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Post by andrew parry on Apr 3, 2004 10:26:30 GMT -5
I am doing an essay on elements of Oasis's album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? that made it so popular. One of the parts of the essay is to do surveys and interviews of professional (and ametuer) musicians, and see their views. I was wondering if anyone on here is a musician of some kind, that could give me their opinions why it was so popular? As it is a music essay, the answers need to be as musical as possible, e.g certain melodies, harmonies or chord changes etc. If you can't give me any musical answers but you know somewhere that can, another website, email address, message boards, or more musically orientated discussion groups etc. then please tell me these as well. Thanks very much!
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Post by Columbia on Apr 3, 2004 11:50:38 GMT -5
im not sure if its why its so popular but a lot of the chords were similar shapes e.g
EM7 G Dsus4 A7sus4
thats the chords for wonderwall and those and other chords with similar shapes were used a lot in the album. Cadd9 was another popular one. So songs like wonderwall, champagne supernova, cast no shadow and morning glory all contained chords with similar shapes with the base note moving slightly.
The lead guitar on the album i think was more or less all in a pentatonic scale.
The layouts for the songs not only on that album but oasis songs in generall was usually...
verse 1 verse 2 bridge chorus verse bridge chorus solo chorus repeated
hope this helps
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Post by maketradefair on Apr 3, 2004 12:51:53 GMT -5
the reason it was so popular because oasis were really the first real rock n roll band of the 90's. they were invtening this music people labelled 'brit pop'. morning glory came out around the time that the blur v oasis match was at its peak. everyone wanted to be apart of it. all the newpapers, music magazines etc.. it was really wonderwall that put the album on the map. liams voice really shone and noels backing vocals were at times quite phsycadelic. the reason the back of noels head is used on the cd is because they thought it was obvious the record would go paltinum and would be hung on the wall of every record companys wall who had anything to do with oasis. noel did like the coperate pigs in the industry so he thought that it was as if he was turning his back on them. the photos in the album sleve were taken in scotland after the irvine beach shows. they had just come off stage and were all huddeled into this portacabin. bonehead had the flu, thats why their are shoots off him sneezing. the 2 people on the front are owen morris(producer) and sean rowley(london radio dj) . the photo was taken in londons berwick street. paul weller plays lead guitar and backing vocals on champange supernova and the swamp song.
thats more info about the album, not too much about the songs. hope you can take some info form this..
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Post by daysleeper on Apr 3, 2004 12:57:07 GMT -5
the beatles-esq harmonies were a big feature of the album - songs like Some Might Say, Cast no Shadow, She's Electric etc. Not sure about the technical side of the harmonies but maybe its an area you could look into
one of the great things about the album was how it inspired so many kids to pick up a guitar and learn it. and i think thats mainly because all the guitar work was quite simple yet so catchy - the chord sequence of Wonderwall being the perfect example. Musically the album was very accessible
columbia's strong structure is good - very few Oasis songs deviate from the classic pop song structure.
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Post by iamthewalrus on Apr 3, 2004 14:28:48 GMT -5
Perhaps it's the fact that the strong melodies and chord structures were evolved from previous songs.. giving the album somewhat of a familiarity that people could get into rioght away. The bottom line for me is that the album was just catchy as hell. THere is no pop-hook not used on that album.
A big part of it might be the personality the brothers gallagher.. They got more press than any other band of the 90's except maybe nirvana
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Post by jayg on Apr 4, 2004 9:59:11 GMT -5
Compared to Nirvana Oasis got a hell of a lot more press! Nirvana didnt get that much press at all in UK. Not compared to Oasis anyway.
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Post by Columbia on Apr 4, 2004 10:06:30 GMT -5
i think the other thing with oasis and the press was that maybe 50% of the press they got was from non musical related things. Whether you think this is a good thing or not it certaily got people more interested in them as people aswell as musicians. Thats the thing with bands that make it huge, often they have to have more about them then music.
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Post by iamthewalrus on Apr 4, 2004 14:05:44 GMT -5
agreed Columbia. I had no idea we were just talking in the uK JayG. By the time Oasis hit it big Cobain was already dead but I dunno man.. The whole grunge movement gotta hell of a lot fo press
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Post by iamthewalrus on Apr 4, 2004 17:02:01 GMT -5
I just thought of something.. Check out Allmusic.com. They might have something abouts what u are looking for
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Post by ev on Apr 8, 2004 0:04:07 GMT -5
It's because Noel Gallagher can write great lyrics, and has good timing with his guitar add ons. The songs are simple, and catchy because of Liams voice. They have a great rock and roll attitude.
Nothing on the album is very advanced, they do stray from the pentatonic scales abit but not much. Their style brings back a mix of The Beatles and Rolling Stones (on this album) and it gave people someone to cheer and route for.
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Post by Toast960 on Apr 22, 2004 2:20:37 GMT -5
I think it was just something that was at the right place at the right time. Grunge was beginning to die down and people were getting all that bottled anger out of their systems, thanks to Nirvana, and they were looking for something meaningful yet more optimistic as opposed to Nirvana which had been very pessimistic. Enter Oasis, a band just begining to make a name for themselves musically in the public eye and they were what people were looking for at the time. They had meaningful songs, catchy melodies, great sing writing, were a bit optimistic, some might say (no pun intended) even a bit retro. They were the right band with the right album at the right time.
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Post by iamthewalrus on Apr 26, 2004 2:30:16 GMT -5
agreed
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Post by LDD- Angelic Child on May 8, 2004 16:36:34 GMT -5
Definitely Maybe had already gone down as one of the greatest debut albums... ever
People who bought that were bound to by Morning Glory
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? to me is Oasis' defining album, although it is only their second album to me it seems like is has a part of every other album (so far) She's Electric reminds me of the Be Here Now era as Morning Glory reminds me of the early Definitely Maybe era. I could add Hey Now and Heathen Chemistry etc.
Noel is just full of great tunes, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? is just a lot of great tunes all together and that is what sets it apart, like the Beatles. You can have a good band with a good musician but the Beatles were a band with 4 great musicians
This album is just full of Oasis at their worldwise peak (it may not be my favourite album but it must of been other people's)
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