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If they ever uncover Princess Diana’s porn collection, it will be a closet full of VHS tapes of Liam Gallagher punching paparazzi.

I’m lowkey convinced she pulled strings to make sure he stayed out of jail.

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Fuck this clickbait lede for getting my hopes up

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Liam so frustrated about being asked the same fucking questions over and over that he’d rather reply to an undirected tweet about his brother being gay.

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I gasped

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boooooooooo

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Liam being a Virgo put the final nail in the coffin of my belief in astrology.

jk I’m a Capricorn. We don’t believe in astrology.

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The real Oasis iceberg is Lock All The Doors lore because yeah yeah, star shaped tambourine, and yeah the '92 version of the song evolved into My Sister Lover, but THEN you learn Noel has also said an entirely different song evolved out of that early first draft.

When I did the Chemical Brothers track, Setting Sun - "You're the devil in me" was the verse of this tune called Lock All The Doors, right? And for some reason, I'd had that song in the early, early days of Oasis. And the verse fit, and I thought, "It's alright, because I'll keep the chorus and I'll just write another verse. Anyway, it took me the best part of twenty years to write another verse. (Back The Way We Came - Track by Track)

And:

Noel Gallagher first began working on a song in the early 1990s. It appears on many lists in his notebooks from that period, which were auctioned at Christie's in 1998. "Half of it was used for the Chemical Brothers track," he recalled to Mojo magazine." I had that song knocking around from before we got signed. I thought I'll use that verse because it fits and I'll write another one. It took nearly 20 years." (Quoted on Songfacts)

Looking at early demos, though, Noel appears to be talking about two separate songs.

Lock All The Doors (with lyrics that match both My Sister Lover and NGHFB's Lock All The Doors)

Coming On Strong (with lyrics that match Setting Sun)

They're both from that early, pre-record deal period when Oasis was working with the Real People so at first I thought maybe Noel had "mixed them up" (ie, lied to avoid saying the words "My Sister Lover" in relation to a yearning heartbreak anthem which all but namechecks Liam in the first line). But! Then I listened to them back to back and, wow, even by Oasis's standards... that's the same song. My ear for music is not what it once was but it's hard NOT to hear it. It's particularly noticeable when you realise Coming On Strong barely has a chorus, but the gap between verse one and verse two fits Lock All The Doors' exactly.

It seems, then, Lock All The Doors has gone through not two but three sets of lyrics. And especially in conjunction with the other two versions, the original Coming On Strong lyrics are delightfully damning. The full set can be found on Genius lyrics, but my favourites are the opening lines:

You're the devil in me that I brought in from the cold Your body's still young and your mind is very old

There's a real undercurrent of illicit temptation here, and I love that second line, which also ends up in Half The World Away, taking on far more philosophical implications in that context. Actually, though, I prefer the version of the line that Noel gave to the Chemical Brothers in Setting Sun. "You said your body was young but your mind was very old". Because, well. It does sound like something Liam would say.

Like maybe in a brazen song full of darkly erotic overtures?

Take me when I'm young and true Was it me or was it you?

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Take me 'cause I'm feeling old All my life I've been so cold Take me when I start to cry Take me, take me don't ask why

Noel and Liam's songs always feel like they're in conversation with each other, and it could be that goes all the way back to the beginning. Because if Liam's first hit was built around this theme, "Take me, take me, don't ask why," and the earliest version of Lock All The Doors echoes the refrain of, "You're coming on strong, you're coming on strong," then... yeah. It's easy to imagine one as a response to the other.

That's my take, at least. But even if you don't want to speculate about exactly what the Coming On Strong lyrics mean, the fact that Noel wrote at least three versions of this song suggests that it was important to him. He was trying to get it right. Perhaps, too, he was trying to walk back lyrics that felt too revealing; he's known to do that, as well. And on the other hand, since Setting Sun and the Coming On Strong demo started their life as part of Lock All The Doors... it's not so far-fetched to think they might be about Liam.

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Lrb had me thinking about the Sunday Morning Call single and how FUCKING INSANE it is.

It’s impossible to separate this song from its b-side, Full-On, which is pretty much a prequel to it.

Taken together they’re pretty damning. If Sunday morning call IS about Liam…

then what the FUCK are we to make of the night before?

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sure, that's why your place should be a psychiatrist studio for sick faggots

Fisher Price: My First Hate Anon™️

W00t!!!!! Guess it’s official everyone. I’m a card-carrying member of the club. Membership has its privileges.

Silly anon! Studios are for artists!

But I like this idea. It really gets at the Foucaultian concept of psychiatry as a productive site of power. More than simply a site of adjudication of societal norms, psychiatry produces the concept of a “sick faggot.”

Congrats, Anon! In one sentence, you have managed to reiterate the post-structuralist nature of power relations!

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Tinhat Theory #5438:

They refused all interviews because they knew they were gonna be releasing Loch Lomond and REALLY didn’t want to field THOSE questions

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Okay so he STOLE the phone off the interviewer lmaoooo

Q August 2005

Thinking of that interview with Liam where the interviewer said he left his phone behind by accident that night and Liam started texting the interviewer’s girlfriend asking her what color knickers she was wearing

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Do you like paul? do you know why some of the fandom is so unsure about him? i could only imagirn its cause in his book when writing about their fathers abuse torwards noel he's sort of talking like Noel "had it coming" ...

I’ve got mixed feelings about him, too. I get why the fandom is ambivalent.

I’ve listened to a couple of podcasts that he’s been on just to see how he banters and he’s very…curmudgeonly. Yeah, we’ll go with that lol. Some might say bitter? But he is funny and seems a gregarious sort.

I haven’t read his book; I have read lengthy excerpts.

I would NEVER write a book like that without getting the permission of both my brothers to write it. (I assume Peggy gave her permission bc she’s essentially told her story in it).

Paul has an absolute right to tell the story of his own life and, while I recognize that it’s difficult to tell that story without also telling something of the story of your two siblings…

Noel’s story is Noel’s story to tell. I’d have been pissed, too, and felt betrayed. Noel says a lot of shit in interviews, but I do believe it’s true that he is a private person. He hates being pitied and that story you just can’t help feel very sorry for him.

So, that’s not what I like about Paul. I’m not sure about the parts where he said Noel had it coming? Noel was abused from an early age, wayyyyyy too early to have had ANYTHING coming.

What I DO like about Paul is his response to Liam’s breakdown a decade ago. He seems to genuinely care deeply about him and, along with Debbie, was probably a life-saver.

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Whats your ao3? :3

I don’t have one but I think I’m gonna try to sign up for one just so I can read the fics that ppl keep recommending!

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“Another then asked the rocker: ‘Do you wear girlies' pants?’ Liam replied: “I prefer them there (sic) cool.” A cheeky female fan of the band then asked: “What colour are your knickers today?” “Nude,” replied Liam.

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