POLL With It - OASIS (ILM artist poll #78) --- The results thread

my #3, it's got a fantastic opening. thought it probably would be higher

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9. Acquiesce
From: Some Might Say and US Single
Released: 24 April 1995
Charted: US Alt - 24
565 Points, 16 Votes, 1 Number One

"Acquiesce" has become a fans' favourite and is regularly played live. Many Oasis fans feel this song should have been held back to go on the (What's the Story) Morning Glory? album, with others also feeling the song was strong enough to have been released as a single. This was an opinion that Alan McGee had when he first heard the song; he tried to convince Noel to release "Acquiesce" as a single instead of "Some Might Say". Noel rejected this idea because he was adamant that the work on the single was completed, and was unwilling to have to write another B-side and record it. However, Noel has since said that this and a couple of other songs such as "The Masterplan" were strong enough to have been album tracks and singles.

one of my all-time favorites.

What the fuck? I was expecting this to take the #1 spot! Instead, it's going to be something like 'Live Forever' or 'Wonderwall' isn't it? :/

hoping for "Supersonic" at #1 personally

was hoping the masterplan and acquiesce would place higher. "masterplan" is a bigger and better-written "don't look back in anger" imo. "acquiesce" deserved to be the opening track of morning glory

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8. Whatever
From: Whatever (Non-album Single)
Released: 18 December 1994
Charted: UK - 3
586 Points, 17 Votes, 2 Number Ones

The first line: "I'm free to be whatever I, whatever I like if it's wrong or right it's all right," was written by Noel Gallagher about how his dad used to make him work on a building site with him as a teenager. Noel's dad tried to force him to become a builder.

The band knew this song was a hit as soon as Noel Gallagher first played it to them. Rhythm Guitarist Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs recalled to Q magazine in 2011: "Noel had shown us Whatever very early on and it freaked my head out. It was like, 'Nah you haven't f---ing written that.' It was brilliant."

and there is my number 1.

this was the perfect theme song for me. i was leaving the city which i had grown up in and also my parents and moving to San Francisco.

it lasted for seven years and were the best days of my life.

This was the first time I heard Acquiesce, I couldn't believe they'd written a song that good:

https://youtu.be/7qvKdXA1EGI

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7. Champagne Supernova
From: (What's the Story) Morning Glory? and Radio Single in America
Released: 13 May 1996
Charted: US - 20, US Alt - 1
604 Points, 18 Votes

Whoa!

thought this was a potential no. 1

yeah me too as i even voted for it number 2.

i agree acquiesce should have been the opening track of morning glory but i'd take most of definitely maybe over it, it doesn't really stand out as one of their best or anything to me.

whatever was my #1 as well, the moment when all their bombast worked best

Whatever and Columbia are both brilliant, my nos 2 & 3.

Champagne Supernova though, I can't stand. Didn't make my ballot.

Acquiesce was my number 1.

Some of the lyrics were written when I was out of it. There's the words: 'Someday you will find me/ Caught beneath a landslide/ In a Champagne Supernova in the sky'. That's probably as psychedelic as I'll ever get. It means different things when I'm in different moods. When I'm in a bad mood being caught beneath a landslide is like being suffocated. The song is a bit of an epic. It's about when you're young and you see people in groups and you think about what they did for you and they did nothing. As a kid, you always believed the Sex Pistols were going to conquer the world and kill everybody in the process. Bands like The Clash just petered out. Punk rock was supposed to be the revolution but what did it do? Fuck all. The Manchester thing was going to be the greatest movement on earth but it was fuck all. When we started we decided we weren't going to do anything for anybody, we just thought we'd leave a bunch of great songs. But some of the words are about nothing. One is about Bracket The Butler who used to be on Camberwick Green, or Chipley or Trumpton or something. He used to take about 20 minutes to go down the hall. And then I couldn't think of anything that rhymed with 'hall' apart from 'cannonball'. so I wrote 'Slowly walking down the hall/ Faster than a cannonball' and people were like, 'Wow, man'. There's also the line 'Where were you while we were getting high?' because that's what we always say to each other. But the number of people who've started clubs called Champagne Supernova is fucking unbelievable. And the album isn't even released yet.

there's something about whatever being an intra albums single that makes it even better somehow

last song that won't receive at least one number one vote.

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6. Wonderwall
From: (What's the Story) Morning Glory? and Single
Single Released: 30 October 1995
Charted: UK - 2, US - 8, US Alt - 1
612 Points, 18 Votes, 1 Number One

shocker!

thank goodness it's this low

The sleeve artwork was inspired by the paintings of the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, and was shot on Primrose Hill in north London. The hand holding the frame is that of art director Brian Cannon. The original idea was to have Liam in the frame before Noel vetoed that idea whilst the shoot was taking place. Instead a female figure was deemed necessary and Anita Heryet, a Creation Records employee, was asked to stand in as cover star for the shot.

"Wonderwall" was such a massive hit, might have been their biggest, that i'm surprised the it couldn't crack the Top 5.

wonderwall feels so static, i guess it fits with liam's completely bored vocal though

it's definitely their track with the biggest legacy though

YES! Thank fuck this isn't anywhere near the Top 5. Even LIAM hates this song these days.

the mike flowers pops version is so much better

Top 5

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5. Don't Look Back in Anger
From: (What's the Story) Morning Glory? and Single
Single Released: 19 February 1996
Charted: UK - 1, US - 55, US Alt -10
659 Points, 18 Votes, 2 Number Ones

I've sung two oasis songs at karaoke and this one works better than "acquiesce"

I've probably heard 'Don't Look Back In Anger' as many times as 'Wonderwall', but where the opening chords to 'Wonderwall' immediately make me think "oh, for fucks sake, this again", I'm still not bored of 'Don't Look Back In Anger'

The single cover is a homage to the incident where Ringo Starr briefly left the Beatles during the recording of The White Album; after the other three Beatles members successfully persuaded him to return, George Harrison decorated Ringo's drum kit in red, white, and blue flowers to show their appreciation.

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4. Supersonic
From: Definitely Maybe and Single
Single Released: 11 April 1994
Charted: 31, US Alt - 31
686 Points, 20 Votes, 3 Number Ones

another surprise, thought this would be the number one.

"Supersonic" was written and recorded in a single day at The Pink Museum recording studio in Liverpool. The band were there to record "I Will Believe" but first, as a warm up, they started jamming together. Soon Noel Gallagher was humming a melody over McCarroll and Bonehead's rhythm until he called the jam to a halt as it was time to start recording "I Will Believe". The intended song was not going too well so it was decided that they work on something new, based on a jam they had had earlier that day. The recording was completed in 11 hours and it was never remixed.

The identity of "Elsa" has caused confusion. The lyrics say: She done it with a doctor/On a helicopter/she sniffin' in a tissue/Sellin' the Big Issue. Gallagher has remarked: "Someone told me "Supersonic" was about teenage prostitution. Shit!". It has since been revealed that Elsa was a nine-stone rottweiler with a flatulence problem. The dog belonged to the sound engineer Dave Scott and was in the studio on the day the song was written, hence the line "she's into Alka Seltzer".

Supersonic is so obviously the best.

Prediction: 'Some Might Say', 'Slide Away' and 'Live Forever', in that order.

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3. Slide Away
From: Definitely Maybe
Released: 29 August 1994
705 Points, 19 Votes, 3 Number Ones

Noel claims he wrote it on a Les Paul guitar that Johnny Marr sent to him, since he had few guitars available to him at the time. On the Definitely Maybe DVD, he also notes that he took Marr's guitar out of the case, sat down, and "the song wrote itself". Gallagher wrote it about his girlfriend at the time - Louise Jones and the song was written about their stormy relationship. He described them as "soulmates" and when they finally split up in June 1994, Noel said 'I don't think I'll ever get over it.'

It is featured on their debut album Definitely Maybe,on the "Whatever" single, and on the "Champagne Supernova" US single. Also in the Stop the Clocks interview, Noel claimed that he was told to release it as a fifth single from Definitely Maybe, but Gallagher refused, arguing, "You can't have five [singles] off a debut album." Furthermore it is claimed to be Paul McCartney's favorite song by Oasis in the same interview.

damn I didn't know slide away would get this high

I had a feeling it would, it's always been a highly regarded track amongst fans. I had this down as a definite lock for the Top 5.

another one of my very favorites, i do wonder why they included this song on the "Whatever" single as well? it wasn't like they were including album tracks on other singles.

going to do the last two together...

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2. Some Might Say
From: (What's the Story) Morning Glory? and Single
Single Released: 24 April 1995
Charted: UK - 1
749 Points, 22 Votes, 1 Number One