Probably seemed like a good idea at the time. But Noel says he’d never do anything so undignified.īeatles cover. Written for a the film Love, Honor And Obey starring Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller, ‘Force Of Nature’ is a tune that rips the beat from Iggy Pop’s ‘Nightclubbing’ and everyone thinks is about NG’s ex-wife, because of lyrics like “ It’s all over town that the sun’s going down on the days of your easy life”. It’s also possible that by the time Oasis’ seventh and final album came along he wasn’t that arsed anymore. It’s possible it took Noel that long to realise how good it is. Which is something, I suppose.Ī slice of plodding honky-tonk that was originally demoed for 2002’s ‘Heathen Chemistry’ and six years later found its way onto ‘Dig Out Your Soul’. This, written by Gem Archer, has the lyric that inspired the title of the album it lives on: “ dig out your soul, cos here we go”. Some late era Oasis songs could do with being deleted. Possible prototype for ‘You Better Run’ from Liam’s ‘As You Were’, which is an updated and improved version. Recorded for the charity album ‘NME In Association With War Child Presents 1 Love’, though, so it gets some For A Good Cause points.Īn unremarkable ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ bonus track for the Japanese edition. Squint and it sounds a bit like Liam doing new vocals for The White Stripes’ ‘Ball and Biscuit’, with Meg on drums and all.Ī strangely joyless Slade cover. Gem Archer wrote it, Liam sung it, everyone forgot it.Īndy Bell’s post-divorce, post-therapy meditation on life, love and atheism. Takes 1.33 minutes to get to Liam singing. Oasis never ever, ever sounded more like The Beatles than they do on this largely pointless ‘Falling Down’ b-side. Except these very bottom ones, which we’re going to run through very quickly… Maybe there’s only so much intensity one relationship can handle.
But look at everything they’ve done and said and sung and drunk and snorted and played and filmed and sold together. It’s sad, obviously, that Liam and Noel don’t talk anymore. But thank God it did, because I have no idea who else would’ve guided me through life from my mid-teens onwards. What, actually, are the chances of that happening? One in a million? One in a trillion? One in a billion? No idea. And then somehow, because of fate or luck or magic or witchcraft, they work it out, and they form Oasis. There’s Liam, on the bottom bunk, oblivious to the fact that the annoying slightly older twat above him is the best songwriter of his generation.
There’s Noel, on the top bunk, oblivious to the fact that the annoying little twat underneath him is the best singer of his generation. You’ve got these two brothers, sharing a room in a council house in Manchester, in the late ’80s and early ’90s. It was, I think, my friend Hamish who I once spent some time pondering the improbability of a band like Oasis existing. Maybe? Definitely! Every song Oasis ever recorded ranked in order of greatness
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