Oasis in '06: 'U2 are the best band of the past thirty years. But we're the best of the past fifteen'
Having personally selected the eighteen tracks on it, it was only right that Noel waxed lyrical about Oasis's Stop The Clocks career retrospective. There was also time for a spot of self-analysis…
'This is genuinely the Best Of Oasis. Archaeologists will dig it up in five thousand years and go, 'Fuck me, that civilisation was advanced!''
'My life is better than it's ever, ever, ever been. So much so that I'm waiting for it all to go wrong! Professionally, I'm still searching for the next fucking great tune. Putting together this 'Best Of' reminded me that I've written some belters in my time, but I can and will do better.'
'Women like to think they can sum up men in one nifty sentence, but as complicated as they are, fuck me, we're worse! It's not all about the beer and the pizza and the football – especially not to us intelligentsia.'
'U2 are the best band of the past thirty years. But we're the best of the past fifteen. I think Bono himself would admit that.'
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