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| Oasis – Gas Panic! Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&Liam say...Gas Panic!- "A bit like Led Zeppelin, some smoothing hip hop. For two years ago I used to have these difficult agony attacks. The clock was 4 one morning and I couldn´t sleep. Mostly I used to wake Meg and she was forced to sit and talk with me all through the night. But this night she didn´t wake up so I decided to get a guitar and write a song about how I felt. There´s a version of it coming out on one of the subsequent singles which is the demo version, which I done in my bedroom. It´s really, really mellow and like, acoustic and by the time we got the band playing it, and Alan playing on it, and Spike was doing his thing in the studio, all of a sudden it just turned into this... you know, it was supposed to be this really quiet acoustic, mellow little trip really. And then, you know, Spike was like, `Fuck it man, it´s just a Led Zepelin number´ and then it turned out to be really good - it´s one of my favourites on the album."
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| Oasis – Roll It Over Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&Liam say..Roll it Over-"My own favourite. It´s about people that gossip, I know lots of people that do it, especially women. It´s a catchy and happy song that shows the direction that we like to go in the future. It´s more gospel influenced, bigger and more psychedelic."
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| Oasis – I Can See A Liar Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Liam&Noel say..I Can See A Liar- "This one sounds a bit like the Sex Pistols, the song could have been on Nevermind The Bollocks. It´s Liams favourite and he must always get his favourites on the records. Liam is Liam and he usually always whines. He doesn´t stop until he gets the way he wants."
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| Oasis – Sunday Morning Call Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&Liam say..Sunday Morning Call-"The song is about a special person. A wonderful human being that lives life but can´t handle setbacks. I can´t reveal who it is."
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| Oasis – Where Did It All Go Wrong? Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&Liam say..Where Did it All Go Wrong?- "This song will remind people that we are a rock band. The lyrics are about all the rich and famous people that used to follow me home and tell me about their problems. Many rich people is pshycic and self destructive. They think that they will be ok again if they just put themselves into private clinics every six months. But it´s only themselves who can solve the problem."
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| Oasis – Who Feels Love? Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Liam&Noel say..Who Feels Love?- "It´s a bit Dear Prudence, a bit Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, very much Oasis and really big. But you can dance to it. I wrote the song early in the morning in Thailand about one and a half years ago. I wanted away from London for a while. We visited lots of temples and I suppose I picked up the moods from there."
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| Oasis – Magic Pie Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&Liam say..Magic Pie-"I sang this one and of course me and Liam had a row about it, but it's his favourite track now. The first line 'An extraordinary guy can never have an ordinary day' comes from him asking me 'How come you never get into any of the situations I get into?'. And I borrowed something from Tony Blair´s speech at the last Labour conference - 'There are but a thousand days preparing for a thousand years.'"
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| Oasis – My Big Mouth Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Liam&Noel say..My Big Mouth- "Even I'm not interested in what I've got to say half the time. But 'I aint never spoke to God, and I ain´t never been to heaven´ - that´s about fans who think you´re on the phone to John Lennon and you have all the answers."
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| Oasis – The Girl In The Dirty Shirt Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Liam&Noel say..The Girl in the Dirty Shirt- "Meg is the girl in the dirty shirt. We were doing a gig in Brighton just before me and Meg were going out. She was at the hotel ironing a dirty shirt because she hadn´t brought enough clothes with her. I know it sounds a bit soft. Liam will read this and say, `You wanker!´ becuase he thinks all the songs are about him. He even thinks Wonderwall is about him."
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| Oasis – I Hope, I Think, I Know Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&Liam say..I Hope, I Think, I Know- "I liked the demo but it´s too pop for me now. It reminds me of the Busscocks but I think its going to be like Hey Now on Morning Glory - the one nobody mentions."
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| Oasis – The Hindu Times Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Liam&Noel say..The Hindu Times- "When we laid down the instrumental for The Hindu Times we went away on tour with The Black Crowes and I think it's Gem come up with the one line. He said it's like your favourite Oasis song ever because we were listening to it, like constantly and I didn't have any lyrics for it and he's going, fucking hell man it's just like the best Oasis song ever. He said it sounds like classic Oasis and I was like sitting there thinking right weill I'm going to try now, sort of written myself off and I was going, so what do you mean by that.. You know it's just a fucking, you know it's a song and I was like. So I just decided to write a song that was the most optimistic that I could fucking get out of myself. So it was all like, I get up when I'm down, I can't swim and it's all about universal truths I think. You're my sunshine you're my rain, you know there is a light that shines, it shines on me. The word Hindu in the title as well I thought it's a bit spiritual and stuff but it was Gem that unwittingly perhaps was the concept of the song. he said it's got to be like the fucking, the best Oasis Oasis song ever. And that was that really."
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| Oasis – She Is Love Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Liam&Noel say..She is Love- " It's no secret it's about Sara my girlfriend. We got up one Sunday morning, the sum was shining and it was just. And I'd been listening to Sweetpea by Paul Weller off Heliocentric and I thought I'm going to write a love song about somebody I love with and I'm actually going to do it, because I hate using the word love and I hate all that shit and I thought, well fuck it, I'm not 24, I'm 35 now, you know what I mean? I can probably get away with it now. You know, and then it literally just fucking come out in about 10 minutes and I wasn't scared of the last line now I Know that I;m.. All I know is I'm in love with someone who loves me too. Like 3 or 4 years ago I wouldn't have sung that. You fucking nob jockey fucking nuts. What are you on about? That was like fuck off. I've broken 35 now. I'll do what I fucking want. I can wear chunky sweaters and have fucking golden retrievers and they can't touch me for it because I'm officially middle-aged."
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| Oasis – Cigarettes & Alcohol Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Liam&Noel say.. Cigarettes & Alcohol- "IT IS FUCKING ROCK!!! When people hear it they start smashing things up or pinching things. Someone wrote and told me they were bored one day, then they heard that song and decided to go out shoplifting. Brilliant. I wanted to write a song that was like Cum On Feel The Noize by Slade. A proper, boozy anthem."
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| Oasis – Supersonic Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&Liam say...Supersonic- "That was originally going to be the B-side to Bring it on down, but then when we wrote it we knew it had to be an A-side. It was written and recorded in 8 hours at the Pink Museum in Liverpool. When Alan McGee heard it he threatened to drop every other act on his label. He didn´t keep his promise though, the Scottish bastard. I was just bladdered, out of it really. I sort of just played around with words. The girl called Elsa was really a dog. They had this big Rottweiler in the studio. All I did was find something that rhymed with it. It just came out of nowhere... I knew it was a classic as soon as we´d finished."
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| Oasis – Live Forever Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&Liam say..Live Forever- "That´s for our mam. It´s quite simply one of the ten greatest songs of all time. I said that when I first wrote it and I stand by it now. I challenge anyone else in the next ten years to come up with anything as good. Except for us of course. Well, it´s about relationships that people have, not necessarily with girlfriends, about friends and friendships that live forever.. commitment. It´s not about anything, it´s not a love song, the word love, you can love Mars bars, and I love my bike. It´s a song about respect, having respect for your girlfriend, your mother or your father or your friends. The line `We see things they´ll never see´, only two best friends would say that to each other, two twins maybe. It´s a song of hope, a song about being young and trendy. A fucking good song but I think I can do better."
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| Oasis – Better Man Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Liam&Noel say..Better Man- "Better Man. I wanted a groove more instead of a song. Not so many words. Just hitting it like don't want to be a soldier like that. Like Plastic Ono. That was it." |
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| Oasis – Born On A Different Cloud Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel says...Born on a Different Cloud (Liam's song)-"Born On A Different Cloud. Well that was in France playing a piano. Same again I don't really play that much. Only chords and that and I thought and the melody come and I wrote the words. I don't know where it comes from but what I wrote was like I had read this book Living On Borrowed Time by Frederick Seeman. That is probably the only book I have ever read and it was like living on borrowed time, born on a different cloud that was where it all came from."
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| Oasis – D'You Know What I Mean? Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&liam say...D'You Know What I Mean?- "I was going to make up some profound statement in the chorus but I couldn´t come up with anything that fitted. then I just thought 'All my people right here, right now. D´You know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah - very vague, very ambiguous. Look in the mirror and wink while you sing it and it´s quite saucy. The Morse code in the background was inspired by The Beatles´ Strawberry fields. If anyone can tell me what it means please let me know."
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| Oasis – Bonehead's Bank Holiday Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Liam&Noel say... Bonehead's Bank Holiday- "Well, you know how The Beatles used to like get Ringo to sing the odd tune here and there? Well, he´s (Bonehead) our Ringo isn´t he, you see? And he´s ugly as sin, you know what I mean? Completely untalented and the luckiest man in rock so we thought we´d write him a song, you know what I mean? Bonehead´s Bank Holiday - It´s about nicking cars and going to Spain and meeting girls who´s mothers are nuns."
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| Oasis – Champagne Supernova Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&Liam say...Champagne Supernova- "When I was writing that, I remember going to visit Meg, who was living with some chicks down in Maida Vale, in her old flat. I was living in a hotel in Marylebone High Street and had just been kicked out of my flat in Chiswick, for being drunk and disorderly. Anyway, I went over to Meg´s. I wasn´t seeing her, she was just a mate and, this may sound really corny but I had the music and melody for the song in my head but I didn´t have any words. While I was around there we were listening to a Pixies album called, I think it´s... Supernova. As we were listening to this album, we were watching a documentary about where they make Champagne in France. You may laugh but it´s true. I was there drunk going, `Champagne supernova? Yeah man´ and to this day, everyone´s going, `But what does it mean?´. I can´t be arsed to explain it cos it sounds really corny. Some of the lyrics were written when I was out of it. There´s the words: `Someday you will find me caught beneath a landslide in a champagne supernova in the sky.'"
"That´s probably as psychedelic as I´ll ever get. It means different things when I´m in different moods. When I´m in a bad mood being caught beneath a landslide is like being suffocated. The song is a bit of an epic. It´s about when you´re young and you see people in groups and you think about what they did for you and they did nothing. As a kid, you always believed the Sex Pistols were going to conquer the world and kill everybody in the process. Bands like The Clash just petered out. Punk rock was supposed to be the revolution but what did it do? When we started we decided we weren´t going to do anything for anybody, we just thought we´d leave a bunch of great songs. But some of the words are about nothing. One is about Bracket The Butler who used to be on Camberwick Green, or Chipley or Trumpton or something. He used to take about 20 minutes to go down the hall. And then I couldn´t think of anything that rhymed with hall apart from cannonball, so I wrote, `Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball' and people were like, Wow, fuck man.' There´s also the line, `Where were you while we were getting high?´ because that´s what we always say to each other. But the number of people who´ve started clubs called Champagne Supernova is fuckin´ unbelievable."
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| Oasis – Some Might Say Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&Liam say...Some Might Say- "It was the first song I ever wrote when I moved to London and it was inspired by listening to The Faces. Alan McGee wanted the A-side to be Acquiesce because he didn´t think Some Might Say sounded like a number one. He´s a great man but his one fault is that he has absolutely no idea how to pick singles. As soon as I´d written Some Might Say I was absolutely certain it would be a number one and I was right. I never had even the slightest doubt. That was the gin `n´ tonic getting the better of me. I met a guy in Swiss Cottage who came up to me when the single was Number One. He said, `That song really meant a lot to me.´, because he´s a Christian. And I asked if he´d heard the group at all and he hadn´t. So I told him we had this song called Cigarettes and Alcohol and being a Christian he wouldn´t really dig that. He seemed like a really down-to-earth bloke. And he´s telling me a song means a lot to him as a Christian and I´m having a conversation with him when I´m drugged up to the eyeballs. It´s a laugh, man."
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| Oasis – Don't Look Back in Anger Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Liam&Noel say...Don't Look Back in Anger- "I went up to The Manor when Paul Weller was recording Stanley Road and that's when I did my bit on Walking On Guilded Splinters. He played me his song, Wings Of Speed, and that was the feel I tried to get on Don't Look Back In Anger. I did it live for the first time at Sheffield Arena. Should people put their lives in the hands of a rock n' roll band? If it's us then, yeah, I think they can. Some of the lines come from John Lennon. I got this tape in America that had apparently been burgled from the Dakota Hotel and someone had found these cassettes. Lennon was starting to record his memoirs on tape. He´s going on about `trying to start a revolution from me bed, because they said the brains I had went to my head.´ Thank you, I'll take that. It's about not being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been."
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| Oasis – Wonderwall Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&Liam say...Wonderwall- "Well it´s for Meg. And it´s a classic. What more can I say? She had a company which folded and she was feeling a bit sorry for herself. The sentiment is that there was no point in her feeling down, she has to sort my life out for me because I´m in bits all the time."
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| Oasis – She's Electric Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noel&Liam say She's Electric-"It was the first song I wrote for the album. Someone asked me if it was about Blur but it´s not. It´s like a Small Faces song or something by The Kinks."
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| Oasis – Cast No Shadow Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Liam&Noel say Cast No Shadow- "Richard (Ashcroft) wasn´t very happy for a while so I wrote it for him and about three weeks later he quit the band. It´s about songwriters in general who are desperately trying to say something. I´d like to be able to write really meaningful lyrics but I always end up talking about drugs or sex. But people like Richard and Paul Weller will look after me. `Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say´ - That´s me. I´m not Morrissey. I´m not Bob Dylan. I´m not Brett Anderson. They are better lyricists than I´ll ever be."
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