Day four of our countdown and a bit of a special treat today as we give the Gallagher brothers of Oasis some room to let forth on any number of subjects (but mainly each other).
Their insults may may boiled over into the actual split of the band but hey, they’re brothers, and I’m sure we’d all like to think they’ll be talking again soon (if only at Christmas round at their mums).
But first, to get us warmed up, a quick outburst from that other famed gob-in-mouth specialist, Jonny Borrell.
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“If I saw me I’d want to speak to me, too – I’d think, ‘That guy looks like he’s from Mars, he’s somehow strangely compelling.’ I don’t even look human.”
Johnny Borrell
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Some people make a habit of saying the wrong thing. We call them the Gallagher brothers. Here’s a small example of the comedy gold that spews forth from their imaginations
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“It gets better and better being me.”
Liam Gallagher
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“Maybe they think I’m a big-mouthed cunt from Manchester, and they’d be correct. I don’t give a fuck what people think about me. I’m not arsed.”
Liam Gallagher
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“I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, ‘What a good-looking fuck you are.’”
Liam Gallagher
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“Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher. What’s all that with writing messages about Free Trade [on his hand]? If he wants to write things down I’ll give him a pen and a pad of paper. Bunch of students.”
Liam Gallagher
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“You’ve seen one of our gigs, you’ve seen ’em all.”
Liam Gallagher
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“Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.”
Noel Gallagher
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“[Liam is] like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”
Noel Gallagher on Liam
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“If there were gold medals for taking drugs for England I would have won a shit load”
Noel Gallagher
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“You’re not fuckin’ telling me that somebody that’s into The fuckin’ Wombats is feeling the same thing as I was when I was into the Pistols? I’m not fuckin’ having that.”
Noel Gallagher
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“We’re inherently lazy working class Mancunians, you know what I mean? We wanna be getting pissed half the time, and the other fuckin’ time we wanna be getting fuckin’ high.”
Noel Gallagher
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“I do all the work so it’s only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.”
Noel Gallagher
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“I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.”
Noel Gallagher
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And now back to the wider world of egotists, lunatics and the delusional…
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“Rock and roll doesn’t allow you to grow up – especially if you’re not trying very hard to.”
Scott Weiland, Velvet Revolver
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“I like to think of us as Clearasil on the face of the nation. Jim Morrison would have said that if he was smart, but he’s dead.”
Lou Reed
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“Never talk about a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes. That way when you talk about him you’re a mile away and you have his shoes.”
Nathan Followill, Kings Of Leon
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“There wouldn’t be no grime without me.”
Dizzee Rascal
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“I won’t be happy until I’m as famous as God.”
Madonna
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“Somebody said to me, ‘But The Beatles were antimaterialistic’. That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’
Paul McCartney
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“Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.”
Mick Jagger
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