In honor of Oasis's (What's the Story) Morning Glory reissue out today, a few unlikely admirers decided to tell The Guardian what the band has meant to them over the years.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich discovered the band in a magazine in 1994.
The interview, Ulrich remembers, "reeked of attitude and not giving a f---, which at the time — at the height of the shoegazing-I-can't-handle-being-a-rockstar attitudes that were becoming mainstream — was very refreshing."
The drummer unknowingly listened to "Supersonic" during a car ride in San Francisco a few weeks later before it clicked: It was Oasis.
"Thus began a long and very rewarding relationship with a sound, an approach and a way of looking at the world that has had a huge impact on me and helped shape who I am today ... for whatever that's worth," Ulrich added.
Interestingly enough, Ulrich also helped out the band, which he said has been the soundtrack to his life for the past 20 years, when they were getting started in the U.S.
"I will say that doing the lights for them at a club show in the fall of '94 at some God-forsaken hole in the wall in Nowheresville, New Jersey, was a distinct highlight of my early encounters," he said. "They didn't have a crew guy to run the light board, and I was the only one in the building that knew the song. Go figure how things changed."
Felix White, of the Maccabees, was 10 when he found out about Oasis.
"They had such an effect on me that before I'd even heard one, I could tell anybody for 100 percent fact, with my hand on my heart, that synthesisers were rubbish," White said. "Synthesisers were rubbish and guitars were the best. And Oasis were the best at playing them."
The deluxe reissue features B-sides, rare recordings, demos and live takes of Oasis classics.
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