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Post by jh on May 8, 2021 5:40:54 GMT -5
This has caught me by surprise but...AKA What a life has to be the numero uno for moi!
The song has aged well...piano is superb, not his best written BUT my favourite none the less! It sounds great live on the album.
There are soo many songs that reach out to me depending on the mood...but this never gets forwarded.
Record Machine and Simple Game Of Genuis came unbelievably close to the top spot!
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Post by The Escapist on May 8, 2021 6:18:35 GMT -5
DANCE DANCE IF YOU DO THAT DANCE
I'M GONNA LET YOU JOIN MAH ONE MANNN BAAAAND
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Post by matt on May 8, 2021 6:28:12 GMT -5
Its a catchy song but incredible to think back then that it was seen as quite a bit of a departure from the usual sound - just shows how unprogressive latter Oasis were. Sounds much tamer compared to what Noel has done since then. It does have one of his catchiest hooks in years though. For me, the best songs of the first High Flying Birds album are the ones that could be considered earlier Oasis b-sides likes Death of You & Me and Broken Arrow. Everybody’s On The Run is great too, that would have been massive if it was Oasis - felt like the first proper anthem from Noel in years.
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Post by defmaybe00 on May 8, 2021 7:01:14 GMT -5
It's been Alone On The Rope for a long time and I think it's gonna be hard to knock it off the #1 spot
I love everything about it: the soft spoken nature of the singing, the jazzy drums, the groove of that bassline, the piano, the soulful vibe, Noel's ability to write sad stuff, even desperate at times, without making it suffocating, and the way he also gives you a glimpse of hope somewhere, be it with a line or with the overall atmosphere of the tune
Honorable mentions:
- While The Song Remains The Same: maybe his best lyrics since going solo, love what's the song's about and can kinda connect with it on a personal level too
It's got that melancholic aura that made me fall in love with his songwriting, really nails that feel of nostalgia he was going for, and it's got such s gorgeous melody
Nice guitar solo too
- The Man Who Built The Moon: I love him when he goes moody and dark, it serves as the perfect background for the story he goes on to narrating and it's a vibe that seems to produce good results very often lately, from some of the best stuff of DOYS to Blue Moon Rising
I absolutely love the playing on this too, especially the bass
Could've fit in some western film
- Dead In The Water: when he nails the acoustic ballad, he TRULY nails the acoustic ballad, you don't need much more than four chords when you just know what you're doing and you've got such a great ear for melody as well as a strong ability to convey emotions into apparently simple writing
The chorus lyrics speak to me on a deeper level, that "let the storm rage" and the way he sings may be my favourite single bit in the HFB discography
There are other ones I love, quite a few actually, but I feel like these four could go against nearly anything he's done with Oasis
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Post by MacaRonic on May 8, 2021 9:41:29 GMT -5
I echo defmaybe00 - ‘Alone On The Rope’
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Post by eva on May 8, 2021 9:56:04 GMT -5
I echo defmaybe00's whole post! those would be my choices as well |
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Post by The Crimson Rambler on May 8, 2021 9:56:59 GMT -5
'Ballad of the Mighty' I followed by 'Riverman (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation)'. Other contenders are 'AKA... What a Life!', 'This Is the Place' and 'It's a Beautiful World'.
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Post by breakingmad on May 8, 2021 11:00:07 GMT -5
Definitely...:
'RIVERMAN'
'If I HAD A GUN'
'THE DYING OF THE LIGHT'
That's my top 3.
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Post by wylliejack on May 8, 2021 11:13:12 GMT -5
DANCE DANCE IF YOU DO THAT DANCE I'M GONNA LET YOU JOIN MAH ONE MANNN BAAAAND Said no one ever. |
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Post by The Escapist on May 8, 2021 11:35:36 GMT -5
DANCE DANCE IF YOU DO THAT DANCE I'M GONNA LET YOU JOIN MAH ONE MANNN BAAAAND Said no one ever. SHE FELL SHE FELL RIGHT UNDER MY SPELL Definitely my favourite. He's made more emotional, more mature, more soulful music. But nothing captures the same tornado of fun as that song does. The bursting brass and the delicious whistle sample, all the catchy melodies and the relentless energy. Every single time I put it on, it blows me away all over again. The first song he's made since Be Here Now that sounds actually drunk on it's own sense of fun and energy, that's a vibe I didn't realise how much I missed from the Chief. What a Life, Broken Arrow, Fort Knox, and Dead in the Water would round out my top five. But Holy Mountain wins. |
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Post by tiger40 on May 8, 2021 13:23:25 GMT -5
I haven't really got one but if I had to choose it would certainly be something off Chasing Yesterday such as You Know We Can't Go Back simply because it's catchy or Riverman or something. But certainly not In The Heat Of The Moment or The Mexican. Do The Damage is another one I would choose as it's one of Noel's best as are The Right Stuff and While The Song Remains The Same.
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Post by joladella on May 8, 2021 14:44:47 GMT -5
As it's the latest one I could not get enough of, Come on outside
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Post by matt on May 8, 2021 15:09:03 GMT -5
It's been Alone On The Rope for a long time and I think it's gonna be hard to knock it off the #1 spot I love everything about it: the soft spoken nature of the singing, the jazzy drums, the groove of that bassline, the piano, the soulful vibe, Noel's ability to write sad stuff, even desperate at times, without making it suffocating, and the way he also gives you a glimpse of hope somewhere, be it with a line or with the overall atmosphere of the tune Honorable mentions: - While The Song Remains The Same: maybe his best lyrics since going solo, love what's the song's about and can kinda connect with it on a personal level too It's got that melancholic aura that made me fall in love with his songwriting, really nails that feel of nostalgia he was going for, and it's got such s gorgeous melody Nice guitar solo too - The Man Who Built The Moon: I love him when he goes moody and dark, it serves as the perfect background for the story he goes on to narrating and it's a vibe that seems to produce good results very often lately, from some of the best stuff of DOYS to Blue Moon Rising I absolutely love the playing on this too, especially the bass Could've fit in some western film - Dead In The Water: when he nails the acoustic ballad, he TRULY nails the acoustic ballad, you don't need much more than four chords when you just know what you're doing and you've got such a great ear for melody as well as a strong ability to convey emotions into apparently simple writing The chorus lyrics speak to me on a deeper level, that "let the storm rage" and the way he sings may be my favourite single bit in the HFB discography There are other ones I love, quite a few actually, but I feel like these four could go against nearly anything he's done with Oasis With it's cinematic apocalyptic vibe, I feel The Man Who Built The Moon is the kind of song that the Dig Out Your Soul album wanted to be but failed to do so. With the ambition that this song had, Dig Out Your Soul should have been a great album. |
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Post by jh on May 8, 2021 17:16:53 GMT -5
It's been Alone On The Rope for a long time and I think it's gonna be hard to knock it off the #1 spot I love everything about it: the soft spoken nature of the singing, the jazzy drums, the groove of that bassline, the piano, the soulful vibe, Noel's ability to write sad stuff, even desperate at times, without making it suffocating, and the way he also gives you a glimpse of hope somewhere, be it with a line or with the overall atmosphere of the tune Honorable mentions: - While The Song Remains The Same: maybe his best lyrics since going solo, love what's the song's about and can kinda connect with it on a personal level too It's got that melancholic aura that made me fall in love with his songwriting, really nails that feel of nostalgia he was going for, and it's got such s gorgeous melody Nice guitar solo too - The Man Who Built The Moon: I love him when he goes moody and dark, it serves as the perfect background for the story he goes on to narrating and it's a vibe that seems to produce good results very often lately, from some of the best stuff of DOYS to Blue Moon Rising I absolutely love the playing on this too, especially the bass Could've fit in some western film - Dead In The Water: when he nails the acoustic ballad, he TRULY nails the acoustic ballad, you don't need much more than four chords when you just know what you're doing and you've got such a great ear for melody as well as a strong ability to convey emotions into apparently simple writing The chorus lyrics speak to me on a deeper level, that "let the storm rage" and the way he sings may be my favourite single bit in the HFB discography There are other ones I love, quite a few actually, but I feel like these four could go against nearly anything he's done with Oasis With it's cinematic apocalyptic vibe, I feel The Man Who Built The Moon is the kind of song that the Dig Out Your Soul album wanted to be but failed to do so. With the ambition that this song had, Dig Out Your Soul should have been a great album. Yep..that would have sat really well on DOYS |
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Post by mrsifters80 on May 8, 2021 17:30:45 GMT -5
Alone On The Rope
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Post by jeffrey on May 8, 2021 19:38:29 GMT -5
Freaky Teeth
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Post by andymorris on May 10, 2021 1:19:41 GMT -5
The Man Who Built The Moon or The Death of You and Me
Both very cinematic songs, one in the vein of Bond, the other is like a Western film.
Both ambitious in sound yet still very NG.
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Post by mimmihopps on May 10, 2021 2:04:53 GMT -5
The Dying Of The Light
The Man Who Built The Moon
Broken Arrow
Freaky Teeth (demo)
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Post by NicOasis on May 10, 2021 2:11:31 GMT -5
You Know We Can't Go Back, it has that Oasis magic in there for me, love the opening notes, great surprise album only track.
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Post by morning_rain on May 10, 2021 2:27:49 GMT -5
It's very hard to choose only one because there's lot of great songs, the first album is still one of my favourites.
But if I had to choose one I'd go with The Death of You and Me. Love everything about that song. I remember how I felt the first time I listened to it and how exciting it was to hear Noel's voice again
Top 5 would be:
The Death of You and Me
(I Wanna Live in a Dream in My) Record Machine
Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks
While the Song Remains the Same
The Right Stuff
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Post by Aman on May 10, 2021 6:49:49 GMT -5
Ballad Of The Mighty I I think.
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Post by AubreyOasis on May 10, 2021 8:31:47 GMT -5
Everybody is on the run
Ballad of the Mighty I
The Man Who Built the Moon
Dead in the water
A Dream is All I need to go by
Most overrated (imo): Alone in the rope
Most underrated (imo): Girl with X-Ray Eyes
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Post by tiger40 on May 10, 2021 13:08:41 GMT -5
I love Alone In The Rope but it's certainly not one of Noel's songs which I listen to a lot.
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Post by matt on May 10, 2021 17:10:11 GMT -5
A handful of tunes could be perceived as his best ever solo tune for me, quite a number from Who Built The Moon that I adore, a couple from the EPs and a few here and there from the first two.
But it has to be Dead In The Water surely? When all is said and done on Noel's solo career, I think that will be the most enduring standout tune.
It absolutely does not mean that he is primed for an acoustic album because quite simply he hasn't reached a peak like Dead In The Water since the glory years (approx 1993-97). That's not a criticism towards Noel as a songwriter, rather it's an observation that rarely do you see a songwriter in his fifties write a song that reaches the peaks of their prime years (that claim is always bandied about for other songwriters but in reality it's never the case).
The melancholy, the melody, the nod to bleakness and above all the hope means it has all the classic ingredients of a Noel Gallagher song - all the stuff he does better than anyone else. You only need to see the deluge of covers on YouTube which suggests something magical there. I love the song, maybe it just speaks to me personally, but it's one of my favourite songs ever - the kind of song I'd never thought he'd achieve after his 90s peak yet for someone like me too young to have lived that, a privilege to have a sense of what it might have been like in the 90s when he was churning out banger after banger after banger.
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Post by goletitout1986 on May 22, 2021 5:46:39 GMT -5
The right stuff or The Mexican.
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