we will live to fight another day.
I realize that I’m probably running the risk of losing a handful of followers for saying this… but I’m kind of a huge Oasis geek. (I didn’t realize that I had already admitted this, but apparently I did.) The band’s 2009 split was a heartbreaker for someone who grew up skipping school on Oasis album release days (told you, huge geek) and constantly scouring the internet for rare b-sides and live tracks — but truth be told, their demise probably should have happened many years before it finally did. Post 1997’s cocaine-fueled Be Here Now, Noel made the mistake of sharing songwriting duties with brother Liam and his other bandmates, but the songs that Noel wrote and sang lead vocals on still consistently overshadowed the others’. Some fine examples:
mp3: Oasis - Little By Little from Heathen Chemistry [2002]
mp3: Oasis - Part of the Queue from Don’t Believe the Truth [2005]
mp3: Oasis - Falling Down from Dig Out Your Soul [2008]
It was never much of a secret that Noel was the mastermind behind Oasis, and it has certainly never been clearer than in this moment as I sit here listening to the freshly leaked highly-anticipated debut of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. Compare it to this year’s release from Beady Eye (Oasis minus Noel), and Liam suddenly looks like a useless sack of shit. Well, let’s be honest here — he pretty much always did.
In typical Oasis fashion, Noel has been releasing b-sides that are equally as good as High Flying Birds’ album tracks. You can stream the b-sides “The Good Rebel,” “Let the Lord Shine A Light on Me,” “Alone on the Rope,” and “I’d Pick You Everytime,” then download two album standouts below. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds is officially released on this side of the pond on October 18th. It deserves to kick the crap out of the cheesy new Coldplay album. Do your part.
mp3: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - AKA… What A Life! from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds [2011]
mp3: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - If I Had A Gun… from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds [2011]
