GAS PANIC | The Story and Meaning behind Oasis' Definitive Masterpiece

In this video, I will be discussing what I believe to be the best ever Oasis song, and how the song spawned from Noel Gallagher's darkest days.
This is my first video essay, I hope you enjoy!
#oasis #music

[@HEAVYDIAPER]

They were pretty big in the US, dude. They just kept fucking up their momentum and tours everytime they came through. They had excellent radioplay and their music videos were all over MTV. Unfortunately, Oasis was their own worst enemy.

[@radidov5333]

they alone fkd their success

[@marianarivera7084]

They weren’t “that big” in the US. They were competing with bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, Green Day, Metallica. Go to the 1998 charts in America and you’ll find them nowhere. Even Noel Gallagher acknowledged they weren’t as big in America.

[@RebeltechX]

Can't believe I am still listening to this song in 2024! 24 years! Underrated. I always prefer the Gas Panic! Wembley 2nd night. Awesome video! I'm from Singapore by the way!

[@rocoe9019]

Like everything the turd brothers did it is actually extremely overrated

[@Tinfintytin]

@@rocoe9019Using turd as an insult is an automatic L😂, Yanks are 💩 at insults just like their taste in music.

[@petegonad]

Why are you here?

[@dantastic6262]

I was at Wembley that night… Can’t remember much of it, I was absolutely steaming… But I do remember Gas Panic

[@SuperDavidGnomo]

Live is even better than album version! Masterpiece.

[@nocityartsfilm6455]

right, the studio version oddly doesn't live up to how great it is live.

[@evaristo_1272]

I’ve loved this band since 96. It’s finally refreshing hearing an American talk about them. For the record. “Be Here Now” in my opinion has aged like fine wine. “Don’t Go Away” is one of the greatest songs ever written.

[@PeterPauls]

As someone who suffers from Panic Disorder (regular panic attacks) this is the song that describe my condition the best. It comes from knowhere, sometimes when I just getting to eat my dinner and when it comes it comes and you have to live through. I've never done drugs in my life. I developed panic disorder because I have a chronic illness and had a lots of pain and my brain couldn't handle it anymore but the end result is similar. Edit: I should have started with this, it is a great analysis of the song and one of my favourite songs from Oasis.

[@leighgarmory-x2w]

Great video… Best song on SOTSOG, easily a contender for the Oasis top 10.

[@marklees206]

I get panic attacks so relate to this bigtime.i dont think anyone could describe it better in a song.simply phenomenal

[@chrisburton4128]

Defo in the top 10 and massively underrated song

[@chrisburton4128]

In no particular order these are the first 10 that come to my mind... Stop Crying Your Heart Out, Supersonic, Don't look back in.., Bring it on Down, Hindu Times, Gas Panic, Cast no Shadow, Slideaway, Champagne S, Go Let it Out... could make another 10 from them just as good tbh

[@thevence]

Truly an incredible song. You should make a video on Magic Pie next!

[@ThegamerTopic]

Step to far mate

[@TheMightyEye]

Magic Pie is atrociously bad

[@richarlisongoat1476]

@@TheMightyEyehow dare you it’s an amazing song

[@johnstreet5632]

@@richarlisongoat1476it’s crap. It starts off well but the chorus is just awful

[@Gavaldo]

Magic pie is one of Oasis worst songs. So let’s not go there. ✌️👍✌️

[@LennonLove]

Can’t argue with any of that. Well put together. Incredible tune.

[@Al3j4E]

The guitar solo aways felt like a sound coming from a dark cloudy and windy stormy sky. perfecto!

[@Simoasis81]

i think that this song has the best bass line in oasis discography too

[@Weztex]

Played by sound engineer Paul Stacey. It's been reported than Bonehead and Guigsy had taped some tracks in the early stage of recording but they never leaked.

[@djjeddyb]

I thought I had read, or heard that a lot of the lyrics for this song were taken from someone's suicide note. How true that is I don't know, but if you listen to the lyrics carefully and put yourself in the mind of somebody suicidal, there's much that relates.

[@LG.C.F.C]

Brilliant video pal,you have nailed it.

[@Abs-xl4gb]

Really enjoyed this please do more oasis content like this ❤

[@jw6186]

Gas Panic - my favourite Oasis song

[@danfromtheshow]

@@jw6186 Mine as well; thanks for watching!

[@adamhearne2825]

Noel almost always says he quit drugs completely in 98 but it is well known he was heavily addicted to Valium throughout 99 and 2000 after he quit cocaine to deal with his attacks.

[@rizlahillofficial]

He Defo Still Smokes Weed Aswell x

[@valle4483]

@@rizlahillofficialdon’t think so, he has said he much prefer alcohol over weed in an interview which tells me he probably doesn’t react that well to the cannabis high.

[@AlessandroBicchieri]

Brilliant analysis

[@edigallagher7531]

Gas panic live rock in Rio, that's the one!

[@danfromtheshow]

@@edigallagher7531 Top 10 Oasis gig of all time!

[@rafaelrabelo2399]

I cannot believe you didnt metion the bass of the song. The bass line is amazing and it marks the comeback of bass in oasis song after the over the top exaggerated guitars of Be here now. It includ noel playing bass in Go let it out clip

[@noelennon420]

I LOVE Be Her Now!

[@vitord.f.]

Be here now is my favorite!

[@FormulaProg]

Familiar to millions version cant be beaten.

[@lucaboban]

Thank you for that great video!!! The time from Be Here Now to SOTSOG is my favorite of their career

[@danfromtheshow]

@@lucaboban Thank you for tuning in! I thought the very few shows they played in 1999 were the best for Liam’s voice.

[@kastro99]

amazing video, keep em comin

[@NitroCrypt]

The trip to Australia tarnished their reputation in Australia forever

[@libertard6101]

To me, That intro sounds like a patient on a ventilator and heart cardio tracker!!

[@jasonkeck3438]

Noel had a valium dependence that he was trying to come off of. This song is about the panic attacks from benzo withdrawal...It's documented in one of the books about them, i forget which one

[@RobertHutchinson398]

Great video!

[@fredpower432]

Great video man

[@discreetyeti105]

Great video- but one thing which grinds my gears- it’s pronounced Paul McGwigan- like his nickname- gwigsy (spelt how it sounds)

[@trevorcook4439]

A bit like the pronunciation of Brisbane! It’s not Brizz Bayne! Briz b’n

[@harrym6242]

I prefer Paul Mcgoogan 😂😂

[@trevorcook4439]

@@harrym6242 Maguygan

[@Stephen-up3sd]

“Gas Panic” is the name of a famous bar in Tokyo!

[@been.down.so.long.71]

better then 98% out there

[@markspence5288]

Some of Noel’s best lyrics on this song

[@radidov5333]

I wonder wheres that drum track from...I know its from somewhere else, I heard it before..either from my dreams or in the radio

[@thestaffrockband]

Impressive video; congratulations!

[@rocoe9019]

I thought i saw liam on the street the other day but as i got closer i realised it was just a stepped on dog turn !

[@paaul028]

Agree their best song

[@Krysiss]

Nice video omg, Married With Children is their best song tho. 😎

[@Simoasis81]

just one thing that i don't understand : bonehead and guigsy quit because noel said no drugs in studio ?

[@user-sf4rd3yj8y]

apparently noel got quite strict and business-like in the studio, which bonehead and guigsy felt wasn't what the boys were about which is why they left (not just because of the no drugs rule)

[@nebula4224]

I loved this video! I remember going to Radioshack in 2000 and picking up my own CD of Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, Gas Panic was one of my favorites on the album. Sadly, if I were to compare Gas Panic to one of my other favorites 'Magic Pie', It wouldn't be a competition. I hope you will do another video on my favorite Oasis song, Magic Pie, next!

[@williedesmond8201]

Funny hearing saying that about definitely maybe after being on his tour this year with it ,id give a lot more than a tenner for a signed noel and especially liam cd /record. Lol.

[@olivierguerin3455]

Be here now is the best production rock ever.

[@FriendOfTheNight24]

Their best song post first 2 albums. Liam’s singing is at his peak to me, their Jools Holland performance is the best

[@TheOtherKine]

They went to ROPPONGI, TOKYO, and visited the local famous BAR there named GAS PANIC (yes, that was the actual name) and stole the name from there. The bar was literally one of THE MOST FAMOUS bars in Roppongi (finally closed in 2019), I know, because I used to hang out there with the ex-pats from ALL AROUND THE WORLD who would go there to get smashed as I used to back in 1991 and 1992 Japanese fans and people have been to Roppongi know LMAO

[@olivierguerin3455]

Roll it over the best song

[@factoryfactory7142]

Ah the be here now phase or as it should be called the pink floyd years!

[@LG.C.F.C]

Underrated song,gas panic live is absolute fuckin class

[@swirlingfudge]

Why ‘Gas’?

[@Luxarium]

Weed or maybe gas referencing cocaine bc the smell

[@Xune2000]

Noel thought he'd left the oven on and had a meltdown.

[@radidov5333]

gas reference to how the panic creeps in slow and quietly like a gas..

[@Joeelkins.]

Gas bill was too high. He panicked

[@robb-linklater]

gas panic is all about smoking to much weed and other drugs getting paranoid as fuck and stopping and going through all the withdrawals and realizing that some if your friends aint actually your friends and are just there for the drugs

[@Shtf132]

That inmate pic looks like Theo Von

[@hindenpeter2.04]

I do remember a news snippet in the NME Originals Oasis that stated that they missed a US no.1 spot with Be Here Now being pipped by Puff Daddy by like a few hundred copies. Glad karma caught up with p diddy🙃

[@WisdomWeaverBitcoinBruv]

Noel (apparently) wrote BHN in two weeks. That includes songs like Stand By Me, Don't Go Away, and I Hope I Think I Know... Infinitely worse albums have taken longer to write. BHN is a cult classic among fans.

[@tonykehoe123]

The golden web ?

[@JoeLaRocca]

Was this a high school project?

[@richgl31]

Definitive masterpiece?!?! Wtf?. Seriously if it wasn’t on the first two albums it shouldn’t be discussed.

[@radidov5333]

Also, this album didn't have enough good songs.. which I think they (or he noel) should keep on trying on the next album...SOTSOG is and will forever be an anomaly in Oasis music career.. one and only, and that's a pity..a second album on this style wouldnt been soooooooo good.

[@Genny-Zee]

It’s bris-ben, not Bris-bANE, but otherwise good

[@gaboasis21]

Probably my fav song from Oasis. When We play it with my Oasis tribute band…pure magic! This is me playing it kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqbGn4N_nZabl5Ysi=w_uhKGgyaD5gt_X7

[@JoeLaRocca]

This song is cliche and sonically irritating. Good analysis, just repeating what he says in his obvious lyrics.

[@MaxPowers1245]

Way worse than the be here now and it only got worse from there

[@mrjamesgrimes]

There is no bigger oasis fan than me, but this is a mid tier song

[@simecrossley8056]

They didn't play Brisbane after Liam assaulted a photographer (not a fan) the day of the concert. I had tickets to that show. It was cancelled. 🥲