Oasis 'Dig' for 'Massive' Success on New Album

Posted on Oct 7th 2008 3:00PM by Steve Baltin
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Oasis' new album, 'Dig Out Your Soul,' released today, finds the Manchester band recapturing the swagger and craftsmanship that led them to the top of the music scene in the mid-'90s. Frontman Liam Gallagher tells Spinner the band knew they were onto something special straight away.

"Everything we was putting down was just coming out sounding f---ing great," he says. "The magic was there. You go into a studio to make great records all the time. Some days you come out with a record with a bit of magic on it, and this one's got it."

Oasis have been enjoying a resurgent rise in popularity, with a 'Q' magazine and HMV poll last year finding 'Definitely Maybe' and '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' named the best two British albums of the past 50 years, respectively. As a result of that surge, Gallagher is seeing some younger fans in the audience. "Now they come to concerts with their older brothers and it's getting a bit like that vibe with the Stones, which is cool," he says. "I'm good with that."

However, he's not looking for Oasis to be the new Stones. "The only problem I've got with the Rolling Stones is that they don't put out anymore music," he says. "They should put out more music instead of just touring the big machine. I don't want to fall into that trap."

For anyone who's followed Liam and his brother Noel's storied career, the thought of taking on the sacred Stones should be no shock at all. But while Liam admits, "I don't like many people," there are a few acts he holds sacred. "Paul Weller without a doubt, Neil Young without a doubt," he says. "They're the people I kind of aspire to. Neil Young is still making the music ... cutting all the bulls--- out and just getting out there playing and making records. Some of 'em are great, some of 'em are not so great -- so be it. Just keep making music, man."

Older and no doubt wiser, Liam asserts that it's quality more than quantity. If that atttiude seems a contrast from the band's bragadocious early days, Liam says it's not. "Listen, when we came out we're like, 'We want to be the biggest band in the world, blah, blah,'" he says. "Obviously s--- happened and we're not paying attention, people are leaving and we're getting carried away with the success that we'd had. But that was always the thing ... as long as we keep making music, that's success to me. We've got to keep putting music out . One day we'll be f---ing massive."

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