10 Oasis songs that 'Rip Off' other songs
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Oasis co-frontman Noel Gallagher never made a secret of his use of other classic songs as building blocks in his new tunes. Of course, all songwriters are inspired by the work that came before them, but sometimes this recycling of older songs has got Noel and Oasis into hot water.
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Have Oasis plagiarised Cliff Richard? The Guardian (2008): www.theguardian.com/music/200...
What you never knew about Definitely Maybe, Telegraph (2019): www.telegraph.co.uk/music/art...
Why Oasis were sued over the song Whatever (2023), RadioX: www.radiox.co.uk/artists/oasi...
The Rutles, All You Need Is Cash (1978): • The Rutles: All You Ne...
Oasis star's amazed he hasn't been sued, Gigwise (2006): web.archive.org/web/202203100...
Noel and Burt perform “This Guy's In Love With You” (1996): • Noel Gallagher - This ...
Noel Gallagher's greatest lifts, MusicRadar (2008): www.musicradar.com/news/guita...
Interview with Noel Gallagher: • Original Oasis about s...
How Oasis ripped off Stevie Wonder for a Britpop classic, FarOut (2021): faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-oasi...
'(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' Track by Track with Noel Gallagher: • Oasis - '(What's The S...
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0:00 Introduction
0:12 Cigarettes & Alcohol vs. T.Rex
0:57 Whatever vs. Neil Innes
2:25 She's Electric vs. The Beatles
3:32 Don't Look Back In Anger vs. John Lennon
4:02 Supersonic vs. George Harrison
5:04 Shakermaker vs. Coca Cola
6:44 GPU Audio
7:30 Half The World Away vs. Burt Bacharach
8:44 Importance Of Being Idle vs. The La's
9:17 Step Out vs. Stevie Wonder
10:19 Don't Go Away vs. The Real People
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Great vid, and is the reason I never respected this band of rubbish. Blur may have borrowed sounds, ut not to the extent these morons did.
Noel's ability to give absolutely no shits will never be equaled.
he's just honest
This is the only comment needed. End of thread.
@@gasparucciox9706 And lacking talent to come up with his own tunes.
He has to just to admit to it when he reaches that level of plagiarism.
@@jackmurphy6864 no i don't think so, he wrote great songs with great choruses that everybody knows, everybody steal in pop music the harmonic structures of the songs are always the same from Vivaldi to Ramones, so it's automatic to "steal", sometimes you do it without even realizing it as Noel says in the video, that's how it is! we have thousands of melodies in our heads that, when you compose, they comes in your mind , it's inevitable
"You can't do that!" "I can, and I have, and I will...and you'll buy it, so fuck off" 😂😂😂😂😂
Gotta love that quote
There are a lot of people who'd like you to think they don't give a shit, but Noel is truly a no fucks given scenario. Absolute legend
"You can't do that" Wow, he even ripped off a Beatles song in his response
That quote is about as childish and pathetic as it gets...and is pretty much the norm for a big child like Noel. Only a man with some deep insecurities could so often come out with statements that reminds us of a schoolboy trying to convince the rest of the boys in the playground that he's a big tough guy eV though he always runs away whenever it looks like a fight is gonna break out. Haha he ought to grow up. Just shows you can't buy a bit of sophistication.
@@paulhamj6175 Cry us a river
7:50 That is such a common chord progression ("Band on the Run" comes to mind). Herb Alpert may not have sued due to the risk of getting in trouble himself.
I think it's mainly the Electric Piano outro that mainly sounds like TGILWY. It's not mentioned here
@@joedurantguitar1447 Yeah I should have mentioned that actually! Good catch
@@joedurantguitar1447 The outro leaves no doubt, indeed.
The most surprising thing about the title is that it is only ten.
When told his song sounded like _____'s song, Noel Galagher was like "Whatever."
“When Noel Gallagher was questioned about his plagiarism, he denied it, using the smokescreen of “attitude “.
@@g1lly1421 "You can't do that! I can, I will, I have. And you'll buy it, so fuck off." 🤣 The balls on this guy.
plagiarism implies intent. People who don't play/write music usually can't grasp how this happens as often as it does. Eric Claptons song Let it Grow is the same progression as Stairway to Heaven is a fun example of how this happens all the time unintentionally. That being said.. I'm not partial to Oasis either way but Noel is hilarious and I see no reason not to believe him. musicians spend more time playing than listening by nature if they're professionals.
That's funny, because my reaction to the Gallagher brothers is just that; "Whatever"
Interesting thing to be impressed by. If you were burgled and when the burglar was caught (in fantasy land...) he just said 'whatever', how impressed would you be?
Next up: 30 Led Zeppelin songs that “rip off” other songs
Green Day songs that "rip off" their older songs
More like 50
He already did one but yeah I imagine there’s plenty more Led Zeppelin songs that do that
10 led Zeppelin songs that DON'T rip off other songs
@@Toto.Reyes16 Incomprehensible.
The initial version of 'Shakermaker' even included lyrics from the cola song. Although they re-recorded the second verse, Liam still sang the original version during early Oasis performances. I find that reference amusing, as the whole song feels like it's coming from a bored working-class lad sitting in front of the TV, flipping through channels.
Doesn't that song also rip off lyrics from Monty Python's "Traffic Lights"? ^_^
i hear the same tune in she's electric that i hear in that coca cola song, id like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.oasis pretty much ripped off everything they ever did
Got to respect Noels upfront admittance of his writing style: " I'll take the same song you already know-- re-write it, re-record it, re-package it--and you will go out and fooking buy it..."
Cheers, Noel (pronounced like "knoll")! 👍🎉👌🤟
knoll?????
How do you respect that? It's extremely rude, just for the sake of being rude. Have better values than that mate
@@jeroenverbeeck7925I mean it’s literally what all artists do. All of them steal or “reinvent” something. It’s just the way art goes. Everyone pulls from everyone else. He’s just upfront and admits it, unlike most who fall back and hide and play innocent. I mean Tarantino has made a whole career off of it by saying it’s “homage” and everyone applauds him lol. Everything’s been done to some extent, at least for now. So you do what you can to try and reimagine something, bring fresh life to it.
@@rustyshackelford934 This is way off the mark. What you're seeing in this youtube video is called plagiarism not derivative art, the latter of which is yes of course common in music. But even if we were talking about derivative art instead of stolen material like what Oasis has numerous examples of, why would you defend that either? The vast majority of bands and artists don't get called out for stuff like this even once, let alone a dozen times. The two things are not the same. This is theft. I would think the quote from the end of this video would make it obvious that even HE knows it is theft, and is unapologetic about it.
I think the legal cases with Noel's songs have been fair, in that where he's lifted too much he's had to share royalties, whereas just borrowing a riff or a couple of introductory chords can be justified as one writer "honouring" another, or "fair borrowing" which all song writers have done.
yeah its a very complex issue, people tell it like is just that, noel said it as he's saying he lift it but even he knows that he really is not "lifting" a song and some cases even the riff (like in cigarettes and alcohol) coz I think we want to prove a point that no music its truly 100% original
when "borrows, lifts, steals,etc" he's really just using some inspiration to create something new.. sometimes is really tiny sometimes is goes over like in the case of Step out.
Small correction. Step Out was included in early promos of WTSMG sent to the press in 1995. It quickly reached Stevie Wonder’s ears and that’s when they got in trouble and took the track out and the album was released the same year. About a year later they included it on the DLBIA single as a b-side. The video says it was the other way around.
Thank you for adding that info!
I see you went for ears, rather than... You know what, nevermind.
@@keithws2779 to be fair I'd say Noel wishes it had reached him through...another method, he'd have saved himself a decent load of cash
Wtf do WTSMG and DLBIA stand for? Unfortunately us mere mortals don't carry "Crystal Balls" around with us so are completely baffled!
@@terrytt5067 what’s the story morning glory and don’t look back in anger
I’d love to see a video breaking down the techniques Neil Innes used to write such a convincing Beatlesesque catalogue for the Rutles.
Neil Innes and Eric Idle are unsung lyrical and melodic geniuses when it comes to parody/satire songs.
To be fair, the entire Beatles catalogue was based on earlier music as well.
They ripped off loads of American blues and rhythm acts from the 50s, but Beatleites don’t like hearing that….
Maybe, but we are talking about Oasis here, which is not even a tenth of the Beatles´ left nut.
This is just how music works, we have only 12 notes to chose from, there's a limited number of ways to arrange those 12 notes so that they sound good, we need to fit them in a 4/4 grid, and we write in a recognizable style, a genre. That actually leaves very little space to be truly original. Music is about building on the shoulders of giants.
@@mikeanaro Oasis in mine and many other's eyes are better than The Beatles. It's all down to personal preference, which people like you don't seem to understand.
@@BeigeCoyoteyou don't know what good music is then
the main riff from the one i love by r.e.m. can be heard pretty clearly on morning glory. same timing as well, both songs are based around the riff. i also happen to love both for completely different reasons
No it doesn't and no they don't
@@jwilloughby6175also rem kicks oasis ass
@@gordoncockfield Never compare a band as shit as REM to Oasis, cheers!
@@BeigeCoyote or the Beatles ay.. cheers
@@gordoncockfield In English? Cheers
There's one more (maybe smaller one). "All the young dudes" and "stand by me" by Oasis. Both in the chorus have very specific three chords at the end of line and then jump in at odd meter to the next line. Third out of those chords is different but overall it is extremely reminiscent 😀
Reminds me of an album review of one of Oasis's albums, all it said was "The trouble with Oasis is that they've run out of other people's ideas"
Another 2 obvious ones from Oasis:
1. Waiting For The Rapture - has the same intro as Five-To-One by The Doors
2. Who Feels Love? - the guitar solo halfway through is almost identical to Missunderstood by Motley Crue
wow never heard this song by motley crue, but I can definitely I can hear that lil riff similar too at the end of Who feels love. I cant hear the solo being almost identical tho
I would be pretty confident in saying Noel has never listened to one motley crue song start to finish in I think this one is coincidence. I see more dear prudence in who feels love
Interesting what influenced some of Jeff Lynne's compositions. Eg. "Turn To Stone" (Four Tops), "Stange Magic" ("Ups And Downs", Eddysons), all released about 1967-68 when Idle Race were vying for the charts but never made it. "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" must have a comparison somewhere, also "Ma-Ma-Ma Belle" (Brown Sugar), Lynne's "Come With Me" actually quotes "Love Is Blue" in the lyrics! And one more - "Telephone Line" ("Hello How Are You" - Easybeats), also 1968!!
And "Across The Border" ripped off The Beach Boys "Heroes and Villains". There's a case to be made for Jeff Lynne being the 70s equivalent of Noel Gallagher, though he appears a bit more modest about his work.
When performing shakermaker in the 90s (glastonbury 94 for instance), they sung some lyrics from Teach the world to sing in the last verse
Besides the intro to Don't look back in anger being taken from imagine, the verse is essentially Let it be.
Part of the Queue is very reminiscent of Golden Brown.
I mean you could make these sort of cases for every band ever. A song will always sound similar to another song. It’s just whether the song is well known enough for people to care.
I have heard so much music in my life that I can never be sure not to copy anything somebody already wrote before. A great part of music just "happens" while writing the voicing. I hope and pray that I will always evade the nightmare of being sued for unwanted copyright infringements.
The one that slips under everybody's radar is in she's electric, it's the latter part of the chorus. Utube The BBC's childrens Show from the 1970's titled You and me, listen to the intro song and then try to tell me that you can't hear it, it's a brilliant piece of thievery.
I'm the same age as Noel and I can certainly imagine him coming home from school as a 7 year old and watchin the children's hour on TV as we all did, Reworking a kids shows theme tune into a classic rock song is his best to date
I just commented this, then saw youd beaten me to it. Lyrics and melody are very obviously taken from the TV theme. I'm a certain age too and I'll always remember the very first time I heard "she's electric" and thought "Hey! Hold on a minute...!"😂
@@FoxBox72Get it on by T-Rex = cigarettes and alcohol, thieves...
'You and me, me and you, lots and lots for us to do, lots and lots for us to see, me and you, you and me...' noticed it the first time I heard She's Electric and I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere until seeing your post.
Surprised this video doesnt mention The Kinks at all. She's Electric has an entire line lifted from Wonderboy, and TIOBI comes from The La's who in turn got it from The Kinks' Dead End Street. Oasis nicked the videoclip as well, with the pallbearers and all.
Right! I kept waiting for Wonderboy. He needs to do a follow-up video! Ray Davies is so underrated.
Even Green Day ripped off the Kinks
I was about to post this lol "AND I SEE YOU, AND YOU SEE ME"
Not to mention the similarities in the chord progression for All Around the World. It's basically the same as Eight Days a Week, just in a different key.
"All round the world / tell em what you heard"
"Ooh I need your love, babe / guess you know it's true"
Or the sheer abundance of Beatles lyrics that appear in their songs. I mean, they literally have a line in a song that's "Fool on the hill and I feel fine."
Or "You can ride with me in my yellow submarine"
Or "Tomorrow never knows what it doesn't know too soon"
There nothing alike and you don't understand music do you? I can't think of any band or solo artist who doesn't reference other songs, it's called folk music and this is how folk music works, it's how bands get remembered
@@dondamon4669 This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Thank you for the morning hilarity.
@@WindupchronicA lot of the time with the Beatles referenced in the lyrics it was homage to the Beatles what’s wrong with that ? Do you take yourself and music that serious? Oasis changed peoples lives they never claimed to be great musicians or pioneers at the start. It was party music look if we can do it anyone can there was a great message to them. They also developed as they got older first single supersonic to last single falling down couldn’t be any different.
One I've always noticed is the turnaround after the chorus of Stand By Me is the same as the turnaround in All The Young Dudes by Mott The Hoople, written by David Bowie.
Noel used the chorus melody of All the Young Dudes in Don’t Look Back in Anger. Listen to the guitar in the background in the last chorus. And he also used it as a riff in his cover of Mind Games by John Lennon.
That's a pretty cliche thing , I wouldn't call it plagiarism
@@ale14zoppiA lot of the examples in this video aren’t plagiarism. 2 chord vamps from Half the World Away and Don’t Look Back In Anger certainly aren’t
@@baboon1233 That All the Young Dudes melody is almost inaudible in the CD version of the track. I didn't hear it until I played the song in the Rock Band video game, which made that guitar line a lot more prominent.
Oh my, it’s worse than I thought.
If you are older and enjoy listening to music then it is almost impossible to listen to an Oasis album.
All that keeps jumping out at you is the tracks he's stolen from. It's that bad.
If you are younger, not that bright, not really into decent music and follow the crowd, in an 'Emperors New clothes' sort of way, it's 'Orr, mate, bangin' innit mate, best tune me ever heard mate, sooooorted'
As you were!
(If you know what I mean?)
Mate.
@@ramalama9650 you sound fun. best song writer of a generation. lennon stole plenty a song people dont shit on him for that same with led zepplin. great artists steal.
Nice to see the La's mentuoned. Theres also a tape of Lee Mavers talkin about how Oasis knicked his chords for wonderwall.
Nicked their drummer too, yeah?
Yeah he also said Noel nicked the chord change D to Bm of one of his b-sides for Some Might Say. I remember the interview "not even in classical music you find a D to Bm change!!" 😂 Lee had more than a couple of loose screws, unfortunately.
Funny because they predate Lee and were in Mad World. You can’t own a chord progression
@@badgasaurus4211 in fairness to Lee, he didn't know it was being recorded, he said it half jokingly like if I remember correctly 'Noel must have heard the tape' or something like that. He didn't go trying to sue him or anything, and heck he may be right that Noel did hear the tape and use the chords. Lee, on that occasion, wasn't insisting he owned them or anything.
@@bosco7837Bm is the relative minor of D so its would fit together very easily
Seems ridiculous that Coke sued Oasis when Coke didn't write the melody.
I said maybe he wrote it with coke
There's a story about Oasis from the early days when they used to rent a communal rehearsal space in Manchester to work on their first album. According to the story, other bands that rented the complex would stop and hear Oasis rehearse the same ten songs over and over again, and after a while it became obvious to them that their songs were blatant rip offs of other well known songs. This led to one of the band members that used the facilities to go over to Oasis' rehearsal room door, and posting a note that read: "Get your own riffs!"
they did also lend themselves to the real peoples sound, go listen to a song called window pain, its painfully obvious
# I’d like to teach, Liam to sing , in perfect harmony
Omg…so funny….
I understand that sometimes people have similar ideas, but how many of these 'similarities' does it take before it's just stealing haha. As a big Oasis fan, I loved the video!
I think that there's two Oasis songs inspired by All The Young Dudes, written by Bowie and played by Mott The Hopple. First one being Don't Look Back in Anger, which feels like the same song but more rock, and Stand By Me, both doing the same quite peculiar chord progression in the end of every chorus line.
Doesn't Don't Look Back in Anger have the All The Young Dudes melody buried right down in the mix?
@@TheGalwayFarmer yeah, in the last chorus the melody is played with the guitar
Full name of the band now is Oasis of Plagiarised Songs aka Oops
NPC comment
I always saw Oasis as just a Beatles tribute combo, but seems here they actually ‘borrowed’ from lots of artists.
I don’t know if anyone noticed it but I’ve always found a similarity between Paul and George’s part (chord progression) on Free As a Bird and the bridge sung by Noel on Let There Be Love.
Cheers :)
There is a lyric in Don’t look back in Anger “….cos the brains I had went to my head”😊 is actually a Lennon quote.
Thats not ripping off though😭 they've quoted the Beatles members many times
Isn’t it? Using a quote from Lennons audio memoirs is a direct rip from another writer, speaker. There’s allusion, quotation and reference. Allusion is indirect and requires cultural knowledge, quotation requires attribution, reference requires the listener/ responder to be able to know the source and the quote may only be similar to the original. It’s a rip. Lennon did it too.” Life is what happens to you when you’re making other plans” is Betty. Talmadge.
@@nickdryadlet’s here your songs then?
@@MrBillyboyroge “hear” not “here”. Yeah I’d love to play them for you but I don’t have a record deal yet and I won’t put them on UA-cam or whatever.
@@nickdryad So by that logic, Freddie Mercury was ripping off Marie Antoinette (which she can be classified as a Speaker) when he used her quote "let them eat cake" - What Noel wrote was still technically a reference as we are having this conversation, people caught on and recognised it thus making it a reference. I wouldn't classify it as a rip, musicians and writers take from each other all the time. Just look at today's music... everyone is sampling something from the 60s onwards.
He stole Rockin' Chair and Columbia from Chris Griffith as well. Chris actually got a writing credit on Rockin Chair.
The irony is that Noel seems to think he's the most brilliant musician who ever lived.
he still is one of the best from the last couple decades, not an easy thing to do, especially this impactful
Song writer and musician are two separate things
He’s really not
how you can possibly know what he really thinks?..
He’s definitely one of the best.
there’s a lot of similarities between Wonderwall and Serge Gainsbourg Bonnie and Clyde, the mood and the end are the same
8:03 the ending bit of half the world away actually features the same exact synth-ish sound and progression of bacharach’s tune… so the ending is much more similar to it than the beginning included here
The first time I ever heard Oasis on the radio I genuinely thought they were a cover or tribute band. I couldn’t believe what they got away with. Not making this up….
All of their songs are (clever) 1960’s and 1970’s rip offs. Smart move to fill their pockets but it also guaranteed their eternal absence on any list of influential bands or artists.
I hear "Dead end" by the kinks in importance of being idle.
Definitely, they even copied the video
Yep
The cigarettes and alcohol intro is also identical to Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress by the hollies...this came out the same year and t-rex song...but is even more similar to the oasis track. I'd be interested to find out what came first.
T-Rex should sue, Get it On was ripped off and made in Cigarettes and Alcohol
@@andrewdavy9921 its a basic blues riff
I don't remember the name of the song but the guitar solo from Don't Look Back in Anger is almost identical with the one of song from Screamadelica by Primal Scream.
The overall arc is similar but the notes played and phrases are wildly different.
More like imagine at the start
Probably is the song named "Damaged"
@@brunosouza8802 haha thanks. i was too lazy to find it by myself. it's just 100% rip-off lol
More time has passed between She's Electric and now than has passed between While My Guitar Gently Weeps and She's Electric 😢
That's fucking outrageous.
I'm old enough to have sung along to the Coke/New Seakers ad as a child!
me too!
I'm not SO old, but I regularly sing on this song because it's in one of my 70's "playlist" (actually, compilation).
I was hearing an old classic rock song the other day on the radio (can't recall the band or artist but it might had been Jimmy Hendrix) and I kept thinking 'this sounds quite similar to f*cking in the bushes'... After watching this I have no doubt that it was not a coincidence 🤣
I always thought Shakermaker was deliberately taking the p out of the coke ad?
the thing is, you play what you listen to. it comes out naturally sometimes.
I always thought that solo from Supersonic certainly had the same vibe as the instrumental theme song of Taggart (1985) the guitar solo certainly did 🙂 I guess they both got influenced by My Sweet Lord.
Hale And Pale Oaday still makes me laugh. The songs are so funny
Hey do you think the middle guitar rift in Supersonic after Liam sings “Nobody could see, nobody could ever hear him call” was taken from the song Layla by Derek and the Dominos? Not seen anyone ever mention it before but it sounds identical.
Music evolves through history because we musicians are inspired by something we heard someone else play or sing. Chord progressions are repeated, lyrical ideas rehashed, and musical tones recreated. I’d like to hear anyone write music in a complete inspirational vacuum.
exactly
Lol, one thing is to be influenced and another thing is a disgusting copy almost note by note, same tempo and most time the same chord progression.
Those Rip-Offs are not making music ¨evolve¨, on the contrary they are rewarding mediocre artists for making 0% creative effort.
All about money and dumb casual music fans.
yeah bro but in this case is not only that they use the same chord progressions, they are copying pretty much everything... Is like a cover but with different lyrics (sometime even the lyrics are the same!!). And is not only one particular song, is 10 and probably there are a couple more that they missed on this video. I'm huge Oasis fan and you have to recognize that they put in the style, but after watching this is evident that Noel is just clever, not really a creative artist.
@@mikeanaro honest question, have you ever written a song yourself?
With most pop stars nowadays it is like all of their songs are made by other people. They don't write their songs, they don't play their music, they don't produce anything. They just have a brief idea in their minds and other people turn them into hits with the help of a shitload of money for promotion.
I remember when one of the Gallaghers worked at the IMO along Stockport Rd., Longsight. They should have never gone beyond that.
They are not the most original composers but give them a break. It's RnR. Some of these are just 2 chords combination or a 5 seconds section. Dont look back in anger intro has nothing to do with the rest of the song. It's like doing an "Eric Clapton rips off" or "Zeppelin" video. They play blues, what do you expect?
I mean when a song just happens to use one same chord at the beginning
Is it really a rip off?
UA-cam is reading my mind. A few days ago, I was looking for easy piano songs to learn FROM MY MIND, and ... I learned the chords to "Don't Look Back in Anger". And I thought to myself, "hmm, that's odd, doesn't it sound a lot like _imagine_?" Why yes, yes it does.
Another one: Waiting For The Rapture (Dig out your soul Album) is very similar to "Five to one", by the doors.
I miss these videos 😮😃
One thing to also note is that She’s Electric also borrowed from the song called ‘I’d like to buy the world a coke’
And so did their song Shakermaker. As you just showed in this video. And when Noel was sued for it all he had to say was ‘eh we drink Pepsi now.’
And that’s not the only song Shakermaker borrowed from! The guitar melody (or at least the first two notes of that melody) may have been inspired by Anthem by Ringo Starr.
didnt coca cola literally copy "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)"
@@thesaltwastaken I thought they parodied it. Maybe I’m mistaken
The lyric, “Cause I’ll be you and you’ll be me” does fit quite well with “I’d like to teach the world to sing” - but I’m not sure it’s close enough to say it was borrowed from that song.
Same. That's why I subscribed.
@@Speedbird9L i meant the melody. i see what you mean though. Could've just been influence rather than plagiarism
Live Forever is almost the exact same chord progression as This Charming Man by The Smiths.
It's a fairly common chord progression, though, so it's hard to say where Noel actually got it from.
Which you can't tell from the sonng, only when Marr played it with his loop pedal
@@TheGalwayFarmer Until I saw that video of Marr playing it a few months back I had no idea they were so similar.
All the "borrowing" described are absolutely spot-on and undisputable. I would also add the guitar solo on Roll It Over (2000), which is basically the guitar solo from Come Together by The Beatles.
However, in the immensity, depth, richness and beauty of Oasis' musical production, I would rather consider these as some kind of quotes of Noel's personal heroes, rather than thefts. Such a musical genius wasn't in any need to copy anybody else to bring Oasis to what they have achieved in the history of music.
I'm honestly surprised there weren't more Beatle examples here, like they've taken so many lyrics from them ("You can ride with me in my yellow submarine" from Supersonic and more blatantly "Fool on the hill and I feel fine" from D'You Know What I Mean?) it's insane. I do still like Oasis, but Noel really needs to hide his influences better
Who Feels Love is obviously very influenced by Dear Prudence
why would he need to hide it?.. he purposely shows it to prove the point that all music is influenced by other.
"David Bennett Music" will tell people what you're about & not deter non-pianists
I agree with this
2:06 The cello part reminds me of the Beatles' song "I Am The Walrus".
Which Oasis has covered
I read in one interview with Noel that he loves The Wall by Pink Floyd and particularly Nobody's Home - and actually you can hear its influence in a lot of his songs, in particular Don't Look Back in Anger.
No-one mentions the theme tune to 1970s children's TV series "You and Me", the lyrics and melody of which were utilised in the chorus of "She's Electric".
Correct. First time I heard it I heard she's electric I new he'd pinched it off me and you. I'm 6 months older than N Gallagher so he would have been watching kids TV same time as me
He’s made millions and won’t care, but artistically it’s pretty naff. There’s always that age-old debate about how many songs can you really write and how close do they really sound yada yada, but some of these are very obvious rip-offs, and any way you slice it that’s just not a good look. I was a huge Oasis fan in their pomp, but I very rarely listen to them any more. I wonder if their sheer derivativeness is subconsciously why I find them uninteresting in retrospect.
Clean Prophet sounds exactly like London Calling.
There’s a Status Quo song called Lonely Man from their album Quo, released in 1974. Anyone who here’s Lonely Man whenever I’ve played it, all ask if it’s an Oasis song.
There are loads missed off. One was a Wham tune, "When I was younger I had my own key" is same as "Every day I hear a different story". Loads more.
I was born in the 50s, and my musical sensibilities developed from the music of the 60s. I have NEVER understood the popularity of Oasis. They seem like a really average band that basically ripped off everybody. As this video readily demonstrates. Please don't label me a Boomer yelling at clouds. Someone PLEASE explain their popularity.
I can't but, probably to do with it being fashionable "to not give a fuck" for a certain age group, and for some context back in the 90's (I was a teen and wasn't a fan btw :D ) Manchester was a having a musical hay day. You might like to watch the films like "24 Hour Party People" and there are some on Joy Division as well. You can google for bands and Madchester, but the city became popular and you had dance stuff like the Hacienda, and ... A Guy Called Gerald, New Order/Joy Division, Primal Scream, 808 State, the chemical brothers, the fall, stone roses, The smiths/Morrissey, Happy Mondays, the Verve, The Charlatans, M-people, Simply Red, Buzzcocks, James, Take That - I don't know loads of stuff.
As much as you can hear clear influences from Slade, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles ex. they still managed to bring their spirit to the music. Songwriting-wise they weren't original, they never claimed to be, but the songs were great, and a league above everyone else that came during the 90s. People tend to praise Kurt Cobain for his songwriting, and while he's great, Noel Gallagher's melodies are more dynamic and meticulously crafted. They also came out at the end of the grunge movement and were a strong contrast to its nihilism, therefore when songs like "Supersonic" and "Live Forever" were released, they acted as an antidote and turned the culture around. Their working-class background also lent authenticity to their music, allowing kids to connect with the harsh reality of everyday life while simultaneously feeling inspired by their message of possibility and hope.
@@markrussell5587Primal Scream are from Glasgow, most of those Manchester bands are poor as well
@andrewdavy9921 Hahaha, thanks for your invaluable contribution, I take it you're mostly a take that fan
@@markrussell5587 Thank you for that!
Only 10? 🤨😅
Oasis also sang "I'd like to teach the world to sing" in place of the "Mr. Sifter" verse at live performances
I've always thought that the "'Cause I'll be you and you'll be me/there's lots and lots for us to see" section of 'She's Electric' sounded more like 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing' than 'Shakermaker'.
Sounds more like "But i see you and you see me" from the kinks song Wonderboy
@@diegovalencia4127 Absolutely.
Call Oasis a rip off Beatles band all we want. I still love both bands and I would have never learned to play guitar if it wasn’t for them.
Your emotions are valid.
Beatles was a great band.
Agreed. Good artists borrow, great artists steal. It's not where you take things from, it's where you take them to.
Oasis were always more indebted to Slade than The Beatles.
Oasis were still a good band. Loads of artists take from the past. It's not like Supersonic sounds exactly like My Sweet Lord, they just a part of it to create a good song.
We could spend a lifetime finding songs that "rip off" other songs. Just in case anyone wants to criticize the Gallaghers over it.
Some of those are a bit more than coincidentally similar. Blatant plagiarism
@@user-mj5xl8tq3l How is taking a string of notes for a portion of the song as inspiration plagiarism? Your brain is definitely smooth
That song by Stevie Wonder towards the end, I think Dancing in the Streets sounds more like it than Step Out does. But yeah. Great vid man :)
Another one that's been mentioned by Noel himself is how "Some Might Say" is based on "Fuzzy", by Grant Lee Buffalo. The initial notes on both songs opening verses are basically the same.
Wow really? Fuzzy is one amazing song
Yeah, I love it too. No wonder Some Might Say's one of my favorite Oasis songs. I saw Noel talking about it in an interview a while back.
oof..i mean thats the thing, its so small ..he uses so many small things from what he hears and in his head they all get mixed and the end product is something new and all these lil bits
Chorus from don't look back is similar to pretty flamingo too
Yes, I knew Id heard it somewhere before😁
Another is Up in the Sky sounds almost identical to Seagull by Ride
almost identical?.. the chords ?
I love parodies, parody in general, and when the musician gives a nod to their favorite artist, I think that's the greatest honor. What you brought out about Neil Innes - and the connection with Oasis, I hadn't heard before. Which is great because Neil got hammered with copyright infringements for his [quite intentional but still I feel creative work] Beatles references. As a songwriter, it's SO easy to accidentally use a few chords that sound good together and suddenly you committed a copyright violation. But when you purposefully do it, and then creatively work it into a new work - there are allowances for it. I see no problem with it and it's not like you are blatantly stealing or taking credit for work [aka 2-3 chords that sound good together.] There's so much work that goes into a song, the time signature, chords, rhythm, key, the lyrics, the recording and overall production... Unfortunately, all that work can be subject to court hearings and how the money gets divided, in the end. Noel explains it 🙌 in his interviews!
at the end of the day . he is just using bits of bits of bits to create something new... I remember even back in 1994 all the big music magazines were already saying that and loving it !
I'm going to be a pedant here. With Step Out, they knew about the issue by the time it was released, as Don't Look Back in Anger, the single, was released months after What's The Story Morning Glory came out. I have the single and Stevie Wonder is credited on it there. It was only a B-side because of the issue, not prior to the album.
At least they're not acting like they wrote them
Wow! I like Oasis even less after listening to Liam Gallagher. What a dooosh.
Yep. I can happily say I never bought any -so he can f-off. lol
That was Noel, not Liam. And yeah, what an arrogant moron he was being there.
If all that's left of your work as an “artist” is the realization that it was all just stolen... what a poor rich wretch!
“Step Out” also ripped off the guitar rundown from Thin Lizzy’s “Rosalie”.
Apparently, Noel also ripped off a dance tune for the guitar riff in “Columbia”.
Talking of musical similarities, your outro music is reminiscent of Steve Vai’s “Little Green Men”. 😊
There's a version of Shakermaker somewhere, sung by Noel, where he actually sings: "and nooooow we all drink Pepsi". 😂
Another example Same Sized Feet - Stereophonics and The Hindu Times
so flagrant and unabashed. . .perhaps one reason they ground my gears, even subconsciously
Here's another one I never see get mentioned. Listen the verses in *Fade Away* ("When I was young I thought I had my own key...") Sounds a lot like the verses from *Freedom* by Wham! One of the Wham! verses even has a line that ends in "key" as well.
Pretty difficult to come up with something completely new, I can think of three songs all with the same chord progression from totally different generes of music, The Police Every breathe you take , Stand by me Ben E King, cant stop loving you Van Halen, anyone who plays guitar should try it, all begin in A, F# D E then back to A on the records or whatver key you wish to start the chord progression , Im pretty sure ACDC have been copied loads of times by the likes of the Cult, Airborne and Cinderella, same with Zeppelin there was that Kingdom Come band that sounded just like them, cant get away from it.
A lot of these are just chord progressions. You can't copyright chord progressions. The T-Rex riff is just standard blues riffs that everyone uses.
yeah its a very complex issue, people tell it like is just that, noel said it as he's saying he lift it but even he knows that he really is not "lifting" a song and some cases even the riff (like in cigarettes and alcohol) coz I think we want to prove a point that no music its truly 100% original
when "borrows, lifts, steals,etc" he's really just using some inspiration to create something new.. sometimes is really tiny sometimes is goes over like in the case of Step out.
He admits himself that he nicked it man!
You can when the progression and the melody are a blatant rip-off.
He didn't just nick the riff he stole the entire song. He's a talentless hack
Richard Curtis makes his statement in his script for Yesterday movie directed by Danny Boyle: no Beatles, no Oasis.
There will come a point every combination will become copyright and then all new bands will be doing is paying fees to some claimed songs. Who cares unless it is a full on one to one it is still music and art. There is the Jethro Tull song We Used To Know that another famous band used to create a classic but Ian Anderson did not go chasing them in the court and now we have two classics. Not a fan of Oasis but they have added to the music pantheon however you want to see it.
I think I’m going to cancel my preorder of Noel’s 5th Symphony. 🤭
insert obligatory "babe wake up‼️ new david bennett piano video just dropped🔥🔥" joke here
Whatever.
@@ThomasNimmesgern whatever
You need a trigger warning for use of the Coke advert - plunging headlong into nostalgia for some of us!
(And what an abysmal person Gallagher is.)
The line from dlbia "you said the brains i had went to my head" is a quote from john lennon.
Frank Skinner also mentioned that She's Electric also quotes the theme tune to You & Me.
They should sue
Musicians have been borrowing melodies, rhythms, lyrics, etc. since the beginning of time. If you make something new and memorable out of it, more power to you. But please, give proper credit and pay royalties where it's required.
This guy doesn’t write songs, he just writes new words using other people’s music. Has he ever had an original song free from anyone else’s song? Is he the Wierd Al Yankovitch of the UK?
At least Weird Al is obvious parody. And he always gets permission from the artists beforehand. Oasis is just straight thievery.
you are wrong