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The 40 Best Oasis Songs

The Gallagher brothers’ finest moments — from Nineties classics to obscure gems

Oasis best 40 songs

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After a contentious 15-year break, brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher are reforming Oasis. The reunion and subsequent 2025 tour announcement drove fans back to the Britpop pioneers’ catalog, with Spotify reporting a 690 percent increase in streams of Oasis music. But pity the casual listeners who only gravitated toward the group’s two biggest albums, 1994’s Definitely, Maybe and 1995’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?. They’re missing out on some true Gallagher brothers gems, from late-period singles to a wealth of B-sides from the band’s heyday — many of which appear on our list of the 40 best Oasis songs. Anyway, here’s “Wonderwall.”

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‘Live Forever’ (1994)

If you’ve never felt this way about a friend, bandmate, lover, or absolute rando cheers-ing your fourth pint of the night, can you really say you’ve lived? “Maybe you’re the same as me/We see things they’ll never see/You and I are gonna live forever” — Noel unlocked the absurd, romantic intensity of so many late-adolescent nights when he wrote those lines. Millions of impressionable youths heard these guys lay claim to a secret wisdom about the world and shouted, “Yes!” Some of them even started bands to express all those same things they saw. None of them wrote a song half as eternal as “Live Forever.” —S.V.L.

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‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ (1995)

“Wonderwall” has gotten the memes, the karaoke and campfire immortality, but in the Oasis pantheon, one song still stands above them all. “Don’t Look Back in Anger” is the Oasis ideal: A belter of a ballad, best sung with arms flung around others’ shoulders, built from unabashed Beatles worship, but still its own beautiful thing, and sly enough to know, “Please don’t put your life in the hands/Of a rock ‘n’ roll band/Who’ll throw it all away.” And then there’s the other obvious resonance. “Don’t Look Back in Anger” is a song that prizes acceptance and forgiveness, moving forward in life with neither regret, nor grievance. It offers up a way of living that Noel and Liam Gallagher should’ve probably embraced years ago, and maybe they finally have. —J.B.