You can hear a song by The La's at the very end of I Am The Walrus on Live by the Sea. I think Son of a Gun.

The weird voice in the intro to Columbia sounds just like my brother (or at least when he were younger). I've played this sequence for family members at repeated occassions, hoping that someday they'll finally get it. Still hasn't happened. Now I'm starting to think that maybe my ears have just been fucking with me this whole time.

Cowbells on Roll With It. I just notcied this, but I'm not sure if it's true.

New poster so bear with me. I've scrolled through 35 pages and no-one has mentioned it so I hope to feel smug: Robbie Williams appears on Cum On Feel The Noize. He's the guy that starts saying 'cos it's wild, wild, wild' before he gets drowned out by two other voices at the very very end.

In Magic Pie about six minutes in there are about four weird clicking sounds.

Don't know if I'm the only one to notice this though.

How many threads will you make when it happens?

I wondered about these as well. They're more apparent when listening on headphones, as I recall. I asked the album's mastering engineer Mike Marsh about this and he replied as follows.

There’s a static-type clicking in the song Magic Pie (heard at 5.59 and 6.06) – was this one of the sound effects on the original mix or perhaps a glitch in the original master recording?
Mike: Yeah, I remember hearing that and thinking “shit, we’ve got a problem” and my alarm bells started ringing. Thankfully, it was on the master tape and was always a part of the original recording!

Full interview: www.oasis-recordinginfo.co.uk/?page_id=156

I read Mike's comment there as clarifying that those static-type sounds were always part of the original stereo mix of Magic Pie, rather than being a glitch introduced during the mastering and manufacturing stages. Not necessarily a creative decision by Noel, just one of a number of extraneous sounds picked up during either the tracking or mixing session.

From his reply I gather that Mike heard the clicks in the mastering studio, initially thought there was a problem there, but checked the original mix again and was relieved to confirm that the sound was already part of the recording as delivered to him.

I haven't checked this against the Chasing the Sun remaster tbh - I guess it would be more straightforward to remove these kind of clicks these days if they wanted to, using digital audio restoration software (such as Izotope RX5), which can seamlessly remove such artefacts.

The solo of Who Feels Love is EXECTLY the break from Strawberry Fields Forever played backwards

Liam's getting fat again.

I read an interesting little titbit the other week which could help define dates for demos (such as this unusual one), pages in Noel's 1993 notebook and the like.

In a review of an Oasis gig at Canal Cafe Bar (14th Sep 1993) the journalist makes the interesting note that 'Shakermaker' (of which this is the band's first live performance) was "apparently written 48 hours before they came on stage". Liam and Noel are well documented making easily disproven and exaggerated remarks but this fits perfectly within the timeline and what we already know.



Whilst we're talking about 'Shakermaker' I imagine not many know that the original lyrics to the song, which seemingly this very early performance would have used, don't actually contain the infamous "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" line which showed up in early demos, live performances and had to be edited out of the official version. You can read the original lyrics from Noel's 1993 notebook below. Perhaps this is why this possible hot topic isn't mentioned in the review.



By the time the band came around to demoing the song a couple of minor lyrical changes were made, an additional set of "Ah! Shake along with me"'s were added, verse 2 was scrapped and replaced with verse 3 and a new verse of "I'd like to teach the world to sing, In perfect harmony, I'd like to buy the world a coke, To keep it company" filled where verse 3 had originally been. Much later when the band realised they needed a new verse to replace The New Seekers one, "Mister Sifter sold me songs, When I was just sixteen" were the only new lyrics written. The second half of that verse had already been written long ago, it had simply been scrapped.

This is actually alluded to in a Creation Records statement in which they claim "Oasis decided as far back as the recording of the album that they would not put out the live version of the song, but use the original lyrics to the song as written by Noel Gallagher. It therefore does not include the offending line." The fact they had to rerecord verse 3 suggest the main sentiment of this statement is however untrue.