Few voices defined the ’90s quite like Liam Gallagher’s. The band Oasis, founded together with his brother Noel, achieved world fame almost overnight in 1994 with the album “Definitely Maybe”. The guitar-heavy Britpop with a catchy vocal melody, directly from the northern English working-class city of Manchester, was representative of Great Britain’s newly found self-image “Cool Britannia” in the 90s.
Especially in the British Isles – whether in the football stadium or in the pub – the music of Oasis is still omnipresent today. With more than 80 million records sold and timeless songs such as the melancholically optimistic “Don’t Look Back in Anger”, the hedonistic “Cigarettes & Alcohol” or “Wonderwall”, which is a must-attend program at every karaoke night, Oasis will always have a place secured in music history. “We were as old as our audience, we drank what they drank and we looked like them. But the music was damn great,” Gallagher explains the overwhelming success of the time almost 30 years later. Numerous scandals, excesses and a pronounced self-confidence – in between one thought to be “bigger than the Beatles” – allowed the Gallagher brothers to become cult figures with the willing help of the British tabloid press.
The tried and tested lasts the longest
After the band broke up in 2009 and a – rather unsuccessful – In an attempt to tie in with the Oasis era with the newly formed band Beady Eye, Gallagher released his first solo album As You Were in 2017. A throwback to Oasis, which is also featured in the sequel “Why Me? Why Not.” was clearly audible. On “C’mon You Know”, which will be released on Friday, there will also be few experimental elements or unusual instrumentations. Based on the previously released single “Everything’s Electric”, the album title can be understood as a request, almost a statement – the listener knows in advance what he will get for his money: loud guitars, a booming bass, pounding drums and Gallagher’s voice, which sounds just as rough, brute and unpolished even after almost three decades as on the first day.
Watch the music video for Liam Gallagher’s “Everything’s Electric” here:
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