Good post mate!

Unfortunately for us, when Oasis split, the fans divided themselves into to groups: Camp Noel and Camp Liam.

But the bottom line is, we're all Oasis fans. Oasis split, and to be honest, we should look at the positive side of it. The fans are the biggest winners here. Now we'll get twice as much music than we normally would.

And that also means twice as much music from inspired musicians. The breakup was good for both Liam and Noel. They can do things exactly their own way now, and doesn't have the chains of the Oasis name to hold them down.

Take it for what it is: New and inspired music that's fresh and exciting. Roll on Beady Eye album and Noel solo album

In your opinion. I think its pretty good.

Many Oasis fans expected it to be garbage.

No worries, if you need anymore help let me know.

Helping someone is gay? Sounds like a childhood issue to me.

It happens in the time like this...when the new song has been announced, the new album, new tour...

Some like that song, some don't. It's the fact and you can't force your opinion to others.
Insulting others doesn't help anything.

Oasis may have split, but that doesn't mean there should be great divides on this forum.

That's my 2 cents for the day. Consider yourselves all that little bit richer.

K+ for gdforever

I really dont think that it has much to do with team Noel and Liam. I've always like Noel a bit more than Liam, but I dont hate BTL.

i think the problem is that people were expecting beady eye to sound like oasis. when they heard the song, they went a bit bonkers. they didn't (and some still don't) realize that beady eye is a whole new band. noel isn't there anymore, so they have the freedom to explore with different sounds. plus, i'm sure they'd want to branch out so not as to be pigeonholed into a band trying to reclaim their past glory. i, for one, am happy about that.

it's been said that in order to truly be creative, you need to risk failure. whether or not you like their output, you have to respect their desire to do something different.

Camp liam or camp Noel? Don't be an idiot, listening to Bring The Light only caused a division because now I'm totally on team Noel after hearing beady eyes first single.

The lead single of a debut band is supposed to be a fucking ripper! And I don't care where Youre from but it's never cool to pump tunes with lyrics like 'were fuckin tough' in it....you know it and I know it.

All beady eye had to do was put out something that wasn't embarrassing for us to show our friends. But they cocked that up. Big time. It's not rock and roll and it's not a classic, which makes it a Liam bside by the numbers at best. And if that's the lead single......then i really can't relate to this band at all. Because if there was even one slightly better track then surely that should've been the single?...

Noel on the other hand will provide us with melodies we love along with lyrics that wont embarrass us or make us cringe. Let's be honest, when oasis split we were left with a couple of acoustic tunes from the sound checks and even the worst of those songs had more artistic merit than Bring the Light.

So the odd are against a decent album, but here's to hoping.

Don't try and like Beady Eye if you don't, just say it's shit because that's what it is so far. Bring the Light will not get played here on Sydney radio once and thats a fact.

I think you're bang on here. I was genuinely excited about the Beady Eye project and hopeful that the split of the Gallagher brothers might inject Liam with a new and renewed vigour. But somehow, this was kind of what I expected; not necessarily the whole 'fifties vibe' but the limited scope of the song. Liam, plain and simple, isn't a born song writer but a singer. He has even said that. Really, all of what you've said above rings true...

I've listened to Bring The Light countless times and all I can say about it is that it's 'catchy'... It's a superficial sheen though. The points made above are essentially true.

I think the video clip enhances the track's energy a little but also highlights some of the production criticisms- Andy is banging away on guitar and Beck on bass but apart from the turgid solos that Gem mimes too, you can't fucking hear any of the other instrumentation. Piano sounds good but fuck, it's so lazily lifted. Lyrics are just so banal too. There is a fine line between inspiration and parody and this track almost crosses it. I feel Oasis at their best were inspired but didn't descend into parody like the haters claimed; Noel was smarter than that. He borrowed but he often transcended as well.

Furthermore, I'm not one of those fans that races toward either a 'team Noel' or 'team Liam' camp. Both have their strengths and weaknesses and together, there's was the alchemy that created Oasis. When I hear the demo for 'Roll it Over' or the alternate version of 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down', I think, 'Jesus Noel, Liam just makes this song better than you ever could'. And Noel, well, his credentials as a songwriter I don't even need to mention...

But the best Oasis songs like 'Live Forever', 'Slide Away' and countless others were born of both Liam AND Noel. Bring The Light is just Liam. And for that we have what is typical of Liam (like it or not): limited creatiity, limited musical ability, half decent voice, supreme rock and roll attitude and effort but ultimately, a somewhat vacuous product. I feel Liam has assumed this position since he began writing songs. There has been the odd decent and simple effort enhanced by his colleagues' superior musicianship (ie: 'Songbird') but then there's 'Bring The Light'- not a modern song inspired by fifties figures but a fifties song played by modern figures. There is a difference. I just feel it is too simple, too immediate, too lazy, too derivative. They could have thought smarter...

Having said that, I wont be so reactionary as to refuse to buy the album or write Beady Eye off just yet. As McGee said, there's some fine fucking players in that band (not necessarily songwriters). Let's see what they can do... They haven't proved a point yet. This first 'single/song/free downloaded' really should have proved a point powerfully but didn't. Here's hoping future releases do...

you are definitely NL4E.

gdforever = NL4E