Wibbling Rivalry

According to Williams, Fierce Panda took "a while" to dare themselves to release the single, due to Oasis being signed to Creation Records, who were owned by Sony Music. He explained: "We were quite worried. Then I got a call from Sony's lawyers and I thought, 'Uh-oh, this is it!' But they just said they loved it and asked me to send them a copy. And Noel was great about it." Phil Sutcliffe noted that the release followed Oasis's major hit single "Wonderwall", which he said gave the band "fresh-minted iconic status", and described "Wibbling Rivalry" – a "Gallagher bros barney-cum-interview single" – as one of several "fond welcome accorded daft Oasis spin-offs" that affirmed the band's status at the time, alongside tribute band No Way Sis and the easy listening cover of "Wonderwall" by the Mike Flowers Pops. ==Critical reception==

Gregor Muir reviewed the single for Frieze. Writing that if the listener is able to "ignore the Oasis-factor", the single still essentially consists of "two Northern men arguing". He counted Georgina Starr's video Crying (1993) and Tom Gidley's Thinking Out Loud: Proposal for a Sound Archive (1993) as then-recent precedents of "extreme, private emotion isolated at source", adding that "Gidley's imaginary sound archive—photographs of reel-to-reel tapes labelled 'Anxious', 'Confused', 'Excited' and 'Exhausted'—pre-empts a market for bootleg interviews with the Gallagher brothers where they display an emotion other than anger." In a 1996 article, Phil Sutcliffe of Q described "Wibbling Rivalry" as "the Troggs Tapes de nos jours, a merciless assemblage of outtakes from an early interview which exposed bare naked the sibs' capacity for foul-mouthed epiphanies of internecine daftness." In 2000, Robin Bresnark of Melody Maker described the single as "legendary". In 2009, Ian Gittins of The Guardian described it as "Fierce Panda's most notorious 7in release", despite it not containing "a note of music". In 2016, Evan Minsker of Pitchfork described the release as "easily one of the best Oasis records". ==Track listing==

• "Noel Side... (A lot of swearing and cussing)" • "Liam Side... (Even more swearing and cussing)" ==References==