"Champagne Supernova" (Oasis):

Lose yourself in a Champagne Supernova in the sky. Strap in for over seven minutes of Liam Gallagher’s dulcet tones, his raspy Lennon-esque voice is a conduit for his brother Noel’s confusing yet intriguing lyrics about getting high and walking faster than a cannonball. It can be easy to dismiss this song as a pitiful attempt at psychedelia, a painful imitation of Pink Floyd perhaps. But with angelic sounds of swishing water and soft melodic guitar this number is less about the lyrics and more about the sonic journey that we are swept along throughout. “Supernova” builds instrumentally after each chorus as the one-note guitars are replaced with crashing chords and military drumbeats that explode in your face multiple times throughout. The emotion is raw and honest: “But you and I, we live and die. The world keeps spinning round, we don’t know why.” It is genius in its simplicity whilst being ambiguous with its tenderness and longing. Is it merely a maelstrom of drug induced nonsense or a unifying psychedelic anthem? When asked by a writer what it all meant, Noel summed it up perfectly: "I don't know. But are you telling me, when you've got 60,000 people singing it, they don't know what it means? It means something different to every one of them." For a brief period, just before the explosion of the internet, Oasis had the nation under its thumb and “Champagne Supernova” is the perfect example of what made them so electrifying.