Oh my God! I have seen the future of rock 'n' roll and it's name is Jake Bugg!
What charisma! What chops! What a voice! What songs! What hair! I mean, wow!
Move over Elvis. Move over Lennon. Move over Dylan. You've all been usurped. Merry
old England has done it again! First you give us Sheeran and now this. I'd say more
but I gotta go take a dump and then throw up on it.

I'd shut my mouth real tight if I make music like Jake does. His new song's crap.

Or at least top ten. It was just a way of expressing how I really like the album. If i think more closely there'll probably be many albums that I haven't thought about from the top of my head. But this is an album that I love, that I've listened to a lot in the recent years, so then obviously it would be important for me.

But just a thought:
If you put WTSMG on the list of your favorite albums ever, what if I said to you "Surely if you like what you hear of oasis there is a lot better albums to be found in the likes of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who?"

My point is that even though you love and respect the real legends of rock music, pop music or any other genre, there may still be that you enjoy how some artist that has come after them have mixed all these musical influences together and put their own unique twist on it. Just like I love how Noel is able to put The Kinks, The Beatles, The La's, The Sex Pistols and etc and etc in Oasis, I love how Jake Buggs music, singing and guitar playing combines elements from Donovan, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Don McLean, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and so on. I haven't listened to the whole back-catalogue of these artists, but through my interest in Bugg's music, it motivates me to listen to more of that as well. I would probably not have heard or checked out Donovans music if I hadn't discovered Jake Buggs music for example. Just as Oasis probably inspired a lot of people to check out the people that influenced them, Jake Bugg does the same with his music. It introduces a new generation to a lot of the classics (as well as more unknown artists), while also representing an unique musical product with value in itself.

I think he's a probably a bit annoyed about it having been called out so publicly. He was presented as being this little rock n roll prodigy writing his own music at such a tender age instead of being like One Direction and Noel bringing up the cowriters kind of weakens that image. To a certain extent the way he was presented relied on people not looking to closely at credits. I listened to a few of his interview when he talked about writing his music at no point did I hear anything even insinuating that anyone else had any input which I think was by design to portray a certain image.

And there is another portion of this that is their own relationship that might have been a bit of a source of Noel feeling a bit put out by finding out that Jake didn't write the album alone. After all they knew each other personally and perhaps there were situations in which Noel felt that it would have been appropriate that he should have mentioned his songwriting partner.

It's difficult to know how much influence he had on the music that was written. Although it's encouraging that several of the songs had the same cowriter so proper sessions with the 2 seems likely for at least those songs. I read an interview with a songwriting team a while back though and they said they have had songs recorded by other artists and looked at the credits and saw that the label had given the artist a songwriting credit when the recorded product is pretty much the demo. Most of those artists tend to have many different cowriters though I think.

I think he has a point in terms of Noel insulting someone in the press then having no problem with being friendly with them. I think Noel has a tendency to be hyperbolic in interviews. He doesn't dislike something it's the worst thing ever so he can foam and rage for comedic effect to a certain extent and get a rise out of people.

On one hand you could see it as two faced...or you could view it as he might have an issue with something but that doesn't mean that he has to hate the person that did it.

I mean... look at him and Lars Ulrich. He's been friends with him for years but he has never been anything other than disparaging of Metallica's music that I remember.

I think the mistake people make is thinking that Noel saying something negative about something genuinely means that he hates them and everything about them. That a relationship will not be possible on the personal front.

I don't think that Noel would blank Jake because he had a cowriter although it undoubtably decrease his respect for him as an artist. However I think that he might be less charitable because of Jake insulting his album. That probably wasn't the best way for Jake to handle that. Take exception to Noel's position on cowriters? sure, maybe actually defend his input into those songwriting partnerships. Actively attack him? probably not the best idea. Noel is a much bigger name and that album was one of the best selling (21st best selling album of the year) of last year in their prime market. If Noel decides to make Bugg his byword for shitty I don't think all publicity will be good publicity for Jake. Noel can be pretty vindictive and capable of generating way more headlines.

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Wouldn't be a problem if he didn't portray himself as a singer-songwriter kind of guy.

TRUTH !!

Liam was the soul of Oasis.

It'll be interesting to hear how Noel responds to this.

Oh c'mon guys, saying something about Noel makes easy headlines, at least in UK and in the guitar music scene. Noel is the king of that, he does that everyday.

They'll be drunk together in less than a month time