Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 28 February 2000.

In the year preceding the album's release, Alan McGee closed Creation Records, and Oasis had lost two founding members (Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs and Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan) and hired new producer Mark "Spike" Stent to replace Owen Morris.

The album marked a significant change from the Britpop scene to a modern psychedelic record complete with drum loops, samples, electric sitar, Mellotron, synthesisers and backward guitars, resulting in an album more experimental with electronica and heavy psychedelic rock influences.

Standing on the Shoulder of Giants has been certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry[1] and has sold around 208,000 copies in the US.

He then wrote the name on the side of a cigarette packet while drunk, and upon awakening in the morning, he realised he had written "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants".

[6] Noel was forced to play nearly all the instruments on the album, aided by some additional musicians;[citation needed] due to the departure of two founding band members (guitarist Bonehead and bassist Guigsy) while the album was still being recorded, their parts were re-recorded for legal reasons.

Guitarist Gem Archer and bassist Andy Bell (Bonehead's and Guigsy replacement respectively) would be officially included in the band shortly after the album's release.

The lead track, "Fuckin' in the Bushes", features no vocals, but does include sampled quotes from Message to Love, a documentary film of the Isle of Wight Festival 1970.

was inspired by the panic attacks Noel Gallagher was having as he quit drugs in advance of the birth of his daughter Anaïs.

He also clarified that adding Archer and Bell allowed the band to split songwriting duties, as he felt he "could[n't] keep writing 20 songs every two years".

[31] "Fuckin' in the Bushes" was used in the soundtrack for Guy Ritchie's 2000 crime movie Snatch starring Brad Pitt.