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Post by AdidasNG72 on May 18, 2016 1:37:17 GMT -5
I always thought Be Here Now was the Columbia version for the third album.
Both are quite similar songs in their pace, including the `c'mon, c'mon, yeah yeah yeaaaah' towards the end.
For me I prefer BHN. I know Columbia is a menacing tune, brilliant opening, and great as a background dance beat, but I prefer the OTT ballsiness, the whistles, the lyrics and the tune itself on BHN.
And the `c'mon, c'mon, yeah yeah yeaaaah' at the end is far louder and better on BHN. On Columbia you can hardly hear it.
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Post by supernovadragon on May 18, 2016 1:49:26 GMT -5
Quite hard for me to decide this, because I dislike the pair of them. Always found Columbia so boring (on the album) that I would always skip it, which is the opposite reason for me skipping Be Here Now which I find too OTT and often find myself skipping it for that reason. However, looking at the pair of them, Be Here Now just edges it for me due it it's OTT and for actually having a bit of a build up..unlike Columbia which is just the same repetitive nonsense over and over again
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Post by AdidasNG72 on May 18, 2016 2:00:05 GMT -5
Quite hard for me to decide this, because I dislike the pair of them. Always found Columbia so boring (on the album) that I would always skip it, which is the opposite reason for me skipping Be Here Now which I find too OTT and often find myself skipping it for that reason. However, looking at the pair of them, Be Here Now just edges it for me due it it's OTT and for actually having a bit of a build up..unlike Columbia which is just the same repetitive nonsense over and over again That is my problem with Columbia. It just repeats and repeats without really going anywhere. |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on May 18, 2016 2:41:36 GMT -5
Enjoy both. But gonna go Be Here Now.
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Post by carlober on May 18, 2016 3:46:05 GMT -5
COLUMBIA! It took me a while to appreciate it: during my early times as a fan I always skipped it, then one day something just clicked. Absolute monster of a tune! The Eden Studios mix on the DM reissue is even better than the album version, imho. I enjoy Be Here Now too, though. I used to listen to it nearly on every summer morning during my university days. "Wash yer face in the morning sun!" Fuck yeah!  |
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Post by mimmihopps on May 18, 2016 5:02:25 GMT -5
Columbia anyday! The intro is bloody cool.
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Post by The Crimson Rambler on May 18, 2016 5:26:16 GMT -5
I like Be Here Now but Columbia takes this hands down. Personally I think it's the best track outside of those widely considered to be classic Oasis. It's Top 10 stuff for me.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2016 5:27:00 GMT -5
Columbia is in my top 10 favourite Oasis songs. Really underrated song.
There We Were, Now Here We Are
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2016 5:43:55 GMT -5
Columbia. Great tune. Crazy to think it's one of the first Oasis song Noel has ever written.
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Post by Flatulence Panic on May 18, 2016 5:50:50 GMT -5
Be
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Columbia vol. 2.
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Post by Regi on May 18, 2016 5:55:05 GMT -5
This is like trying to choose my favourite porno. I love both songs, but if I had to choose one it would be Columbia. It's a monster of a tune played live.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on May 18, 2016 6:00:18 GMT -5
Columbia anyday! The intro is bloody cool. I was gonna reply to you, saying, "But what about Be Here Now's outro! - Noel's lead is awesome, man..." before I realised I'd read your post wrong. Indeed, Columbia's intro IS very cool. Think davidjay once described it as "urban-sounding", which I've always thought was a nice way of putting it. |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on May 18, 2016 6:02:42 GMT -5
Be Here Now Columbia vol. 2. I thought you were gonna say something like, "Be Here Now, because you can hear Liam's YEAH YEAH YEAH's better"... |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on May 18, 2016 6:10:33 GMT -5
This is like trying to choose my favourite porno. I love both songs, but if I had to choose one it would be Columbia. It's a monster of a tune played live. One word and a number: GMEX, '97.  Interesting grumble-based analogy at the start there, as well...  |
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Post by Flatulence Panic on May 18, 2016 6:35:40 GMT -5
Be Here Now Columbia vol. 2. I thought you were gonna say something like, "Be Here Now, because you can hear Liam's YEAH YEAH YEAH's better"... This. Can't do the enormous oversized biblical fonts because I'm on my phone. |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2016 6:59:07 GMT -5
Be Here Now if you compare album versions. But Columbia was amazing live because you can hear Liam's Yeah Yeah Yeahs  |
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Post by davidjay on May 18, 2016 7:42:29 GMT -5
Columbia anyday! The intro is bloody cool. I was gonna reply to you, saying, "But what about Be Here Now's outro! - Noel's lead is awesome, man..." before I realised I'd read your post wrong. Indeed, Columbia's intro IS very cool. Think davidjay once described it as "urban-sounding", which I've always thought was a nice way of putting it. Thanks! Yes, I always thought that intro was a really atmospheric moment on the album. To me the album is defined by Liam’s soaring vocals and the wall of hard-edged guitars, whereas the intro to Columbia is ambient understatement by comparison. The slide guitar intro on the Eden Studios mix has that bone-dry immediacy, a much more up-front grinding sound in sharp focus. But the delay effects that Owen Morris applied for his final mix introduce more stereo movement and the impression that Noel’s guitar is reverberating in a cavernous space. You get that ominous sense of something slowly approaching from the middle distance, fading away, before suddenly lurching forward as the rest of the band crash in. It reminds me of Down in the Tube Station at Midnight in terms of the late-night, urban menace it conjures up. Obviously Columbia doesn’t have samples of a real urban space like the Jam song, but the tonal quality of those initial guitar sounds somehow remind me of that kind of setting. It’s the sort of droning sound you get in cinematic sample libraries, where city noises can be used as raw materials in designing a film soundtrack. |
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Post by mimmihopps on May 18, 2016 7:55:42 GMT -5
My all time favourite live version of the song. I love the white demo version too.
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on May 18, 2016 11:10:13 GMT -5
Columbia. Easily. Anyday. With a cherry on top.
Be Here Now is my least favourite song on Be Here Now.
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Post by Aman on May 18, 2016 11:23:15 GMT -5
Columbia by an absolute mile tbh.
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Post by joladella on May 18, 2016 11:45:09 GMT -5
Columbia, of course.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2016 11:48:30 GMT -5
Id probably say album versions would columbia (Liam backing vocals make a good mix)
live versions Id say be here now, just a great opener, columbia sounded good in the 90s but then they slowed it down from 01 onwards and it sounded boring.
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Post by LlAM on May 18, 2016 14:13:20 GMT -5
Columbia has bigger balls and swagger in its steps, no contest
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Post by Headmaster on May 18, 2016 15:56:00 GMT -5
Columbia without a doubt.
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Post by adam78 on May 18, 2016 16:48:25 GMT -5
I love Be Here Now. I just wish there wasn't a toilet flushing at the end of it. The single biggest cringe moment in the history of Oasis
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