10 Perfect '90s Rock Songs That Everyone Forgets About

5. Bring It On Down - Oasis

It's almost impossible to classify anything that the Gallagher Brothers did at the start of Oasis' career as underrated. From the minute that Supersonic sweeped across the airwaves, these Manchester musicians were being hyped up as one of the best bands in the music industry by fans, fellow musicians, and even the Gallaghers themselves. Outside of the Beatles' comparisons though, Oasis still had those punk ideals, and they came out in full force on Bring It On Down.

Storming out of the gate with Tony McCarroll's manic drum part, this is the closest thing that Noel Gallagher ever wrote that sounded like the Sex Pistols, taking the same kind of distorted guitar line and making a sort of psychedelic haze in your headphones whenever you listened to it. Though he was known to write songs for the common man, hearing Noel get borderline political on this track was also a change of pace, talking about the outcasts who thinks it's better to live fast than to find a proper job.

Though it never reached the same heights as a song like Live Forever, it was good enough to win over their manager Alan McGee, who signed them based off of hearing this song and wanted it out as their first single. Time had different plans for Oasis' future though, so it will forever be known as one of the spellbinding deep cuts on the tail end of Definitely Maybe.

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