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Honestly after 60+ years of rock n roll it’s literally impossible not to rip off SOMEONE at some point.

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 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”.

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.

The Beatles did it, the Stones did it, the Who did it, the Kinks did it, everyone does it. Most of the bigger bands are quite candid about nicking things. Call it ripping off, call it being influenced, call it paying homage, it doesn't matter. It's been going on since the beginning of popular music. It will keep happening. Most real musicians are influenced by those preceding them. Noel and Liam are a bit more blatant about it but I wouldn't press charges, LoL. 😁

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.

Just discovered your videos and I love them - done with humour, great clips, fantastic scholarship and pop culture context. Seriously well done.

My fav is the intro riff from the “What’s The Story Morning Glory” title track lifted from REM’s “The One I Love”.

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

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.

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

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!

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!

I think Supersonic is a bit of a stretch. It’s just a run down and up the pentatonic scale isn’t it?

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!

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 👍

Reminds me of an interesting TED Talk called "Creativity is a remix" by Kirby Ferguson

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✌🏻

'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.

This was fascinating, particularly the Tortuga ‘borrowing’. With you on the Whatever ‘borrow’, rest of the song is nothing like it. Great video as always 👍

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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."

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.

When we talk stealing, no one comes close to Led Zeppelin. This band built their career by stealing so many songs that it needed 2 videos to cover the vast number. Unbelievable!!!

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

i know you said nothing was stolen from Heathen Chemistry but the Hindu Times riff is Stereophonics Same size feet

If you add a 'signed' option to the EP I am sure that would lift sales. This is a trick that has been used by many over the last year to secure a higher chart position 'ahem Manics' .... just a thought... I have bought two copies but would buy a third if it was autographed #musichistory

Step out bridge actually reminds me of Bytor and the Snow Dog by Rush as the bridge is fairly similar to it also. Great Oasis video as always, James. 👍

What are your thoughts on the similarities between this and 'Let There be Love'? Before seeing your video I thought there was a possibility that it was a mere coincidence - but now you've shown just how openly they share their influences (he said diplomatically), I'm not so sure.

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 🤣

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

"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.

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.

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

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 😂

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 love how you put in that live of Fade Away.

Another one on WTSMG would be Morning Glory's main riff and chords being ripped from The One I Love by REM

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.

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.

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.

Noel borrowed chord sequences and riffs like everyone else (and almost always crafted a better overall tune). Only a couple were straight lifts IMO.

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

then accused Green Day for stealing wonderwall chords

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.

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.

Ordered my copies. Your content inspires my songwriting so much. I will record in 2022. It is my dream to be on Hargreaves Records. All the best brother.

Love your vids mate. Learn so much about my favourite band

You missed out the ‘Morning Glory’ riff, half-inched from ‘The one I love’ by REM

Noel has always been the Tarantino of the music World.

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.

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

Surprised your didn’t mention that Some might say riff was taken from “Fuzzy” grant Lee buffalo. Also the Rosalie song I’m sure is by Bob Segar (mentioned on the live and dangerous tour so I’ve always remembered this). Great video though.

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'

Basically Noel creates the lite version of all the songs 🤣🤣

Wow. Superb analysis. The 'Live Forever' solo is more than a little inspired by Sexual Healing.

Love your research on identifying were Oasis/Noal got there inspiration and borrowed those riffs. Good work keep I'm coning brother 🙏

Noel made every ripped song even better, and that is genius

Both Neil Young & Bruce Springsteen have tunes around the early nineties that sound like the Supersonic riff :-)

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

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...

Morning Glory riff is very similar to REM's 'The one I love'. Hindu Times is also very similar to Stereophonics 'Same Size Feet'. And I can't be the only one who notices the similarities with 'Part of the Queue' & The Stranglers??

Noel Gallagher never claimed to be original

Check out Gene Clark's 'From a Silver Phial' from the cult album 'No Other'. The opening chords are identical to 'Don't Look Back in Anger".

also the riff from morning glory is like a riff in 'slow ride', one of the songs in the later albums has the exact music of 'breaking the girl by RHCP & the swamp song sounds like 'on the road again'

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.

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.

Part of the Queue uses the chords from The Stranglers' Golden Brown. Born on a Different Cloud is very similar in parts (and has some of the same lyrics) as Happiness is a Warm Gun from the White Album.

I always thought that the main riff of "Wonderwall" was a ripoff of the main riff in the Indigo Girls' "Closer to Fine."

bit of a stretch but from 1:30 in ‘is anybody out there?’ by pink floyd there’s a guitar riff very similar to sad song! anyone else heard this?

As a mega oasis and NG fan, this is making my day!!, makes me fucking love the guy a million times more than I already did. He’s never denied doing it and famously said that it’s “an art” in itself to be able to do what he did. Genius

3:56 Wow, 'Tortuga' is a banger. Great video. So many artists who should've received credit & royalties but didn't.

Yeah. I met Noel in 92. And w talked about guitar riffs and such … He pinched all my riffs. I was a busker. No hard feelings. 12 notes.

All I gotta say is Noel is a genius. He made bangers

You've missed one - which I only discovered a few months ago, to be honest: The lead riff on Morning Glory is taken from The One I Love, by REM. Would you agree?

It's weird how the 'She's Electric' rip seems to be a double rip. Because you have the 'You and Me' line, which in itself sounds so much like the 'Shakermaker/NewSeekers' rip. One thing I take away from watching several of your clips is that Liam is a top, top lead singer.

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

Talent Borrows, Genius Steals. Picasso this has always been the natural progression of music from down the ages.

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

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

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..

Great video. Noel was a master at taking something from a song and making it his own. Sometimes hes got a bit cheeky and would lift the whole thing though! But that's just how it is sometimes. Still great music. I think everyone ended up getting paid anyway as well, so no harm no foul! My art teacher used to say they're are no originals. I think that goes for music too - there is always an influence in there.

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.

Always love these. Any mention for The Kinks Wonderboy and Oasis She's Electric? Blatant

I can't believe you didn't mention the guitar solo in Primal Scream's 'Damaged.' Lifted by Noel for 'Don't look Back in Anger.'

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…

wow Columbia part blew my mind. as someone who is a huge fan of both techno and Oasis I appreciate this detail

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.