The Interior Life of Noel Gallagher: A Speculative History

Oasis turned to utter shit once they discovered the Beatles

So... before they started Oasis, then? Sounds about right.

my thoughts exactly

Depressing, I wasn't sure about him after escaping the bubble of Oasis but it seems his perspective if anything has narrowed rather than the other way

Gallagher's a churl who isn't worth a moment's attention but i want to say as a side note that i don't think a gleeful eclecticism of influence is necessarily better for an artist than a handful of fixed references. a creative imagination doesn't need a vast range of inputs - they just need to be creative and imaginative.

agreed - though purposefully blinkering oneself from anything that's not white and holding a guitar and from the 60s probably is a strong indicator that said artist is unlikely to be creative or imaginative.

It doesn't seem to occur to Noel that even his boring old moth-eaten heroes were not as incurious and ignorant about music as he is, albeit as shit and boring as they are.

I'm not interested in jazz or hip-hop or whatever's going round at the minute; indie shit.

not sure what's going on w/ the punctuation here but I like to think that he's bracketing jazz and hip-hop as "indie shit"

Hey guys have you taken a second to contemplate how horrific Noel's jazz or hip hop influenced music would be?

There was some experimentation: "D'You Know What I Mean?" contains a slowed down loop from N.W.A.'s "Straight Outta Compton",[17] while "Magic Pie" features psychedelically arranged vocal harmonies and a mellotron. According to Noel, "All I did was run my elbows across the keys and this mad jazz came out and everyone laughed."[18]

"All I did was run my elbows across the keys and this mad jazz came out and everyone laughed"

That's probably a result of Goldie giving him some advice.

imagining him going out for a piss straight after that and everyone else in the studio sort of looking at each other and all wanting to broach the subject of when are we going to stop being so craven and just tell him that his ideas are terrible and this wasn't "mad jazz" but the sound that anyone would make if they ran their elbows across a keyboard but all of them also knowing that this is a great life and why do anything that would even moderately dent it

That is probably the closest to the bone post on here in terms of Noel's True Interior Life.

"I am probably the only songwriter in the entire world that hasn't written a song about 9/11."

have to admit he's making his best case for himself here

anything that's not white and holding a guitar and from the 60s

hey now he did rip off Stevie Wonder that one time. Gary Glitter/T.Rex aren't really from the 60s either

we're never going to hear the AA vs noel album are we.
he seems to have withdrawn back into his comfort cave.
shame, as i was really looking forward to that.

yeah, still we will always have that 12" of 'Falling 4own" anyway

i find him pretty sympathetic in that interview? seems like a guy who's aware of his limitations and interests.

he likes beefheart!

it's the natural next step after a life eating blood sausage

seems like a guy who's aware of his limitations and interests.

yeah but 15 years ago he was all "hip-hop is the bestest" and four years ago as m e notes he was all "fuck an Oasis, I'm doing this album with FSOL," and

I remember him raving about drum n bass and taking e

I know he's said stupid things and has made a lot of bad bad music but I can't help finding him pretty funny in interviews...
he seems pretty laidback and cool for a "rockstar".
can't hate the guy !

In a way, I prefer his down to earth/basic approach to music etc to bands/artists trying hard to pretend they're forward looking, artsy, conceptual or whatever.
it doesn't mean it makes me want to listen to what he produces, though !

how do you pretend to be forward-looking, artsy, conceptual? copy your music off Wikipedia the day before it's due to be handed in?

"at least i am real not like the class swot who nicked a Kursaal Flyers riff then stuck some quote by David Tudor on it"

I was hoping he'd do a Riverdance kind of thing

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/men-of-the-year/home/winners-2013/icon-noel-gallagher

"50 Shades Of Grey? 50 Shades Of Shite!"

This is cringe-inducing.

People who celebrate their own ignorance are the worst fucking cunts in the world.

You want all the work done for you.
Too f***ing right. Novels and the people who write them, like I say, are putting themselves a few rungs above the rest of us. They're purporting to be intellectual, and... for you to write a book, is for you to say, "I am better than you." My 68 million records beat your one book.

Your album's over in 45 minutes.
Yeah! Done! In and out, put the kettle on. There's just a lot of time devoted to the reviewing and reading of books. More man-hours are devoted to reading about books - not even reading books.

this doesn't even make sense. i mean, does he really think books are discussed more than music? god, what a fucking total monkey-faced prat.

i wonder what Noel thinks about children's television programmes or Clarice Cliff ceramics?

curious as to his views on chocolate bars

Gallagher may be a self-atrophying cunt but he got rich thru his lack of endeavours. what fucking excuse does this Danny Wallace or any other adult male sub-chode who still worships at his shitty-haired altar have?

xp "Flyte? More like s****"

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/podcasts/artwork/266/dannyw.jpg

that's strange, he doesn't look like a cunt

really?

(very pleased with that picture/DN combination)

christ a quick perusal of Wallace's CV tells me a) he is evil and b) some ilxor is gonna wander by shortly to tell us that some horrible fucking thing he's done is "pretty good actually"

He looks like Sue Perkins.

What else can I say that's nice, comparitively?

Why would you want to?

good point.

I feel stupider for having read the Noel interview.

Still, he and vile Tory rag GQ deserve each other.

Too f***ing right. Novels and the people who write them, like I say, are putting themselves a few rungs above the rest of us. They're purporting to be intellectual, and... for you to write a book, is for you to say, "I am better than you." My 68 million records beat your one book.

of course those people who boast about selling tens of millions of records are in no way trying to put themselves "a few rungs above the rest of us". An amazing display of passive aggressive anti-intellectualism, well done Noel!

jesus christ that interview. my brain was actually struggling for oxygen reading that, like i was being smothered by a huge pillow full of bloated ignorance.

To what extent would u consider ng to hold the opinions of an ordinary briton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA

Think no one should ever suggest even in jest "dont care about the music, but he's good copy" ever again

that is unreadable

I would like to see his bookshelf. His collection of books about shit that happened.

I imagine he has a small collection of novels. Two Irvine Welshes, the complete Kevin Sampson, maybe a John King. None of them finished.