Line #56 Trivia/Oasis


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2	* BannedInChina: ''Standing on the Shoulder of Giants'' was banned by Walmart because they objected to the track "Fuckin' in the Bushes".
3	* BlackSheepHit:
4	** "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.
5	** A probably more straight example was "Songbird", a reasonably successful hit that is heavily different from both their britpop/hard rock anthems and beatlesesque ballads, being more of a country rock/folk rock ditty.
6	* BreakthroughHit: "Live Forever". In the UK, it started a streak of 22 consecutive top 10 singles. However, in the US their first single "Supersonic" was already reasonably successful, while in the band's native UK it only reached #31.
7	* 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'' albums. Liam did manage to get a number 1 album himself when he went solo, though.
8	* CreatorBacklash:
9	** ''Music/BeHereNow'' for Noel, to the point where he said:
10	--->'''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.
11	** Noel isn't also fond of "Roll with It", calling it "appalling" when it was released. He (sort of) warmed up to the song as he doesn't outright ''hate'' it currently, but nonetheless called it "a bit of a throwaway" on the notes of the compilation ''Time Flies''.
12	** 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 set-list around the same time.
13	** Later, with the exception of "Go Let It Out" (the only song he likes and personally chose for ''Stop the 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".
14	--->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/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}} 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.
15	** Furthermore, ''Standing on the Shoulder of Giants'' also contains the Oasis song he hates the most, "Sunday Morning Call". He outright described that song as ''shit'', and stated he hates to the point he deliberately left it off the singles compilation ''Time Flies''.
16	** Liam is not a fan of "Digsy's Dinner". This is believed to be the result of the rather quirky lyrics (about the titular Digsy inviting a girl he likes for dinner), which contain lines such as "Your friends will all go green for my lasagna", and overally appears to have been made only to hear Liam pronounce words such as "lasagna" in his distinctive singing style.
17	** 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".
18	* CreatorBreakdown: Guigsy briefly left the band in September 1995, citing nervous exhaustion. He was replaced by Scott [=McLeod=], formerly of The Ya Yas, 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.
19	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode:
20	** Noel named "Supersonic" as his favourite single and he has kept playing the song live after the band broke up. As his second-favorite, however, he mentioned "Don't Look Back in Anger". He also named [[https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/funeral-songs-madonna-gatecrashing-50th-17164257 "Half the World Away"]] and "The Masterplan" as the best of the band's B-sides.
21	** Bonehead named "Columbia" as his favourite song to play live, as the song only consisted of three chords that create a hypnotic groove.
22	* DVDCommentary: ''Oasis: Time Flies 1994-2009'' has Noel doing a commentary on the band's music videos. He watches some of them for the first time and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNqyjZcleI he's definitely not impressed.]]
23	* HostilityOnTheSet: And how! 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.
24	* HeAlsoDid: Andy Bell was one of the frontmen for Music/{{Ride}}. (but Alan White is not the drummer for Music/{{Yes}})
25	* OneHitWonder: Played almost 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.
26	* ReclusiveArtist:
27	** 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.
28	** Alan White quit music entirely after leaving Oasis, outside of a one-off gig with his brother Steve's band in 2008. Little has been heard from him since.
29	* RevivalByCommercialization: {{Inverted\|Trope}}; "Shakermaker" ripped off the famous Coca-Cola jingle "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." This was 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.
30	* ThrowItIn:
31	** Noel can be heard whispering "Let me take me watch off" right before "Talk Tonight" begins.
32	** There is a quiet [[Music/TheBeatles "One, two, three, fow-uh!"]] at the beginning of "The Masterplan".
33	** Liam whispers "Oh yeah" right before the drums kick in during "Live Forever".
34	** As Noel tells in the DVD commentary, the director of the video for "Live Forever" thought about burying the drum kit. On the set, Noel suggested burying the drummer instead, so in the grave Tony [=McCarroll=] was.
35	* TroubledProduction: Given the easily combustible nature of Liam and Noel Gallagher’s relationship, it’s not surprising they had a few examples of this.
36	** Their debut, ''Music/DefinitelyMaybeAlbum'' proved very troublesome, owing to the band’s general inexperience.
37	*** The initial Dave Batchelor-produced sessions from late 1993 were a disaster. Creation Records- still reeling from Music/MyBloodyValentine’s ''Loveless'' going insanely over-budget- were forking out at £800 a day for use of Monnow Valley Studios and it had resulted in just one useable recording- ‘Slide Away’ is the only track on the final album from those sessions. Noel ultimately got rid of Batchelor, and having tried one last time to salvage the music already recorded, decided there was no choice but to take another crack at recording the album.
38	*** 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.
39	** ''Music/WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory'' was a much easier experience by comparison. Even the sacking of original drummer Tony [=McCarroll=] didn’t hurt proceedings too much. The main trouble occurred when Noel decided he wanted to StepUpToTheMicrophone for a song ("Don’t Look Back in Anger") which annoyed Liam so much that the younger Gallagher attempted to drunkenly interrupt his brother while he was recording his vocal take, and then (depending on who you believe) apparently trashing Noel’s equipment.
40	** The production of ''Music/BeHereNow'' is almost as infamous as the album itself.
41	*** The band’s popularity exploded following the release of ''Morning Glory'', culminating in a series of sold out outdoor shows in the UK summer of 1996. However, this was followed an ill fated North American tour that had to be cut short due to various fallings-out. In order to try and keep things on an even keel, Noel suggested they record their next album as soon as possible (He’d had the material demo’d prior to their summer 1996 shows and so the songs were ready to go).
42	*** Producer Owen Morris wanted to try and keep things simple, generally close to the demos with minimal overdubs, whilst Noel wanted a far more elaborate production with multiple overdubs and even an orchestra. As anyone who has listened to the final product will know, Noel won the argument.
43	*** 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 venue changes. The album is somewhat infamous for being compromised by the amount of drug use, with Creation boss Alan [=McGee=] being appalled at how OffTheRails the whole thing was. Morris 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.
44	*** The album had a lot to live up to - ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'' was one of the biggest selling albums in UK history, despite getting SoOkayItsAverage 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 the inevitable HypeBacklash eventually came, and many of the same reviewers that had initially praised it were now queueing up to stick the boot in.
45	*** 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 hates it, perhaps to the point of 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.)
46	** It didn’t get any easier with the next album, ''Standing on the Shoulder of Giants''.
47	*** 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 mistakes on his part.)
48	*** 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.
49	*** 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 start their own]] 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).
50	*** Ultimately the album was pulled together by Liam, Noel, drummer Alan White and whichever of Noel’s mates happened to be in the studio. Tellingly, it’s the only Oasis studio release that doesn’t list the individual band members by name in the sleeve notes, as they didn’t get around to hiring replacements for the departed Arthurs and [=McGuigan=] until they started their tour to support the album.
51	** 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 in regards to songwriting, 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''.
52	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
53	** When making ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'', Noel presented Liam with two songs and told him to pick one to sing, and he would sing the other one himself. The songs? "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back in Anger". Imagine how the latter would sound with Liam's vocals...[[note]]He finally sang it live for the first time at Glastonbury 2017, leading to a few people [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So5aZkDRdpY editing]] together what it might have sounded like[[/note]]
54	** The vinyl version of ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'' features a bonus track titled "Bonehead's Bank Holiday", which was supposed to be sung by Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs. However, he got nervous, so Liam took him to a pub to have a drink or two. Naturally, the pair returned completely drunk, then attempted to record vocals. Noel eventually did the lead vocals. Bonehead's and Liam's hilariously off-key la-la-la's and drunken attempts at singing were used as backing vocals.
55	** Alan [=McGee=] wanted to release "Acquiesce" as a single instead of "Some Might Say", but Noel was adamant that the work on the single was completed, and was unwilling to have to write another B-side and record it.
56	** Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs and Paul "Guigsy" [=McGuigan=] were around for the initial writing stage and recording stage for ''Standing on the Shoulder 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.
57	** Gem Archer and Andy Bell joined the band in late 1999 after the recording of ''Standing on the Shoulder 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''.
58	** ''Dig Out Your Soul'' was mostly credited as a return to form for the band. Then they broke up.
59	** "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.
60	** "Songbird" was originally conceived with a much heavier rock sound than the more country-ish 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.]]
61	* WrittenForMyKids: Liam wrote "Little James" for his then-wife Patsy Kensit's son James.

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