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Post by supernovadragon on Sept 5, 2017 7:38:57 GMT -5
I've often wondered, just why was they left as "live" and "8 track demo" rather than them just being re-recorded along with all the other songs at the time. Does anybody know why they were never re-recorded and am I alone in thinking they should have been? I reckon Alive espically would have sounded good
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 7:42:45 GMT -5
Part of their charm is the crappy recordings.
At this point, a new recording would feel manufactured.
I like both, and am okay with them in their current incarnations.
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Post by freddy838 on Sept 6, 2017 14:23:24 GMT -5
I've often wondered, just why was they left as "live" and "8 track demo" rather than them just being re-recorded along with all the other songs at the time. Does anybody know why they were never re-recorded and am I alone in thinking they should have been? I reckon Alive espically would have sounded good I read recently that I Will Believe was one of the ones they were trying to record the night Noel wrote and recorded Supersonic, but Tony was having a mare or something. I assume they just never got round to recording it properly before whichever single it was a b-side to got released. It's one of my all-time favourites though.
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Post by morning_rain on Sept 6, 2017 15:14:39 GMT -5
Alive is perfect as it is.
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Post by Longtime Servant of the Gun on Sept 6, 2017 16:22:30 GMT -5
1000 times YES
I'd have taken modern studio recordings of these over tunes like The Quiet Ones and Live recordings any day of the fecking week.
To add to that, Why on earth Colour my Life and see the sun werent re recorded just bends my fuckin mind
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Post by Headmaster on Sept 6, 2017 18:35:01 GMT -5
What about Angel Child?
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Post by mkoasis on Sept 6, 2017 20:26:28 GMT -5
I'm happy with them as they are. I don't think a 1994 studio version would have been all that different.
Also, studio time is very expensive and the way that Noel kept coming up with tunes maybe meant it wasn't worth it to keep hanging onto the songs they'd lost interest in.
As I recall, there was some criticism given to Noel as to why he was wasting studio time recording a poor track (it was I Will Believe) that just wasn't even happening anyways?
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Post by davidjay on Sept 7, 2017 13:18:41 GMT -5
They did record I Will Believe at the Pink Museum studio in December 93, but it's not known whether a recording survives. Someone would have to check the multitracks in the band's archive. www.oasis-recordinginfo.co.uk/?page_id=588Dave Scott mentions that the band's performance of I Will Believe was lacking energy, and that was why they moved on to record what became Supersonic. He had to erase at least one take of I Will Believe in order to record Supersonic. Hence they used the live version recorded for BBC Radio 5's Hit the North as the b-side, although the source wasn't credited.
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Post by davidjay on Sept 7, 2017 13:26:50 GMT -5
There's also an alternate stereo mix of the Alive demo in circulation, with double-tracked Liam vocals. I would add a YouTube link for it here, but that version seems to have been either blocked or deleted.
This mix of the Bring it on Down demo seems to have been part of the same batch anyway.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Sept 7, 2017 14:40:21 GMT -5
No. What makes them good is that very early classic Oasis sound, reminiscent of the Stone Roses.
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