He won't, he's not going to like James being such a geek. Also, I bet Noel isn't going to appreciate how much secret stuff James has figured out, like The Masterplan analysis.
Yes, and it's interesting comparing the studio version that is calm and slow, but mesmerizing nonetheless to the last song ever released (Don't Stop); I wonder what it would have sounded like more aggressive and raw like the '97 tour. We'll never hear it but if AI could give us a glimpse that'd be great haha
I know this is a "what if" video, but if you consider that the BHN tour ended in March 1998 and they were doing warm ups for the next tour in December 1999, plus they likely needed a break after touring and recording consistently since 1994, it's doubtful that another album could have been put out in the 90s unless SOTSOG was moved to the end of '99 (maybe this was the original intention). I may be wrong but Noel had also exhausted his backlog of songs by this time. So all things considered it makes sense that a break was needed and a musical change of direction. Btw, I think it's madness that Let's All Make Believe was only a b-side.
@@GavinMorris1 I was referring to his early batch of songs. A lot of the music on the first three albums was written pre-fame, all around the world being an example of an older song held back. As we know with Noel, most of his best work was written in the first half of the 90s, occassionally since then he's slipped an older song onto a new album.
Oasis is the classic example of a band that became massive but could have and probably should become more massive. But the things that prevented them from become even more massive could also be the things that set them off in the first place.
They squandered their legacy by being more interested in coke and drinking than writing great songs for "Be Here Now". They had HALF songs and then compensated for it by trying to just make them sound huge. It's a real shame, as I think if Noel had taken a year off and concentrated on his songwriting, they could have made a great third album.
My studio contacts didn't have the machine to convert that tape. However, it's most likely just the final released version. I will check that when I find a place to convert it to be certain
I'd love to do more on SOTSOG, but to do so I need access to stems... it's a real 'needle in the haystack' thing because the owner might not be active online - or may have no wish to share their collectors piece online... It's always great when things like SFM show up though!
It's why Noel adding a bit of Whole Lotta Love and Heartbreaker to the end of the 2000 live versions of Cigarettes & Alcohol always fascinated me. As a big Zep head myself, its great
I actually remember realising in 97 that Noel didn't stray from standard pentatonic shapes. If you can play the Don't Look Back In Anger solo, you're good for pretty much all of Be Here Now. I still love the first 3 albums, but by this point in time I realised Johnny Greenwood and Graham Coxon were doing much more interesting things.
Great video. I love the BHN era and it’s B sides and this got me intrigued as to where Oasis would go next in the 90’s. You haven’t touched upon Helter Skelter which I believe was the last track recorded during this era. The track didn’t get released until SOTSOG b sides but it is the last time the 90s era band recorded together, including Owen Morris.
Whitey had great feel. I know he’s not an original member but I like the slightly funky sensibility he gave the band. He was a solid pro too. I love TM and Definitely Maybe is unrivalled, but when you’re touring and playing huge gigs, you need a solid musician on the drums. I can see why they had to make the change
I agree with you sure Alan had the drumming skills the band wanted but sound wise tony had the best drum sound and had they kept him wouod we have had a different sounding oasis? Who knows
Isn't it called wall of sound? Have you heard Wah Wah from George Harrison? Or REM's What's The Frequency Kenneth? You can barely hear the vocals but that's the point, and if done correctly its amazing
@@shopo6847 There is a difference between wall of sound and the whatever was done on street fighting man. "If it is done correctly" is the operative phrase.
The weird pedal in the studio is a Mutron Bi-Phase. It was a twin phasor with two independent circuits - featured more in The SOTSOG sessions, particularly on Let’s All Make Believe. I was offered the chance to purchase the pedal when Wheeler End studios shut down. Couldn’t afford the £800 at the time. The weird sound Noel did live was twisting the delay time on the Boss DD-3 delay in conjunction with a Boss PH-2 Phaser.
Yeah and with a DD3 and a PH2 you can get really close to get those dope DYWIM overdubs like the one in the bridge that once reversed is the loop at the end of the song. PH2 has a feature that gets really close to that signature guitar on the left channel on Let's all make believe as well.
This is just truly eductional, fascinating and insightful. A Real appreciation for the upload. Thank you to Kyle for the mix kindly uploaded. Swamp Song is fab on that tape :-)
If I'm honest I had given up on oasis after be here now, I like be here now, great pub tunes for the summer, yes we were all doing the white lines too and drinking lots and lots. Those days were insane. Work hard play hard, had some of the best years of my life from 1992-1999 great music great times
@@matthewjdouglas6471 Naturally after a period of time, when there's no longer any new Oasis songs produced it's easier to select and place in order your fave albums. I would have gone for the 'B' Sides like Acquiesce, Fade Away, The Swamp Song, Round Are Way, and Listen Up. The Early years too before definitely maybe is one of my personal faves that I would love for them to be re-released on CD and Vinyl.
The mad pedal Noel used to do those pitch shift effects is a Boss DD5. He also uses it to transition into Columbia on Live By The Sea. I had one back in the day, they're awesome.
DD5? I don't doubt it, but Digital Delay pedals don't typically spazz out like that, they just start to drop out in volume at weird places when you change the speed knob. (They still self-oscillate) Alalog Delay pedals are known for the degradation effect James is talking about, but I own a DD-5, I should try it out.
I have an old Boss DD3 I can get similar effects with. Wind up the level and feedback, increase the delay time a bit then change the mode between the short, medium and long settings. Then start messing with the delay time again.
I believe the 'weird pedal' that Noel uses is just a delay that he adds too much repeats and changes the speed of the delay so it just creates this big whooshing sound. I may be wrong.
@19:55 The sound from the live show is possibly Boss DD3, if you dive ralidly with the timing knob it'll create this sound. I think the Wah track on the song just has some gritty fuzz, Big Muff pedals were big in the 90s, I've also seen online that Noel used a Boss FZ5 during the BHN era.
Great video as always! There's only one thing not clear to me. Why would this session be their last piece of music of the 90s if it is stated to have been recorded in October 96 when the Be here now sessions lasted until april may 97. They were still into the wall of sound guitars in early 97. It only happens that these besides were released with the last single in 98. Or maybe these bunch of b sides were recorded at the end of the session? Anyway I'm really happy about how the actual 4th album came out and the direction they took. I was pretty disappointed at the time when it was released cos of the new logo, the loss of Morris touch and the new direction (apart tracks like go let it out, let's all make believe, gas panic and where did it all go wrong? That were instant classic to me) but I do think that it is one of their most underrated album and maybe one of those that is aging better. Listening to it now it's a stunning record with great sound and experimentations on it. I only would have opted for a different track list. There are way better b sides in that session than songs like put your money where her mouth is, little James and I can see a liar. Change those with let's all make believe, one way road and cigs in hell or carry us all and full on and it would have been a way better album imho and it would be great to see some deep dive into those 99 sessions.
Great work as usual James. For me, the “fourth album in the (Oasis) classic 90’s style” is Aisis’ “ The Lost Tapes.” Breezer’s 2023 imaginative creation supersedes “Be Here Now” lyrically and musically, from start to finish. It’s what the folllow-on to WTSMG should have been. That’s heresy to most, and I’m not knocking BHN because I still enjoy listening to most of it. However BHN was a weak, mailed-in follow up to WTSMG. Thankfully we all got SOTSOG in 2000 to right the Oasis legacy.
Hi James, I have wondered for a long time if the originals recordings from the SOTSOG sessions with Bonehead’s guitar tracks exist. Do you have any idea? Thanks
The b-sides for Be Here Now are good enough to have made up their own album. My Sister Lover and I got the Fever in particular are out of their own unique new Oasis genre.
On the Stones version of SFM the rhythm guitar is an acoustic recorded onto a small cassette recorder and then fed back into the desk at max volume resulting in a distorted tone. Possibly this ‘trick’ was recreated. The tiny amp theory is probably true though
Yes Noel considers himself a songwriter and not a guitar player However his Guitar tone was tremendous at times Noel's a much better player than he and everyone thinks
Even at the time I remember being a bit confused about the track listing for BHN. The B-sides were so much better. Even from the first single (before the album was released) Angel Child and Stay Young (if I remember correctly). I'd argue that both of those songs were better than anything on the album. Why on earth was "I Think I Hope I Know" on the album when Stay Young could have been in its place?
96 tracks on each song! James, do you mean 96 tracks off of the mixing desk? Too much of a good thing. 90's excess? I don't know about producing and mixing but Keith Richards said in an interview around 1978 that Rock 'n' Roll went down hill when they moved off of using only 4 tracks (from TH-cam Documentary by FlipSideCT on either the album Some Girls or Emotional Rescue). I think What's the Story is one of the great albums of all time. Definitely in the class of the great 60's and 70's albums. I've been mostly into 60's 70's stuff since 1979 and had given up on modern music except U2 and Dire Straits. A guy lent me that Oasis Album when it came out and i was blown away I hadn't even heard of 'em. Their version of Street Fighting man is great, i didn't know they'd done a cover of it. Along with Siouxsie and the Banshee's "Dear Prudence", they are the only band to do a worthy cover of a Beatles song, in "I am the Walrus", and live too. Thanks for the show James Hargreaves.
The loop does sound like a loose drum head, but not run through a guitar amplifier…could have been run through an outboard distortion unit and radically equalized to get that particular sound.
I disagree, Noel said he would only do 3, it's more the end of All Around The World closing the door, reaffirms it, he always wanted to do Standing... as 4th or maybe it would have been heavier...
james for me this is where the hindu times eventually came from.. noel always said he was missing the lick in it for years that gem came up with.. many of the parts are clearly taken from SFM
Watching that video after SFMan is like sleeping with a model then stepping down to someone's Aunty. It's rubbish, haha. Good to archive online at least
SOTSOG for me is massively underestimated. I must hear it completely differently to everyone else because it gets slated universally. I would even say I think it would have been a better third album than Be Here Now.
It feels like it would have been another "Second Coming". I think they eventually went with some of it in Heathen Chemistry, but without the invincibility
On the last leg of the Be Here Now Tour, before the band hit the stage, they used to play "Rock'n'roll" by Led Zeppelin on the PA. I remember reading a news about the recording of the new album on the band's official website (oasisinet) between 1998 and 1999, where Noel mentioned listening to a lot of Led Zeppelin and playing with a double neck SG in the recordings. This was before Guigsy and Bonehead left.
I really enjoy your vids! I save 'em for when I need a blast of 90s. Well done on the new set! Is there any chance u could reduce the brightness (contrast, exposure, saturation)? It's a bit of an intense image.
I'd have liked to have heard a Be Here Now that had more in common with Noel's recent DYou Know What I Mean? rethink, or maybe a Chemical Brothers direction after Noel's two collabs with them. But all music talk aside, I really do think that Ian Huntley fully deserves to be in prison for murdering those two girls.
James im confused, I watched a video before and you said they b sides where underwhelming for this release- 1998 - on your video regarding why Noel hates be here now. But here you praise them? I think the b sides of all around the world are up there with the best Have I got this wrong I’m intrigued Absolutely love the content, it’s amazing
If Be Here Now had the following as it's tracklisting and was mixed like Noels 2016 rethink of D'You Know What I Mean? then it would rival Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory. 1. D'You Know What I Mean? (Shortened) 2. My Big Mouth 3. Stand by Me (Shortened) 4. I Hope, I Think, I Know 5. The Girl In the Dirty Shirt (Shortened) 6. Stay Young 7. Don't Go Away 8. Be Here Now 9. It's Gettin' Better (Man!!) (Shortened) 10. All Around the World (Shortened)
Not quite. They didn't release any material between Feb 1998 and Feb 2000 but they started the record Giants in the Spring of 1999 and finished it late summer/autumn before those American live dates in Dec 1999.
About 15 years ago I came across an upload to TH-cam which was titled All Around the World Remastered, it was a much cleaner version, a bit like the clip of them recording it at the boardwalk I think it was but the full song and clean. Never found it since as it got removed before I got home from work or I’d have ripped it.
Love the deep dive mate, really impressive investigational skills to support the theories. As for the mystery loop, sounds too melodic to me to be a drum skin. To me, sounds like a detuned electric guitar, which would give it that loose, flappy sound. Alternatively could be played on a baritone guitar or simply a distorted bass with a low pass filter, picked very heavily, which would give it a thinner, more metalic sound, while having that flappy, aggresiveness
Morning, I created a Spotify playlist this morning off the back of this video for the 4th album. My tracklist is this. What would everyone else be? 1.street fighting man 2.stay young 3. Setting sun acoustic 4.flashbax 5.the fame 6.my sister love 7.going nowhere 8.help live 9heros 10.step out 11. helter-skelter Wow what an album this would have been ❤ Any title suggestions for what would have been...
For sure it would be a more heavy sound album that Standing On The Shoulders Giants. It makes me think in a comeback of the early days of 1993/1994 and Definitely Maybe album. I love it, pity it was abandoned. It could be a great album released in 1999. I believe the chaotic Be Here Now tour was the responsible of broke the band in the middle. If they where less concern in surprass the Morning Glory numbers things could have been different.
Yes I do! If you have a project you'd like to chat with me about, you can message me on Instagram / Twitter, or send an email to jameshargreavesguitar@outlook.com :)
@James Hargreaves Guitar thankyou very much James for your reply. I'm currently working on a project and I will send you some ideas across once we have recorded them roughly in the practise room.
That drum is just like supersonic and there there by Radiohead, not a bad thing. Loves liams vocals on this tune , he was made to sing street fighting man
Another incredibly interesting analysis - well done. I wonder if Noel commented at the time about the recording of the track and whether it was seen as a new direction? I remember NME at the time mentioning the decision to cover a Stones track but more than that I don't recall.
Oasis Were Tres-Bon At The Metro Radio Arena In Newcastle Upon Tyne In About 1997... ...Liam Wore A Newcastle United Shirt Because Newcastle United Where Playing In The Champions League...
(I got)the Fever is arguably my favourite song. Stay Young isn’t far behind. Can’t believe they never made the album ahead of the girl in the dirty shirt and magic pie.
An absolute crime that some of those b sides were never played live : Paul Weller wanted Noel to play “The Fame” live , yet he never did . Flashbax, ( I Got ) The Fever and My Sister Lover would have been absolutely amazing in concert , not to mention the crowd and die hard fans would have gone absolutely mental hearing those!! To my knowledge, the only live song Noel has ever played from the Be Here Now b-sides is Angel Child
On the Stones version of SFM the rhythm guitar is an acoustic recorded onto a small cassette recorder and then fed back into the desk at max volume resulting in a distorted tone. Possibly this ‘trick’ was recreated. The tiny amp theory is probably true though
Noel's has got to sit down for an interview with James.
He won't, he's not going to like James being such a geek.
Also, I bet Noel isn't going to appreciate how much secret stuff James has figured out, like The Masterplan analysis.
Naahh es demasiado egocéntrico y narcisista para hacerlo...😊
@@LegsONdeep down Noel wants to be seen as a genius… he just won’t speak about it himself. He wants to let it speak for itself
James is too smart for him.
Noel’s already dug him out. I can’t see it. He’s such a moody twat
That version of Fade In Out. From Manchester GMEX. it’s raw, faultless, aggressive British Rock. It’s where I feel Oasis should have gone next.
Yes, and it's interesting comparing the studio version that is calm and slow, but mesmerizing nonetheless to the last song ever released (Don't Stop); I wonder what it would have sounded like more aggressive and raw like the '97 tour. We'll never hear it but if AI could give us a glimpse that'd be great haha
I know this is a "what if" video, but if you consider that the BHN tour ended in March 1998 and they were doing warm ups for the next tour in December 1999, plus they likely needed a break after touring and recording consistently since 1994, it's doubtful that another album could have been put out in the 90s unless SOTSOG was moved to the end of '99 (maybe this was the original intention). I may be wrong but Noel had also exhausted his backlog of songs by this time. So all things considered it makes sense that a break was needed and a musical change of direction.
Btw, I think it's madness that Let's All Make Believe was only a b-side.
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Noel said recently that the first high flying birds album was mostly songs for the next Oasis album. I don't think he was out of material.
@@GavinMorris1 I was referring to his early batch of songs. A lot of the music on the first three albums was written pre-fame, all around the world being an example of an older song held back. As we know with Noel, most of his best work was written in the first half of the 90s, occassionally since then he's slipped an older song onto a new album.
Oasis is the classic example of a band that became massive but could have and probably should become more massive. But the things that prevented them from become even more massive could also be the things that set them off in the first place.
They squandered their legacy by being more interested in coke and drinking than writing great songs for "Be Here Now". They had HALF songs and then compensated for it by trying to just make them sound huge. It's a real shame, as I think if Noel had taken a year off and concentrated on his songwriting, they could have made a great third album.
Fucking in the Bushes SOTSOG is very Led Zep influenced
Absolutely
I love these Nerdy deep dive videos. Great stuff James. Btw have you and Kyle discussed doing anything with that SOTSOG mastertape?
My studio contacts didn't have the machine to convert that tape. However, it's most likely just the final released version. I will check that when I find a place to convert it to be certain
I'd love to do more on SOTSOG, but to do so I need access to stems... it's a real 'needle in the haystack' thing because the owner might not be active online - or may have no wish to share their collectors piece online... It's always great when things like SFM show up though!
@@BittersweetHome That's fair. Even if it's just the final mixed version, it's a very cool price of history to have!
Hello James, love the video. I would like to see a breakdown of Gas Panic, what a song.... maybe one Day you should do it 👍👍
It's why Noel adding a bit of Whole Lotta Love and Heartbreaker to the end of the 2000 live versions of Cigarettes & Alcohol always fascinated me. As a big Zep head myself, its great
Those harmony parts sound incredible! Never heard their voices sound so good together!
Noel's lead guitar work took a big step forward by '97 🙌
no it didnt he was just more coked up and thought he'd widdle away a little more on the downstroke pentatonics...
@@thiefoftomorrow Either or, it still took a step forward. 😂
I agree his playing in 97-98 inspired me to pick up a guitar and go after bigger giants like Page and Beck
I actually remember realising in 97 that Noel didn't stray from standard pentatonic shapes. If you can play the Don't Look Back In Anger solo, you're good for pretty much all of Be Here Now.
I still love the first 3 albums, but by this point in time I realised Johnny Greenwood and Graham Coxon were doing much more interesting things.
@@ianblackmore-allen163 true, but neither of them are great guitarists by any stretch of the imagination either….
Great work James
Great video. I love the BHN era and it’s B sides and this got me intrigued as to where Oasis would go next in the 90’s. You haven’t touched upon Helter Skelter which I believe was the last track recorded during this era. The track didn’t get released until SOTSOG b sides but it is the last time the 90s era band recorded together, including Owen Morris.
Whitey had great feel. I know he’s not an original member but I like the slightly funky sensibility he gave the band. He was a solid pro too. I love TM and Definitely Maybe is unrivalled, but when you’re touring and playing huge gigs, you need a solid musician on the drums. I can see why they had to make the change
I agree with you sure Alan had the drumming skills the band wanted but sound wise tony had the best drum sound and had they kept him wouod we have had a different sounding oasis? Who knows
Personally, I think the "Street Fighting Man" B side is wall of noise. It suffered from a lack of auditory space and dynamics.
And cohesion, it`s just slack, noise and blather.
Isn't it called wall of sound? Have you heard Wah Wah from George Harrison? Or REM's What's The Frequency Kenneth? You can barely hear the vocals but that's the point, and if done correctly its amazing
@@shopo6847 There is a difference between wall of sound and the whatever was done on street fighting man. "If it is done correctly" is the operative phrase.
@@NoExitLoveNow well I think its done correctly, its a great cover with 90's Oasis style
Love these studio recording analysis videos so much. Great work!
You're very welcome
Top quality vid as always.
The weird pedal in the studio is a Mutron Bi-Phase. It was a twin phasor with two independent circuits - featured more in The SOTSOG sessions, particularly on Let’s All Make Believe. I was offered the chance to purchase the pedal when Wheeler End studios shut down. Couldn’t afford the £800 at the time.
The weird sound Noel did live was twisting the delay time on the Boss DD-3 delay in conjunction with a Boss PH-2 Phaser.
Yeah and with a DD3 and a PH2 you can get really close to get those dope DYWIM overdubs like the one in the bridge that once reversed is the loop at the end of the song. PH2 has a feature that gets really close to that signature guitar on the left channel on Let's all make believe as well.
I love your channel mate, from one oasis brother to another..nice one mate 😎
Respect for him uploading it
This is just truly eductional, fascinating and insightful. A Real appreciation for the upload. Thank you to Kyle for the mix kindly uploaded. Swamp Song is fab on that tape :-)
Always a pleasure mate
If I'm honest I had given up on oasis after be here now, I like be here now, great pub tunes for the summer, yes we were all doing the white lines too and drinking lots and lots. Those days were insane. Work hard play hard, had some of the best years of my life from 1992-1999 great music great times
@@matthewjdouglas6471 Naturally after a period of time, when there's no longer any new Oasis songs produced it's easier to select and place in order your fave albums. I would have gone for the 'B' Sides like Acquiesce, Fade Away, The Swamp Song, Round Are Way, and Listen Up. The Early years too before definitely maybe is one of my personal faves that I would love for them to be re-released on CD and Vinyl.
The mad pedal Noel used to do those pitch shift effects is a Boss DD5. He also uses it to transition into Columbia on Live By The Sea. I had one back in the day, they're awesome.
how d'you know it?
It’s interesting cos in the early days he hardly used pedals.
DD5? I don't doubt it, but Digital Delay pedals don't typically spazz out like that, they just start to drop out in volume at weird places when you change the speed knob. (They still self-oscillate) Alalog Delay pedals are known for the degradation effect James is talking about, but I own a DD-5, I should try it out.
It's a Danelectro Echo delay.
I have an old Boss DD3 I can get similar effects with. Wind up the level and feedback, increase the delay time a bit then change the mode between the short, medium and long settings. Then start messing with the delay time again.
I believe the 'weird pedal' that Noel uses is just a delay that he adds too much repeats and changes the speed of the delay so it just creates this big whooshing sound. I may be wrong.
Thank god we got the 4th album we got.
Great video mate, appreciate the deeper thoughts and info in your soothing sexy tones! Nice one, speak soon. Kyle
LOL no worries dude
I think the song Fade in/out is more related to the Kula Shaker sound, more than Noel would admit.
I always loved Angel child
The distorted white noise wound is in all likelihood an analogue delay feeding back on its self with noel adjusting the speed to change the pitch
That’s exactly what it is.
@19:55 The sound from the live show is possibly Boss DD3, if you dive ralidly with the timing knob it'll create this sound.
I think the Wah track on the song just has some gritty fuzz, Big Muff pedals were big in the 90s, I've also seen online that Noel used a Boss FZ5 during the BHN era.
Great video as always! There's only one thing not clear to me. Why would this session be their last piece of music of the 90s if it is stated to have been recorded in October 96 when the Be here now sessions lasted until april may 97. They were still into the wall of sound guitars in early 97. It only happens that these besides were released with the last single in 98. Or maybe these bunch of b sides were recorded at the end of the session?
Anyway I'm really happy about how the actual 4th album came out and the direction they took. I was pretty disappointed at the time when it was released cos of the new logo, the loss of Morris touch and the new direction (apart tracks like go let it out, let's all make believe, gas panic and where did it all go wrong? That were instant classic to me) but I do think that it is one of their most underrated album and maybe one of those that is aging better. Listening to it now it's a stunning record with great sound and experimentations on it. I only would have opted for a different track list. There are way better b sides in that session than songs like put your money where her mouth is, little James and I can see a liar. Change those with let's all make believe, one way road and cigs in hell or carry us all and full on and it would have been a way better album imho and it would be great to see some deep dive into those 99 sessions.
Great work as usual James. For me, the “fourth album in the (Oasis) classic 90’s style” is Aisis’ “ The Lost Tapes.” Breezer’s 2023 imaginative creation supersedes “Be Here Now” lyrically and musically, from start to finish. It’s what the folllow-on to WTSMG should have been. That’s heresy to most, and I’m not knocking BHN because I still enjoy listening to most of it. However BHN was a weak, mailed-in follow up to WTSMG. Thankfully we all got SOTSOG in 2000 to right the Oasis legacy.
Hi James, I have wondered for a long time if the originals recordings from the SOTSOG sessions with Bonehead’s guitar tracks exist. Do you have any idea? Thanks
The b-sides for Be Here Now are good enough to have made up their own album. My Sister Lover and I got the Fever in particular are out of their own unique new Oasis genre.
Long time fan and follower, when are we going to get your analysis/breakdown of Noels 1989 solo recordings which have been on YT forever
First of all GMEX was their best live show of that era just rocked
On the Stones version of SFM the rhythm guitar is an acoustic recorded onto a small cassette recorder and then fed back into the desk at max volume resulting in a distorted tone. Possibly this ‘trick’ was recreated. The tiny amp theory is probably true though
Yes Noel considers himself a songwriter and not a guitar player
However his Guitar tone was tremendous at times
Noel's a much better player than he and everyone thinks
Even at the time I remember being a bit confused about the track listing for BHN. The B-sides were so much better. Even from the first single (before the album was released) Angel Child and Stay Young (if I remember correctly).
I'd argue that both of those songs were better than anything on the album. Why on earth was "I Think I Hope I Know" on the album when Stay Young could have been in its place?
96 tracks on each song! James, do you mean 96 tracks off of the mixing desk? Too much of a good thing. 90's excess? I don't know about producing and mixing but Keith Richards said in an interview around 1978 that Rock 'n' Roll went down hill when they moved off of using only 4 tracks (from TH-cam Documentary by FlipSideCT on either the album Some Girls or Emotional Rescue).
I think What's the Story is one of the great albums of all time. Definitely in the class of the great 60's and 70's albums. I've been mostly into 60's 70's stuff since 1979 and had given up on modern music except U2 and Dire Straits. A guy lent me that Oasis Album when it came out and i was blown away I hadn't even heard of 'em.
Their version of Street Fighting man is great, i didn't know they'd done a cover of it. Along with Siouxsie and the Banshee's "Dear Prudence", they are the only band to do a worthy cover of a Beatles song, in "I am the Walrus", and live too.
Thanks for the show James Hargreaves.
The white noise is definitely one of the Boss DD series. Or at least a delay pedal with the time incredibly short and feedback long. Level up too.
The loop does sound like a loose drum head, but not run through a guitar amplifier…could have been run through an outboard distortion unit and radically equalized to get that particular sound.
Speaking of the other brother singing songs, I wonder if there are any recording of Liam singing don't look back in anger
There is the acapella version at Glastonbury
@@noutmink yea I've seen that, I mean a proper studio recording, with Liams peak 90s voice
@@oisinbutler that would actually be class
I posted a version to my channel. It's AI Liam, but it's pretty amazing.
Interesting... what app did you use for the AI Liam?
I disagree, Noel said he would only do 3, it's more the end of All Around The World closing the door, reaffirms it, he always wanted to do Standing... as 4th or maybe it would have been heavier...
james for me this is where the hindu times eventually came from.. noel always said he was missing the lick in it for years that gem came up with.. many of the parts are clearly taken from SFM
Nah the hindu times lick is taken from stereotypes debut album track same size feet
@@whosryan1443 interesting will check it out … noel still waited for gem to nick it though to put it over this 😂
Kyle posted Flashbax today 👍
Watching that video after SFMan is like sleeping with a model then stepping down to someone's Aunty. It's rubbish, haha. Good to archive online at least
SOTSOG for me is massively underestimated. I must hear it completely differently to everyone else because it gets slated universally. I would even say I think it would have been a better third album than Be Here Now.
It feels like it would have been another "Second Coming". I think they eventually went with some of it in Heathen Chemistry, but without the invincibility
On the last leg of the Be Here Now Tour, before the band hit the stage, they used to play "Rock'n'roll" by Led Zeppelin on the PA.
I remember reading a news about the recording of the new album on the band's official website (oasisinet) between 1998 and 1999, where Noel mentioned listening to a lot of Led Zeppelin and playing with a double neck SG in the recordings. This was before Guigsy and Bonehead left.
I think from that era, some of the B-Sides are absolutely wasted as B-Sides, they could have easily been on the albums and/or singles themselves.
Going Nowhere, Angel Child, I Got The Fever - all bangers.
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar And Stay Young!
be here now had some of my fav songs ever...do you know, stand by me, all around the world. underrated album that need a proper remaster.
A lot of good trax on BHN but they were all overlong.
I really enjoy your vids! I save 'em for when I need a blast of 90s. Well done on the new set! Is there any chance u could reduce the brightness (contrast, exposure, saturation)? It's a bit of an intense image.
I'd have liked to have heard a Be Here Now that had more in common with Noel's recent DYou Know What I Mean? rethink, or maybe a Chemical Brothers direction after Noel's two collabs with them.
But all music talk aside, I really do think that Ian Huntley fully deserves to be in prison for murdering those two girls.
Nah, he doesn`t.
James im confused, I watched a video before and you said they b sides where underwhelming for this release- 1998 - on your video regarding why Noel hates be here now. But here you praise them? I think the b sides of all around the world are up there with the best
Have I got this wrong I’m intrigued
Absolutely love the content, it’s amazing
Well
Might i say- if ifs and ands were pots and pans. How big did you want Oasis to get? I like Be Here Now and SOTSG. They have done just fine!
That mad effect on the down tuned c# sounds like a time based effect being slowed down and sped up.
Possibly an Ibanez FL9 flanger.
If Be Here Now had the following as it's tracklisting and was mixed like Noels 2016 rethink of D'You Know What I Mean? then it would rival Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory.
1. D'You Know What I Mean? (Shortened)
2. My Big Mouth
3. Stand by Me (Shortened)
4. I Hope, I Think, I Know
5. The Girl In the Dirty Shirt (Shortened)
6. Stay Young
7. Don't Go Away
8. Be Here Now
9. It's Gettin' Better (Man!!) (Shortened)
10. All Around the World (Shortened)
So Oasisi did nothing from around May 98 right through to December 99?
Not quite. They didn't release any material between Feb 1998 and Feb 2000 but they started the record Giants in the Spring of 1999 and finished it late summer/autumn before those American live dates in Dec 1999.
Great video as always - Some fella on TH-cam did a mash up of be here now vocals with the mystique music, it's amazing imho
I bloody love fade in-out think the dogs bollox. If this was Oasis’ 4th album we were robbed 😂
Lol, the band do some uninspired Rolling Stones cover to fill a b side and 25 years later we analyse the fuck out of it
Well thats?what Cocaine can do.... "Hey lets fill all 98 tracks.... lol..yea " great idea mate"
11:13 is the screensaver of my studio computers 😎 great video, again, James !
About 15 years ago I came across an upload to TH-cam which was titled All Around the World Remastered, it was a much cleaner version, a bit like the clip of them recording it at the boardwalk I think it was but the full song and clean. Never found it since as it got removed before I got home from work or I’d have ripped it.
Great forensic study of the 4th that never was to be... Noel has stated that The Master Plan could have been an A side contender (in retrospect)
Love the deep dive mate, really impressive investigational skills to support the theories.
As for the mystery loop, sounds too melodic to me to be a drum skin.
To me, sounds like a detuned electric guitar, which would give it that loose, flappy sound. Alternatively could be played on a baritone guitar or simply a distorted bass with a low pass filter, picked very heavily, which would give it a thinner, more metalic sound, while having that flappy, aggresiveness
That said, could also be a mic placed on the bottom tom skin, being played live, but with a lot of room bleed from the bass.
Very fascinating...
Please cover the B sides like The Fame next!
Sounds like the drums on the 'Hindu Times'
Never take a day off. We need you.
At 11:47 I believe I can play a Song 2 riff on this drum loop intro. 😂
Morning, I created a Spotify playlist this morning off the back of this video for the 4th album. My tracklist is this. What would everyone else be?
1.street fighting man
2.stay young
3. Setting sun acoustic
4.flashbax
5.the fame
6.my sister love
7.going nowhere
8.help live
9heros
10.step out
11. helter-skelter
Wow what an album this would have been ❤
Any title suggestions for what would have been...
As this song builds with the various tracks, it reminds me a lot of where they will eventually go with The Hindu Times.
Oasis, great sound, great tambourine
For sure it would be a more heavy sound album that Standing On The Shoulders Giants. It makes me think in a comeback of the early days of 1993/1994 and Definitely Maybe album. I love it, pity it was abandoned. It could be a great album released in 1999.
I believe the chaotic Be Here Now tour was the responsible of broke the band in the middle. If they where less concern in surprass the Morning Glory numbers things could have been different.
Excellent Oasis detective work with that drum skin loop, I wouldn't have picked it out till you said it, and then it became perfectly clear. 👌
That's not rare, I had that very song years ago available thru internet.
Sounding at that time very similar to the 2nd Stone Roses LP…..which is very Zeppelin in parts.
Thanks again James for another fantastic upload keep it up fella 👍
it was a poor cover do not understand the excitement
This is the best thing ever
Does anyone else hear elements of ‘Fort Knox’ in the full intro to Fade-in-out from that tour?
Good stuff, as always.
Thanks!
James do you record- music produce bands?
Yes I do! If you have a project you'd like to chat with me about, you can message me on Instagram / Twitter, or send an email to jameshargreavesguitar@outlook.com :)
@James Hargreaves Guitar thankyou very much James for your reply. I'm currently working on a project and I will send you some ideas across once we have recorded them roughly in the practise room.
That drum is just like supersonic and there there by Radiohead, not a bad thing. Loves liams vocals on this tune , he was made to sing street fighting man
I could listen to this all day. Obsessed with oasis recording process. I went to music tech at uni
Shame this didn't follow on from BHN ❤
Another incredibly interesting analysis - well done. I wonder if Noel commented at the time about the recording of the track and whether it was seen as a new direction? I remember NME at the time mentioning the decision to cover a Stones track but more than that I don't recall.
Oasis Were Tres-Bon At The Metro Radio Arena In Newcastle Upon Tyne In About 1997...
...Liam Wore A Newcastle United Shirt Because Newcastle United Where Playing In The Champions League...
James mate, I know you love that GMEX version of Fade In Out but I honestly think the Earls Court version is far better!! Far far better!!
So Blur's 'Song 2' drum sound was nicked from Oasis...
(I got)the Fever is arguably my favourite song. Stay Young isn’t far behind. Can’t believe they never made the album ahead of the girl in the dirty shirt and magic pie.
Totally agree
An absolute crime that some of those b sides were never played live :
Paul Weller wanted Noel to play “The Fame” live , yet he never did .
Flashbax, ( I Got ) The Fever and My Sister Lover would have been absolutely amazing in concert , not to mention the crowd and die hard fans would have gone absolutely mental hearing those!!
To my knowledge, the only live song Noel has ever played from the Be Here Now b-sides is Angel Child
He's currently playing Going Nowhere of all songs on his current tour.
Brilliant break down of an excellent cover James,. Maybe less is more?
Alan White!!! 👍👌👌👌🥁 miss that man when he went.
That weird drop tuning distortion sounds like it could be a Digitech Whammy pedal
I’m really glad they didn’t as SOTSOG is my favourite as I love the ‘psych’.
Interestingly this track sounds like The Hindu Times, just listen to the beat, CMIIW
On the Stones version of SFM the rhythm guitar is an acoustic recorded onto a small cassette recorder and then fed back into the desk at max volume resulting in a distorted tone. Possibly this ‘trick’ was recreated. The tiny amp theory is probably true though
Definitely my favourite channel at the moment, keep these videos coming
What do you prefer Noel or Liam’s solo stuff?
Both have their time, place and mood for me personally
Noel’s albums are better in production, writing and consistency but Liam has the occasional banger. It’s really down to how you feel on the day
I don't like when songs end in fade-out, I want to hear the end, dammit!
It's because they didn't bother writing one
Wires everywhere, noel needs a cup of coffee
I never realised but everyone from the original oasis lineup had unibrows