As someone who’s been in bands for many years you play what you listen to. You might hear a song and then years later your jamming with your friends and that melody comes out again because now it’s in your subconscious and your brain makes the connection with what you’re playing.
I'd say you play what you learn and what you learn is all you can play generally speaking. Unless you're a musical genius which rock and roll stars generally aren't
That's how Chuck Berry wrote songs, and when you get down to it, they ALL 'stole' from him. While he stole from Hank Williams and Robert Johnson, and so forth and so on.
@@Noisehead101 Agreed. He should have gave credits and royalties to a few of them but most are so slight. On another note, the O songs sound much better than anything else. But lots of times of using beatles and other stuff, was more a declaration of how much they loved those bands - that's how I always took it.
@@joejacobson7393There's more ways you can arrange those 12 notes than you would think. Vsauce did a video on this which is worth checking out. NegaArson's comment (which you replied to) is simply incorrect. It will take a hell of a lot longer than 60+ years of rock n roll before it's "literally impossible" not to rip off someone else.
Really like the idea Noel lifted the You and Me theme song for She's Electric. However, I would also suggest Wonderboy by the Kinks as the source. Check it out
F*in in the bushes was a sample from the Hendrix track which they then got Alan white to drum over. some of these are blatant but some of these examples are a bit of a stretch, there is a reason you cant copyright a chord sequence on its own.
@@JohnDoe-gy5dr yeah majority of these are far reaching and I'm not even a huge oasis fan. One chord or beat that lasts 2 sec could make a case for every song being plagiarized
Same Size Feet by Stereophonics. It's the same riff for Hindu Times. Kind of a big miss on that one. But to be fair, you're bound to miss a couple here and there
Yeah I found that out to my surprise trying to learn the two for a gig....must've heard them songs loads of times but never back to back.Saved me loads of time lol.
Within the first couple minutes of the video he said "this is not a comprehensive list"... So congrats for adding to the pointlessly corrective comments of the internet.
I guess those guys did not get as popular in the United States because I had not heard of them until about a year ago. Since then I have been a huge fan. I’ll have to go listen to same size feet again
One of the strangest similarities i've seen between an Oasis song and another band's wasn't Noel's, it's one of Liams. The song "Better Man" has a descending chord sequence which is identical to the track "Sleeping Girl" on Simple Minds' 2002 album "Cry". Liam was step-father to Jim Kerr's son at the time (Little James) and I used to wonder if little James ever brought home his Dad's demos to the Kensit/Gallagher household
I always felt like Noel was brutally honest about ripping off other good tunes to make better ones.The You and Me thing for She's Electric just makes me laugh and love Noel even more.
@@TheRealLange21 1. I'm not a songwriter and have no ambitions to be one. 2. That makes no sense at all and is like an oxymoron or a double negative or some shit like that. Couldn't write a hit if I stole stairway note for note. Then by definition, I've just written a hit. You said nothing about me performing it lol
Columbia is probably my favourite Oasis track. I'd love to see you do a full breakdown of it. And if you could figure out where that Indian (?) sample at the end of the original version comes from I'd be truly amazed!
Not really a ripoff but Married with Children, She's Electric, and Nirvana's Lithium all feature the same chord progression. Took me far too long to realise that hahah
Back when I wrote songs the way I would nick parts of other songs is I would find chord progressions or just simply note progressions on a guitar for a song, and then I would reverse each bar on its own. This always lead to a unique enough piece of music while still catching the emotion and feel of the original tune and progression.
I feel sorry for the Real People. They helped get Oasis started and Noel went onto steal some of their songs and lyrics. Rockin' Chair was outright robbed from them.
Yeah, I'll have to look into this more. I remember watching the Definitely Maybe DVD and wondering why they were in it. @anzpanz4444 That's interesting what you say about their look and attitude, etc.
In my oppinion Noel was for "The Hindu times" riff inspired by the Edges opening riff of "Even better than the real thing". Maybe i am mistaken but there are clear similarities.
Oh, the reason that the demo of "Be Here Now"/"Trip Inside" was replaced on the remasters with some other instrumental was because the whole song was very nakedly built around the intro drum/cowbell groove of "Honky Tonk Women". In any case, I think music should be fun and remixing is pretty cool. Other people rip off, but it's either more obscure stuff or they're more subtle about it. It's how we think, grafting ideas onto others. I often remind people that Star Wars originally had a placeholder soundtrack of classical music before being properly scored... But most of John Williams' work sounds like the original music anyway. And we love it! It's great!
"She's Electric" is copied from "Wonderboy" by the Kinks, not that song you mentioned. Noel switched "I see you and you see me" to "I'll be you and you'll be me" and the melody is identical.
Got the single. This is officially the last record I've bought in 2021! Happy to support a well intentioned artist who actually wants to change things for everybody instead of trying to carve his own niche in this despicable music industry. This world needs rock'n'roll and only we can make it happen✌🏻
10:15 - Mornig Glory had a REM song's chords, I forget which one, I think it's the one 'This is the one that goes out to the one I love...' I don't know the title but what's heard lightly in that song is played heavy in Morning Glory. Noel even admitted he ripped off REM and someone else with it but wouldn't say who else. Roll With It supposedly rips off chords of a Rolling Stones song which is why it was called 'Stones Song' in Noel's stolen notebooks before it had lyrics for '2nd Album' on the one page. I haven't figured out which one for that yet.
First two tracks on Heathen chemistry he stole the hindu times riff from stereophonics - same size feet, and force of nature is nightclubbing by iggy pop
Not to nitpick, but that should be _Paul_ McGuigan at 5:51! Regarding "She's Electric", the vocal melody at the start of its chorus seems inspired by that of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". The part that's similar is quite brief, though. As for High Flying Birds songs, here's one for you: in "If I Had a Gun", Noel seems to have taken the vocal melody of its verses from the chorus of "Dance on Your Bones" by The Verve.
@@badgasaurus4211 I mean to some degree it's a matter of perception/interpretation. To me (and I think most people who try to define it on this song), the part that starts "and I want you to know" is the bridge, the part connecting the verse and the chorus. Then the part starting "I'll be you and you'll be me" would be the chorus. One *could* define it all as a long multi-part chorus but that seems unnecessarily cumbersome to me. Hope that makes sense!
James, here's a new one for you: John Cale - 'Half Past France'. The opening 10 seconds of guitar sound remarkably the same as the 'Champagne Supernova' intro! (As far as I'm aware; I've never seen that one actually documented anywhere before :) -J.
@@sodiumlights Nevertheless it does sound the same for a few seconds. That lazy sounding bit in CS when you can hear the waves. (Have you ever thought NG was possibly assigned ghost writers during their 94-96 period? Happens all the time in the music industry, when the music Business puts their stock in an Act and puts them on the front of every newspaper...)
@@neilsun2521 oh you're not wrong but those chord changes are not exactly unique. As for Noel paying money for a ghost writer...that's an utterly hilarious notion, thanks for the laugh though:)
Always love your videos and your original material is great aswell. I heard 'think for a minute' by the housemartins yesterday and thought it sounded alot like the Oasis b side 'Going nowhere' and had to search for this video again. Even the trumpets are similar! Keep up the great work 👍
One of the most obvious ones he decided to leave out/ overlook was the chorus riff on "Stand By Me". A lot of people know that was nicked from Mott The Hoople's "All The Young Dudes" - a Bowie penned song.
well, "All The Young Dudes" is also present in Don't Look Back In Anger, final/last chorus, on the guitar. It was a classic city song they sang as "All The Young Blues". They also sang it on Whatever occasionally live.
The break in the song she’s electric is directly nicked from wonder boy by the kinks as well. Give it a listen and you’ll hear it clear as day. Cool video cheers!
'Go Let It Out' is also very reminiscent of the acoustic rhythm guitar of early Beta Band songs. I seem to remember Noel was quite into the Beta Band at the time.
Rock n Roll star's "i live my life in the city" has similar opening melody/words to CCR's proud Mary "Left a good job in the city" Edit: She's electric also borrows from wonderboy by the kinks
She’s electric has loads of rips . Over- The LA’s (and I neeeeddd more timeeee), With a little help from my friends- Beatles (outro), wonderboy (I’ll be you n you’ll be me)
'She's Electric' has almost the exact same chords and rhythm in the verse as the verse of Nirvana's 'Lithium', the beginning of the chorus is also very similar to the chorus of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'. Also the riff from 'Morning Glory' is identical to that of REM's 'The One I Love'. Noel is openly a big fan of all of those bands and I have no doubt that they were all lifted, whether conscious or not.
If you want an example from 'Heathen Chemistry' the drum intro on 'Force Of Nature' is the same as 'Nightclubbing' by Iggy Pop. Also, not sure if it made your extended list but 'The Importance of Being Idle' sounds like 'Clean Prophet' by The La's. (Which also sounds like 'Dead End Street' by The Kinks)
Irrelevant as actually it was Mani from the stone roses who wrote every oasis song and would hand them to Noel at an open mic night in Salford that they both often played at. Mani never takes credit for this as he is a famously humble and shy individual.
Also worth mentioning in my opinion, the "It's never gonna be the same.." section in Hello is almost an exact rip of the chorus from Far Far Away by Slade. And I know Noel loved them seeing as how they covered Cum on Feel the Noize.
Great video. Something else I noticed about "She's Electric" - the chorus vocal melody is very similar to the chorus vocal melody of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
Very true, it them meanders into the You and Me section which literally the same melody and almost the same lyrically as the chorus section in the Kinks Wonderboy!
James, great video mate. Fade Away also uses a similar chord progression to the song 'I Don't Know What I Want' by Raspberries (1974), I feel like Noel would have probably listened to/appreciated this record as it's very much in line with what Townsend and The Who were doing at the time. Let me know what you think!
I like OASIS , note the riff taken from Bowie/Hoople's 'All the young dudes' in Stand By Me at @ 2:19 in that Oasis song. Why not? BRIAN WILSON said he based most of the songs on PET SOUNDS from BACH.
What matters to me is that the Oasis songs sound better than the songs they lifted from. Also none of my top 5 Oasis songs seem to be ripped off from anything afaik.
"Also none of my top 5 Oasis songs seem to be rip offs" Well it appears you wouldn't give a fuck if they were so I'm unsure why you made that distinction. Stealing isn't ok just because you only did it "sometimes" and taking your neighbors car and cleaning it up and selling it is still profiting off of theft.
But I'm sure the artists that did the heavy lifting so that Oasis could stand on their shoulders (I laughed out loud at Noel'a audacity when I saw that album cover in a record store when it was new) while they go uncompensated are super interested in what "matters" to you.
To me the ending of Rock 'n' Roll Star was always a nod to My Generation. "Is this rock 'n' roll/It's just rock 'n' roll" is hardly a difficult line to think about as a rock 'n' roll band.
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Thanks so much Dale, I really appreciate it :) I've got high hopes for the future of Hargreaves Records, so keep one eye on the channel, all info will be here first 👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸
There's definitely a lot you missed. The Hindu Times sounds an awful lot like Same Size Feet by The Stereophonics, Noel even alludes to it in an interview saying he might have nicked it from somewhere. Bassline from All in the Mind is taken straight from Waterfall by The Stone Roses. The solo from Don't Look Back in Anger is shockingly similar to Damaged by Primal Scream. Also, not a song, but some of the lyrics for Go Let It Out are from a poem called A bag of tools by R.L Sharpe (though they were used in a reggae song so he probably got them from there). I can probably think of at least a dozen more.
I'd even go so far as to say that "Don't Go Away" is better than "Feel the Pain" even though it was almost a straight lift. The Griffiths brothers deserved a writing credit for it, but I'd say Oasis did it better. Maybe that's just me, though.
There’s borrowing chord sequences and then there’s nicking a load of lyrics from a bunch of old mates that helped you out when you were nothing and then fucking them off and not crediting them when you’ve made it.
@@reillywalker195 out of ALL the songs Noel is accused of "stealing" I think Feel the Pain is the most blatant, Noel even took lyrics. However, Noel took parts of that song and created a MEGA HIT. I live in the US and nobody knows or cares about The Real People, but I became a fan after Oasis. So the success of Oasis probably helped the Real People become a little bigger.
No, he straight stole songs - and just because you enjoy Oasis, it doesn't make that statement untrue. Everyone borrows from each other, and while there's nothing necessarily wrong with that, Noel is right up there at the top of the list of all-time outright thieves...but at least he admits it. The same can't be said for a lot of other English bands who robbed the early black American artists blind, and then tried to deny them their proper credit and compensation even after being taken to court. (Looking at you Led Zeppelin)
I think Noel stole the main riff from Hindu Times from Stereophonics song "Same Size Feet" I remember when i first heard Hindu times, I thought I know that riff haha
Damn 😆 Could forgive it here and there if there were slight similarities but this is ridiculous. You should give us the 30+ version, let's get it all out there
If subconsciously “borrowing” was absolutely forbidden, we’d have a massive hole in music history. Try humming any random set of notes, or words, and someone would sue you for copyright. “Once upon a time…” for example.
Noel Gallagher said that the starting riff of 'Some Might Say', (if that's the right term) was taken from Grant Lee Buffalo's 'Fuzzy', which you can hear at the start of their song.
Great video as always James - A couple more famous ones to add to the pot from 'What's The Story...' the title song rips off the main riff to R.E.M. '(This one goes out) To The One I Love'. Also the ending of 'She's Electric' uses the Jim'll Fix It theme tune.
Used to buy cd singles every saturday during early 2000s.. the town I went to had a store with lots of the low charting or non top 40 stuff. Sometimes they used to have clear outs with 50p Singles. Nice to see you made a cd single 2022.
brilliant James well done. Someone said to me many years ago that Oasis or Noels skill as a songwriter is that you think you have heard those songs before. In reality we have.
holy shit...this kind of video is what YT is made for..As a huge Oasis and NG fan especially nowadays again with the High Flying Birds i'm actually stunned. what are the chances that NG stopped nicking music and the HFB's are all original music.??? next video???
Just catching this video now. Never realised the U2 “Until The End of the World” Great find. On that, Noel was definitely at the U2 gig at Manchester G-MEX in 1992 (the “Stop Sellafield” concert). I’ve heard him mention this in interviews. It was part of that same Zoo TV Tour.
Noel definitely taken the opening drum line from Nightclubbing by Iggy Pop and used it on Force of Nature and No Fun by The Stooges and turned it into Hung in a Bad Place! He Must have had an Iggy Pop phase 😂
The main riff from What’s the Story? is from the intro to The One I Love by REM, the verse from Don’t Look Back in Anger and also Whatever is basically Pachelbel Canon. Whatever even has a string section. The main riff from Layla, by Derek and the Dominos is used in the Supersonic solo. Part of the Live Forever solo uses the opening riff from Eagles Life in the Fast lane. I’ve heard the bridge from Roll with it somewhere but I can no longer remember where. I suspect it all started because Noel lied to get his record deal saying he’d written an album of songs, when he hadn’t. Not sure I blame him for that. He then had to write an album and in order to do that under time pressure, he took route 1. But that’s just a guess. He’s pinched from himself as well. The verse for D’you know what I mean is the same chords as wonderwall, more or less and Supersonic and Acquiesce are pretty similar in the verse. Neil Young got a single out of Satisfaction and then there’s Stairway, Surfin’ USA etc. long tradition of borrowing but maybe not as shameless…
Agree he stole the riff from The One I Love. But the verse/ bridge/ chorus for What's the Story are fantastic and seem to be completely original. The song is a masterpiece and it is far, far superior to The One I Love. And while the riff drives the song, I don't think it accounts for the greatness of the song. Similarly for Dont Look Back in Anger. Yes the verse follows the progression of Pachelbel although he does embellish the melody line from Pachelbel so its not a direct copy. But the verse is by far the weakest part of the song -- the bridge is great and the chorus is an all time great chorus. The song is an all time masterpiece, IMO the best song of the 90s, and it seems to me very little of that is due to the verse. He also steals the keyboard riff from Imagine in the guitar intro for DLBIA. Seems to me that Shakermaker is much more of a rip off.
The riff from Supersonic is lifted almost entirely from George Harrison's My Sweet Lord and the chords sequence on Supersonic is also very similar to Bryan Adams - Run To You and the E to C#7 on the "before tomorrow" bit on Supersonic, well there is an E to C#7 in Strawberry Fields Forever, coincidence?
Hindu Times on Heathen Chemistry has that big Indian sounding riff. That is the same riff from a Stereophonics track on their 1997 debut album 'Word gets around'. The song is Same size feet, and the riff kicks in after the intro verse when the whole band kicks in.
The obvious ones are Cigarettes & Alcohol, Shakermaker, Don't Go Away, Hindu Times. A lot of the others are just crossovers which does happen in music! Influences in music are a great thing and all bands do it! Columbia and Rockin' Chair should have been credited to Chris Griffiths though of course! Cloudburst is better than Standing here😉 Amazing video! Noel is a genius no matter what haha
She's electric also sounds like Teach The World To Sing, in the tune of the I'll be You You'll Be Me bit. It also rips off While My Guitar Gentley Weeps, in the "and I want you to know" bits, which sound suspiciously like "I don't know how".
The Oasis songs are 1,000x better than the “seed material”. And some of these are one “similar” riff in Oasis songs that have totally different verse progressions / riffs, chorus progressions / riffs, bridge progressions / riffs, intros and outros. I’d liken it more to brief similarities in the songs, or specific intentional allusions to classic British tunes of the 60’s and 70’s.
The Some might say riff he also openly talked about ripping that off from an American country band but I can’t remember what it was called. Love Noel… I think most of the stuff just came i to his head when he was playing around and he made his own version. Normal thing to do and as you said, only 12 notes and if you can’t expertly play the guitar, only like 4 or 5 chords :D
I love him as a songwriter but he’s just not a great guitar player and is hell bent on just basic rock n roll so when you combine those traits you’re bound to rip some shit off whether you want to or not.
8:46 - Actually it wasn't just the chords of the one line. The orchestra parts on Whatever are largely similar to the orchestra parts of the one studio version of the song. When people criticized Innes just for thinking it was just that one set of chords, Innes re used the orchestra paerts overlooked in the Rutles Archaeology song Shangri La.
Another one I didn't realise until I'd actually played it on guitar was "stand by me" has the same chord structure as "Everytime you go away" by hall and oates
This is just how music has always worked, Noel was just honest about lifting bits and bobs. My Sweet Lord was a rip off of an old tune He's So Fine. Marc Bolan said Get it On was Little Queenie by Chuck Berry and Chuck Berry's guitar riffs were copied from jazz trumpet solos like this 👇 th-cam.com/video/OkQWv18Trw0/w-d-xo.html
You can hear elements of REM's Fire in the WTSMG? title track. Particularly the main riff. It's almost identical to the opening riff of Fire. Also Shakermaker is virtually Flying from Magical Mystery Tour. You can sing Shakermaker over Flying. Even the "aaahs" are in the right place
Another excellent video James. (from a purely guitar playing aesthetic) Live forever - somehow reminds me of ‘knocking on heaven’s door’ (GnR) Wonderwall - somehow reminds me of ‘disarm’ (Smashing pumpkins). Supersonic’s main verse chord progression - very similar to 'how soon is now' (Smiths) I mean, they are not copied, more just heavily influenced. I really like oasis and I also really like the songs that they were influenced by, so it’s a win-win. 'talent borrows, genius steals'
Hi James. Love and appreciate your videos. You have no idea how much you’ve helped me with learning oasis’s songs. Could you please make a video for Columbia with tabs?
I've always thought go let it out was directly influenced by and lifted from the song dry the rain by the beta band. Exact same drum sample and acoustic guitar feel. Noel even spoke a lot about the beta band around that time an all.
The opening of Rock 'n' Roll Star is the same as the riff that appears half way through 'Lazyitis' by the Happy Mondays. Also I always thought the chorus of 'Lyla' is similar to 'Mona' by Craig McLachlan.
Richard Ashcroft sampled a small part of an intro, from a Loog Oldham ‘reworking’ of a Stones track, that was actually the work of one of the session musicians.. and had to give up 100% song writing credit to Jagger/Richards (who had 0% input into the part that he sampled).. Noel blatantly rips off the songs of The Real People, who actually helped Oasis early on.. he only has to give ‘partial’ songwriting credit, and the cheeky little tw*t still makes sure that his name goes first..
Brilliant video James ❤️ I think Noel did a great job of making them he own sign of a great songwriter Also gonna order your CD Please don't give That sheep a Kicking 🤣
Hi James. I'm a 35 year old mancunian musician and wanted to congratulate you on exposing these culture vultures. Great list but I'd like to see the full version. I think you've missed an absolute gem. Listen to the vocal melody in the chorus of George Harrison - Whilst My Guitar Gently Weeps. It's identical to the vocal melody in the chorus of "She's Electric."
kind of a relief that so many of their most iconic songs sounded similar or were directly ripped from other artists, as an aspiring musician and songwriter i worry about my songs sounding somewhat similar, im very influenced by oasis and my songs have a similar vibe to their tracks and i’m trying to find a balance between originality and influence. i once wrote a full song and then realized after that it was just a retextured morning glory
The fact that people in the comments are saying how other songs remind them or sound like them, just shows how many songs in history actually all borrow from others. The comments sections has so many other songs that are identical or similar that just shows how many bands all used the same type of sounds, progressions and textures.
Verse melody of cast no shadow sounds v similar to chorus of the Verve’s ‘History’. Noel long ago dedicated the song to Richard Ashcroft after they became mates during the Verve’s Northern Soul album tour...
So many omissions… Noel has openly admitted to wholesale lifting chord sequences from: the Stones for Live Forever; All The Young Dudes for Whatever; Ooh La La for Some Might Say; Hanging On The Telephone for Underneath the Sky; Roadhouse Blues for Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is. And nicking the whistle from 100 Mile High City on Go Let It Out.
I read a news in an italian forum called OasisLive in 2005 that reported that Lyla was stolen by a french singer called Jules Nobicle and the song was called Leila. I remember it was identical. I've never found the song again.
Thats the difference between Noel and Liam -Noel ripped off all his guitar bits but Liam's tambourine playing is pure original
Liam G. is a tambourine virtuoso, arguably the GOAT.
Liam wrote songbird too I believe
@@CH-gb7hf dont't forget little james....lol
Nah he stole all his tambourine shaking from Bez
As someone who’s been in bands for many years you play what you listen to. You might hear a song and then years later your jamming with your friends and that melody comes out again because now it’s in your subconscious and your brain makes the connection with what you’re playing.
When we ask each what our influeces are, it's just a subtler way of asking who do you tend to rip off
Dane That was George Harrison's defence for My Sweet Lord.
It’s called CRYPTOMNESIA
Yes but not with every song they ever wrote .
I'd say you play what you learn and what you learn is all you can play generally speaking. Unless you're a musical genius which rock and roll stars generally aren't
I remember Noel once saying something like “ work out how to play a song, change the key and the melody up a bit and bang a new song”.
He ain't wrong
I used to always do this on the keyboard when I was younger 💯
That's how Chuck Berry wrote songs, and when you get down to it, they ALL 'stole' from him. While he stole from Hank Williams and Robert Johnson, and so forth and so on.
Just discovered your videos and I love them - done with humour, great clips, fantastic scholarship and pop culture context. Seriously well done.
Honestly after 60+ years of rock n roll it’s literally impossible not to rip off SOMEONE at some point.
There's only 12 notes. We're using the same 12 Beethoven used. There's only so many ways you can arrange them before you start copying someone else.
@@Noisehead101 Agreed. He should have gave credits and royalties to a few of them but most are so slight. On another note, the O songs sound much better than anything else. But lots of times of using beatles and other stuff, was more a declaration of how much they loved those bands - that's how I always took it.
Nah man, I love Oasis but they clearly plagiarised loads of songs.
@@joejacobson7393There's more ways you can arrange those 12 notes than you would think. Vsauce did a video on this which is worth checking out. NegaArson's comment (which you replied to) is simply incorrect. It will take a hell of a lot longer than 60+ years of rock n roll before it's "literally impossible" not to rip off someone else.
they are fully ripping off there is a difference to accidently stumbling over the same melody
Really like the idea Noel lifted the You and Me theme song for She's Electric. However, I would also suggest Wonderboy by the Kinks as the source. Check it out
It IS from Wonderboy by The Kinks. It's identical.
And the chorus is from While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I came here to see if anybody else called this out. As a kinks super fan I salute you.
Oh damn, I just commented similar. Only just seen yours. It was ridiculous to compare it to the theme from 'You and Me'!
F*in in the bushes was a sample from the Hendrix track which they then got Alan white to drum over. some of these are blatant but some of these examples are a bit of a stretch, there is a reason you cant copyright a chord sequence on its own.
This guy is on crack. The most simple drum beat ever is apparently stolen by Noel who was not a drummer in his band lol.
@@JohnDoe-gy5dr yeah majority of these are far reaching and I'm not even a huge oasis fan. One chord or beat that lasts 2 sec could make a case for every song being plagiarized
My fav is the intro riff from the “What’s The Story Morning Glory” title track lifted from REM’s “The One I Love”.
Listen to gypsy queen by April wine, you can hear morning glory had influence by that.
Same Size Feet by Stereophonics. It's the same riff for Hindu Times. Kind of a big miss on that one. But to be fair, you're bound to miss a couple here and there
Beat me to it there mate, was gonna mention this one
Yeah I found that out to my surprise trying to learn the two for a gig....must've heard them songs loads of times but never back to back.Saved me loads of time lol.
Within the first couple minutes of the video he said "this is not a comprehensive list"... So congrats for adding to the pointlessly corrective comments of the internet.
I guess those guys did not get as popular in the United States because I had not heard of them until about a year ago. Since then I have been a huge fan. I’ll have to go listen to same size feet again
Yeah I'd forgotten about that one!
One of the strangest similarities i've seen between an Oasis song and another band's wasn't Noel's, it's one of Liams. The song "Better Man" has a descending chord sequence which is identical to the track "Sleeping Girl" on Simple Minds' 2002 album "Cry". Liam was step-father to Jim Kerr's son at the time (Little James) and I used to wonder if little James ever brought home his Dad's demos to the Kensit/Gallagher household
You can't own a chord sequence. Every chord sequence ever has already been used by someone.
I always felt like Noel was brutally honest about ripping off other good tunes to make better ones.The You and Me thing for She's Electric just makes me laugh and love Noel even more.
Make them better? Fuck off lol
@@whenyoulookintoit9356 You couldn't write a hit if you stole Stairway to Heaven note for note
@@TheRealLange21 1. I'm not a songwriter and have no ambitions to be one.
2. That makes no sense at all and is like an oxymoron or a double negative or some shit like that. Couldn't write a hit if I stole stairway note for note. Then by definition, I've just written a hit. You said nothing about me performing it lol
@@whenyoulookintoit9356 Dig a little deeper. You might land a joke for once
Better than T Rex?.. You must be joking!
G-Em-C-D7. 100s of songs used these chords. Stolen? No….
Reminds me of an interesting TED Talk called "Creativity is a remix" by Kirby Ferguson
Columbia is probably my favourite Oasis track. I'd love to see you do a full breakdown of it. And if you could figure out where that Indian (?) sample at the end of the original version comes from I'd be truly amazed!
Not really a ripoff but Married with Children, She's Electric, and Nirvana's Lithium all feature the same chord progression. Took me far too long to realise that hahah
And Digsy’s Dinner
Back when I wrote songs the way I would nick parts of other songs is I would find chord progressions or just simply note progressions on a guitar for a song, and then I would reverse each bar on its own. This always lead to a unique enough piece of music while still catching the emotion and feel of the original tune and progression.
Haha I did the same thing. I would listen to a song i liked and then write lyrics to the melody with the intention of writing an original tune later
Well you weren't writing songs then.
I think Supersonic is a bit of a stretch. It’s just a run down and up the pentatonic scale isn’t it?
I feel sorry for the Real People. They helped get Oasis started and Noel went onto steal some of their songs and lyrics. Rockin' Chair was outright robbed from them.
Yes, copied their sound, clothing, attitude and everything else. Oasis made the money but The Real People we're the originals.
Noel is a plagarist.
Yeah, I'll have to look into this more. I remember watching the Definitely Maybe DVD and wondering why they were in it.
@anzpanz4444 That's interesting what you say about their look and attitude, etc.
@@anzpanz4444Real People has their chance but don’t do it well, sorry for them but it’s business
Real people out on tour again this year ,2025 look out for date and cities...
Your dedication and compromise are absolutely praiseworthy!
i know you said nothing was stolen from Heathen Chemistry but the Hindu Times riff is Stereophonics Same size feet
In my oppinion Noel was for "The Hindu times" riff inspired by the Edges opening riff of "Even better than the real thing". Maybe i am mistaken but there are clear similarities.
The drum you hear in Force of Nature is from Nightclubbing by Iggy Pop. It's a sample not a rip off tho..
Oh, the reason that the demo of "Be Here Now"/"Trip Inside" was replaced on the remasters with some other instrumental was because the whole song was very nakedly built around the intro drum/cowbell groove of "Honky Tonk Women".
In any case, I think music should be fun and remixing is pretty cool. Other people rip off, but it's either more obscure stuff or they're more subtle about it. It's how we think, grafting ideas onto others. I often remind people that Star Wars originally had a placeholder soundtrack of classical music before being properly scored... But most of John Williams' work sounds like the original music anyway. And we love it! It's great!
Is the proper demo of be here now on the physical release of the mustique demos?
"She's Electric" is copied from "Wonderboy" by the Kinks, not that song you mentioned. Noel switched "I see you and you see me" to "I'll be you and you'll be me" and the melody is identical.
Got the single. This is officially the last record I've bought in 2021! Happy to support a well intentioned artist who actually wants to change things for everybody instead of trying to carve his own niche in this despicable music industry. This world needs rock'n'roll and only we can make it happen✌🏻
Thanks so much Bosco!
I appreciate you :)
Onwards and upwards...
10:15 - Mornig Glory had a REM song's chords, I forget which one, I think it's the one 'This is the one that goes out to the one I love...' I don't know the title but what's heard lightly in that song is played heavy in Morning Glory. Noel even admitted he ripped off REM and someone else with it but wouldn't say who else. Roll With It supposedly rips off chords of a Rolling Stones song which is why it was called 'Stones Song' in Noel's stolen notebooks before it had lyrics for '2nd Album' on the one page. I haven't figured out which one for that yet.
"The One I Love" off of Document.
Stole Gallagher
First two tracks on Heathen chemistry he stole the hindu times riff from stereophonics - same size feet, and force of nature is nightclubbing by iggy pop
And put your money where ya mouth is on standing on the shoulder of giants is similar to the doors - roadhouse blues
Lastly Rayners Lane by the real people starts exactly the same as Hello even with the same pause after the intro into the main song
Not to nitpick, but that should be _Paul_ McGuigan at 5:51!
Regarding "She's Electric", the vocal melody at the start of its chorus seems inspired by that of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". The part that's similar is quite brief, though.
As for High Flying Birds songs, here's one for you: in "If I Had a Gun", Noel seems to have taken the vocal melody of its verses from the chorus of "Dance on Your Bones" by The Verve.
I think you mean the bridge of She's Electric?
@@badgasaurus4211 I mean to some degree it's a matter of perception/interpretation. To me (and I think most people who try to define it on this song), the part that starts "and I want you to know" is the bridge, the part connecting the verse and the chorus. Then the part starting "I'll be you and you'll be me" would be the chorus. One *could* define it all as a long multi-part chorus but that seems unnecessarily cumbersome to me. Hope that makes sense!
@@badgasaurus4211 eh, like I said, matter of opinion and perception, in the end. Glad we could come to some kind of agreement! :)
Yep - well spotted.
Don't know why I called him Tony McGuigan hahahaha.
Correction in description now...
Same Size Feet (Stereophonics) and Hindu Times have the same riff
James, here's a new one for you: John Cale - 'Half Past France'. The opening 10 seconds of guitar sound remarkably the same as the 'Champagne Supernova' intro! (As far as I'm aware; I've never seen that one actually documented anywhere before :) -J.
More like rock 'n' roll star
@@polopala I hear both. For RnR Star it's just the intro. For CS it's a running theme.
I really can't imagine NG knowing that track.
@@sodiumlights Nevertheless it does sound the same for a few seconds. That lazy sounding bit in CS when you can hear the waves. (Have you ever thought NG was possibly assigned ghost writers during their 94-96 period? Happens all the time in the music industry, when the music Business puts their stock in an Act and puts them on the front of every newspaper...)
@@neilsun2521 oh you're not wrong but those chord changes are not exactly unique. As for Noel paying money for a ghost writer...that's an utterly hilarious notion, thanks for the laugh though:)
then accused Green Day for stealing wonderwall chords
Always love your videos and your original material is great aswell. I heard 'think for a minute' by the housemartins yesterday and thought it sounded alot like the Oasis b side 'Going nowhere' and had to search for this video again. Even the trumpets are similar! Keep up the great work 👍
One of the most obvious ones he decided to leave out/ overlook was the chorus riff on "Stand By Me". A lot of people know that was nicked from Mott The Hoople's "All The Young Dudes" - a Bowie penned song.
well, "All The Young Dudes" is also present in Don't Look Back In Anger, final/last chorus, on the guitar. It was a classic city song they sang as "All The Young Blues". They also sang it on Whatever occasionally live.
It’s also self plagiarism from married with children
Felt it had elements of Ten Storey Love Song in its structure.
No This is totally wrong he nicked SBM from the halifax ads - it sounds exactly like it ..if you listen carefully
The break in the song she’s electric is directly nicked from wonder boy by the kinks as well. Give it a listen and you’ll hear it clear as day. Cool video cheers!
More like 'Hey now' to me
'Go Let It Out' is also very reminiscent of the acoustic rhythm guitar of early Beta Band songs. I seem to remember Noel was quite into the Beta Band at the time.
The intro is a rip off of 'Inner Meet Me'. There's elements of 'Dry The Rain' in that intro too.
@@scottw.3258 sounds nothing like dry the rain
@@Matt.Willoughby Sounds exactly like it. Noel even admitted at that time that he'd 'borrowed' several riffs from the Beta's.
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams", You Are Forgiven.....
Rock n Roll star's "i live my life in the city" has similar opening melody/words to CCR's proud Mary "Left a good job in the city"
Edit: She's electric also borrows from wonderboy by the kinks
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And also while my guitar gently weeps (and I want you to know= I don’t know whyy)
She’s electric has loads of rips .
Over- The LA’s (and I neeeeddd more timeeee), With a little help from my friends- Beatles (outro), wonderboy (I’ll be you n you’ll be me)
'She's Electric' has almost the exact same chords and rhythm in the verse as the verse of Nirvana's 'Lithium', the beginning of the chorus is also very similar to the chorus of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'. Also the riff from 'Morning Glory' is identical to that of REM's 'The One I Love'. Noel is openly a big fan of all of those bands and I have no doubt that they were all lifted, whether conscious or not.
I like how people like you call him Noel like you're best mates lol. When the reality is he doesn't even know you or your shitty little life exists
It's very close to Lady Madonna in the verse.
Lithium is married with children!
If you want an example from 'Heathen Chemistry' the drum intro on 'Force Of Nature' is the same as 'Nightclubbing' by Iggy Pop.
Also, not sure if it made your extended list but 'The Importance of Being Idle' sounds like 'Clean Prophet' by The La's. (Which also sounds like 'Dead End Street' by The Kinks)
@@badgasaurus4211 I'm more so talking about it as a groove, which James included lots of in the video.
Irrelevant as actually it was Mani from the stone roses who wrote every oasis song and would hand them to Noel at an open mic night in Salford that they both often played at. Mani never takes credit for this as he is a famously humble and shy individual.
Also worth mentioning in my opinion, the "It's never gonna be the same.." section in Hello is almost an exact rip of the chorus from Far Far Away by Slade. And I know Noel loved them seeing as how they covered Cum on Feel the Noize.
There’s a really obvious one you missed! The guitar solo from Don’t Look Back in Anger is identical to Damaged by Primal Scream
Check out, Slade Wonderin Y Guitar Riff 1:55 (B Side of Tak Me Bak Ome) v Don't Look Back in Anger guitar riff 3:30 mins. Noel the big Slade fan ?
Great video. Something else I noticed about "She's Electric" - the chorus vocal melody is very similar to the chorus vocal melody of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
Very true, it them meanders into the You and Me section which literally the same melody and almost the same lyrically as the chorus section in the Kinks Wonderboy!
@@TrevorHambidgeMusic well noticed. I love 'Wonderboy' by The Kinks but I didn't notice that before!
@@TrevorHambidgeMusic with lyrics adapted from the 80s kids TV show You and Me.
The verse chords are almost identical to Nirvanas Lithium
James, great video mate. Fade Away also uses a similar chord progression to the song 'I Don't Know What I Want' by Raspberries (1974), I feel like Noel would have probably listened to/appreciated this record as it's very much in line with what Townsend and The Who were doing at the time. Let me know what you think!
I like OASIS , note the riff taken from Bowie/Hoople's 'All the young dudes' in Stand By Me at @ 2:19 in that Oasis song. Why not? BRIAN WILSON said he based most of the songs on PET SOUNDS from BACH.
What matters to me is that the Oasis songs sound better than the songs they lifted from.
Also none of my top 5 Oasis songs seem to be ripped off from anything afaik.
Prove it ;)
"Also none of my top 5 Oasis songs seem to be rip offs"
Well it appears you wouldn't give a fuck if they were so I'm unsure why you made that distinction.
Stealing isn't ok just because you only did it "sometimes" and taking your neighbors car and cleaning it up and selling it is still profiting off of theft.
But I'm sure the artists that did the heavy lifting so that Oasis could stand on their shoulders
(I laughed out loud at Noel'a audacity when I saw that album cover in a record store when it was new)
while they go uncompensated are super interested in what "matters" to you.
Love your vids mate. Learn so much about my favourite band
To me the ending of Rock 'n' Roll Star was always a nod to My Generation. "Is this rock 'n' roll/It's just rock 'n' roll" is hardly a difficult line to think about as a rock 'n' roll band.
I had a song with a similar ending and used to put in both the ending of my generation and rock n roll star as I thought they were very similar
The Rock N Roll star riff was stolen from You Could Be Mine by Guns n Rose's
@@choclatesaltyballz No. Some similarities but definitely not stolen.
I always thought that the main riff of "Wonderwall" was a ripoff of the main riff in the Indigo Girls' "Closer to Fine."
Or indeed the chorus of bryan adams run to you....
Noel has always been the Tarantino of the music World.
Really 😭
Exactly !
Except taranto no hasn't stolen anything
@@johngilliam6764that’s what he’s known for
Don’t look back in anger is exactly the same chord progression and chorus as many rivers to cross Jimmy Cliff
Not to mention "Imagine" and about 3 other songs.
C - G - A - E - F - G - C
You mean the Canon? One of the basics on western music?
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Thanks so much Dale, I really appreciate it :)
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There's definitely a lot you missed. The Hindu Times sounds an awful lot like Same Size Feet by The Stereophonics, Noel even alludes to it in an interview saying he might have nicked it from somewhere. Bassline from All in the Mind is taken straight from Waterfall by The Stone Roses. The solo from Don't Look Back in Anger is shockingly similar to Damaged by Primal Scream. Also, not a song, but some of the lyrics for Go Let It Out are from a poem called A bag of tools by R.L Sharpe (though they were used in a reggae song so he probably got them from there). I can probably think of at least a dozen more.
Since your such the expert why not make your own video?
@@SwazersC "you're". Clearly not an expert at grammar. 🤣
Noel borrowed chord sequences and riffs like everyone else (and almost always crafted a better overall tune). Only a couple were straight lifts IMO.
I'd even go so far as to say that "Don't Go Away" is better than "Feel the Pain" even though it was almost a straight lift. The Griffiths brothers deserved a writing credit for it, but I'd say Oasis did it better. Maybe that's just me, though.
@@reillywalker195 That's reasonable
There’s borrowing chord sequences and then there’s nicking a load of lyrics from a bunch of old mates that helped you out when you were nothing and then fucking them off and not crediting them when you’ve made it.
@@reillywalker195 out of ALL the songs Noel is accused of "stealing" I think Feel the Pain is the most blatant, Noel even took lyrics. However, Noel took parts of that song and created a MEGA HIT. I live in the US and nobody knows or cares about The Real People, but I became a fan after Oasis. So the success of Oasis probably helped the Real People become a little bigger.
No, he straight stole songs - and just because you enjoy Oasis, it doesn't make that statement untrue. Everyone borrows from each other, and while there's nothing necessarily wrong with that, Noel is right up there at the top of the list of all-time outright thieves...but at least he admits it. The same can't be said for a lot of other English bands who robbed the early black American artists blind, and then tried to deny them their proper credit and compensation even after being taken to court. (Looking at you Led Zeppelin)
I think Noel stole the main riff from Hindu Times from Stereophonics song "Same Size Feet" I remember when i first heard Hindu times, I thought I know that riff haha
Damn 😆 Could forgive it here and there if there were slight similarities but this is ridiculous. You should give us the 30+ version, let's get it all out there
Cracking video, James. I never put two & two together with the live version of 'Until The End of the World' before and now i can't unhear it.
If subconsciously “borrowing” was absolutely forbidden, we’d have a massive hole in music history.
Try humming any random set of notes, or words, and someone would sue you for copyright.
“Once upon a time…” for example.
In She's Electric, the "I'll be you and you'll be me" bit is ripped off verbatim from the song Wonderboy by The Kinks.
Another one on WTSMG would be Morning Glory's main riff and chords being ripped from The One I Love by REM
Was about to say.
Noel Gallagher said that the starting riff of 'Some Might Say', (if that's the right term) was taken from Grant Lee Buffalo's 'Fuzzy', which you can hear at the start of their song.
What about She's Electic stealing from While My Guitar Gently Weeps? For me that's the most apparent lift
3:56 Wow, 'Tortuga' is a banger.
Great video. So many artists who should've received credit & royalties but didn't.
Great video as always James - A couple more famous ones to add to the pot from 'What's The Story...' the title song rips off the main riff to R.E.M. '(This one goes out) To The One I Love'. Also the ending of 'She's Electric' uses the Jim'll Fix It theme tune.
Correct! Morning glory is indeed from REM
That was an unfortunate choice for She's Electric
Used to buy cd singles every saturday during early 2000s.. the town I went to had a store with lots of the low charting or non top 40 stuff. Sometimes they used to have clear outs with 50p Singles. Nice to see you made a cd single 2022.
Talent Borrows, Genius Steals. Picasso
this has always been the natural progression of music from down the ages.
In fact, that was something never said by Picasso.
@@HeathenAmorphous it was probably said by the guy selling fake Picasso’s.
I hate when people reference this insipid quote to excuse lack of an original voice, much less for financial gain. Go fuck yourself.
Mucky Fingers = “Christine” by The House Of Love
brilliant James well done. Someone said to me many years ago that Oasis or Noels skill as a songwriter is that you think you have heard those songs before. In reality we have.
holy shit...this kind of video is what YT is made for..As a huge Oasis and NG fan especially nowadays again with the High Flying Birds i'm actually stunned. what are the chances that NG stopped nicking music and the HFB's are all original music.??? next video???
Just catching this video now. Never realised the U2 “Until The End of the World” Great find. On that, Noel was definitely at the U2 gig at Manchester G-MEX in 1992 (the “Stop Sellafield” concert). I’ve heard him mention this in interviews. It was part of that same Zoo TV Tour.
as both a massive U2 and Oasis fan i can't believe I didn't notice the link between Rock N Roll Star and Until the end of the World :-D
Noel definitely taken the opening drum line from Nightclubbing by Iggy Pop and used it on Force of Nature and No Fun by The Stooges and turned it into Hung in a Bad Place! He Must have had an Iggy Pop phase 😂
Spot on but Hung in a Bad Place was Gem Archer's first foray into writing for Oasis.
Absolutely. I only just noticed that a few months ago. 👍🏻
Not Noel but 10538 overture by Elo and changing man by Paul weller.......listen to both!
How the hell did weller get away with that.
The main riff from What’s the Story? is from the intro to The One I Love by REM, the verse from Don’t Look Back in Anger and also Whatever is basically Pachelbel Canon. Whatever even has a string section. The main riff from Layla, by Derek and the Dominos is used in the Supersonic solo. Part of the Live Forever solo uses the opening riff from Eagles Life in the Fast lane. I’ve heard the bridge from Roll with it somewhere but I can no longer remember where. I suspect it all started because Noel lied to get his record deal saying he’d written an album of songs, when he hadn’t. Not sure I blame him for that. He then had to write an album and in order to do that under time pressure, he took route 1. But that’s just a guess. He’s pinched from himself as well. The verse for D’you know what I mean is the same chords as wonderwall, more or less and Supersonic and Acquiesce are pretty similar in the verse. Neil Young got a single out of Satisfaction and then there’s Stairway, Surfin’ USA etc. long tradition of borrowing but maybe not as shameless…
Is the Neil Young song you refer to “Mr soul” by any chance?
@@honved1 Sounds like it, but Mr Soul is still quite a bit different.
Agree he stole the riff from The One I Love. But the verse/ bridge/ chorus for What's the Story are fantastic and seem to be completely original. The song is a masterpiece and it is far, far superior to The One I Love. And while the riff drives the song, I don't think it accounts for the greatness of the song.
Similarly for Dont Look Back in Anger. Yes the verse follows the progression of Pachelbel although he does embellish the melody line from Pachelbel so its not a direct copy. But the verse is by far the weakest part of the song -- the bridge is great and the chorus is an all time great chorus. The song is an all time masterpiece, IMO the best song of the 90s, and it seems to me very little of that is due to the verse.
He also steals the keyboard riff from Imagine in the guitar intro for DLBIA.
Seems to me that Shakermaker is much more of a rip off.
The riff from Supersonic is lifted almost entirely from George Harrison's My Sweet Lord and the chords sequence on Supersonic is also very similar to Bryan Adams - Run To You and the E to C#7 on the "before tomorrow" bit on Supersonic, well there is an E to C#7 in Strawberry Fields Forever, coincidence?
@@honved1 yes
Hindu Times on Heathen Chemistry has that big Indian sounding riff. That is the same riff from a Stereophonics track on their 1997 debut album 'Word gets around'. The song is Same size feet, and the riff kicks in after the intro verse when the whole band kicks in.
The obvious ones are Cigarettes & Alcohol, Shakermaker, Don't Go Away, Hindu Times. A lot of the others are just crossovers which does happen in music! Influences in music are a great thing and all bands do it! Columbia and Rockin' Chair should have been credited to Chris Griffiths though of course!
Cloudburst is better than Standing here😉 Amazing video! Noel is a genius no matter what haha
She's electric also sounds like Teach The World To Sing, in the tune of the I'll be You You'll Be Me bit. It also rips off While My Guitar Gentley Weeps, in the "and I want you to know" bits, which sound suspiciously like "I don't know how".
The Oasis songs are 1,000x better than the “seed material”. And some of these are one “similar” riff in Oasis songs that have totally different verse progressions / riffs, chorus progressions / riffs, bridge progressions / riffs, intros and outros. I’d liken it more to brief similarities in the songs, or specific intentional allusions to classic British tunes of the 60’s and 70’s.
Nah.
@@MD-fu6ly epic rebuttal, guy. You really got him there.😂
@@TheRetroManRandySavage its all that was required 🙈
@@MD-fu6ly just bustin' balls, mush.😂👍
Nope. Oasis not 1000 x better than the Roses, Beatles, Kinks, U2, Stevie Wonder, Nirvana etc etc.
19:30 Also sampled in Loser by Beck, which most likely influenced the use here, as Noel has praised Beck’s music in his handwritten journals.
The Some might say riff he also openly talked about ripping that off from an American country band but I can’t remember what it was called.
Love Noel… I think most of the stuff just came i to his head when he was playing around and he made his own version. Normal thing to do and as you said, only 12 notes and if you can’t expertly play the guitar, only like 4 or 5 chords :D
I love him as a songwriter but he’s just not a great guitar player and is hell bent on just basic rock n roll so when you combine those traits you’re bound to rip some shit off whether you want to or not.
8:46 - Actually it wasn't just the chords of the one line. The orchestra parts on Whatever are largely similar to the orchestra parts of the one studio version of the song. When people criticized Innes just for thinking it was just that one set of chords, Innes re used the orchestra paerts overlooked in the Rutles Archaeology song Shangri La.
Wasn’t George Harrison sued for lifting “my sweet lord” from the Ronettes “He’s so fine”? Is that irony?
also the part in She's Electric where liam sings "and i want you to know" is very similar to "i don't know why" in While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Another one I didn't realise until I'd actually played it on guitar was "stand by me" has the same chord structure as "Everytime you go away" by hall and oates
I highly doubt Noel would even slightly be influenced by Hall and Oates.
Wasn't that by "Paul Young"? That was a very well known 80s one hit wonder.
That Canned Heat On the Road Again/Swamp song riff was originally lifted from John Lee Hooker and possibly thousands of blues player before him.
This is just how music has always worked, Noel was just honest about lifting bits and bobs. My Sweet Lord was a rip off of an old tune He's So Fine. Marc Bolan said Get it On was Little Queenie by Chuck Berry and Chuck Berry's guitar riffs were copied from jazz trumpet solos like this 👇 th-cam.com/video/OkQWv18Trw0/w-d-xo.html
You can hear elements of REM's Fire in the WTSMG? title track. Particularly the main riff. It's almost identical to the opening riff of Fire.
Also Shakermaker is virtually Flying from Magical Mystery Tour. You can sing Shakermaker over Flying. Even the "aaahs" are in the right place
Another excellent video James.
(from a purely guitar playing aesthetic)
Live forever - somehow reminds me of ‘knocking on heaven’s door’ (GnR)
Wonderwall - somehow reminds me of ‘disarm’ (Smashing pumpkins).
Supersonic’s main verse chord progression - very similar to 'how soon is now' (Smiths)
I mean, they are not copied, more just heavily influenced.
I really like oasis and I also really like the songs that they were influenced by, so it’s a win-win.
'talent borrows, genius steals'
You mean good ones imitate great ones steal,
Hi James. Love and appreciate your videos. You have no idea how much you’ve helped me with learning oasis’s songs. Could you please make a video for Columbia with tabs?
I've always thought go let it out was directly influenced by and lifted from the song dry the rain by the beta band. Exact same drum sample and acoustic guitar feel. Noel even spoke a lot about the beta band around that time an all.
Good shout that. Beta Band massively underrated.
Just listened to it the first time... What a song, simply amazing. Thank you sir
Thanks to high fidelity I've discovered on spotify
Whatever is actually stolen from The Velvet Underground's "Ride Into The Sun"-1969. Have a listen and you can't unhear it.
The opening of Rock 'n' Roll Star is the same as the riff that appears half way through 'Lazyitis' by the Happy Mondays. Also I always thought the chorus of 'Lyla' is similar to 'Mona' by Craig McLachlan.
Good spot. Defo
His whole approach was stolen from Shaun Ryder
Richard Ashcroft sampled a small part of an intro, from a Loog Oldham ‘reworking’ of a Stones track, that was actually the work of one of the session musicians.. and had to give up 100% song writing credit to Jagger/Richards (who had 0% input into the part that he sampled).. Noel blatantly rips off the songs of The Real People, who actually helped Oasis early on.. he only has to give ‘partial’ songwriting credit, and the cheeky little tw*t still makes sure that his name goes first..
Brilliant video James ❤️ I think Noel did a great job of making them he own sign of a great songwriter Also gonna order your CD Please don't give That sheep a Kicking 🤣
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Ok I'll spare the sheep. This once.
(also thanks!)
Hi James. I'm a 35 year old mancunian musician and wanted to congratulate you on exposing these culture vultures. Great list but I'd like to see the full version. I think you've missed an absolute gem. Listen to the vocal melody in the chorus of George Harrison - Whilst My Guitar Gently Weeps. It's identical to the vocal melody in the chorus of "She's Electric."
kind of a relief that so many of their most iconic songs sounded similar or were directly ripped from other artists, as an aspiring musician and songwriter i worry about my songs sounding somewhat similar, im very influenced by oasis and my songs have a similar vibe to their tracks and i’m trying to find a balance between originality and influence. i once wrote a full song and then realized after that it was just a retextured morning glory
I can imagine Noel thinking “you think my songwriting style’s a crime but it makes me money”
All I gotta say is Noel is a genius. He made bangers
He was good at faking it, ended up making it far
So he says.
The fact that people in the comments are saying how other songs remind them or sound like them, just shows how many songs in history actually all borrow from others.
The comments sections has so many other songs that are identical or similar that just shows how many bands all used the same type of sounds, progressions and textures.
Verse melody of cast no shadow sounds v similar to chorus of the Verve’s ‘History’. Noel long ago dedicated the song to Richard Ashcroft after they became mates during the Verve’s Northern Soul album tour...
So many omissions…
Noel has openly admitted to wholesale lifting chord sequences from:
the Stones for Live Forever;
All The Young Dudes for Whatever;
Ooh La La for Some Might Say;
Hanging On The Telephone for Underneath the Sky;
Roadhouse Blues for Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is.
And nicking the whistle from 100 Mile High City on Go Let It Out.
Basically Noel creates the lite version of all the songs 🤣🤣
I read a news in an italian forum called OasisLive in 2005 that reported that Lyla was stolen by a french singer called Jules Nobicle and the song was called Leila. I remember it was identical. I've never found the song again.