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Post by cloudburster on Oct 13, 2010 6:44:06 GMT -5
Nah, he apparently got it from a children's show called Camberwick Green that used to be on in the 60s and 70s. I also remember it being on when I was a kid - there used to be this butler (who I can't remember his name) that would walk 'slowly down the hall'. He had no idea what to rhyme with hall, so he just threw in cannonball. This may be 100 per cent correct, but given the fact that Noel admittedly spent this period in a self confessed haze of booze and drugs and that he frequently used to write lyrics stoned to make him less inhiibited, I think you have to consider that the lyric was heavily influenced by drugs. After all the main hookline of the song is "where were you while we were getting high?". Also, just throwing this out there, the fairly unusual phrase 'and you walked slowly, down the hall' crops up in the lyric of The Supremes 1970s hit 'Nathan Jones'. Could it be a case of (un)conscious borrowing? Champagne Supernova is supposed to be the effect one sees when they drink champagne whilst getting stoned. So I think the cannonball line is most likely linked to drugs. |
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Post by gdforever on Oct 13, 2010 10:27:05 GMT -5
I think that the cannonball line is intentionally contradictory. My thought always was that it was to represent the distorted perception of people who were high.
Have a cousin whose a cop that pulled over a guy driving, he thought was going the speed-limit but was doing 30 in a 60 zone. But the world seemed to be zooming by for him...apparently when he was pulled over the first thing he did was apologize for speeding. LOL.
So for him...he was slowly going down the the road, faster than a cannonball...No?
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Oct 13, 2010 11:04:27 GMT -5
I think that the cannonball line is intentionally contradictory. My thought always was that it was to represent the distorted perception of people who were high. Have a cousin whose a cop that pulled over a guy driving, he thought was going the speed-limit but was doing 30 in a 60 zone. But the world seemed to be zooming by for him...apparently when he was pulled over the first thing he did was apologize for speeding. LOL. So for him...he was slowly going down the the road, faster than a cannonball...No? I've been saying this for years. It's been debated that Noel lifted some part of that line from somewhere, but I still interpret it as a drugs reference. Drugs can mess with the sense of time, so "slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball" paradoxically makes sense. It's what the drugged up person is feeling - a sense of time warp, or something. Makes sense to me, anyway. |
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Post by Bellboy on Oct 13, 2010 12:28:40 GMT -5
Andy Bell Say's "That'll do me" at the end of A Quick Peep & begining of (Probably) All In The Mind. This, for me, indicates that he was happy to have this, His only song on Heathen Chemistry, included.
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Post by therollingpeople on Oct 15, 2010 7:37:56 GMT -5
Andy Bell Say's "That'll do me" at the end of A Quick Peep & begining of (Probably) All In The Mind. This, for me, indicates that he was happy to have this, His only song on Heathen Chemistry, included. Cool. I could never make out what he was saying |
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Post by jkdap on Nov 4, 2010 17:12:35 GMT -5
In Bag It Up, about half way through to the end in random sections when it's gets really loud and obnoxious, you can hear Noel very slightly going "Cha! Cha! Cha! Chaaaww" in the four beat rythm.
Also in Gas Panic! in the beginning before the song kicks in when Liam sings those bits like "What tongueless ghost of sin..." to "And my family don't seem..." while it's still acoustic, in the background you hear this noise which happens over and over, but it's hard to hear and may be easier with headphones. I'm not crazy - I swear I hear it. It sounds like an instrument, but I can't make out what it is - maybe the harmonica?
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Post by Marcos on Nov 4, 2010 20:26:43 GMT -5
You're right about the "Cha! Cha! Cha!". He also did it in Waiting For The Rapture.
Stolen from The Beatle's Hello, Goodbye. Sometimes I wonder why Noel rip off other people so much.
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Post by manualex on Nov 4, 2010 22:56:54 GMT -5
You're right about the "Cha! Cha! Cha!". He also did it in Waiting For The Rapture. Stolen from The Beatle's Hello, Goodbye. Sometimes I wonder why Noel rip off other people so much. He's way too good at it ;D |
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Post by Rita on Nov 5, 2010 6:02:59 GMT -5
I also think it's really good, obviously uncomparable to Lennon's, but still very good. It could be seen as tribute... the song must have meant a lot to Noel and Liam (as it means to millions of other people, of course)
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Post by Marcos on Nov 5, 2010 7:37:54 GMT -5
He has paying tribute to a lot of artists in the past few years then  I don't mind anyway, he is still a genius! |
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Post by Headmaster on Dec 1, 2010 16:59:58 GMT -5
Liam did backing vocals on Echo & The Bunnyman's Nothing Lasts Forever, the la la las and yeah yeah yeahs are from our kid.
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Post by putthisin ® on Dec 1, 2010 17:09:49 GMT -5
Liam did backing vocals on Echo & The Bunnyman's Nothing Lasts Forever, the la la las and yeah yeah yeahs are from our kid. Really? I didn't know that. Is there any other collaborations? |
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Post by NYR on Dec 1, 2010 19:27:16 GMT -5
"get off your high horse lady" sounds like tommy tucker's "hi-heel sneakers." i heard it on my shuffle list, and it was so similar...
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Post by shoes222 on Dec 8, 2010 23:21:58 GMT -5
I always assumed it was Noel doing both lead and backing vocals. Yeah I'm sure it's just Noel's vocals being multi-tracked. This is FALSE! There are actually one or two other people singing the backing vocals along with Noel during the last chorus of DLBIA, and they are NOT members of the band. I remember reading an interview about it. Anyway, seek to 3:40 here for proof: |
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Post by Marcos on Dec 9, 2010 3:10:00 GMT -5
Yeah I'm sure it's just Noel's vocals being multi-tracked. This is FALSE! There are actually one or two other people singing the backing vocals along with Noel during the last chorus of DLBIA, and they are NOT members of the band. I remember reading an interview about it. Anyway, seek to 3:40 here for proof: That's really interesting! Thank you very much for that. Is there a mp3 available somewhere? That person singing with Noel in the third chorus sound like Paul Weller.. or not? |
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Post by supernovadragon on Dec 9, 2010 6:04:02 GMT -5
It does sound like Weller to me
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Post by Cast on Dec 9, 2010 10:38:35 GMT -5
i know that their guitar tech Jason Rhodes drunkeningly lead the chorus on DLBIA. I read it somewhere but I'm pretty certain that Rhodes is one of the people in there.
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Post by soulslidesaway on Dec 12, 2010 13:56:26 GMT -5
Okay, this one seems obvious, but didn't see it posted..the little riff Noel plays on Wonderwall chorus, is near identical with that of Talk Tonight chorus...
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Post by barnafin95 on Dec 16, 2010 12:34:28 GMT -5
This is just a mix someone has created though, right? They could've easily just added the vocals
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Dec 16, 2010 12:35:42 GMT -5
I just noticed the banter at the end of the Cum On Feel The Noize track the other day. No idea why it took me so long to notice that!
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Post by Bring It On Dan on Dec 16, 2010 13:46:04 GMT -5
We're alllllllll craaaayzee noww
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Dec 16, 2010 14:36:23 GMT -5
We're alllllllll craaaayzee noww  The drunken banter on Bonehead's Bank Holiday is better. But I love it here, too. Seems like Oasis had such a laugh |
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Post by petedaley on Dec 29, 2010 15:50:57 GMT -5
Found one in Beady Eye's "Sons of the Stage." At 2:20, when Liam sings, "Your head is gone," someone says, "Yes, it is!"
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Post by putthisin ® on Dec 29, 2010 16:01:37 GMT -5
^Nice find. Sounds obvious but I didn't notice before!
I hope we can listen to Gem and Andy shouting "Yes, it is!" live
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Dec 29, 2010 17:44:03 GMT -5
Found one in Beady Eye's "Sons of the Stage." At 2:20, when Liam sings, "Your head is gone," someone says, "Yes, it is!" Yup, heard that too. Nice find! |
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