My Music Journal 2025: April 25, 2025

 

Friday, April 25, 2025

Time: 7:50 AM
Song: Don’t Go Away
Artist: Oasis
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on shuffle on the way to work.

Link to Song: https://open.spotify.com/track/5d3GTM2ynSLRHgDIdKVZ6Z?si=a7f3b86c969449c7

A few months ago, Oasis made headlines after announcing a reunion tour featuring Liam and Noel Gallagher, their first since the band’s breakup in 2009. 

People seemed really excited about it. Others pondered if it was a risk to buy an expensive ticket only for the volatile brothers to squabble away the tour before they reached your town. 

I didn’t get that interested. That’s sort of how I have always been with Oasis. 

I remember in junior high an acquaintance was really into Oasis, and it was the first time I heard them compared to the Beatles. I was in full Beatles mode at that point, and thought it absurd that a band in their first decade of existence would boldly declare themselves in the same league. 

There were even a few songs I remember hearing that were clearly attempts to mimic the Fab Four. 

It soured me on Oasis a bit. I liked some of their songs fine, but I didn’t hear anything that stood out that much from the crowd of 90s rock bands much less something that put them on a tier of best rock bands of all time. 

I’ve often wondered if the acrimony between Liam and Noel Gallagher (By the way, I can never remember which is the singer and which is the guitarist for some reason) was purposely exaggerated to expand the lore of the band. I am sure their issues are real, I am just not sure they haven’t indulged in the feud to build to something like this upcoming tour. 

It’s a bit of Beatles thing to do, right? After that split, Lennon and McCartney spent part of the 70s feuding with jabs in the media and allusions in lyrics. It fueled the will-they, won’t they reunion fervor, and heck, the supposed reconciliation between the two prior to Lennon’s death has had fans wondering if a reunion was destined for the 80s. 

I don’t know. I am probably giving the Gallaghers too much credit. They probably have been really mad at each other, and their own fandom for the Beatles probably overblown. 

They are a good rock band. That should be good enough.