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Post by supernovadragon on Jan 13, 2010 18:34:46 GMT -5
For me, the best one is a close run thing, between two tracks:
The I'm Outta Time remix - it improves over the studio version and The Shock of the Lightning (Primal Scream Remix) - just for the way it's different but the same if you know what I mean. I can't explain it. I just enjoy it.
For me, the worst:
Falling Down (the 22 minute remix) - As much as I did like it when it first come out - I can't listen to it now - it just goes on far too long for me.
So what are you best and worst remixes from Dig Out Your Soul?
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Post by AKA... Frozen Eggroll on Jan 14, 2010 0:46:44 GMT -5
I don't like "To Be Where There's Life (A Richard Fearless Production)". It sounds like a fucking Nintendo game. And "Falling Down (The Chemical Brothers Remix)" is good at the parts where Noel sings, but the rest is nearly unbearable at times.
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Post by mkoasis on Jan 14, 2010 1:24:52 GMT -5
Best: TSOTL (Primal Scream) I'm Outta Time (Twiggy) TBWTL (Fearless)
Worst: Falling Down (AA mix)...sorry Noel. It just doesnt work IMO. Maybe 12 mins. But 22? With all those extra vocals and nonsense? I don't think so.
TBWTL (Neon neon remix)...quite pointless really.
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Post by thepicturesgeneration on Jan 14, 2010 2:37:40 GMT -5
the AA remix of falling down is somewhat of a trip the first time you listen if you're on drugs. but the repetition of taking a 4 minute song and repeating the same lyrics over about 100 times takes the meaning and punch out of it.
I like the fearless remix of TBWTL, I'd prefer it not as robotic sounding, but the guitars make the chorus and prechorus much more powerful.
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Post by OasisKid99 on Jan 14, 2010 2:55:41 GMT -5
I agree with what's been said regarding the AA's 22 minute remix of "Falling Down", just too long and a bit too weird, but I do think the 6 minute condensed version is quite good though, the one with the piano intro and the strings coming in after. I also like the 6 minute extended version that was part of the DOYS Fan Made Mixes, I feel it may be the best overall version of the song. Anyone like IdleDreamer's acoustic mixes? I thought they were a nice change of pace.
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Post by Bring It On Dan on Jan 14, 2010 5:05:18 GMT -5
AA's is good. I listen to it when I wanna get away from reality for a bit and lose myself for 22 minutes!!! Listen to it with your eyes closed, it's the bollocks!
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Post by kingoasis on Jan 14, 2010 5:48:32 GMT -5
all of them are shit
Oasis should never be remixed .......... they're not a dance/club act
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Post by putthisin ® on Jan 14, 2010 6:25:29 GMT -5
all of them are shit Oasis should never be remixed .......... they're not a dance/club act I agree. But, in terms of b-sides, was either that or nothing
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Post by Soldier Ron on Jan 14, 2010 8:53:43 GMT -5
The Falling Down (A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix by Amorphous Androgynous) sets the standards by which all others are judged. It adds a lot of elements to the somewhat sparse arrangement of the song on Dig Out Your Soul, but the real virtuoso part from 10:00 - 13:00 is spine-tingling and very effective. The child's voice sample, Noel's treated vocals and the melancholic piano, pushing the boundaries of what is perceived as an Oasis recording.
I'm of the mind that it should have ended at 13:30 with a huge cacophony of noise. To have the song 'begin again' with an anonymous woman singing feels terribly anticlimactic and wearyingly superfluous.
Clearly, it's fantasy booking on my part and wouldn't have happened in a billion years but if Noel had fucked off Sardy and asked AA to produce DOYS...well some of the songs might still have been fucking shit but production-wise it would have been an insane psychedelic head-fuck. Well, I can dream.
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Post by LlAM on Jan 14, 2010 9:05:02 GMT -5
The Falling Down Chemical Bros remix is World Class. The rest range from 'shite' to 'slightly interesting' with TSOTL Primal Scream remix being the absolute worst.
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Post by LlAM on Jan 14, 2010 9:08:40 GMT -5
all of them are shit Oasis should never be remixed .......... they're not a dance/club act A "re-mix" doesn't have to be dance or club. In fact, most of the DOYS remixes have NOTHING to do with those genres.
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Post by thepicturesgeneration on Jan 14, 2010 10:20:26 GMT -5
AA's is good. I listen to it when I wanna get away from reality for a bit and lose myself for 22 minutes!!! Listen to it with your eyes closed, it's the bollocks! perfect description. i literally only listen if I have 22 minutes, and want to divert myself from reality. It's immersive.
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Post by kingoasis on Jan 14, 2010 11:03:31 GMT -5
all of them are shit Oasis should never be remixed .......... they're not a dance/club act A "re-mix" doesn't have to be dance or club. In fact, most of the DOYS remixes have NOTHING to do with those genres. my point is ........ is that Oasis arent a Dance act, so why are they getting remixes done i used to buy club vinyls and everytime you bought one, on the opposite side would be a remix. That's where remixes belong - to songs from the "Dance" genre Oasis arent in that genre I suppose if i had to choose, it would be the chemical brothers Falling Down, the first one we all heard and like most I thought the piano bit was part of the actual Oasis track - it was that good
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Post by bluebird2 on Jan 14, 2010 11:13:02 GMT -5
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Post by mkoasis on Jan 14, 2010 13:22:03 GMT -5
Dance remixes are "Shite" as we like to say around here, but the DOYS bsides were hardly "Dance". Some fan-made remixes were (the Chew Fu Kung Fu remix of The Turning, for instance) but the overwhelming majority were not. They were sort of reworkings of the song.
If would have been intersting if remixes were made of every track...if Bag it Up, WFTR, AGN, TNOR and SO, we could have a DOYS remixed album. If the remixes were all good, then I think we would have a very interesting album there.
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Post by Jim on Jan 14, 2010 13:55:55 GMT -5
mkoasis is right in saying that the tracks were more reworkings than remixes and none of them are "dance" remixes, far from it.
How many of you have said they wanted to hear Oasis work with Death In Vegas (Richard Fearless), The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy after hearing Scorpio Rising, Setting Sun / Let Forever Be and Guns / Shoot Down? With these remixes you got to hear how they could sound if thay worked with any of the above.
Personally The Richard Fearless Production of To Be Where There's Life and the Twiggy and Sardy I'm Outta Time are pretty well done as is the Chemical Brothers remix of Falling Down.
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Post by KeepOnNoeling on Jan 14, 2010 15:07:18 GMT -5
if Noel had fucked off Sardy and asked AA to produce DOYS...well some of the songs might still have been fucking shit but production-wise it would have been an insane psychedelic head-fuck. Well, I can dream. What would have been more interesting is if AA had remixed every song and they'd released them all as a bonus disc along with the normal album.
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Post by thepicturesgeneration on Jan 15, 2010 8:06:23 GMT -5
if Noel had fucked off Sardy and asked AA to produce DOYS...well some of the songs might still have been fucking shit but production-wise it would have been an insane psychedelic head-fuck. Well, I can dream. What would have been more interesting is if AA had remixed every song and they'd released them all as a bonus disc along with the normal album. or death in vegas what else occurred to me is that it would have been cool if oasis worked with UNKLE. the stuff noel did for the goal soundtrack was some of my favorite recent oasis material, but distinctly un-oasis sounding (which was a great departure).
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Post by Soldier Ron on Jan 15, 2010 8:52:53 GMT -5
what else occurred to me is that it would have been cool if oasis worked with UNKLE. The other UNKLE thing I've never seen it mentioned on the board, was a track I found on Kazaa after I first came online in 2001. Dunno, if it's correct but it claimed to be called The Knock on Effect "Noel Gallagher remix" of 'The Knock drums of death part 2' from the Psyence Fiction CD. I upped it to youtube and thought someone might have more information on it. Even if it isn't a Noel collaboration, it gives Fuckin' In The Bushes a run for it's money as one of the best dance-rock crossover songs I've ever heard.
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Post by manonthemoon748 on Jan 15, 2010 10:29:26 GMT -5
I'm not the biggest fan of the guy's songwriting, but the Devandra Banhart remix of "Get Off Your High Horse Lady" is AMAZING. It's my favorite of the lot, followed closely by the Chemical Bros. remix of 'Falling Down.' The worst one? I have no idea. The Twiggy remix maybe? I don't really *hate* any of them, but I don't listen to them that often either.
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Post by KeepOnNoeling on Jan 15, 2010 15:16:45 GMT -5
What would have been more interesting is if AA had remixed every song and they'd released them all as a bonus disc along with the normal album. or death in vegas what else occurred to me is that it would have been cool if oasis worked with UNKLE. the stuff noel did for the goal soundtrack was some of my favorite recent oasis material, but distinctly un-oasis sounding (which was a great departure). Well, as Noel was always the one working with these people maybe we'll hear more collaborations on his solo work, when and if that happens. It would be cool if he did lots of collaborations with people like DIV, AA and UNKLE and also more obvious people like Weller and possibly Serge.
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