*** 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.)
** It didn’t get any easier with the next album, ''Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.''

*** 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 the band on the spot. Bassist Paul ‘Guigsy’ [=McGuigan=] followed Arthurs out the door a few weeks later for reasons that remain unclear.
*** 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 new found sobriety meant the material he did write was far more somber than the band’s usual crowd-pleasing fare).

** 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''.

** ''Dig Out Your Soul'' was mostly credited as a return to form for the band... and then they broke up.

** Their debut, ''Music/DefinitelyMaybe'' proved very troublesome, owing to the band’s general inexperience.

** It didn’t get any easier with the next album, ''Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. ''

* OldShame: The band retrospectively disown large chunks of their output. Noel recorded a commentary track for their ''Time Flies'' music video DVD collection, where he spends quite a bit of time mocking the band's singles from the late 1990s and early 2000s, despite at the time defending them heavily in the press. He goes as far to ask why somebody didn't take him to one side and tell him to "just stop".
** In the commentary, he shows particular disdain for "Sunday Morning Call". His feelings toward the song extend to the ''Time Flies'' greatest hits album, where it isn't even part of the main tracklist, but a hidden track on the second disc. On the American version, it's not even there at all, having been replaced by "Champagne Supernova".
* 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 ''Champaign Supernova, which reached the top 20 on the Airplay charts, couldn't be counted on the main chart.

* NamesTheSame: No, Alan White is not the drummer for Music/{{Yes}}.

** Both ''Be Here Now'' and the song "Roll with It" for Noel, to the point where he said

* 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 huge 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 ''Champaign Supernova, which reached the top 20 on the Airplay charts, couldn't be counted on the main chart.

** Both ''Be Here Now'' and the song "Roll with It" for Noel.

* OneOfUs: According to Noel on the ''Supersonic'' documentary, Guigsy's five favourite things in life were cricket, ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[TheStoner weed]], Manchester United and playing in Oasis.

* CreatorBreakdown: Guigsy briefly left the band in September 1995, 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 later contacted Noel Gallagher claiming he felt he had made the wrong decision. Gallagher curtly replied "I think you have too. Good luck signing on."[30] To complete the tour, McGuigan was successfully convinced to return to the band.

* 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 the 90's]] was the US. They had one top ten hit ("Wonderwall", which peaked at #8 in January of 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 of 2008). This can partly be blamed on Billboard, as many of their singles, despite being receiving huge 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 ''Champaign Supernova, which reached the top 20 on the Airplay charts, couldn't be counted on the main chart.

* 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 the 90's]] was the US. They had one top ten hit ("Wonderwall", which peaked at #8 in January of 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 of 1996 and "The Shock of the Lightning" peaked at #93 in October of 2008). This can partly be blamed on Billboard, as many of their singles, despite being receiving huge 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 ''Champaign Supernova, which reached the top 20 on the Airplay charts, couldn't be counted on the main chart.

** Andy Bell is also not the one from Music/{{Erasure}}. He's the one from Music/{{Ride}}, however.

* 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 the 90's]] was the US. They had one top ten hit ("Wonderwall", which peaked at #8 in January of 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 of 1996 and "The Shock of Lightning" peaked at #93 in October of 2008). This can partly be blamed on Billboard, as many of their singles, despite being receiving huge 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 ''Champaign Supernova, which reached the top 20 on the Airplay charts, couldn't be counted on the main chart.
* RevivalByCommercialization: {{Inverted|Trope}} somehow: "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."

** Liam whispers "Oh yeah." right before the drums kick in during "Live Forever".

* BreakupBreakout: Noel outshone his former bandmates (who formed a new band called Beady Eye) by reaching #1 with all 3 of his ''High Flying Birds'' project. Liam though did manage to get a number 1 album himself when Beady Eye broke up and he went solo.

* BreakthroughHit: "Live Forever". In the UK, it was what started a streak of 22 consecutive top 10 singles.

* BreakthroughHit: "Live Forever".
* BreakupBreakout: Noel outshone his former bandmates by reaching #1 with his solo debut album.

** And the band name 'Oasis' for Liam, who also refuses to play Oasis songs with Beady Eye. They got over this long enough to sing "Wonderwall" at the closing ceremonies for the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games.

* 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 the 90's]] was the US. They had one top ten hit ("Wonderwall", which peaked at #8 in January of 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 of 1996 and "The Shock of Lightning" peaked at #93 in October of 2008). This can partly be blamed on Billboard, as many of their singles, despite being receiving huge 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.

* 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 the 90's]] was the US. They had one top ten hit ("Wonderwall", which peaked at #8 in January of 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 of 1996 and "The Shock of Lightning" peaked at #93 in October of 2008). This can partly be blamed on Billboard, as many of their singles, despite being reviving huge 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.