Song Meanings and Facts

Song Meanings and Facts

Tagged: Noel Gallagher

Oasis

Oasis

“Stop Crying Your Heart Out” by Oasis

This song is tantamount to an auditory anti-depressant. The addressee is clearly someone who is in some sort of state of melancholy. And based on the lyrics, the insinuation would be that the cause...

Champagne Supernova

Oasis

Oasis’ “Champagne Supernova” Lyrics Meaning

According to lore, the origin of the title of this song goes as such. Noel Gallagher, its writer, misheard the word “Bossanova”, which is actually name of an album an American rock band called the Pixies...

Supersonic

Oasis

“Supersonic” by Oasis

The history of Oasis’ “Supersonic” is that its entire writing and recording was completed within a timespan of 24 hours. In fact Noel Gallagher is said to have done so very-early in the morning with...

Oasis

Oasis

Oasis’ “Gas Panic” Lyrics Meaning

Noel Gallagher wrote this song during a particular night when he was suffering from an especially-acute case of what he has termed as “difficult agony attacks”. These are withdrawal afflictions he was plagued with in...

Don't Look Back in Anger

Oasis

Oasis’ “Don’t Look Back in Anger” Lyrics Meaning

It should be noted (before the analysis of “Don’t Look Back in Anger” even begins) that its writer, Noel Gallagher, has himself stated he doesn’t know what it means. And why? Because he wrote it while...

Live Forever

Oasis

Oasis’ “Live Forever” Lyrics Meaning

Despite Noel Gallagher, the writer of “Live Forever”, being in his mid-20’s when it was written, it can perhaps be classified as an expression similar to teenage angst. The singer (Liam Gallagher) has reached a...

One of Us

Liam Gallagher

Liam Gallagher’s “One of Us” Lyrics Meaning

“One of Us” is a song written and recorded by English singer Liam Gallagher of Oasis fame. The lyrics of “One of Us” are very personal in the sense that they center on the...

Cast No Shadow

Oasis

“Cast No Shadow” by Oasis

This song was written by Noel Gallagher about his friend Richard Ashcroft, former frontman of the highly-successful 1990’s Britpop group The Verve. It is said to be in response to a song The Verve released...

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

The Smiths

“There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” by The Smiths

On The Smiths’ “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” a depressed protagonist (Morrissey) is seated in the passenger seat of his lover or yet-to-be lover’s car.  And as the pair drive together,...

"This Charming Man" by The Smiths

The Smiths

Meaning of “This Charming Man” by The Smiths

This Charming Man is a song by The Smiths – an indie rock band that hailed from England. Lyrically, the song sees the narrator talk about getting his bicycle tire punctured in a remote...