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Post by Lennon2217 on Mar 30, 2015 22:02:01 GMT -5
You don't release ballads first. You get the more uplifting ones before, the rockier, the faster. Ballads come after. If DGA would have been released first, everbody would scream "oh no, not another Wonderwall". D'you Know What I Mean ? was the best choice to do. But in the US it sank like a stone. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 22:13:31 GMT -5
as I said in the biggest mistake thread this was the right time and place for that tune to be the lead single.. it had all the earmarkings for a somber but beautiful power ballad that may have even rivaled elton johns candle in the wind in the aftermath of the princesses tragedy
it was a lost opportunitty , not to capitalise on a horrifc tradgedy to a family and nation if not world , but to help a nation mourn thru music ,
much like elton used video of diana with english rose they could have paid homage rock and roll style with clips of diana forever young and a nation not wanting her to go away
corny ? yes ... but it would have been massive , AND THE SONG IS GREAT TO BOOT ...JMO
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Post by AdidasNG72 on Mar 31, 2015 5:09:27 GMT -5
The singles that should have been released for BHN are, in this order -
1. I Hope, I think, I Know - BHN's Some Might Say equivalent, and was rumoured to be the first single for the US. DYKWIM was too long, not poppy enough and too heavy for the charts, as great as an opener as it is.
2. Don't Go Away - would have timed with Di's death, and would have been the soundtrack to a nation in mourning, forever sealing Oasis with the nation, and becoming the new Wonderwall.
3. Stand By Me - The Don't Look Back in Anger equivalent to BHN.
4. All Around the World - like it or loathe it, its still a great uplifting, poppy tune, and probably would have fared better with listeners on the back of the singles released prior to it.
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Post by jupi on Apr 1, 2015 2:08:30 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2015 2:37:53 GMT -5
The singles that should have been released for BHN are, in this order - 1. I Hope, I think, I Know - BHN's Some Might Say equivalent, and was rumoured to be the first single for the US. DYKWIM was too long, not poppy enough and too heavy for the charts, as great as an opener as it is. 2. Don't Go Away - would have timed with Di's death, and would have been the soundtrack to a nation in mourning, forever sealing Oasis with the nation, and becoming the new Wonderwall. 3. Stand By Me - The Don't Look Back in Anger equivalent to BHN. 4. All Around the World - like it or loathe it, its still a great uplifting, poppy tune, and probably would have fared better with listeners on the back of the singles released prior to it. This. |
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Post by dennizz on Apr 1, 2015 2:58:01 GMT -5
The singles that should have been released for BHN are, in this order - 1. I Hope, I think, I Know - BHN's Some Might Say equivalent, and was rumoured to be the first single for the US. DYKWIM was too long, not poppy enough and too heavy for the charts, as great as an opener as it is. 2. Don't Go Away - would have timed with Di's death, and would have been the soundtrack to a nation in mourning, forever sealing Oasis with the nation, and becoming the new Wonderwall. 3. Stand By Me - The Don't Look Back in Anger equivalent to BHN. 4. All Around the World - like it or loathe it, its still a great uplifting, poppy tune, and probably would have fared better with listeners on the back of the singles released prior to it. This. my first choice for a first single would have been My Big Mouth. It's the sort of arrogant rock n roll tune Oasis were known for, but heavier than ever. Don't Go Away would have been perfect as a second single and i would have picked DÝou Know What I Mean? as the third and final single, just to go out with a bit of an edge |
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Post by thomuk2006 on Apr 3, 2015 14:11:38 GMT -5
Love threads like this.... interesting stuff!
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Post by mkoasis on Apr 3, 2015 15:22:37 GMT -5
I think DYKWIM was the right choice for a lead in single, especially in the UK. There's no other band that could have pulled off that song, and there never will be. Even if it did sink like a stone (which it did in the US/Canada though got #1 in the UK), it was a symbol of just how enormous the band had become at that time. Something like that won't be replicated again, at least any time soon.
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Post by kennerado on Apr 3, 2015 20:14:43 GMT -5
Off-topic, but that site has a news item talking about the band doing a second MTV unplugged session in Manchester - does anyone know what happened to that? |
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Post by wozdareden on Apr 4, 2015 2:18:26 GMT -5
I think DYKWIM was the right choice for a lead in single, especially in the UK. There's no other band that could have pulled off that song, and there never will be. Even if it did sink like a stone (which it did in the US/Canada though got #1 in the UK), it was a symbol of just how enormous the band had become at that time. Something like that won't be replicated again, at least any time soon. Absolutely, we needed something huge, massive, rock'n'roll. Even Wonderwall would have been a bad choice. DYKWIM was the perfect song at the perfect time. |
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Post by underneaththesky on May 30, 2021 18:38:42 GMT -5
What b-sides will accompany the single is unknown but a strong possibility is Helter Skelter, a Beatles cover song. Others may include some songs left off Be Here Now, 'On My Own' to name but one. Also, it's rumoured that 'Flying High' will be on the single flying (high) on the ground |
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Post by Lennon2217 on May 30, 2021 21:57:47 GMT -5
What b-sides will accompany the single is unknown but a strong possibility is Helter Skelter, a Beatles cover song. Others may include some songs left off Be Here Now, 'On My Own' to name but one. Also, it's rumoured that 'Flying High' will be on the single flying (high) on the ground Ohhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! Be Here Now era leftover!!!! You had my curiosity Mr. Gallagher, now you have my attention. Nice detective work. |
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on May 30, 2021 22:16:00 GMT -5
I would like to say not single, as I hope she didn’t leave him in the end.
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Post by Teotihuacan on May 31, 2021 4:14:45 GMT -5
What b-sides will accompany the single is unknown but a strong possibility is Helter Skelter, a Beatles cover song. Others may include some songs left off Be Here Now, 'On My Own' to name but one. Also, it's rumoured that 'Flying High' will be on the single flying (high) on the ground Coo. I have never heard this song title either back then: when I was teenaged I used to read as much Oasis rumours and gossip as I could, or in the years following. Now, being old, I keep an ear to the ground but I don't tend to keep up with much with what's happening. I heard this song title on the NGHFB Best of promotional material and thought it was probably inspired by Neil Young / Buffalo Springfields tune "Flying on the ground is wrong". |
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Post by Jim on May 31, 2021 6:25:02 GMT -5
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Post by His Royal Noelness on May 31, 2021 8:14:01 GMT -5
And that’s an Avro Lancastrian* not a 747 *I believe the Lancastrian was a development of the Avro Lancaster Bomber |
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Post by tiger40 on May 31, 2021 12:41:28 GMT -5
I have the Japanese cd single of Don’t Go Away which I got not long after it had been released. It's a pity that it was never released as a single in the UK really.
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Post by daviesh on Jun 1, 2021 2:32:50 GMT -5
Some of those tracks will have appeared on SOTSOG. The album was recorded in 1999, and Noel has stated previously I think that he wrote 'most' of it around the same time as Be Here Now. Gas Panic! and a couple of other tracks were probably new but I think much was written in 96/97, maybe even earlier. Of course, a lot of the tracks from 97 will have been binned, put out as B-sides or been on later albums. That's wrong. It had been documented many many times in interviews and books (by himself) that Noel had ran out of songs by the time the BHN tour had finished. He even spoke about this in a interview recently, saying he basically had the first three albums up his sleeve before they got signed (which is of course wrong as well, but you could trace songs and bits that had originally been written as early as 1992 up until BHN, after that point it stopped until Lock All The Doors). So he basically started from scratch in 1998, having abandoned cocaine as well. I think among the first songs he wrote, during the world cup 1998, was Gas Panic. There's a passage in Paolo Hewitt's book "Forever The People" describing this and if course the unreleased demotape from 1998 that was sold two years ago, including the unreleased "For One So Young." This isn't accurate. There was still songs floating around in this period that where unreleased but perhaps NG wasn't happy with the quality of the songs hence why he would say he had run out. Also Noel went through some personal changes in his lifestyle which may have led him to wanting to start fresh and write new stuff or perhaps he was finding it difficult to connect to his previous songs. |
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