Liam Gallagher's two-minute and eight second love song might last forever in the musical canon, but the relationship it was inspired by certainly didn't. READ MORE: Oasis split! The full story of the Gallagher brothers' feud Liam Gallagher performing at his triumphant Knebworth shows in June 2022. "He's only got one tune and that's it, and he's not playing the f****** tune." ![]() He added: "The ironic thing about that song is that he doesn't even f****** play it now, work that one out, the Ballad of the Mighty I singer mused. "Then we took all the instruments off it and it became this acoustic thing that I think is perfect." We did a demo of it and it was more like Love Me Do by The Beatles, It's got a mouth organ on it and it sounds like The Beatles. Years later Noel has doubled down on his praise of the track, calling it "perfect".Īs reported by BANG Showbiz, speaking of the ballad, Noel told Matt Morgan: "I thought Songbird by Liam was great. Watch the clip here, which is taken from their Lock The Box interview from their Stop The Clocks boxset: 'Do you think it drags on a bit?' It's two minutes and one second long! What f***ing crazy drugs are you on?" Noel revealed in the interview: "I even have to push to get it into the set because he won't have it. "It took three minutes and I think I wrote all the words pretty much there and then." Didn't do it to present Noel, I just wrote it. I went out one day sat under a tree, had a bit of a biblical moment and that was it. "I was in France in this massive f***ing mansion, doing our album. Liam's estranged brother Noel has always liked to joke about the length of the track, but speaking in a throwback interview he said: "It's one of our best tunes. Songbird is a firm favourite among Oasis fans, peaking at No.3 on the UK singles chart. READ MORE: What's the story behind Live Forever by Oasis? What was the reception to Songbird? Talk of better days that have yet to come/ Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton were married from 2008-2014. 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.To this day, the lyrics are some of the most vulnerable that Gallagher has ever penned, conjuring Appleton as a winged muse who offers up a love he'd "never felt" before. 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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