I think so, alot of people will have bypassed the band by not recognising the name, whereas Liam Gallagher is very recognisable..

Would have sold a few more records, nothing massive but id say The Roller would have charted slightly higher

You're saying The Roller would've charted higher, had Liam gone solo?
So it would've been better if Gem sang it himself or what exactly is it you're saying?

Boom!!

Totally agree sir

It's a good thing he stayed with beady eye but he should do more collaborations. People would love to write for his voice. He did very few collaboration in his carreer except for Carnation, Scorpio Rising with Death in Vegas and Shoot Down with Prodigy and there were all great He really should go and explore.
Noel has since the Chemical Brothers and he's still doing it with the AA album.

Liams songwriting is a whole lever above Gem and Andy though!


But he will never go solo. He likes being in a band, with friends. It's different then Noel, who always was a loner even if he was in the band.

For me ,is impossible ，you know Liam isn't able to make 10 interesting or unforgettable songs in one album so far . In fact, Gem and Andy had to make more contribution to the next years‘ album will become more important.

The last album suggests on a consistent basis the opposite is true.

Really? The Morning Son and Wigwam are two of the best songs of the album. Bring The Light was praised as best of the album by a lot of critcs.

And on previous albums he wrote songs like Bow With The Blues, Guess God Thinks I'm Abel, Born On A Different Cloud, Songbird, I'm Outa Time, ... Need I say more?

The best songs on the album where 4LW and The Roller by a decent margin, not only where they the most radio-friendly but they were also the most complete. BTL was praised and slaughtered in equal measure, praised because it was different, slaughtered because it wasn't a great song. Can you remember the utter derision when it was released? Only since it's live potential was shown have people warmed to it.

Liam has written the best songs of the bunch (Songbird and IOT) but he's also written a lot of the crap (BAS says high). On his own he wouldn't have the consistent quality to write an album and DGSS didn't have any of that 'Gallagher Magic' Liam occasionally taps into. Andy and Gem's bottom level is much higher than Liams, even if they dont have such a high ceiling.

All of this without mentioning how much Liam relies on Gem to translate his ideas into "actual music".

Yeah, it would get him out of his silly box.

Excellent post above, I agree with all of that.

Liam's problem is that he goes into rock 'n' roll star mode when writing, where he bases the quality of the song on how punchy it sounds live. I have no problem with hearing those kind of songs at gigs, but Oasis had dozens of similar but vastly superior songs in their back catalogue, and Beatles and Stones, Ain't Got Nothing and The Meaning of Soul weren't exactly amongst the high points on record.

Liam is capable of writing excellent songs when he does put his mind to it though, and I'd say Morning Son, Wigwam, Songbird, I'm Outta Time and Born On A Different Cloud are a class above Andy and Gem's, and arguably on par or not far off Noel's output from the same period. That's not to say Liam is anywhere near as good a songwriter as Noel though - it took him 8 years to pen 5 songs. But certainly the potential is there.

I also think Sharrock deserves a special mention though. I remember Gem saying that they all sent him their unfinished work before they went to the studio. Sharrock would then add the drums and structure the rest of the song to fit around them. It shows what a difference it makes to having a permanent drummer in the band as I think his drumming on Wigwam, the Morning Son and one or two others significantly improve the overall song, and I'm not normally someone who notices individual instruments.