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Songbird oasis single.artwork1/18/2024 ![]() In August 2009, Noel Gallagher announced his departure from the band after a backstage altercation with Liam before a festival appearance. The band found renewed success and popularity starting with 2005's Don't Believe the Truth through 2008's Dig Out Your Soul and their supporting tours. The band lost members Paul McGuigan and Paul Arthurs as they went on to record and release Standing on the Shoulder of Giants in 2000 and were replaced by Gem Archer and Andy Bell who joined the group for the tour in support of Giants. In 1997, Oasis released their third album, Be Here Now, and although it became the fastest-selling album in UK chart history, the album's popularity tapered off quickly. The Gallagher brothers featured regularly in tabloid newspapers for their sibling disputes and wild lifestyles. The following year, the band recorded (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) with their new drummer Alan White in the midst of rivalry with Britpop peers Blur in the charts. Its members were signed to independent record label Creation Records and afterwards released their record-setting debut album Definitely Maybe in 1994. The band also holds the Guinness World Record for being the "Most Successful Act of the Last Decade" in the UK between the years 19, spending 765 weeks in the Top 75 singles and albums charts. Also the band was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2010 for “Longest Top 10 UK Chart Run By A Group” after an unprecedented run of 22 successive Top 10 hits in the UK. As of 2009, the band have sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide. They have had eight UK number-one singles, seven UK number-one albums, fifteen NME Awards, nine Q Awards, four MTV Europe Music Awards and six BRIT Awards, including one in 2007 for outstanding contribution to music and one for the best album of the last 30 years as voted by the BBC Radio 2 listeners, and also for being nominated for three Grammy Awards. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher (vocals and tambourine), Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs (guitar), Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan (bass guitar) and Tony McCarroll (drums, percussion), who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher (lead guitar and vocals). Those Swollen Hand Blues is a nice enough tune but is so far down the road of Beatles pastiche it may as well be The Rutles.Oasis were an English rock band that formed in Manchester in 1991. With all the far-out remixes Oasis were commissioning around their final album Dig Out Your Soul (The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, erm Marilyn Manson bassist Twiggy Ramirez) you’d be forgiven for thinking they might have ditched some of their late period ‘60s fetishisms in favour of something a bit more forward-facing. Noel Gallagher Interviewed: “I’d hear Blur or Pulp on the radio and think, Fuck these idiots…” Plus, it would probably sail comfortably to the upper reaches of this list, which seems unfair on these non-album tracks… Yes, it featured as one of the tracks on the CD version of 1994’s Whatever, but it had already been released on Definitely Maybe four months previously. Despite some of the A-list names on the controls, including The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett, we’ve excluded the multiple remixes that took up most of Oasis’ B-sides by the time of their long-playing swan song, Dig Out Your Soul , and on a technicality ruled out the sublime Slide Away. Here then, is MOJO’s rundown of every Oasis B-side ranked from worst to best. ![]() ![]() Even when the band descended from their mid-90s peak, they still delivered plenty of flip-side gold for fans. Indeed, as 1998's compilation The Masterplan showed some of Noel’s finest-ever compositions can be found on the reverse of singles that were sometimes their inferior. Much to Noel Gallagher’s later chagrin, in their glory years, Oasis tucked away songs other bands would sell their own grandmothers to have as B-sides.
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