Oasis—“Wonderwall”

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4.7 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Rob explores Britpop icon Oasis’s enduring megahit “Wonderwall” by discussing the Gallagher brothers’ notoriously contentious relationship and the band’s place in the lineage of British rock. This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music. Host: Rob Harvilla Guest: Steven Hyden Producers: Isaac Lee and Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, if you are my mother, hi, mom, thank you for listening. I need you to stop listening right now, mom, please. It's going to get mad uncouth in here. Thank you for your support. I love you. I'll call you soon. Your grandkids are fine. Stop listening. Please turn this off. Just you. But please. It's for your own good. And also for mine. Thanks, Mom. Love you. Goodbye. Okay. Let's take one second to make sure she's. Okay. For everyone else, I would now like to read you the Liam Gallagher quote
0:39.9	that precedes Rolling Stone's cover story on the English rock band Oasis published in May of 1996,
0:48.5	the epigraph, I suppose, to this article.
0:51.5	This is a direct quote from Oasis singer Liam Gallagher. The parenthetical
0:55.2	is provided by Rowing Stone. It's not me. It's them. I support this editorial decision. Very helpful
1:02.3	this parenthetical. Okay, here we go. Quote,
1:07.3	women have had me over. It's happened twice in the last month.
1:11.6	After I've bopped them...
1:13.6	Sorry.
1:17.6	Sorry.
1:18.6	Sorry.
1:19.6	Okay.
1:20.6	All right.
1:21.6	Okay.
1:22.6	Women have had me over.
1:26.6	It's happened twice in the last month.
1:29.5	After I've bopped them, they've gone and sold it to the papers and made money out of it.
1:34.6	Fair play.
1:35.6	But I've just come in their gob, parentheses, mouth, close parentheses, and gone off.
1:41.9	So therefore, I've had them over.
1:45.2	Tide one all, baby.
1:47.0	End quote.
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