I write this post at a point in time when the first Oasis reunion show is just over three weeks away. But today, they would have been going on for almost a month. I hope the Gallagher brothers (and Bonehead) have been going strongly. I wasn’t spending countless hours in online queues when the reunion announcement was made last year. I like Oasis, but not that greatly. The only album of the band’s I’ve listened through is …Morning Glory. Definitely Maybe is considered to be the best of the best by the group. Noel Gallagher thinks of it that way. I’ve never had the urge to check it out. What I definitely know about Oasis is that they usually never let you down when it came to their singles. Their music videos were on the TV all the time. And a lot of them I liked. So when the Stop the Clocks compilation came around in November ’06, I knew I had to get my hands on it somehow.

I have a vivid memory of seeing ‘Supersonic’ one day on the small screen, and just immediately getting what it was about just from blend of music and visuals. I might have even had Stop the Clocks at the time of watching and had completely ignored the song. But if I didn’t know it by then, I definitely knew it now. I think the song is one of Oasis’s best, even if the song is about nothing at all, as Noel Gallagher as admitted on several occasions, and was written in about half an hour because the band needed a song to be the band’s first official single, after ‘Bring It on Down’ was passed over. And what a tune. Liam Gallagher’s vocal is A-class, top notch. Doesn’t yet have that rasp that would make itself known as albums went by, but it’s still got that youthful power that makes it incredibly infectious. The song has a bit of a groove to it, I feel. If I find myself nodding my head to a song’s motion, which I do in this one’s case, it’s fair to say there’s a groove about. A solid wall of barre-chord guitars, lead guitar licks here and there. What more could you ask for?

I’m not sure what else I can comment on, really. ‘Supersonic’ is a super solid number. What’s Noel Gallagher writing about? A girl called Elsa who’s into Alka Seltzer. Doing it with doctors on helicopters. Riding in BMWs, sailing in yellow submarines. A whole lot of nonsense. But in between, you’ll have the coolest phrases like, “You/I need to be your/myself, you/I can’t be no one else.” And “You need to find a way for what you want to say / But before tomorrow.” Those are some short, snappy life lessons in there. Noel Gallagher was really good at somehow throwing in some very relatable things among the unusual. That was really his bread and butter, the formula that made those first two albums (and Be Here Now to an extent) so captivating. And Liam Gallagher sang them like no one else could. Thirty years on, I’m not expecting things to be quite the same. But I could be wrong, though. There’s still time. I’ll need you guys from the future to tell me how those Oasis gigs are going.