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Post by matt on Apr 7, 2024 9:07:40 GMT -5
Do the damage is a great tune. I had it opening a playlist of my favourite solo songs from the chief The only bad thing about Do The Damage is that they repurposed the first heat of the moment video for it and it's crap. Must admit those Mike Bruce videos were awful. Really have to question Noel's film tastes here!
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Post by matt on Apr 6, 2024 9:03:51 GMT -5
Well I'd prefer a new album with David Holmes, something more technicolour and ambitious rather than rehashes of the same songs. Doesn't have to be electro influenced, I want a pop album (with the kitchen sink thrown at it), and some psychedelic soundscapes ala Man Who Built The Moon. Very melodic songs like Sail On, A Dream Is All I Need To Get By, If Love Is The Law.... play to his strengths. Noel can't rock, he needs Liam for that and to be 30 years younger, and an acoustic album would be too samey. A bit of ambition in the studio, with something more sonically interesting, is what I'm asking. Translation: Noel should be more like Coldplay! Yuck. Please tell me which psychedelic pop albums Coldplay have released because I must have missed them.
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Post by matt on Apr 5, 2024 15:43:53 GMT -5
Acoustic album wasn't fussed over but a rock album excites me even less. When you hear stuff like Lock All The Doors and You Know We Can't Go Back it's like..... what's the point? I can hear better, more raucous songs in that vein from 20 years previously and it's not serving any purpose aside from repeating old tricks but sounding a hell of a lot more tired. And clean. Too clean. Sure, if he turns the guitars up to 11, runs reckless with reverb and gets Liam to sing, then I'm on board. If you don't him doing acoustic stuff and you don't want him doing rock stuff, then what do you want? Well I'd prefer a new album with David Holmes, something more technicolour and ambitious rather than rehashes of the same songs. Doesn't have to be electro influenced, I want a pop album (with the kitchen sink thrown at it), and some psychedelic soundscapes ala Man Who Built The Moon. Very melodic songs like Sail On, A Dream Is All I Need To Get By, If Love Is The Law.... play to his strengths. Noel can't rock, he needs Liam for that and to be 30 years younger, and an acoustic album would be too samey. A bit of ambition in the studio, with something more sonically interesting, is what I'm asking.
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Post by matt on Apr 4, 2024 16:48:57 GMT -5
Acoustic album wasn't fussed over but a rock album excites me even less. When you hear stuff like Lock All The Doors and You Know We Can't Go Back it's like..... what's the point? I can hear better, more raucous songs in that vein from 20 years previously and it's not serving any purpose aside from repeating old tricks but sounding a hell of a lot more tired. And clean. Too clean.
Sure, if he turns the guitars up to 11, runs reckless with reverb and gets Liam to sing, then I'm on board.
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Post by matt on Apr 1, 2024 16:47:53 GMT -5
Trump will be president again and fix Bidens mess Lol, deluded and idiotic.
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Post by matt on Apr 1, 2024 14:51:45 GMT -5
He's been great for Noel and he was great for Oasis in the 90s too. Some jazzy stuff going on with that MTV Unplugged gig.
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Post by matt on Apr 1, 2024 8:39:25 GMT -5
Sometimes the player plays a section and loops it when moving onto a different part, a bit like what Ed Sheeran does. If this is the case, that's fine but if your case it is basically a pre-recorded track playing then its a big no no. Yeah that definitely wasn't the case. I've seen Ed Sheeran once at a festival and even though I think his music is super generic and boring, I was really impressed with that whole one-man-band-looping-schtick! Not a fan at all, but I was also impressed how he was able to play Wembley stadium literally just by himself.
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Post by matt on Mar 31, 2024 11:23:22 GMT -5
It really bothers me when I go to a gig, the music is synth driven and there's not a keyboard player in sight so they use backing tracks. I've seen this various times now and it really takes away from the live experience. At this particular gig the bass player played a bit on a little synth that happened to be there, but you still heard the bass too, which made me wonder how much of it is actually live? Or was I just watching a glorified karaoke show? Just let the synths out, or, if they are an important piece of the music, HIRE A FECKING KEYBOARD PLAYER! Sometimes the player plays a section and loops it when moving onto a different part, a bit like what Ed Sheeran does. If this is the case, that's fine but if it is basically a pre-recorded track playing then its a big no no.
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Post by matt on Mar 30, 2024 17:27:09 GMT -5
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Post by matt on Mar 30, 2024 6:18:04 GMT -5
The archive is clearly all over the shop: “Tom: What’s the band’s archive like? Because obviously you started there and had complete co-operation. Is it in good shape? Mat: It’s utterly chaotic, as you’d imagine. It’s er… well, having said that it’s in better shape now, because there’s one of our researchers – a guy called Martyn James. He’d been brought in by Ignition a couple of years ago to update everything while they were doing the Chasing the Sun reissues. So he was starting to piece it together, and then we inherited him from there. Oasis’s management company Ignition recommended him and he was brilliant. He’s an absolute obsessive and loves the band.“ www.oasis-recordinginfo.co.uk/?page_id=1952We have so much from the DM era anyway that it’s hard for them to give us much new. I’d like proper releases of the Eden Studios version and whatever is there from Monnow Valley. Almost all the gigs were bootlegged so I doubt we’re going to get any amazing new performances but an official release of Nagoya would be nice. Might as well give us the Liam sung Sad Song as well. The Stones covers would be nice if they exist. Morning Glory could be a different story. There’s a Liam sung Step Out. But I would love a 2025 remix of that album as a bonus disc because sonically it’s a mess. Just curious why you think its a sonic mess? Personally, there's nothing I'd change about the sound of that album, even the ragged recordings (e.g. Some Might Say) are the better for it giving the album a raw edge compared to other mainstream contemporaries. It's the one thing I'm glad Noel wasn't producing by himself as he's often complained about the sound of Morning Glory. Hearing his UNKLE collaboration for the reworked Cast No Shadow from 2005, it's fairly lifeless, overproduced and lacks the freshness of the original version. No Liam vocal doesn't help but the drums weigh the song down and there's none of the acoustic guitar flourishes that light up the album version.
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Post by matt on Mar 29, 2024 14:27:10 GMT -5
I mean, it isn’t much to ask for a proper quality live gig to be included, like an audio version of Live By The Sea? Is it?
Familiar to Millions ain't all that, Knebworth is vastly overrated when Maine Road should have been released, and the live performances chosen on the 2014 reissues were mediocre compared to what we know is out there.
Why is this so difficult for Ignition to grasp??
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Post by matt on Mar 25, 2024 17:35:53 GMT -5
Sums up Joe Rogan's chat Absolutely the FUNNIEST pic I've seen in a while! LMAO Just used it as an excuse for my love of the Steamed Hams scene.
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Post by matt on Mar 24, 2024 18:10:10 GMT -5
I see they're bringing out an Oasis range of Cabbage Patch Kids.
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Post by matt on Mar 23, 2024 20:19:40 GMT -5
Talking of The Hindu Times, does anyone know what the tune is playing at the beginning of the video is, or is it just noodling on the piano and guitar?
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Post by matt on Mar 23, 2024 19:59:00 GMT -5
Anyone seen One Hour Photo with Robin Williams?
Watched it as a typical psychological thriller, expectedly unsettling through 90% of it, but come the last scenes and end credits, it wasn't so much as unsettling but extremely sad. Impressive but unbelievably bleak.
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Post by matt on Mar 23, 2024 13:54:53 GMT -5
Sums up Joe Rogan's chat Get the right interviewer and it's great, just not that many over the years sadly. This one was good.
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Post by matt on Mar 23, 2024 9:19:53 GMT -5
Eleanor Rigby I'm Only Sleeping Here, There, and Everywhere She Said She Said And Your Bird Can Sing For No One I Want to Tell You Got to Get You Into My Life Tomorrow Never Knows and if you add Paperback Writer and Rain... Hard to beat Revolver for me. I'm going to sound like an iconoclast.... but the recording of Here, There & Everywhere doesn't do it for me. Paul lays it on thick with a very sweet syrupy vocal. His version on Give My Regards To Broad Street is far better. No double track, less sweet and more heartfelt. It's a great great song, but probably the one great song of theirs that in my mind was botched in the studio.
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Post by matt on Mar 23, 2024 9:15:57 GMT -5
The north/north west of England + Irish heritage = good music
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2024 20:12:13 GMT -5
The middle eight of Let There Be Love is one of Noel's best melodies ever, peaks and falls, rises again like a symphony.
It says something on a post-glory years Oasis album that he could still drop in melody that all other bands would kill for. Even Coldplay at their height during this time didn't have melodies nearly as good as that bit.
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2024 18:03:51 GMT -5
You can tell Oasis means the most to her. What a photo that is of Liam at the head of the article, and the Maine Road one with Noel's arms out wide encapsulates the band.
The old terraced houses in the background, a rickety old football stadium and a bunch of lads off a nearby estate soaking up the adulation of thousands of people. No glitz or glamour, there's nothing manufactured or contrived about this, its the most authentic picture in rock n roll history.
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2024 18:00:45 GMT -5
It's Sgt. Pepper and it is not even close. It's overrated to say the album is overrated. Paul is the coolest to say 'fuck you Rolling Stones and you're desperate attempts to be rebellious' and then decides that old Edwardian style jaunty tunes are gonna be cool instead.
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2024 17:58:46 GMT -5
A toss up between Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road.
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2024 17:57:18 GMT -5
I remember the title I Stand Alone already circulating back in the end of 2000, when there started to be rumors about the next album. End of 2000? Is it really that old? If so that's quite a jump in songwriting development for Liam, from Little James to Morning Son in the space of a year.
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2024 17:55:46 GMT -5
In Noel's HFBs launch press conference in 2011 he said The Morning Son had 'been around for the best part of 5 years'. If that is reasonably accurate then it's a DOYS-era demo rather than DBTT. Assuming 'I Stand Alone' is the same song, surely its earlier?
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Post by matt on Mar 21, 2024 18:38:00 GMT -5
Brilliant, I prefer the vocals to this one than the Beady Eye version. No need for the echo vocal but definitely suits that raw feel. Could have potentially worked for Dig Out Your Soul as a closer, if it followed Soldier On which I've always liked.
Always felt Solider On could have been expanded and lengthened into some dark psychedelic jam at the end. Has something sinister going on which only hints at what it could have been so the band should have pushed it. It would have been epic for it's an album in desperate need for some life at the end.
In my mind, it could have worked as some kind of nightmarish trip followed by The Morning Son that would have been a perfect respite from the heaviness of that. Adding light to the shade.
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