![]() Those records mixed up hits with album tracks and B-sides to offer an overview of the band's identity, and so it is with Oasis' double-disc set, as it overlooks big hits - "Roll with It," "D'You Know What I Mean," "Stand by Me" - in favor of things that were tucked away on albums or singles. As he so often has done in his career, he looked to the Beatles for guidance, choosing their two 1973 hits comps 70 - better known as The Red Album and The Blue Album - as a template for Stop the Clocks. And so Gallagher designed the first Oasis hits compilation, 2006's double-disc, 18-track Stop the Clocks. A decade later, an older, presumably wiser Gallagher realized that if you're about to leave your longtime label and that label will release a compilation whether you participate or not, it's better to write your own draft of your band's history than having the label do it for you. A young Noel Gallagher at the height of Oasis' popularity in the mid-'90s declared that the band would not release a compilation CD until the end of their career, since such compilations implied that a band's career was indeed over.
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