Best Oasis Songs

Very lazy analysis there.

What Noel Gallagher did is actually the most difficult thing in music. That is to write a very large number of songs which, without wanting to sound too cliched, are legitimately classed as all-time classic anthems. Nobody has done it since. Most Oasis songs can be played by a halfway competent guitarist. That's part of their beauty.

I have thousands of albums ranging from 1920's Mississipi Delta Blues to Jazz to folk to classical to hip-hop to dance to pop. Yet I always come back to Oasis. What they produced in the 1994-96 period was mind-blowing. Two all-time classic albums and nine EPs, each packed with songs which would not be out of place on Definitely Maybe or (What's The Story) Morning Glory. Those songs are all indelible parts of mass popular culture to this day and imprinted themselves on people's minds in a way no other band has done since and arguably only The Beatles did before. Noel Gallagher was able to do this because he had such a wide knowledge of music. Even by the 90s, pretty much every genre of music that ever was had been invented. Gallagher worked with the building blocks and pieced all the best bits of what had gone before together into a perfect whole.

by the 90s, pretty much every genre of music that ever was had been invented.

I also think their output from 1997 on is much under-rated, although obviously not quite as good. However it's fair to say that they produced at least an average of four or five top quality songs per album in the 2000s and Be Here Now is unquestionably an under-rated album despite suffering from overblown production at times. And there's a whole litany of largely forgotten B-sides out there that are fixtures on my playlist.

You can even look at the non-Oasis output of the Gallaghers. Stuff like Noel's almost forgotten single Teotihuacan, "Setting Sun" which he did with the Chemical Brothers, Scorpio Risng on which Liam collaborated with Death In Vegas. Amazing tracks.

The two recent albums from Beady Eye and Noel are both excellent listens although divergent in style.

 The hype grew mainly because the music was so irresistible, although of course it did no harm that the Gallaghers gave great copy in interviews. They basically summed up what a great rock 'n' roll band should do.

Liam Gallagher's voice might not be so good now but during the 90s it was the greatest rock 'n' roll voice that had been heard for many years. As was said at the time, a perfect mixture of Lennon and Lydon. The whole package was completely intoxicating.

4 or 5 'top quality' songs (which I strongly dispute) over 4/5 albums is enough to continue adoring them? While other bands of the time were putting out albums that were genuine quality from start to finish, why waste your time? I tossed them in. The rest hung on in vain hope of another Definitely Maybe and a rekindling of their lost youth.