{"id":146983,"date":"2025-09-10T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/146983\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:07:11","slug":"noel-gallagher-prefers-a-cover-version-of-wonderwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/146983\/","title":{"rendered":"Noel Gallagher prefers a cover version of &#8216;Wonderwall&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Brothers-Liam-and-Noel-Through-the-Lens-of-Kevin-Cummins-Oasis-Exhibition-Wembley-Park-2025-Far-Out.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"** DO NOT RE-USE THIS IMAGE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES** - RK\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credits: Kevin Cummins \/ Iconic Images)<\/p>\n<p> Wed 10 September 2025 8:00, UK <\/p>\n<p>The Gallagher brothers have never been shy of criticising each other. Things seem to be going great for Liam and Noel Gallagher on their <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/oasis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Oasis<\/a> reunion tour, but if their hit songs are famous, the digs they take at each other are even more iconic. <\/p>\n<p>While there is a huge element of sibling rivalry in their mutual verbal mudslinging, it\u2019s not always about just that. Many times, their criticism of one another can be constructive, if sharp, and based on musical preferences.<\/p>\n<p>2008 and Oasis were on top of the world. The band had just released what would become their last album, Dig Out Your Soul, but behind the scenes, things weren\u2019t going so well. While the album went on to achieve great critical and commercial success, the recording process was gruelling, according to Noel, who, in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2008\/10\/spin-interview-noel-gallagher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Spin<\/a> in 2008, revealed that he had faced significant pushback when presenting his original songs, as Liam seemed to misunderstand his vision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiam immediately had a tantrum in the studio and was dancing around saying, \u2018No one told me we were making a f***ing dance album! I\u2019m not having this s**t. We\u2019re a rock band\u2019,\u201d Noel Gallagher shared.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently, it wasn\u2019t the only time the band had had that kind of discussion. Back in 1995, when the band released (What\u2019s the Story) Morning Glory?, Liam had the same concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/oasis-share-live-recording-of-wonderwall-from-dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Oasis\u2019s greatest hit\">Oasis\u2019 greatest hit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the man who thought we had gone too dance when I wrote \u2018Wonderwall\u2019 because the drums didn\u2019t go boom-boom bap, boom-boom-bap,\u201d Noel Gallagher complained about his younger brother in vocals. \u201cLiam is very institutionalised by being in Oasis. He\u2019s been doing it for so long,\u201d Noel added, noting how the former was too attached to clich\u00e9s, and that was why, even in 2008, he still couldn\u2019t appreciate \u2018Wonderwall\u2019. When the interviewer shared that Liam had told him he hated singing that song, the oldest replied, \u201cThat\u2019s interesting, because he would never say that to me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On reports of the singing, Noel admitted he doesn\u2019t like Liam\u2019s voice on it as well, owing to nature taking its course with ageing and vocal changes, which hot-headed singers may fail to account for often: \u201cLiam doesn\u2019t sound like he did ten years ago. Your voice and your body change. We\u2019ve never got it right. It\u2019s too slow or too fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he did have in mind one artist who managed to do the song justice, with the songwriter even confessing <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/noel-gallagher-on-the-only-person-who-got-wonderwall-right-its-too-slow-or-too-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">he preferred this cover to the original<\/a>. \u201cI think Ryan Adams is the only person who ever got that song right. I\u2019d love to do the Ryan Adams version, but in front of 60,000 Oasis fans, that wouldn\u2019t be possible,\u201d Noel remarked.<\/p>\n<p>While it is always controversial to claim that a cover could be better than an original song, the fact that the man who wrote it asserts it makes it easier to compliment Adams\u2019 version. His interpretation is a lot more tender and soothing than the original, and while it pays homage to it, he entirely reimagines it. It\u2019s completely acoustic, for a start, with soft guitar picking instead of straight chords. Adams\u2019s voice is much softer, while Oasis fans are used to Liam belting the notes and holding them for longer. Ryan Adams\u2019s voice is a sweet whisper in comparison, and he plays with his vocal range a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>Although he probably meant it partly as a dig at his brother, there\u2019s no denying that Noel made a great point praising this incredible cover.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Kevin Cummins \/ Iconic Images) Wed 10 September 2025 8:00, UK The Gallagher brothers have never been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,91072,91073,2872,91074],"class_list":{"0":"post-146983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-liam-gallagher","11":"tag-noel-gallagher","12":"tag-oasis","13":"tag-ryan-adams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}