I'm surprised that he doesn't receive law suit threats on everything. One or 
two original ideas on the first album, and then eveybody else's ideas since.

I firmly believe that Oasis are the Policy Academy series in music form. 
Average for the first two, diminishing returns, leading to crap of late. 
Oasis albums are cut to mid-price very quickly these days.

Mike (not an Oasis fan)




>From: "Andrew Hickey" <stealthmunchkin@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Inconsistent Songwriters (Noel Gallagher)
>Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 07:10:40 +0100
>
>On 6/2/06, steveferra <flalaw@aol.com> wrote:
>>The Masterplan was a great B-side collection, but even and that it
>>still left off some of their best B-sides, including my favorite,
>>"Whatever", which always reminded me of "All The Young Dudes".
>
>That's because "Whatever" was an A-side. I think it was left off
>Morning Glory because of the several lawsuits it generated from people
>who the song ripped off (notably Neil Innes - the melody is almost
>identical to How Sweet To Be An Idiot).
>
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