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Post by Zingbot on Nov 27, 2019 19:51:07 GMT -5
So sometime in the mid 90s, Evan Dando and Noel Gallagher "Cowrote" a song called "Purple parallelogram". Some say the sing was transformed into roll with it. You decide.
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Post by oasisunited on Nov 28, 2019 9:34:25 GMT -5
It was the summer of 1994 to be precise. According to Evan Dando himself: We met about a month ago and hit it off, then last night we collided in Paris. We’d both been playing the Lowlands festival in Holland this weekend [26th & 28th Aug 1994] and we wrote a song together called ‘Purple Parallelogram'. And according to Noel: Oh! As I recall it we were just fucking around in a hotel room, loads of us wrote that song.” Interviewer: “Who else was there?” Noel: “Liam, Bonehead, everyone who was on that tour and I think we finished it off in the bar of the Columbia Hotel. Noel's recollection puts it more like June/July 1994, as Oasis was banned from the Columbia in July, 1994. I think that the Columbia is just Noel's go to hotel when he cant remember. Evan's dates make more sense, as he was hanging out with the band in August, 1994 and appears with the band at the London Virgin Megastore performance. As for the relation with Roll With It, the song appears in Noel's notebook in late 1994, after the apparent collaboration. The verses definitely have similar melodies. A news article at the time alludes to the similarities, but blames the yanking of the song on not getting permission from Sony: www.mtv.com/news/508118/purple-parallelogram-pulled-from-lemonheads-album/. Evan had this to say about it at the time: Oh, it was about these Rohypnol I used to get prescribed - these sleeping tablets. And Noel (Gallagher) got up in the morning and started singing the beginning of it and then we finished it. And it wasn't a very good song. So he said he didn't want it on the album and I was kind of relieved anyway because the label was trying to pressure it to be the first single. And I didn't like it that much. It sounded kind of like 'Achy, Breaky Heart' to me anyway. I was just doing it because he said he wanted me to do it. And then when I did it, I guess it didn't turn out good enough. And also he kind of used the melody of it for 'Roll With It' anyway, so it kind of had already been done. I'm sure that there is a thread on this board that covers this topic in detail. Special thanks to The Crimson Rambler for helping with the research on this a while back. |
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Post by The Crimson Rambler on Nov 28, 2019 12:01:13 GMT -5
It was the summer of 1994 to be precise. According to Evan Dando himself: We met about a month ago and hit it off, then last night we collided in Paris. We’d both been playing the Lowlands festival in Holland this weekend [26th & 28th Aug 1994] and we wrote a song together called ‘Purple Parallelogram'. And according to Noel: Oh! As I recall it we were just fucking around in a hotel room, loads of us wrote that song.” Interviewer: “Who else was there?” Noel: “Liam, Bonehead, everyone who was on that tour and I think we finished it off in the bar of the Columbia Hotel. Noel's recollection puts it more like June/July 1994, as Oasis was banned from the Columbia in July, 1994. I think that the Columbia is just Noel's go to hotel when he cant remember. Evan's dates make more sense, as he was hanging out with the band in August, 1994 and appears with the band at the London Virgin Megastore performance. As for the relation with Roll With It, the song appears in Noel's notebook in late 1994, after the apparent collaboration. The verses definitely have similar melodies. A news article at the time alludes to the similarities, but blames the yanking of the song on not getting permission from Sony: www.mtv.com/news/508118/purple-parallelogram-pulled-from-lemonheads-album/. Evan had this to say about it at the time: Oh, it was about these Rohypnol I used to get prescribed - these sleeping tablets. And Noel (Gallagher) got up in the morning and started singing the beginning of it and then we finished it. And it wasn't a very good song. So he said he didn't want it on the album and I was kind of relieved anyway because the label was trying to pressure it to be the first single. And I didn't like it that much. It sounded kind of like 'Achy, Breaky Heart' to me anyway. I was just doing it because he said he wanted me to do it. And then when I did it, I guess it didn't turn out good enough. And also he kind of used the melody of it for 'Roll With It' anyway, so it kind of had already been done. I'm sure that there is a thread on this board that covers this topic in detail. Special thanks to The Crimson Rambler for helping with the research on this a while back. Yes I believe Evan is right. I think Noel got the hotels mixed up and meant to have said the Hyde Park Hotel. The song can be very accurately dated to having been completed by 30 Aug 94 give or take a day. And to answer the thread title no one can say for certain whether 'Purple Parallelogram' or 'Roll With It' was written first. |
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Post by thomuk2006 on Nov 28, 2019 12:04:05 GMT -5
What an awful "song"!!! ha ah
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Post by Zingbot on Nov 28, 2019 12:35:32 GMT -5
Both are good tunes.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Nov 28, 2019 13:01:50 GMT -5
Never heard Parallelogram before, but this is a proper TUUUUUNEEEE!!! PROPER HAVING THIS. DOING A RIGHT OLD JIG.
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Post by Zingbot on Nov 28, 2019 13:18:36 GMT -5
Noel should record it.
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Post by Zingbot on Nov 28, 2019 15:56:28 GMT -5
Both use A7sus4 and G
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Post by themanwithnoname on Nov 28, 2019 17:03:01 GMT -5
I could never really hear Roll With It in it.
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Post by GlastoEls on Nov 29, 2019 18:28:02 GMT -5
The great lost Noel “throwaway/fun” track.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Nov 29, 2019 23:01:44 GMT -5
So sometime in the mid 90s, Evan Dando and Noel Gallagher "Cowrote" a song called "Purple parallelogram". Some say the sing was transformed into roll with it. You decide. I see your Purple Nurple, and I raise you this.... Similar. I do love Los Campesinos though, mega cover here.... |
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