CD - CRESCD 204
01: Some Might Say
02: Talk Tonight
03: Acquiesce
04: Headshrinker
7" - CRE 204
01: Some Might Say
02: Talk Tonight
12" - CRE 204T
01: Some Might Say
02: Talk Tonight
03: Acquiesce
Cassette - CRECS 204
01: Some Might Say
02: Talk Tonight
Release Date: April 24th 1995
Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 1
Some Might Say is a song by Oasis. The song was written by Noel Gallagher. It was the first single to be released from their definitive second album (What's The Story) Morning Glory? and provided the band with their first number one on the UK Singles Chart.
The track was apparently inspired by the Small Faces and/or T-Rex. It was the last Oasis track to feature original drummer Tony McCarroll, who was sacked before the main recording sessions for (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
The sleeve artwork, shot at Cromford railway station in Derbyshire, England, features art director Brian Cannon's father with wheelbarrow and his mother with the mop. Also pictured are Matthew Sankey, Cannon's aide and Carla Knox, barmaid of his local pub. Liam Gallagher can be seen on the bridge whilst Noel Gallagher can be viewed with a watering can. Cannon himself rates this piece amongst his greatest work.
The planned promo video for the song was cancelled due to Liam not turning up for the shoot. Instead, a makeshift video was created using footage from the Cigarettes & Alcohol and US Supersonic videos.
B-sides
Aside from the title song, the single boasts some of Oasis' finest B-sides, all of which were deemed worthy to grace the critically acclaimed Masterplan album.
Talk Tonight, is one of many acoustic B-side tracks sung by Noel, and was, at the time, the most vulnerable song he had attempted. It was inspired by the near-breakup of the band in Los Angeles in autumn 1994, when Noel walked out without telling anyone and headed for San Francisco.
The B-side Acquiesce was released as part of the Stop The Clocks EP in promotion their compilation album, Stop The Clocks.
In an interview promoting the compilation album, Stop The Clocks, Noel stated that Some Might Say is the "archetypical Oasis song' and 'defines what Oasis is". Noel added later in the interview that along with Some Might Say, its b-side, Acquiesce, was also the song that defined Oasis.
The song appears on Stop The Clocks, as do two of the b-sides.
Surprisingly, this means that the Some Might Say single contains the fourth largest number of tracks to appear on Stop The Clocks of any Oasis release (after Definitely Maybe, Morning Glory and The Masterplan). Therefore, more songs from this single ended up on Stop The Clocks than Don't Believe The Truth (2 songs), Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, Heathen Chemistry (1 song each) and Be Here Now (no songs from this album appear on Stop The Clocks).
Some Might Say is a playable track in both Guitar Hero World Tour and The European version of Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades