Before Oasis go For America, its worth looking at the Only American Bands Noel Likes.,

In a 1995 interview with Elsewhere, Noel was asked which American artists he actually liked. His answer was short and sharp:

“Neil Young and The Stooges — that’s it.”

For Gallagher, rock ’n’ roll’s true spirit always felt more British than American. While he admired the rebellious roots of early US rock from the 1950s, he’s long argued that it was perfected across the Atlantic by The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Rolling Stones — the very bands that shaped Oasis.

Noel did, however, praise Kurt Cobain for his song writing, but he disliked grunge’s self-destructive tone. Oasis’s 1994 anthem Live Forever was, in his own words, a direct reaction to Nirvana’s I Hate Myself and Want to Die.

“That’s rubbish — kids don’t need to be hearing that nonsense,” he told the Lock the Box documentary in 2006.

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Gallagher believed that rock should lift people up, not drag them down.

“Some 15-year-old kid from a council estate doesn’t want to hear Eddie Vedder going on about how he was abused as a child,” he once said. “You think, ‘I know all that — I want something to make me feel happy.’ It’s all about escaping for three and a half minutes.”

That philosophy defined Oasis: songs like Supersonic, Bring It On Down, and Live Forever offered joy, swagger, and escape for working-class kids who saw little else to dream about.

So, while Noel may have limited time for most American acts, his choices make sense.

Neil Young, the Canadian icon who blurred country, folk, and electric grit, represented authenticity and endurance.

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The Stooges, led by Iggy Pop, embodied raw power and chaos — qualities Oasis often channelled themselves.

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Nearly 30 years later, Gallagher’s stance remains the same: British rock, for him, has always been about hope, humour, and escape — the sound of getting out, not giving up.

Source: Far Out Magazine