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With the Gallagher brothers now finally reunited, MOJO ranks and rates every Oasis, Liam, Noel and Beady Eye album<\/p>\n
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Words by Andrew Perry\/Chris Catchpole<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/OASIS-HERO.jpg.jpg” title_text=”OASIS-HERO.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n “Sometimes being a brother,\u201d American children\u2019s author Marc Brown famously wrote, \u201cis even better than being a superhero.\u201d Sibling rivalry has certainly driven the Gallagher brothers to extraordinary heights, both together within the uneasy alliance of Oasis, and thereafter in their solo capacities since the band split in 2009.<\/p>\n What they shared while growing up in suburban Burnage, south Manchester, was a passion for two rock idols, The Beatles and the Sex Pistols. After much in-studio huffing, puffing and pugilism, 1994\u2019s Oasis debut, Definitely Maybe, delivered a confident amalgam of those two influences, and almost single-handedly reinstated home-grown rock in the British pop charts. For the next couple of albums, Noel Gallagher drew on a stockpile of anthems composed pre-fame, but the problems started thereafter, when he felt increasingly straitjacketed by the imperative to write for stadiums. Successive albums lacked creative movement and, increasingly, zip.<\/p>\n For fans, the bust-up in Paris which terminated Oasis in August \u201909 has brought the benefit that each made progressively more livelier, interesting music alone.<\/p>\n Initially, it appeared that Noel held all the cards, as the songwriter extraordinaire breezily cast off his shackles to embrace disco beats and Laurel Canyon vibes, while Liam\u2019s neo-Oasis efforts with Beady Eye foundered. When Liam Gallagher began trading under his own name, with help from high-end co-writers, the tables turned.<\/p>\n Since then it’s been more of an even fight and now, finally, the band – or Liam and Noel at least – have announced that next year they will reform for a string of stadium dates in the UK and Ireland. Whether another Oasis album will follow remains to be seen but for now here’s MOJO’s full rundown of every Oasis, Liam, Noel and Beady Eye album ranked from worst to best.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 18. Beady Eye<\/b><\/p>\n BE<\/b><\/p>\n (Columbia, 2013)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/BE.jpg.jpg” title_text=”BE.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Credit where credit is due. After 2011\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Different Gear, Still Speeding<\/em>\u00a0showed the remaining members of Oasis could hold their own after the departure of their chief creative force, Liam, Gem Archer, Andy Bell and drummer Chris Sharrock could have quite easily stuck out another album of Oasis-lite. Instead, they hooked up with TV On The Radio\u2019s Dave Sitek for what might be the most out-there sounding record any member of Oasis has been involved in. When it works \u2013 the Mexican standoff of opener Flick Of The Finger, Face In The Crowd\u2019s cinematic psych rock – the gamble pays off, but largely, for all its inventive sonic atmospherics, BE highlighted that Beady Eye simply didn\u2019t have the songs.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 17. Liam Gallagher<\/b><\/p>\n C’Mon You Know<\/b><\/p>\n (Warner Bros., 2022)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/Cmon-you-know.jpg.jpg” title_text=”Cmon-you-know.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n By the time of\u00a0<\/span>C\u2019Mon You Know<\/em>\u2019s release, Liam Gallagher\u2019s first two solo albums and willingness to deliver Oasis songs (and songs that sounded like Oasis songs) to new generations of fans sniffily dubbed \u201cparka monkeys\u201d by his older brother had placed him firmly on top in the post-Oasis pecking order. Quite why he decided to leave that behind for an album of groove-based songs that largely eschewed guitars remains to be seen. Even Liam himself grumbled about the change of direction in interviews. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit odd this record,\u201d he told Apple Music. \u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of guitars on it, which is upsetting me.\u201d Despite the calibre of a lot of the material, he sounds uncharacteristically unsure and at times simply disinterested in the new setting.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 16. Beady Eye<\/b><\/p>\n Different Gear, Still Speeding<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n (Dangerbird, 2011)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/beady-eye.jpg.jpg” title_text=”beady-eye.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Following Oasis\u2019s split, it spoke volumes that, within weeks, Liam had announced a new band alongside the other three members (guitarist Gem Archer, bassist Andy Bell and final-tour drummer Chris Sharrock), leaving Noel to go it alone. By the time <\/span>Different Gear\u2026<\/em> emerged, its sense of \u2018continuity Oasis\u2019 felt mistimed \u2013 quite simply, the world wasn\u2019t ready to welcome Oasis back yet, in any guise. Despite the large Noel-shaped hole in the songwriting, Beady Eye\u2019s debut had plenty in its favour, delivering flagrant Lennonisms (The Roller), Who-esque thrills (titled Beatles And Stones, oddly), and piano-trashing rock\u2019n\u2019roll (Bring The Light) with a vitality that bespoke years of repression under the old regime.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 15. Oasis<\/b><\/p>\n Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants<\/strong><\/p>\n (Big Brother, 2000)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/standing-on-the-shoulder-of-giants.jpg.jpg” title_text=”standing-on-the-shoulder-of-giants.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n When it arrived three years after the perceived folly of\u00a0<\/span>Be Here Now<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants<\/em>\u00a0was meant to herald a new creative dawn for Oasis \u2013 now without Bonehead and Guigsy. Beta Band-cribbing lead single Go Let It Out certainly suggested as much, as did hammering psych rock instrumental opener Fuckin\u2019 In The Bushes, which quite rightly became the band\u2019s on-stage walk on music from there on in. After that though, Oasis\u2019 fourth album quickly falls off a cliff. Liam\u2019s first stab at songwriting, the mawkish Little James, was widely derided, but not much else here fares any better (Noel\u2019s \u201cI can see a liar, sitting by the fire\u201d on I Can See A Liar isn\u2019t exactly Smokey Robinson, either). Strangely, ELO-like closer Roll It Over was largely overlooked by the group on subsequent live outings despite being one of the best things here by some stretch.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 14. Oasis<\/b><\/p>\n Dig Out Your Soul<\/b><\/p>\n (Big Brother, 2008)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/Dig-Out-Your-Soul.jpg.jpg” title_text=”Dig-Out-Your-Soul.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n It would soon all end with a smashed guitar and a dashed plum, but with hindsight does Oasis\u2019 last (for now?) album sound like a band at the end of their road? Yes and no. Hammering first single The Shock Of The Lightening, Liam\u2019s Lennon-esque I\u2019m Outta Time and Falling Down, later explored to mind-bending effect by Amorphous Androgynous, all suggest Oasis still had plenty of creative fire in their bellies, but elsewhere you can\u2019t shake off the feeling of a group running out of both puff and ideas. Tellingly, by the time the band played their last show less than a year after the album\u2019s release only three songs from\u00a0<\/span>Dig Out Your Soul<\/em>\u00a0were in the set list.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 13. Liam Gallagher<\/b><\/p>\n As You Were<\/b><\/p>\n (Warner Bros., 2017)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/as-you-were.jpg.jpg” title_text=”as-you-were.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Even while Beady Eye was failing commercially, it was Noel who advised, with a winner\u2019s smirking disinterest, that his younger brother should go solo, with \u201chis name in lights\u201d \u2013 an obvious reference to late-\u201960s Elvis. The parallel wouldn\u2019t be irrelevant when Liam ultimately did so two years later. With the push of a major label behind him, a raft of elite-class songwriters helped sculpt material that essentially celebrated Liamness. Thus, while Noel\u2019s solo records sought routes away from Oasis-style rabble-rousing, As You Were simply gloried in it (Wall Of Glass; Greedy Soul), while also, on For What It\u2019s Worth, mining the singer\u2019s troubled private life with winning vulnerability.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 12. <\/b>Liam Gallagher<\/b><\/p>\n Why Me? Why Not<\/b><\/p>\n (Warner Bros., 2019)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/Why-Me-Why-Not.jpg.jpg” title_text=”Why-Me-Why-Not.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n After Beady Eye fizzled out, 2017\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>As You Were<\/em>\u00a0put Liam back on first principles \u2013 snarling rock and roll with a side order Lennon-esque ballads \u2013 and was a resounding success. The tables now turned in his favour, for his next move the younger Gallagher wisely opted to double down on that record\u2019s wellspring of all things Liam. Unlike its predecessor, every song on Why Me, Why Not? is a co-write, with Liam focusing his attention instead on what he does best: being the greatest rock and roll singer of his generation. True, nothing here matches the likes of Live Forever or Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Star, but it oozes the confidence and swagger that alchemised Oasis\u2019 greatness.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 11.<\/b> Noel Gallagher\u2019s High Flying Birds<\/strong><\/p>\n Chasing Yesterday<\/strong><\/p>\n (Sour Mash, 2015)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/CHASING-YESTERDAY.jpg.jpg” title_text=”CHASING-YESTERDAY.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n On release of his second solo record, Noel recalled how he and Gem Archer would reflect on critiques of late-Oasis stodginess, wondering, \u201cWhat do they expect \u2013 space-jazz?\u201d This, clearly, was to prepare the troops for <\/span>Chasing Yesterday<\/em>\u2019s expansion on solo Noel\u2019s first freedoms, to include sax solos (hear blissful, West Coast-ish opener Riverman) and two revised outtakes from a shelved collaboration with cosmic \u201990s dance troupe Amorphous Androgynous. Themes of middle-aged ravers regaining the old magic, and an appearance by Johnny Marr on wonderfully dreamy disco-pumping closer Ballad Of The Mighty I, sealed another chart-topping victory.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 10. Liam Gallagher John Squire<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Liam Gallagher John Squire<\/strong><\/p>\n (Warner Bros., 2024)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/LIAM-SQUIRE-SLEEVE.jpg.jpg” title_text=”LIAM-SQUIRE-SLEEVE.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Two Manchester icons estranged from their creative partners, pairing the voice of Oasis with the guitar wizardry and tumbling melodies of The Stone Roses sounds like such a good idea on paper it seems strange no one thought of it sooner. Rumours persisted that the songs that made up Liam Gallagher and John Squire\u2019s collaboration had been written for a third Stone Roses album that never was, but in truth Liam is a far better fit for the spangled psych pop on the likes of Mars To Liverpool and Just Another Rainbow than Ian Brown. Whether or not they ever make another one, it\u2019s a thoroughly enjoyable diversion and probably more fun than a Brown\/Noel Gallagher link up would be.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 9.<\/b> Oasis<\/b><\/p>\n Be Here Now<\/b><\/p>\n (Creation, 1997)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/Be-Here-Now.jpg.jpg” title_text=”Be-Here-Now.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Conventional wisdom has it that Oasis\u2019 third album was the moment the Gallaghers irreparably George Bested it. An overblown, coke-addled folly that would prove to be Britpop\u2019s Altamont. Yes, the album\u2019s 72 minutes are frequently weighed down by lumpen bridges and middle eights, endless guitar overdubs and laboured arrangements (All Around The World couldn\u2019t be any longer if it tried \u2013 and that\u2019s before it reappears in \u2018reprise\u2019 form), but strip back the production bluster (something Noel Gallagher largely puts down to mixing the record while high on cocaine) and some of the band\u2019s finest songs of the era are hiding underneath the noise and confusion.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 8. Noel Gallagher\u2019s High Flying Birds<\/strong> <\/b><\/p>\n Noel Gallagher\u2019s High Flying Birds<\/strong><\/p>\n (Sour Mash, 2011)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/HFB.jpg.jpg” title_text=”HFB.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Even on first listen, Noel\u2019s solo debut felt like a liberation. Swapping Oasis\u2019s stampede of multitracked guitars for a strummed acoustic, and his strained bark for a more natural, choirboy-esque vocal purity, <\/span>\u2026High Flying Birds<\/em> birthed a sound that played to his own strengths (thoughtful, sophisticated), rather than Liam\u2019s (headlong). Everybody\u2019s On The Run and If I Had A Gun\u2026 saw him take his foot off the gas to wonder at the world, while proven pop smarts resurfaced in Kinksian whimsy (Dream On) and piano-house-like euphoria (AKA\u2026What A Life!). Britpop\u2019s songwriting master had got his edge back.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 7. Oasis \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Heathen Chemistry<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n (Big Brother, 2002)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/Heathen-chemistry.jpg.jpg” title_text=”Heathen-chemistry.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Having booted out all three of Liam\u2019s original bandmates from The Rain and supplanted them with handpicked indie-rock pros, for <\/span>Heathen Chemistry<\/em>, Noel opened the door to others writing songs. Gem Archer\u2019s Hung In A Bad Place and, particularly, Liam\u2019s Songbird \u2013 a breezy love letter to his then-fianc\u00e9e Nicole Appleton \u2013 brought fresh energy, while Noel\u2019s perennial England-out-of-the-World Cup weepie Stop Crying Your Heart Out topped off a promising new blend. Oasis Mk2 might not ever match the era-defining glories of their earlier incarnations, but <\/span>Heathen Chemistry<\/em> has aged remarkably well.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 6. Noel Gallagher\u2019s High Flying Birds<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Who Built The Moon?<\/strong><\/p>\n (Sour Mash, 2017<\/span>)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/who-built-the-moon.jpg.jpg” title_text=”who-built-the-moon.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Following his team-up with The Chemical Brothers on \u201996\u2019s Setting Sun, Noel had experimented with \u2018going dance\u2019 in Oasis circa \u201903-04 via abortive sessions with Death In Vegas, then solo with Amorphous Androgynous. He doubtless felt pressure to modernise, and things eased in that direction with 2017\u2019s team-up with Belfast producer\/movie soundtracker David Holmes. WBTM upheld solo Noel\u2019s sense of casting off shackles, echoing New Order, Phil Spector and The Prodigy, and, in Holy Mountain\u2019s use of the glam-y horn riff from Bryan Ferry\u2019s Let\u2019s Stick Together, reconnecting with early Oasis\u2019 \u2018genius steals\u2019 mentality.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 5. Oasis<\/b><\/p>\n Don\u2019t Believe The Truth<\/strong><\/p>\n (Big Brother, 2005)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/Dont-Believe-The-Truth.jpg.jpg” title_text=”Dont-Believe-The-Truth.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n After abandoning sessions with Death In Vegas\u2019 Richard Fearless, Oasis turned to producer Dave Sardy for what might be their leanest, meanest and most chaff-free set of songs since\u00a0<\/span>(What\u2019s The Story) Morning Glory<\/em>. With Liam\u2019s songwriting having progressed past the nursery rhyming of\u00a0<\/span>Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants<\/em>\u2019 Little James, Oasis now boasted four match-fit songwriters and a pool of 60 songs were whittled down to a punchy eleven, the likes of Lyla, The Importance Of Being Idle and Liam\u2019s bolshy The Meaning Of Soul pivoting nimbly round around a mid-60s axis of The Beatles, Stones and The Kinks. Listening to the renewed lease of life here, it\u2019s hard to conceive that Oasis only had one more album in them.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 4.<\/b> Noel Gallagher\u2019s High Flying Birds<\/strong><\/p>\n Council Skies<\/strong><\/p>\n (Sour Mash, 2023<\/span>)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/council-skies.jpg.jpg” title_text=”council-skies.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n 2017\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Who Built The Moon?<\/em>\u00a0and subsequent EPs occasionally felt like Noel Gallagher was trying to prove a point. That, now into his 50s, he could make music that was well outside of the indie rock comfort zone he\u2019d spent the previous two decades building for himself. Last year\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Council Skies<\/em>, however, found him back doing what he does best, and arguably doing it better than at any time since the mid-’90s. Even Liam conceded that Dead To The World was up there with his best (\u201chow can such a mean-spirited little man write such a beautiful song?\u201d he wrote on Twitter) and the likes of The Cure-indebted Pretty Boy and Open The Door, See What You Find\u2019s psychedelic soul splurge showed he could still push his songwriting in front of new musical backdrops without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 3.<\/b> Oasis<\/b><\/p>\n The Masterplan<\/strong><\/p>\n (Creation, 1998)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/the-masterplan.jpg.jpg” title_text=”the-masterplan.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n A central plank to Oasis\u2019s mid-\u201990s dominance dictated that Noel\u2019s songbook was so stuffed with classics, the extra tracks on singles packed more chart-topping potential than any other band\u2019s A-sides. Here, as a stopgap after their 1996 Knebworth mega-gig and <\/span>Be Here Now<\/em>, they reinforced the point: The Masterplan trounces all later Oasis LPs, too. Three cuts \u2013 opening brotherly-solidarity duet Acquiesce, bittersweet soul-searcher Half The World Away, and the orchestral title track \u2013 really were Number 1s that slipped the net. Others, like acoustic tearjerker Talk Tonight, clearly weren\u2019t, but their variety of mood and instrumentation make a fine companion to the Oasis-in-overdrive \u2018proper\u2019 LPs.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 2.<\/b> Oasis<\/b><\/p>\n (What\u2019s The Story) Morning Glory<\/strong><\/p>\n (Creation, 1995)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/morning-glory.jpg.jpg” title_text=”morning-glory.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to overplay the breathless, pre-social media phenomenon of Oasis through 1994-95, and how their ascent was mirrored in their second LP\u2019s expansion on the debut\u2019s raw materials. Most importantly, in Wonderwall Morning Glory had the heartstring-tugging megahit to facilitate the band\u2019s crossover worldwide. At every turn there was growth, from Noel\u2019s primetime vocal debut on the anthemic Don\u2019t Look Back In Anger, to Champagne Supernova\u2019s Quadrophenia-on-steroids finale. Quite how much was \u2018held back\u2019 for LP2 by career mastermind Noel is still questionable, but these mighty choruses would soon resound around Earls Court, Maine Road and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 1. Oasis<\/b><\/p>\n Definitely Maybe<\/b><\/p>\n (Creation, 1994)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/definitely-maybe.jpg.jpg” title_text=”definitely-maybe.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Their second album may have become the UK\u2019s third biggest-selling studio long-player of all time, but with every passing year this debut becomes more established as an unassailable career zenith. Often plausibly compared with Never Mind The Bollocks, Here\u2019s The Sex Pistols, this album\u2019s cultural impact was in some ways as far-reaching (if not politically), as it reignited British rock. It also took endless tinkering mix-wise to finesse Noel\u2019s beefed-up guitars, but there was a purity and purpose to his songs on Definitely Maybe that can never be repeated. From Live Forever\u2019s gutter-level stargazing and Slide Away\u2019s desperation to Rock\u2019N\u2019Roll Star\u2019s magical self-fulfilling prophecy, it simply cannot be bettered.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the Gallagher brothers now finally reunited, MOJO ranks and rates every Oasis, Liam, Noel and Beady Eye album<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mojo-presents"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"akindell","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}