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07.02.25 Live Forever12.03.24 The Best One Yet 😳
08.15.23 RIP Divaman 02.04.19 A month off.
12.16.17 Albums of the year02.28.17 Current Top Ten
09.11.16 The Wasp Factory02.16.16 Vinyl assistance
01.14.16 My all time faves12.28.15 Rubbish hair, horrific clobber, best tu
12.15.15 Tops of 201510.19.15 Zaks guarantee
12.20.14 2014 Digital Age Pish.09.03.14 Could Care Less For Twinkly Jams
08.08.14 There Are Places I Remember.03.19.14 The Insomnia List Blues
11.27.13 10of1308.22.13 Left Alone Masterpieces
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Live Forever

Reliving my past, thankful for the present. Thinking of the future. You slags have absolutely no idea how massive this band were back in the day. I cannot believe I will be seeing them on the opening night in Cardiff. Even if they are shite the spectacle will be unrivalled. This is a personal ranking of their tunes and some memories of it all thrown in for good measure.
1Oasis
Slide Away

We are two of a kind. One of the greatest songs of all time.
2Acquiesce

We Need Each Other. The Knebworth version is the bollocks.
3Cigarettes and Alcohol

You’ve got to make it happen. Colossal tune
4Bring it on Down

You don’t care cos you’re living fast. Had Definitely Maybe on tape in 1994 albeit it was me older brothers that I nicked, it was the soundtrack as I walked to school. Monday morning I’d swagger into double Maths like an absolute geezer cos of this tune which was my fave at the time.
5Columbia

YEAH YEAH YEAH. A stamp of authority.
6Live Forever

You and I gonna live forever. A true classic. The first proper girlfriend I was involved with had a poster on her wall of Liam sat in a chair taken from the songs vid. She was a good girl but mental.
7Sad Song

It’s all just the same at the end of the day. Noel bares Soul
8Supersonic

I need to be myself. Now that is an iconic opening few seconds
9Hindu Times

God Give Me Soul in Your Rock n Roll Babe. Too bleedin right
10Don’t Look Back In Anger

Start a revolution from my bed. Sung this one at me stag do in Liverpool. I was held aloft and carried out the boozer as a king. Monumental chorus.
11Champagne Supernova

Gonna Get away for the summer. Bought Morning Glory when it came out and loved it. The band had made a step up. Was the soundtrack while playing Streetfighter II. Was transfixed to this one in particular as I spinning bird kicked Blanka and what have you
12Flashbax

Sitting on a fence with a mate of mine. One of the greatest B-Sides in history
13The Masterplan

A ship of hope. One of the greatest B-Sides in history.
14Rock N Roll Star

That to me was just a day in bed. The Live by the Sea vid recorded at Cliffs Pavillon, Southend, Essex 1995 encapsulates the moment the band went from being exciting newcomers to entering the stratosphere. Lots of friends and family in that crowd. I couldn’t make it cos of reasons I can’t remember but the next day I asked my brother how it was and he said it was fucking amazing. He still has it as the greatest gig he has been to.
15Cast No Shadow

They stole his pride. One of Liams best vocals and that lad can’t half belt them out
16Talk Tonight

A hundred million miles from home. Some of Noel’s worst lyrics and that lad can’t half write some waffle. Amazing song though, says a lot
17D’you know what I mean

I met my maker I made him cry. Definitive swagger. Overblown maginificence
18Go Let It Out

Ordinary People That Are Like You and Me. The general backlash had started at this point but I still adored the band. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants was released and walking home you could hear it being played from bedroom windows. The album was an absolute stinker though despite some decent moments.
19Stand By Me

Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday. The acoustic version live at Boneheads is possibly my favourite Oasis moment. I still look at it and think yep, cool as fuck exactly how I felt when I saw it nearly 30yrs ago.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hOhN183GqyQ&pp=ygUUc3RhbmQgYnkgbWUgYWNvdXN0aWM%3D
20Half the World Away

My body feels young but my mind is very old. Part of one of the greatest e.ps of all time and the soundtrack to one of the greatest tv comedies. RIP Caroline Aherne
21Stay Young

Stay Young and Invincible. Life affirming as fuck
22Headshrinker

I got no fear. A spikey full throttle assault
23Morning Glory

Walking to the sound of my favourite tune. The One I Love but for the upbeat, euphoric anything is possible ‘Britpop’ crowd.
24Some Might Say

The sink is full of fishes. Euphoric chorus. A mate I grew up with moved away to Matlock and lives a stones throw from the train station on the front cover of this single. A lovely place.
25It’s Getting Better Man

It’s getting better man. Optimal optimism cranked up to 11
26Married With Children

Your musics shite. Absolute classic closing tune. From day one when I first listen to it I always think of Holly Johnson’s Love Train. ‘Up all night, up all night’
27Shakermaker

I’m sorry but I just don’t know. I do know that this is where it started for me. I was 14yrs old and grunge was life. Kurt had blown his head off, I grizzled and there was a malaise. Two months later making their debut on TOTP was this and I took notice, I was excited. There was an almighty dynamic shift. Out went the plaid in came the Ben Sherman

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V1UcVoJmnmU&pp=ygUhb2FzaXMgc2hha2VybWFrZXIgdG9wIG9mIHRoZSBwb3Bz
28Little By Little

Gave you everything you ever dreamed of. A proper sing song
29(It’s Good) To be Free

Head like a rock. One of the bands most underrated tunes
30Stop Crying Your Heart Out

Don’t be scared. World Cup 2002. Fuck off Ronaldinho you can un’all Seaman with your shit pony tail.
31Up in the Sky

It’s just a case of never breathing out before you breathe it in. It was only recently as a result of the remastering and the vinyl I heard the acoustic guitar on this blinder
32Gas Panic!

Give another chancer an hour to sing for his soul. The most un Oasis song. There’s no joy here at all but It’s magnificent and the lyrics are the best Noel has scribbled.
33Wonderwall

Chords. One of the most milked songs of all time but by Christ did I like it when Morning Glory first came out. I was in a bus shelter in Southend talking to a mate saying that the song would be seen as definitive and a classic.
34Going Nowhere

Wanna be wild cos my life’s so tame. Songs says everything when you’re young, bored and haven’t got a pot to piss in.
35Step Out

you will be alright. Yes it’s Stevie Wonders uptight but it’s the most positive song the band did and that’s saying something. Went through a right old rough patch in the late 90s but a mate helped me through it by being such a solid geezer setting me on the right path. Cheers Nick.
36Falling Down

It’s all that I’ve ever known. The bands last released song before the break up and it’s a hell of a way to wrap it up.
37Fade Away

The dreams we have as children fade away. The bands most ear spitting raucous racket. It’s like Jesus and Mary Chain with egg and chips for tea.
38Round Are Way

The birds are minging. This one is the one that takes me right back. I can see myself sticking the ball between the jumpers for goal posts, going to a mates house and just loving every second of life but still old enough to get a clip round the ear from me Mum. This one parodies Britpop which in itself was a parody. Ironic then that’s it’s as real as it gets and is a perfect description of living back then.
39Lyla

Hey, Lyla. Not great but one of the best to sing when having a proper booze up
40Cloudburst

I need shades cos the sun is blinding. THE most underrated tune. Impossible not to bowl along to it.
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