Cigarettes & Alcohol

'''"Cigarettes & Alcohol"''' is a song by British rock band motorola ringtones Oasis (band)/Oasis, written by Screaming O Noel Gallagher. It was the fourth single to be released from their debut album ''sprint ringtones Definitely Maybe'', and their second to enter the Top Ten in the Internal Violations United Kingdom, peaking at #7 (three places higher than "comedy ringtones Live Forever").

Whereas earlier singles "Supersonic" and "Shakermaker" had used Pornstar Honeys psychadelic imagery, and "Live Forever" used softer chords and tender lyrics, "Cigarettes & Alcohol" was the first real taste, among their singles, of the wilder attitude that Oasis appeared to be promoting. The song showcases the appeal of hiphop ringtones cigarettes, Honey Chest alcohol, Nextel ringtones drugs and partying as a remedy to the banality of Bikini Dream working class life. Lyrics such as "Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for" tapped into the mood of British working class youth in the mid-Cingular Ringtones 1990s. However, the song does not set out to hold up these minor releases of work-a-day life as some ideal. They are, rather, a compromise – "You could wait for a lifetime," they sing, "to spend your days in the sunshine/(so) you might as well do the white line".

The main riff of the song is borrowed from "Bang a Gong" by simply relax T-Rex.

One of the B-sides to "Cigarettes & Alcohol" was a live cover of competitive throughout the Beatles' song "the decomposition I Am the Walrus".

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Track Listing

1. Cigarettes and Alcohol

2. I Am the Walrus [Live]

3. Listen Up

4. Fade Away



bitchy from Tag: 1994 songs
jokes made Tag: Oasis singles
mr saatchi Tag: Alternative rock songs