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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Mark Beaumont and Roisin O'Connor

The 20 best Oasis songs, ranked: From Champagne Supernova to Live Forever

Are you, or do you know, a “Wonderwall warrior”? One of the many Gen-Zers who used their ninja-like internet skills to beat drug-muddled original fans to Oasis tickets, despite only knowing their most famous song? Wondering – aloud, online, to much gnashing of furry hood from the millions of parka dads who missed out – if they have any other good songs you should listen to before you go?

At your service. Oasis, at least up until around 1996 or so, were among Britpop’s most brazen purveyors of songwriting excellence, thundering riffs and lyrics made up on the spot about the producer’s dog. Their early years produced a veritable deluge of classics that marked them out as one of the top-tier acts in British rock history, and they sporadically tapped that same rich seam even after the drugs stopped working.

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