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Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory (1995)

2009-10-12T14:21:28Z

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory (1995)


1 	Hello	3:21
2 	Roll With It 	3:59
3 	Wonderwall 	4:18
4 	Don't Look Back In Anger 	4:48
5 	Hey Now! 	5:41
6 	Untitled 	0:44
7 	Some Might Say   (Drums – Tony McCarroll)	5:29
8 	Cast No Shadow 	4:51
9 	She's Electric 	3:40
10 	Morning Glory 	5:03
11 	The Swamp Song	0:39
12 	Champagne Supernova  (Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals – Paul Weller)	7:27

Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs 	Guitar (Rhythm), Mellotron, Piano
Liam Gallagher 	Vocals
Noel Gallagher 	E-Bow, Guitar, Mellotron, Piano, Vocals
Paul McGuigan 	Bass
Paul Weller 	Guitar, Vocals (Background)
Alan White 	Drums, Percussion

If Definitely Maybe was an unintentional concept album about wanting to be a rock & roll star, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? is what happens after the dreams come true. Oasis turns in a relatively introspective second record, filled with big, gorgeous ballads instead of ripping rockers. Unlike Definitely Maybe, the production on Morning Glory is varied enough to handle the range in emotions; instead of drowning everything with amplifiers turned up to 12, there are strings, keyboards, and harmonicas. This expanded production helps give Noel Gallagher's sweeping melodies an emotional resonance that he occasionally can't convey lyrically. However, that is far from a fatal flaw; Gallagher's lyrics work best in fragments, where the images catch in your mind and grow, thanks to the music. Gallagher may be guilty of some borrowing, or even plagiarism, but he uses the familiar riffs as building blocks. This is where his genius lies: He's a thief and doesn't have many original thoughts, but as a pop/rock melodicist he's pretty much without peer. Likewise, as musicians, Oasis are hardly innovators, yet they have a majestic grandeur in their sound that makes ballads like "Wonderwall" or rockers like "Some Might Say" positively transcendent. Alan White does add authority to the rhythm section, but the most noticeable change is in Liam Gallagher. His voice sneered throughout Definitely Maybe, but on Morning Glory his singing has become more textured and skillful. He gives the lyric in the raging title track a hint of regret, is sympathetic on "Wonderwall," defiant on "Some Might Say," and humorous on "She's Electric," a bawdy rewrite of "Digsy's Diner." It might not have the immediate impact of Definitely Maybe, but Morning Glory is just as exciting and compulsively listenable. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)

2010-08-04T09:43:03Z

Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)


01 - Rock 'n' Roll Star
02 - Shakermaker
03 - Live Forever
04 - Up in the Sky
05 - Columbia
06 - Supersonic
07 - Bring It on Down
08 - Cigarettes & Alcohol
09 - Digsy's Dinner
10 - Slide Away
11 - Married With Children



Musicians:
Bass Guitar – Paul McGuigan
Drums – Tony McCarroll
Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals – Noel Gallagher 
Rhythm Guitar – Paul Arthurs
Vocals – Liam Gallagher

In August 1994, just a few months after Kurt Cobain killed himself (and the grunge movement that he'd become the reluctant figurehead of), Oasis’ debut Definitely Maybe was released.

To put this seismic attitude shift into perspective: Kurt’s working title for the final Nirvana album, In Utero, was I Hate Myself And I Want To Die. Definitely Maybe’s most popular song is called Live Forever.

So how did two punters from Burnage, an unremarkable area of Manchester, become so famous? Despite the fact that the second album, (What’s the Story?) Morning Glory, sold more copies and propelled them to tabloid superstardom and 10 Downing Street, the answers are all here.

The album kicks off with Rock ‘n’ Roll Star, which Noel has since said was the end of everything he wanted to say as a songwriter. He’s right in a sense, as it’s easily one of the greatest songs about being up on stage ever written. On arguably Liam’s greatest ever vocal performance he goads all-comers with: "You’re not down with who I am / Look at you now you’re all in my hands tonight." And that’s without even considering the attendant guitar riffs that snag your brain like barbed wire on your best jumper. If you’ve got a mate or relative who’s having a bad time of it, play them this, then watch them grow 10 feet tall and walk down the street like they rule the whole world.

Although at this point it’s easy to imagine the faces of every other British band of the time sadly searching the classifieds for a new vocation, there are still 10 more tracks left. How about Supersonic, a sky-scraping anthem about individuality adopted by the masses? Or Cigarettes and Alcohol, a brash T Rex paean to hedonism? Or Bring It On Down, a non-stop, no-messing punk stomp to certain death or glory?

It’s easy to trot out the tired argument that these Mancs don’t have the power of The Stone Roses or The Smiths because the songs don’t have the wistful, melancholic air that one comes to expect from songs emerging from that rainy Lancashire city. Is it true to say "It’s just Beatles songwriting with Sex Pistols attitude"? Maybe. But have these songs transcended the Conservative-greyed and Britpop-glossed years in which they became public property to become heroic, gigantic pop monuments in their own right? Definitely. ---Lou Thomas, BBC Review

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Oasis - Working Class Hero (2009)

2009-10-12T14:22:59Z

Oasis - Working Class Hero (2009)


1. Wonderwall
2. Don't look back in anger
3. Cast No Shadow
4. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
5. Sad Song
6. Don't Look Back In Anger
7. Cast No Shadow
8. Wonderwall (Backstage Glastonbury 24th June 1995)
9. Talk Tonight (featuring Paul Weller on keyboards and backing vocals)
10.Some Might Say
11.You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
12.Cum On Feel The Noise
13.Wonderwall (Accoustic with Orchestra)
14.Round Are Way
15.Up In The Sky
16.Live Forever
17.Shakermaker
18.Wonderwall (Fast Accoustic Version)
19.Don't Look Back In Anger
20.Wonderwall (Electric Version With Orchestra)

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Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul (2008)

2009-10-12T14:19:28Z

Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul (2008)


1. "Bag It Up" – 4:39 
2. "The Turning" – 5:05 
3. "Waiting for the Rapture" – 3:03 
4. "The Shock of the Lightning" – 5:02 
5. "I'm Outta Time" – 4:10 
6. "(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady" – 4:07 
7. "Falling Down" – 4:20 
8. "To Be Where There's Life" – 4:35 
9. "Ain't Got Nothin'" – 2:15 
10. "The Nature of Reality" – 3:48 
11. "Soldier On" – 4:49

Backing Vocals – The National In-Choir (tracks: 2)
Bass, Electric Guitar, Keyboards – Gem
Drums – Noel Gallagher (tracks: 1, 3, 11), Zak Starkey, Zak Starkey (tracks: 1, 3)
Drums, Electric Guitar, Electronics, Keyboards, Vocals – Noel Gallagher
Drums, Electric Guitar, Electronics, Tambura [Tamboura] – Andy Bell
Electronics, Mellotron – Jay Darlington (tracks: 7)
Mixed By, Producer – D. Sardy
Vocals – Liam Gallagher

Maturity always seemed an alien concept to Oasis. The brothers Gallagher may have worshiped music made before their birth but there was no respect to their love: they stormed the rock & roll kingdom with no regard for anyone outside themselves, a narcissism that made perfect sense when they were young punks, as youth wears rebellion well, but the group's trump card was how their snottiness was leveled by their foundation in classic pop. This delicate balance was thrown out of whack after the phenomenal success of 1995's (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, when the group sunk into a pit of excess that they couldn't completely escape for almost a full decade. When Oasis did begin to re-emerge on 2005's Don't Believe the Truth they sounded like journeymen, purveyors of no-frills rock & roll.

All this makes the wallop of 2008's Dig Out Your Soul all the more bracing. Colorful and dense where Don't Believe the Truth was straightforward, Dig Out Your Soul finds Oasis reconnecting to the churning psychedelic undercurrents in their music, sounds that derive equally from mid-period Beatles and early Verve. This is heavy, murky music, as dense, brutal, and loud as Oasis has ever been, building upon the swagger of Don't Believe and containing not a hint of the hazy drift of their late-'90s records: it's what Be Here Now would have sounded like without the blizzard of cocaine and electronica paranoia. Dig Out Your Soul doesn't have much arrogance, either, as Oasis' strut has mellowed into an off-hand confidence, just like how Noel Gallagher's hero worship has turned into a distinct signature of his own, as his Beatlesque songs sound like nobody else's, not even the Beatles. His only real rival at this thick, surging pop is his brother Liam, who has proven a sturdy, if not especially flashy songwriter with a knack for candied Lennonesque ballads like "I'm Outta Time." To appreciate what Liam does, turn to Gem Archer's "To Be Where There's Life" and Andy Bell's "The Nature of Reality," which are enjoyable enough Oasis-by-numbers, but Liam's numbers resonate, getting stronger with repeated plays, as the best Oasis songs always do.

But, as it always does, Oasis belongs to Noel Gallagher, who pens six of the 11 songs on Dig Out Your Soul, almost every one of them possessing the same sense of inevitability that marked his best early work. Best among these are the titanic stomp of "Waiting for the Rapture" and the quicksilver kaleidoscope of "The Shock of the Lightning," a pair of songs that rank among his best, but the grinding blues-psych of "Bag It Up" and gently cascading "The Turning" aren't far behind, either. These have the large, enveloping melodies so characteristic of this work and what impresses is that he can still make music that sounds not written, but unearthed. These six tunes are Noel's strongest since Morning Glory -- so strong it's hard not to wish he wrote the whole LP himself -- but what's striking about Dig Out Your Soul is how its relentless onslaught of sound proves as enduring as the tunes. This is the sound of a mature yet restless rock band: all the brawn comes from the guitars, all the snarl comes from Liam Gallagher's vocals, who no longer sounds like a young punk but an aged, battered brawler who wears his scars proudly, which is a sentiment that can apply to the band itself. They're now survivors, filling out the vintage threads they've always worn with muscle and unapologetic style. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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