Q Magazine 20th Anniversary Special

Oasis make a few appearances in this months 20th Anniversary Special.

Albums

The Greatest Records Of The Last 20 Years

#1 Definitely Maybe

Recorded for around £85,000, Definitely Maybe remains the benchmark by which British guitar music must be judged. Rejected by Factory boss Tony Wilson for being "too baggy" the band's hybrid of Sex Pistols aggro and Beatles melody caught the ear of Creation boss Alan McGee after they forced their way onstage at a Glasgow club, threatening to trash the place if they couldn't play. It was this attitude that informed Definitely Maybe's many high pionts, from Rock 'N' Star to Live Forever.

Taking the baton from The Stone Roses, Oasis led the charge for a post-acid house youth who felt that anything was possible. A manifesto for it's times, the album became the fastest-selling debut in British history at the time. The Gallagher brothers' combative reltionship saw tours cancelled, interviews collapsing in punch-ups and Noel briefly quitting the group. All in the first year. Rock 'N' Roll was back.

#8 (What's The Story) Morning Glory

A second Oasis classic proved Oasis were no flash in the pan. Hello to the drug-frazzled Champagne Supernova, via Wonderwall, these songs elevated Oasis to the pantheon of British rock greats.




















Singles

The outstanding songs since 1986. Bet they're all look good on the dancefloor.

#6 Live Forever

The Gallaghers' first Top 10 hit perfectly captured the starry-eyed optimism of the Britpop era, even though Noel himself has admitted he didn't think it was "that good".




















20 Best Catchphrases

#1 "Mad For It!"

Liam Gallagher Circa 1994-1996




















2o Great Moments In Q's History. As Told By Q Folk Past And Present.

'Oasis Licked My Eyeballs'

#8 London and Milan 2005

I first met Oasis in 2002. It was like chairing a therapy session for the recently divorced. I remember nodding and wincing a lot and not really asking many of my prepared questions. Liam described Thom Yorke as a morris dancer, his ex as a monster. Noel quipped he'd married for tax reasons. In May 2005 I went to meet them prior to the launch of Don't Believe The Truth. No one mentioned to me that my previous interview had been cited in Noel's court case with ex-wife Meg Matthews.

When my eyes met Noel's the look I got back was the sort of stare with which I've seen mutants kill people on Doctor Who. Five minutes later he'd walked out. It seemed unlikely we'd ever speak again. However, Q's Editor negotiated a truce and I followed the band to Milan. What came next was bizarre.

At first they called me a student and a stupid cunt and threatened to kick me. Then they cuddled me and licked my eyes. They plied me with wine and marched meoutside to meet fans.

Finally, Liam stole my phone and rang my then girlfriend at 3am to ask her what colour knickers she was wearing. She was livid. Far from starstruck, she was invigilating some important exams early next morning.

We split shortly afterwards and as part of the "settlement" I lost a much-loved Nico album. So in a roundabout way I like to think we are quits

Michael Odell

Source: Q Magazine

Lord Don't Slow Me Down - Movie Trailer

Click Here to have a closer look at the soon to be released Oasis Documentary Lord Don't Slow Me Down shot during their DBTT World Tour. This clip features a one minute out take of a brand new song with Noel Gallagher on vocals!

Source: Mr Monobrow @ www.live4ever.us

Oasis Roll With New Hits

Noel Gallagher says Oasis are already planning a new album — even though their next is yet to be released.

The band are busy promoting their best of CD, Stop The Clocks, out on November 20.

But Noel admits they are more concerned about bringing out new material. He said: “We’ve got so much left over from our last album, Don’t Believe The Truth. I reckon there is enough material for two or three albums.

“Our next new record is more important than the best of album, but the compilation had to happen now.”

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

More Content Added To The Stop Clock......

It's that time again.....! More content has been added to the Stop Clock including two new film clips one of Liam's birthday in the US last year and the other including a hilarious clip seeing the band playing Frustration. There is also a screen saver for your computer!


Source: www.oasisinet.com

Time To Win Signed Oasis Gear

Heres’s the album cover for Stop The Clocks, the definitive Oasis collection compiled by the band.

Sir Peter Blake, the artist behind The Beatles’ famous Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sleeve, came up with the distinctive design.

And I have a belter of a competition to mark the album release on November 20.

Oasis have kindly offered five dartboards based on Sir Peter’s design, five sets of Oasis darts and five signed Stop The Clocks albums to my lucky winners.

For a chance to win, just email a list of all Oasis’s No1 singles to biz@the-sun.co.uk by midnight on Sunday. The first five entries I pick out will be the winners.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Noel Gallagher: "New Best Of Is For Future Generations"

The Oasis leader explains how he put 'Stop The Clocks' together

Noel Gallagher has explained how he picked the tracks for forthcoming Best Of, 'Stop The Clocks', declaring it "a manifesto for future generations".

After much discussion between fans as to what should and shouldn't have made the cut, Oasis recently ended speculation by revealing the tracklisting for the album to be released on November 20. Now, speaking exclusively to NME, Noel explained he had clear plans for the record. "I've always said if we ever did one [a greatest hits] it was going to be one CD with 12 tunes" he said. "So I started off writing down all the ones I thaught were great - 30 odd tunes - and because the songs are so long that would have been three CD's. So it went down and down and now there's about eight that should be on it but aren't - 'Fade Away', '(it's good) To Be Free', 'Listen Up', 'Gas Panic!', 'D'You Know What I Mean?' and a couple of others."

The Future

Noel is worried about the omissions, however, claiming the album is mainly for people who haven't heard of Oasis yet. "To me these things are about future generations," he said. "When I got into The Beatles, it was the Red and Blue [greatest hits] albums. So this is about 30 years from now, when I am an old man and there are kids going, 'Yeah, thats the f*****g band that me old fella's granddad was into!' It's me saying, 'This is our best work', I've had arguments this week with people going, "Rockin' Chair' isn't on it - thats wrong, man!' I've had stand-up rows with people! But that must mean we're pretty good. If people are arguing about what's not on it, it's brilliant! But I'm in charge! Someone has got to pick the tracklisting and I've picked it and thats the end of it. This is the manifesto for future generations. It's for 10 or 15 years from now, for when people are going, 'That's that band everyone was yakking on about'."

Label Pressure

If it was up to the band, Noel added, a Best Of would not be released until Oasis split, however, he claimed the band were pressured into doing 'Stop The Clocks'. "We said we wouldn't do it until we called it a day," he admitted, "but as were signed to Sony and we made it clear we weren't going to re-sign to them, we got wind they were going to do a greatest hits or a Best Of. We got told a greatest hits. Now, our greatest hits, ie all the singles, is not our best stuff, right? So we were faced with the decision of either standing back and saying in NME: "We're not getting on board, don't buy it', or going, 'Right, if it's got to be now then we'll get involved.' The way it's panned out, there are eight Number One Singles that aren't on it, 'coz it's all B-Sides and album tracks. They [the label] seemed a little bit arsed about that, but if we're going to do a definitive collection of where we are now, then our singles are not our best work. It's our album tracks, the famous songs. We all know what we are talking about: 'Half The World Away', Champagne Supernova', 'Talk Tonight'...our B-sides are some of our best work. So we thaught if we don't do it they're going to do it and bastardise it. If it has to be now, it has to be now."

Despite deciding to engage with the release, the guitarist said he wondered about the relevance of Best Of compilations with the growth of MP3 players and playlist culture. "I got into the Doors, The Beatles, The Kinks and The Who by buying Best Of's. They are valid, but I'm not sure what they mean in our age of playlists and ipods and all that," he explained. "I'm sure somebody somewhere has got the exact tracklisting [of The Best Of] on their playlist or ipod. I'm not sure they're that big a deal any more. But as I say, we were kind of shoved into it."

The New Album

Noel, who joined Kasabian onstage last week (Sept 12) at London's KOKO for NME.COM's 10th birthday party, added that it was unlikely Oasis would play any shows around 'Stop The Clocks' release.

"I'm playing at KOKO in November for Russell Brand's tour, but we're actively trying to play it [the Best Of] down because it's not what we're about, really," said the guitarist. "We've got so much left over from the last album - at least another two or three albums' worth of material, but Russell asked me to do this thing so I said, 'F**k it, alright'. We're not trying to big this collection up. Our next new record is more important than this one, but this had to happen now. In a way it's liberating - we've done it and it's out there. It's finished now and it stops people asking about it, because we were getting asked about it constantly!"

Source: NME Magazine

Noel Promises More Future Releases

Compilation Tiding Over Label-less OasisThe greatest hits set "Stop the Clocks," coming Nov. 21 via Epic, will have to satisfy the appetites of Oasis fans for awhile, according to guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher. The band is also without a label, having fulfilled its worldwide deal with Sony Music.

"There's no plans to do anything," Gallagher says of future Oasis recording. "Saying that, there's no plans not to do anything, either. We're not like other bands in that respect. We're masters of our own destiny and take these things one album at a time. The last time we sat down and planned an album, it turned into 'Don't Believe the Truth,' and that took three years to record.

"Those sessions, however, yielded plenty of songs; Gallagher notes that of 11 leftover tracks, "there's seven that are good and four that are really great, so we could put an album out tomorrow if we wanted.

"But don't count on it. Instead, Oasis plan to focus on "Stop the Clocks" -- named after an unreleased Gallagher song -- which features 18 hits and favorites from Oasis' 12 years of recording, including the B-sides "Acquiesce" and "Half the World Away." Gallagher says he was approached about including some new songs on the album as well, but that he opted not to "because it takes the focus away from what you're actually trying to say with a retrospective.

"Gallagher promises that a boxed set and other unreleased and archival material will one day come out of the Oasis vaults. He also says Oasis won't be resigning with Sony, and the band is currently weighing its options for the future.

"I'd like to do something on our own, but it's a bit of a big step," he says. "It depends on what works best for all of us, really. [Oasis vocalist] Liam (Gallagher) will want the big advance of $900 million and be drinking champagne for the rest of his life. I, on the other hand, would rather put the records out and keep all the money. So I don't know which way we'll go."

Source: www.billboard.com

Stop The Clocks Artwork Explained

Oasis team up with Beatles artist for Best Of sleeve...

We all know Oasis are massive Beatles fans, so how did they mark their Best Of? By getting Sir Peter Blake, the man responsible for the 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' sleeve, to design the 'Stop The Clocks' cover.

NME: What was the concept behind the Oasis cover?

Sir Peter Blake: "There are many levels of meaning to the pictures, but also I think in a way the point is that none of it means anything. I was choosing all the objects at random. I suppose in the back of my mind, was the cover of 'Sgt Pepper's.....'

After that came out there were so many theories about what the cover meant - that the flower bed was marijuana and that it signified Paul was dead. I suppose I was picking the objects subconsciously, so that I was leaving it for the fans' interpretation.

The 'Definitely Maybe' cover was in the back of my mind too. What intrigued me about it was that although some of those objects meant something to the band, you couldn't possibly know what some of the others meant! It's using the mystery of 'Definitely Maybe' and running with it."

You must have known Oasis were big Beatles fans?

"I did and I'm sure that's one of the main reasons they asked me to do it. it wasn't the original cover, though. We did a different design first. We used a image of the outside of Granny Takes A Trip on the King's Road as a canvas, but then I discovered the shop was bringing out an album, so we had to abandon that. What happened with the cover was that Noel came into the studio, looked at my work and said what he liked."

Tell us a bit about the objects in the locker?

"Dorothy (from the Wizard of Oz) is there as my icon, rather then theirs. We had an image of Marilyn Monroe that we wanted to use, but there was ongoing litigation with the use of that image, so we ended up using Michael Caine. I put the seven dwarves in there because they're objects that I put in quite often. I've done a whole series of things that feature Snow White And The Seven Dwarves in various predicaments. It was no more then that."

Source: NME Magazine