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ALBUMSupersonic (Live at The Limelight, Belfast - 4th September '94) - SingleOasis
Albums by Oasis
ALBUMDig Out Your SoulOasis
ALBUMDon't Believe the TruthOasis
ALBUMHeathen ChemistryOasis
ALBUMStanding on the Shoulder of GiantsOasis
ALBUMBe Here Now (Deluxe Remastered Edition)Oasis
ALBUM(What's The Story) Morning Glory? [Deluxe Remastered Edition]Oasis
ALBUMDefinitely MaybeOasis
Oasis's Popular Music Videos
Champagne Supernova
Oasis
Don't Look Back In Anger (HD Version)
Oasis
Morning Glory (HD Version)
Oasis
Some Might Say (HD Version)
Oasis
Roll With It (HD Version)
Oasis
Supersonic (HD Remastered Video)
Oasis
Live Forever
Oasis
All Around The World
Oasis
Don't Go Away (HD Video)
Oasis
D'You Know What I Mean?
Oasis
Artist Playlists
Oasis Essentials
Revisit seismic debut hit “Supersonic” as it turns 30—and all the era-defining songs that followed.
Oasis Video Essentials
The Britpop icons brought the ‘60s into the ‘90s.
Oasis: Deep Cuts
The Gallagher brothers' bratty Britpop in all its forms.
Inspired by Oasis
Inspired by cigarettes, alcohol and sibling rivalry.
Oasis: Chill
Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Oasis: Influences
Standing on the shoulders of giants indeed.
Oasis: Sing
Grab the mic and sing along with some of their biggest hits.
Artist Biography
Some groups spend years chasing stardom, and others seem to just instantly will it into existence. The latter was certainly the case with Manchester’s Oasis, who named the first song on their first album “Rock ’n’ Roll Star” as if their fate were preordained. Arriving in the midst of the peak alt-rock era, Oasis’ 1994 debut, Definitely Maybe, was a bird-flipping retort to the navel-gazing angst of grunge, rolling the melodicism of The Beatles, the swagger of T. Rex, the sneer of the Sex Pistols, and the strobe-lit grooves of The Stone Roses into alternately sleazy (“Cigarettes & Alcohol”) and celebratory (“Live Forever”) pint-raising anthems. And it wasn’t just the group’s sound that harkened back to the glory days of British rock—in the simmering tension between the guitarist who wrote all the tunes (Noel Gallagher) and the singer who brought them to life (his braggadocious brother Liam), Oasis came pre-packaged with a sibling-rivalry soap opera to rival that of The Kinks. Definitely Maybe’s No. 1 debut on the UK charts turned Oasis into the ubiquitous bad boys of Britpop, an image they gleefully indulged through their tabloid-baiting pissing matches with London’s Blur, the art-school antithesis of the Gallaghers’ working-class laddism. But with 1995’s follow-up, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, Oasis shed the Union Jack trappings to become the only English band of the era to match their domestic success in the US, thanks to karaoke-ready sing-alongs like “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger.” With more than 20 million copies sold worldwide, Morning Glory effectively turned Oasis into an institution, one that would continue to sell out arenas for years to come (even after 1997’s infamously over-the-top Be Here Now signaled the end of Britpop’s pop-cultural dominance). The Gallaghers’ ever-fraught relationship would sink Oasis in 2009, but the enduring, cross-generational appeal of their most popular songs—with “Wonderwall” ranking among the most-streamed tracks of the ’90s—ensures a legacy that will live forever.
Hometown
Manchester, England
Genre
Rock