Well not Nirvana per se, but a lot of the earlier songs were a bit rougher and rockier

Me opposite. Alice In Chains, Soundgarden are a good bands but to me Nirvana was something extra. You can hear Beatles influences in it, Beach Boys and all, it's musically more interesting and mature than most of Soundgarden songs. Come on, Kurt Cobain was Beatles freak, to me Lennon, Cobain, Liam are just like evolution steps, but i know most of people don't know what the fuck i'm on about when i'm saying that, i know.

Married With Children and Lithium obvious but Wonderwall ? How is it similar to Smells Like Teen Spirit ? I'll be shocked if you show me one second where it's actually is  

Noel said Definitely Maybe was influenced by Nirvana and Nervermind album to certain extent. Noel admitted being a fan of Nirvana and Kurt's work, but Liam and rest of the band according to Noel are stuck in 1968 still. For majority of Oasis fans saying Oasis had no influence by Nirvana is quite arrogant comment. Of course they were! Any up and coming band will listen other bands around. Young bands are competitive. Oasis didn't come out the shoe box of 1994, but started 1991. Nirvana was everywhere by later half of 1991. Nirvana time burnt out after Kurt's death and Oasis star was born in 1994. Kurt and Noel are both born in 1967. I'm sure Noel thought if Kurt (who were the same age) wrote that I can write better in his mind. Columbia, Bring it on Down,Cigarettes & Alcohol, Fade Away are influenced. Take Teen Spirit drumming in the beginning and Supersonic drumming in the beginning both are the main start of both bands debut national singles.

You know what i'm talking about. Of course the attitude was the opposite, but sometimes you can hear that Noel heard Nirvana more than once in his life.

The most grungy sounding Oasis stuff was on DOYS. Did a couple songs in drop d, the guitars got a little muddier, the drums pounded a little harder.

To be honest I'm not really a huge fan of Nirvana. I don't even listen to them anymore and haven't in years. They're a great band don't get me wrong, but they weren't saviors of rock n' roll like so many critic proclaim them to be (cough Rolling Stone). Hell they weren't even the best American band in the 90's. That honor would go to Pavement.

Kurt and Noel are both Beatles freaks and have a great sense of melody but like kalas said I prefer the way Oasis performed those melodies within the context of their songs. Kurt's songs are filled with angst, frustration, and despair. I can see why it appealed to a lot of people but I'll always prefer Pavement's slacker Gen-X vibes to the frustrated ones that Kurt put out. On the other hand Noel's songs are filled with hope and a touch of melancholy.

I think Noel and Kurt are similar in a lot of ways personality wise and musically. They both experienced the same emotions when they wrote their songs but they choose different ways of expressing themselves within these emotions. Kurt dug deeper into his emotional angst while Noel sought to dig himself out of it.

Actually he wrote melodies that punched you in the face. That's the the main reason Nirvana and especially Nevermind became such a worldwide phenomenon, take the half-baked, mediocre teenage angst lyrics he wrote aside.

Come to think of it, that's probably the same pattern that Oasis used to halfway crack America in the nineties. No, really.

You just can't sell ~20 million records worldwide, whatever digital age you're in, without persuasive melodies and the right grasp for youth culture. As dumb and thankful as this youth culture might be.

To answer the original topic question. No, I honestly don't think Nirvana or Grunge in general had any sort of influence on Noel's songwriting whatsoever. Except for the fact that typical Grunge bands (who are they anyway? Nirvana? Mudhoney? Soundgarden? Even Pearl Jam? And where did it end? Weezer?? Oasis?) are arming themselves with the same integrative, standarsised rock equipment every band since about Bill Haley and the Comets used. A more or less distorted guitar combined with bass and drums and some and some more or less revolutionary lyrics. I think however, Grunge did have an direct effect on later british guitar bands. Admittedly, they're all horrible. The likes of The Subways etc. The Britpop wave of the nineties seems to have had a deeper impact on America, than vice versa.

So, I've just listened to the early acoustic Hello demo for the first time and if you'd wanna enforce it, in some way it kinda reminds you of About A Girl. Then again, not really...

Just listened to Columbia , and early oasis , not critisizing anyone here but man I think U are nuts I don't hear nirvana in there Drums , guitars, melodies , what a reach imo , but hey thats what makes. Horse racing ,

I'm on a plain.... i can't complain - Nirvana 'On a plain' 1993

Sleeping on a plane you know you can't complain - Oasis 'Talk Tonight' 1995

Pearl Jam out lasted them all. Amazing. Still the same lineup outside the drummer but even Matt has been with the band for 14 years now. Going to a PJ is like a celebration of rock n roll. I wish they'd come back to the NYC area soon.

Oasis should had one butch Vig produce album.

Proving you know absolutely nothing about melody lol

Its one thing not to like something but to state something so patently false and ridiculous makes you look like a big fucking idiot. I don't like Michael Jackson, but am I going to state something as ludicrous that he didn't know a hook or a melody, no. The entire Nevermind album is basically a pop album full of hooks and MELODIES with the feedback and overdrive turned to 11. Take a song like Lithium and/or Smells Like Teen Spirit and they can be interpreted in any number of ways and styles because of how strong (get this) the MELODIES are. Hell, the entire album bar Territorial Pissings was written and composed as a pop album.

As for the OP question, no. Noel has stated many times he liked Nirvana, but there's really no direct influence on Oasis' music beyond basic chord structures.