List of Every single Oasis B-side Oasis have ever released.
Every Oasis B-Side, Single by Single, From 1994 to 2009
Oasis built a reputation that few bands could really touch. In the CD single era, their B-sides were not disposable filler or rushed leftovers. They were often fully formed songs, strange detours, acoustic sketches, live rippers, and in some cases absolute classics that could have sat proudly on the albums themselves.
That run is part of what made collecting Oasis singles such a big deal in the 1990s. Buying the A-side often meant getting a whole second world around it. Noel Gallagher, especially during the Creation years, was writing so quickly and so confidently that tracks like “Acquiesce,” “Talk Tonight,” “The Masterplan,” “Listen Up,” and “Going Nowhere” were pushed out onto the margins rather than treated as centrepieces. Those margins became mythic.
The table below maps the full commercial singles run in chronological order, including non-album stand-alone releases, overseas-only commercial singles, the late digital-only era, and the final remix-heavy releases. After that comes a separate table for promotional and non-standard single releases, included for the sake of completeness where no real retail B-side package existed.
Commercial Singles and B-Sides
| Year | Single | A-side | B-sides / Extra Tracks | Notes and Commentary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Supersonic | Supersonic | Take Me Away; I Will Believe (Live); Columbia (Demo) | The opening statement. Even the debut single arrived with real depth behind it. “Take Me Away” gives the release a softer underside, while the live and demo cuts make it feel like a band announcing that the catalogue was already bigger than one song. |
| 1994 | Shakermaker | Shakermaker | D’Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?; Alive (8 Track Demo); Bring It On Down (Live) | This is where the Oasis B-side method starts to take shape properly. There is humour, nostalgia, rough tape grit, and live noise all packed onto one single. “D’Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?” remains one of Noel’s most disarming early songs. |
| 1994 | Live Forever | Live Forever | Up In The Sky (Acoustic); Cloudburst; Supersonic (Live) | One of the great Oasis singles, full stop. “Cloudburst” alone would have justified the purchase, and the acoustic turn on “Up In The Sky” shows how quickly the band learned to make the B-side space feel like its own little alternate universe. |
| 1994 | Cigarettes & Alcohol | Cigarettes & Alcohol | I Am The Walrus (Live); Listen Up; Fade Away | An absurdly strong single package. “Listen Up” and “Fade Away” would become legendary in their own right, while the live “I Am The Walrus” captured the band’s Beatles fixation in full swaggering public view. |
| 1994 | Whatever | Whatever | (It’s Good) To Be Free; Half The World Away; Slide Away | A stand-alone single, and one of the clearest examples of Oasis treating a release like an event rather than a formality. “Half The World Away” became a long-term favourite, and including “Slide Away” helped make this feel like both a bridge and a victory lap. |
| 1995 | Some Might Say | Some Might Say | Talk Tonight; Acquiesce; Headshrinker | This is the sort of release that built the B-side legend. Three exceptional non-album tracks, each with its own identity, and two of them, “Talk Tonight” and “Acquiesce,” are still treated by fans as core Oasis songs rather than extras. |
| 1995 | Roll With It | Roll With It | It’s Better People; Rockin’ Chair; Live Forever (Live) | Overshadowed in popular memory by the Blur chart battle, but the single itself is strong. “Rockin’ Chair” especially gives it real emotional weight, and the whole package shows how casually Oasis could throw quality onto the back of a hit. |
| 1995 | Morning Glory | Morning Glory | It’s Better People; Rockin’ Chair; Live Forever (Live at Glastonbury ’95) | An overseas commercial single rather than a standard UK retail release. It largely mirrors the “Roll With It” companion material, which makes it more of an international extension of the Morning Glory era than a unique B-side treasure chest. |
| 1995 | Wonderwall | Wonderwall | Round Are Way; The Swamp Song; The Masterplan | One of the most famous Oasis singles, and one with a B-side lineup so strong it almost feels unfair. “The Masterplan” in particular became one of the defining examples of Noel burying a masterpiece on the reverse side of a global hit. |
| 1996 | Don’t Look Back In Anger | Don’t Look Back In Anger | Step Out; Underneath The Sky; Cum On Feel The Noize | Another heavy hitter. “Step Out” and “Underneath The Sky” give this single real muscle, while the Slade cover keeps the band’s glam and pub-rock instincts right there in the open. This is classic peak-era Oasis excess, used well. |
| 1996 | Champagne Supernova | Champagne Supernova | Slide Away | An Australia and New Zealand commercial single rather than a main UK release. The package is lean, but “Slide Away” is hardly a weak add-on, and the pairing makes for a strong emotional two-song statement rather than a traditional B-side haul. |
| 1997 | D’You Know What I Mean? | D’You Know What I Mean? | Stay Young; Angel Child (Demo); Heroes | The start of the Be Here Now era, and the single already shows both the strengths and the bloat of the moment. “Stay Young” is the real gem here, a huge and urgent Noel tune that many fans still rank above tracks that made the album. |
| 1997 | Stand By Me | Stand By Me | (I Got) The Fever; My Sister Lover; Going Nowhere | A stunning B-side set. “Going Nowhere” alone gives the single lasting value, while “My Sister Lover” and “(I Got) The Fever” push the package into that familiar Oasis territory where the supposed extras feel like a private stash of prime material. |
| 1998 | All Around The World | All Around The World | The Fame; Flashbax; Street Fighting Man | The single itself is famously overblown, but the B-sides are where it gets interesting. “Flashbax” in particular has the dreamier late-90s Oasis feel, while the Stones cover keeps the release tied to the band’s roots in classic rock theft and tribute. |
| 1998 | Don’t Go Away | Don’t Go Away | Cigarettes & Alcohol (Live); Sad Song; Fade Away (Warchild Version) | A commercial single only in Japan, though it circulated more widely in the broader Oasis orbit. It is a curious package, mixing a live cut, an older song, and the War Child remake of “Fade Away,” so it feels more archival and reflective than newly explosive. |
| 2000 | Go Let It Out | Go Let It Out | Let’s All Make Believe; (As Long As They’ve Got) Cigarettes In Hell | The first Big Brother single, and one of the best post-Creation examples of Oasis still taking B-sides seriously. “Let’s All Make Believe” has long been treated as one of the strongest songs of the era, and it gives this release genuine status. |
| 2000 | Who Feels Love? | Who Feels Love? | One Way Road; Helter Skelter | Less packed than the 1990s singles, but still worthwhile. “One Way Road” gives the release a bruised, reflective counterweight, while the Beatles cover reminds you that Oasis never really stopped wearing their influences on the outside of the coat. |
| 2000 | Sunday Morning Call | Sunday Morning Call | Carry Us All; Full On | A Noel-led single with Noel-led B-sides, which gives the whole package a specific mood. It is less anthemic than their old singles and more inward, almost weary, and that tonal consistency makes it one of the more coherent releases of the era. |
| 2002 | The Hindu Times | The Hindu Times | Just Getting Older; Idler’s Dream | A big comeback single with two B-sides that reveal a more varied side of the band. “Idler’s Dream” is especially striking, a fragile and unusual Oasis recording that feels unlike almost anything else in their catalogue. |
| 2002 | Stop Crying Your Heart Out | Stop Crying Your Heart Out | Thank You For The Good Times; Shout It Out Loud | By this point the old flood of three-song B-side avalanches had eased off, but there is still quality here. “Shout It Out Loud” would later have a strange afterlife in fan conversations about songs that somehow felt bigger than their single placement. |
| 2002 | Little By Little / She Is Love | Little By Little / She Is Love | My Generation (Live) | Oasis’s only double A-side. The B-side space is thinner here, and a live Who cover is a long way from the old Noel stockpile years, but it still documents the band leaning into a more classic-rock, less studio-overflow version of the singles tradition. |
| 2003 | Songbird | Songbird | (You’ve Got) The Heart Of A Star; Columbia (Live) | Important as Liam’s first Oasis single as songwriter, and the B-sides suit the lighter touch. “The Heart Of A Star” is one of those quietly admired later-period songs that tends to grow in reputation once the dust of the era settles. |
| 2005 | Lyla | Lyla | Eyeball Tickler; Won’t Let You Down | A proper return-to-form single, bright and direct. The B-sides are not as canonical as the 1990s classics, but they still show the band keeping the format alive rather than reducing it to a hollow marketing afterthought. |
| 2005 | The Importance Of Being Idle | The Importance Of Being Idle | Pass Me Down The Wine; The Quiet Ones | A strong single with a broader writing spread behind it. Liam and Gem both show up in the extra tracks, which says a lot about where Oasis had moved by 2005. The B-side culture is still there, but it is now more band-wide than Noel-dominated. |
| 2005 | Let There Be Love | Let There Be Love | Sittin’ Here In Silence (On My Own); Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (Live) | A late-era single that feels almost retrospective in tone. The studio B-side is introspective, the live cut points back to the beginning, and the whole thing has the air of a band looking both forwards and backwards at once. |
| 2006 | Stop The Clocks EP | Acquiesce | Cigarettes & Alcohol (Demo); Some Might Say (Live); The Masterplan | Not a standard single, but too connected to the singles story to ignore. It functions more like a curated celebration of the B-side myth than a fresh addition to it, gathering together songs that had already grown into part of the band’s sacred text. |
| 2007 | Lord Don’t Slow Me Down | Lord Don’t Slow Me Down | The Meaning Of Soul (Live); Don’t Look Back In Anger (Live) | A digital-only stand-alone single, which already tells you the industry had changed. Even so, Oasis still gave it companions. These are live tracks rather than fresh studio B-sides, but the instinct to build a release beyond one song had not fully disappeared. |
| 2008 | The Shock Of The Lightning | The Shock Of The Lightning | Falling Down (The Chemical Brothers Remix) | By the end, the B-side tradition had tilted toward remix culture. This is not the same thing as the old era of hidden Noel gems, but it does reflect the changing shape of singles in the late 2000s, where alternate versions often replaced non-album songs. |
| 2008 | I’m Outta Time | I’m Outta Time | I’m Outta Time (Remix); The Shock Of The Lightning (The Jagz Kooner Remix) | Not a classic B-side single in the old sense. This is largely a remix-led package, which makes it important historically even if it does not offer the thrill of discovering a lost non-album song tucked away on track two. |
| 2009 | Falling Down | Falling Down | Those Swollen Hand Blues; Falling Down (The Gibb Mix); Falling Down (The Prodigy Version) | The last Oasis single before the split. “Those Swollen Hand Blues” is the only true B-side here, with the rest given over to alternate mixes. That feels fitting in a strange way, a final release caught between the old B-side culture and the newer remix economy. |
Promotional and Non-Standard Single Releases
These releases were issued as promotional singles, radio singles, or other non-standard single formats. In most cases they did not have a proper retail B-side package, but they still belong in the historical map if the goal is completeness.
| Year | Release | Type | A-side / Focus Track | B-sides | Notes and Commentary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Columbia | Promotional single | Columbia | None | The first flicker of Oasis on record. It is crucial historically, but not really part of the retail B-side tradition yet. More a shot across the bow than a full single package. |
| 1994 | Rock ’n’ Roll Star | Promotional single | Rock ’n’ Roll Star | None | A promo release used to push one of the defining songs of the debut. No B-side culture here, just a direct signal of Oasis attitude and intent. |
| 1994 | Slide Away | Promotional single | Slide Away | None | One of the band’s most loved songs, but promoted rather than built out as a retail single. Its absence from the main commercial run still surprises people. |
| 1994 | Sad Song | Promotional single | Sad Song | None | A strange and lovely outlier in the early catalogue. Its promo-only life helped deepen the sense that Oasis always had more songs floating around than the official albums could contain. |
| 1994 | I Am The Walrus (Live) | Promotional single | I Am The Walrus (Live) | None | A promo extension of a B-side that already had a big life of its own. This says a lot about how quickly Oasis built identity around their covers as well as their originals. |
| 1995 | Round Are Way | Promotional single | Round Are Way | None | Originally heard as a Wonderwall B-side, then pushed separately. That kind of afterlife is part of what made the Oasis B-side pool feel more like a parallel discography. |
| 1996 | Hello | Promotional single | Hello | None | Never a major retail single, but still part of the promotional machinery around Morning Glory. It underlines how huge that album cycle became. |
| 1996 | Cum On Feel The Noize | Promotional single | Cum On Feel The Noize | None | Another example of a B-side getting enough traction to stand on its own for promo purposes. Oasis could do that because the supposed extras were often strong enough to survive the move. |
| 1997 | I Hope, I Think, I Know | Promotional single | I Hope, I Think, I Know | None | A Be Here Now-era promo that never became a full retail single. It remains one of the cleaner, punchier songs on that album, and its promo status adds to its cult appeal. |
| 1997 | Be Here Now (Live) | Promotional single | Be Here Now (Live) | None | More document than single event. It reflects the era’s appetite for keeping the Oasis machine visible from multiple angles at once. |
| 1998 | Acquiesce | Promotional single | Acquiesce | None | By the time “Acquiesce” was pushed in this way, it had already escaped the B-side bin in the eyes of fans. This promo release only confirmed what people already knew. |
| 1998 | The Masterplan | Promotional single | The Masterplan | None | Almost the perfect example of a B-side graduating into something bigger. By this stage it was no longer just a track hidden behind “Wonderwall.” It was part of the Oasis legend outright. |
| 2000 | Where Did It All Go Wrong? | Promotional single | Where Did It All Go Wrong? | None | A promo single from a more fractured era. No B-side story here, but important as a marker of how the band’s singles strategy was changing with the times. |
| 2000 | Gas Panic! (Live) | Promotional single | Gas Panic! (Live) | None | Live Oasis in the 2000s often did some of the work that B-sides once did, offering alternate ways into the songs. This release fits that pattern. |
| 2000 | Hey Hey, My My (Live) | Promotional single | Hey Hey, My My (Live) | None | Another live promo that says as much about Oasis’s classic-rock identity as it does about their own catalogue. By this point, covers and live documents were central parts of the release ecosystem. |
| 2005 | The Meaning Of Soul | Promotional single | The Meaning Of Soul | None | An example of the later-era promotional run, useful more as a record of what the band and label wanted to spotlight than as a B-side object in itself. |
| 2005 | Turn Up The Sun | Promotional single | Turn Up The Sun | None | A promo release tied to the broader Don’t Believe The Truth push. Again, this is part of the complete single picture even though it is not part of the classic CD-single treasure hunt. |
| 2005 | Mucky Fingers | Promotional single | Mucky Fingers | None | Rough, direct, and promo-only. It feels almost like a reminder that Oasis still liked scruffy rock and roll even when the singles market was thinning out. |
| 2009 | Boy With The Blues | Promotional single | Boy With The Blues | None | Late-period promo material that underlines how much good music was still orbiting Dig Out Your Soul even as the traditional B-side era was fading. |
| 2009 | I Believe In All | Promotional single | I Believe In All | None | Another late promo curio, interesting mainly because it shows that even at the end Oasis still had worthwhile peripheral material not being treated in the old single-and-B-side way. |
Why the Oasis B-Side Story Still Matters
What this list really shows is not just quantity. It shows a very particular kind of abundance. During the 1994 to 1998 run, Oasis treated the single as a place for surplus brilliance. That is why their B-side history still feels bigger than most bands’ actual album history. It is not nostalgia talking. The songs really are that strong.
Later on, the pattern shifts. There are still good extras, still flashes of that old instinct, but by the 2000s the market had changed and the release logic changed with it. Remixes, live cuts, digital-only singles, and slimmer packages started replacing the wild old piles of non-album songs. The culture was different. The B-side became less of a destination.
Still, for a crucial stretch of British music history, nobody did it quite like Oasis. Their A-sides made them massive. Their B-sides made them mythic.
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