Noel Gallagher once explained that the lyrics of the Oasis song “Live Forever” were inspired in part by Nirvana…
“At the time . . . it was written in the middle of grunge and all that, and I remember Nirvana had a tune called ‘I Hate Myself and Want to Die’, and I was like . . . ‘Well, I’m not fucking having that.’ As much as I fucking like him [Kurt Cobain] and all that shit, I’m not having that. I can’t have people like that coming over here, on smack, fucking saying that they hate themselves and they wanna die. That’s fucking rubbish. Kids don’t need to be hearing that nonsense.”
Oasis, the band that mostly everybody loves to hate, have one massively huge fan in Cobain’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. Check out some of her Oasis obsessing tweets via her official verified twitter account…
Here’s a Liam Gallagher Tweet she retweeted…
On some of her favorite Oasis songs, she tweeted…
When asked why her Twitter handle name is @alka_seltzer666, she replied,
The “Oasis reference” being a lyric from the song “Supersonic”
“I know a girl called Elsa, She’s into Alka-Seltzer, She sniffs it through a cane on a Supersonic train”
And finally, when asked if she would rather be in Nirvana or Hole, here’s what she replied…
I love Oasis and Nirvana so it’s super cool to see the connection. Here’s a recent 2014 photo of Frances with original Oasis ryhthm guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs…
Here’s one last one from a recent Rolling Stone Magazine interview.
UPDATE: May 20, 2015 Check out Frances backstage with Noel Gallagher at his High Flying Birds concert at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. (I was there too)
The Foo Fighters also love Oasis and even once covered “Lyla”, check it out…