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Noel Gallagher: 'Radiohead Have Been Making The Same Record Since Kid A'

And they're not better than Oasis...

  • by Scott Colothan
  • Friday, November 07, 2008
  • Photo by: Neil Lupin / WENN
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Oasis mouthpiece Noel Gallagher has hit out at music critics who claim Radiohead are a superior band to Oasis because they are more experimental.  

In an interview with Croatian radio station Plavi Radio, the guitarist said journalists shouldn't be mentioning his band and Radiohead in the same breath.

He said: “The biggest criticism that the music press have against us is that we're not Radiohead. But, correct me if I'm wrong, they've been making the same record since Kid A, have they not?

“I like them. Every time I see them live they blow me away, but you know, it's kind of, we make very accessible rock and roll music, you know, and they constantly make difficult electronic records. It's not a criticism of them, and it shouldn't be a criticism of us.”

Elsewhere in the interview Gallagher also hit out at eminent music awards such as the Mercury Prize, ranting: “Every time we see (a Mercury Prize panel) they look like the biggest bunch of squares in England. I mean I’m sorry, it’s just like, I don’t want you sitting in judgement on my record, you’ve not had a boyfriend for twenty five years.

“Who’s to say that you know, the Klaxons are greater musical exponents just because someone from The Guardian says so.”

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  • total bollocks Noel

    ~ by Ally 11/7/2008

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  • It's official Noel,your a Twat.

    ~ by Liam 11/7/2008

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  • After he spoke sense about the Russell Brand / Jonathan Ross bollocks, he's now gone back to his usual self by talking absolutely shite!

    ~ by winnet2 11/7/2008

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  • Yeah, In Rainbows is exactly like Kid A isn't it?! What an idiot

    ~ by Scott 11/7/2008

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  • What a tool.

    ~ by hedgeperson 11/7/2008

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  • this is lazy journalism, all they have done is pick bits from a very good interview to make him look contraversial.

    ~ by honeybadger 11/7/2008

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    • You read the story didn't you

      ~ by Smeeee 11/7/2008

  • "Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you"....Hahahahahaha, same record eh?

    ~ by BedrumeDJ 11/7/2008

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  • He speaks truth though, radiohead can't hold a candle to Oasis, im not sayin Radiohead are rubish, but Oasis are just way better, and in my opinion the best band in the world.

    ~ by Chappo 11/7/2008

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  • Coming from Oasis? EVERY SINGLE SONG IS THE SAME

    ~ by Christo 11/7/2008

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  • damn, this man is losing it

    ~ by flodist 11/7/2008

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  • I really don't get it,every once in a while this idiot comes out from no where and starts talking about radihead. Radiohead is famous for their vast variations on their songs,u cannot even find a song similar to another since kid A,you are a dummy noel and you are going to sing wonderwall for the rest of your life...

    ~ by Amirreza G 11/8/2008

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  • They both make a different kind of music - i prefer Radiohead by a long way but that's not to discredit Oasis. I don't think Noel is being biting or harsh here it's just someone highlighting certain points of an interview. In the same way that if I morphed everything I said at the pub into new statements it would make loads of criticisms that it didn't actually mean in such a specific context.

    ~ by James 11/8/2008

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  • wanker

    ~ by noel gallagher 11/8/2008

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  • "But, correct me if I'm wrong, they've been making the same record since Kid A, have they not?" You are wrng Noel, and consider yourself corrected. And you haven't produced enough good records (ie more than two) to criticise Radiohead; they've made seven very different albums and you've essentially just made one very long album

    ~ by gallagirl 11/28/2008

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  • oi, lads, shut yer mouthpieces if you haven't got any music material that's gone multi-platinum. w******s think they can judge anything.

    ~ by mircea 12/2/2008

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