OASIS: BE HERE NOW (Track by Track) Behind the scenes with Noel (1997) and Nick Brine (2021)
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- Join James Hargreaves to examine track-by-track comments on the Oasis album Be Here Now from Noel Gallagher in 1997, and behind-the-scenes stories and memories from sound engineer Nick Brine.
This is part one of my interview with Nick Brine.
Part two - • NICK BRINE: Bonehead's...
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Many thanks, JH.
Woah, thank you!! Glad you're going to bat for this incredibly underappreciated album. It's absolutely the best Oasis record imo, their best both musically and lyrically. Might not have had the hits Morning Glory did but it blended the raw power of Definitely Maybe with some of the pop that Morning Glory did and it created a masterpiece. I love every song.
It really isn’t their best album and no one with any judgment thinks that. Definitely maybe and morning glory have better songs and melodies and lyrics and much of be here now was by Noel’s own admission filler and his quality control was non existent. It was a band on drugs with nothing to say at all hiding behind walls of guitars.
@@MarlboroughBlenheim1 I mean, lots of artists hate their own work. Rivers Cuomo hated Pinkerton for a long time and now that album is critically acclaimed.
There are days when I feel Morning Glory is better and there are days when I like BHN more. I certainly like it more than Definitely Maybe.
@@stonecrestmovies BHN contained songs that were either written when Noel wasn’t at his creative peak or had been written before but weren’t good enough to get on the first two albums. A lot of BHN is therefore filler, made on drugs, with some really poor songs. It shows no musical or artistic progression for the band at all. It’s made for people who like rock by numbers. That said, Don’t Go Away isn’t bad.
@@stonecrestmovies I think when an artists says they couldn’t be bothered to put the effort in to a song and just cobbled it together and used filler from old songs not good enough to make the first two albums or b sides you know there is a problem. Most of the songs on BHN are also bloated by coke. Too long too many guitars, etc
I've honestly always loved this album..it came at just the right time for me..I was already a fan (I was only 12 and vividly remember my sister recording it from her CD to a cassette for me) I wore it out!! And as Ryan Adams once said its still one of my favourite albums to put on in my headphones after a big bong and go for a walk. 'I hope I think I know' will always hold a special place in me heart. Damn, I'll tell ya what I already felt old when I realised, 'up the bracket' (libs) is 20 today..this just makes me feel even older!! But the nostalgia when I put this on is still a happy kind..I don't even skip 'magic pie' 😅. I remember tryina tell me mates I could hear 'GnR' in 'My big mouth' . They laughed..I laugh now too, but I defo heard it then! Great to hear a deep dive into this man.
I bloody love your passion for the band mate and especially for BHN. It was such a mad time that I always find it difficult to explain to people who didn't experience it, just how big that time was.
Loved the interview too and fair play to Nick for coming on x
That's pure gold! Thank you so much👍
It's an oxymoron. It's a heavy feather, a light weight. It's slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannon ball. It's a terrible masterpiece. It's a brilliant mess. It's fantastic!
I actually understood that and I agree.
That’s an almost perfect description
stay young is probably the 3rd best track from that era,and i do like magic pie but stay young blows it out the water
Stay young should of been on Be Here Now !
@@VFAFOOTY and going nowhere
Definitely. Absolutely brilliant song, one of the best that they ever did.
Stay young is one of my favourite songs of all time 😎🤟🎶❤️
Stay Young and Going Nowhere are both brilliant and should have replaced Magic Pie and Fade In-Out which should have been B-sides.
My Big Mouth, Headshrinker, Be Here Now and Stay Young have been the opening 4 tracks of almost every oasis mix or playlist Ive ever put together. If those don't get you up in the morning you're not alive
Headshrinker is my fav oasis song at least as far as official releases go I wish they’d leaned into that punk rock vibe more 😭
@@kg7219 fantastic cut. A top 3 bside for sure
Thank you!!! I mean, seriously a big thank you for this documentary! Exactly what I was looking for and never found. Did I mention thank you?
The album that everyone wanted, another British rock n roll classic, & an American classic, as well! It DID debut @ #2 over here, & it sold over a million copies, making it a platinum fucking album, Stateside! Not terrible statistics by ANY measure! Most bands would've loved those numbers!
My fave oasis album.
Went before my Gcse results to get it 😉
Haha me too!!!!
I bunked off school got the bus to wh smiths am bought it, I was 15 at the time
Don't Go Away - Noel said in interviews that he wrote it the day he heard his mom had cancer.
It was boneheads mother not noels
Don't go away is my favourite oasis song
I thought i knew a lot about Oasis, oh how i was wrong lol. Great channel!!
Such an enjoyable video to watch and love gaining a further perspective on such a monumental album! Cheers James
Girl in the Dirty Shirt is the one I used to teach Peek A Boo from the KAOS Krew how to play guitar! Top vid James. (Stay Young at GMEX is my fave tho - TH-cam it!)
Yeah James you're tha man!
Nothing like blasting Be Here Now on a car ride. Although recently i did so and got in an accident. Only $2k in damage. Pre 2000 Oasis was the best!
18:33 yeah its criminal that they did not release a live version of Fade In/Out
It's a great album ❤️
The vocals on that album where great
It's over blown, over long and hard to get the whole way through but under the mess most of the songs are strong. I think if songs can be done acoustically and still sound good they are good songs. Swap in going nowhere, stay young maybe I've got the fever for a few of the weaker songs and it'd hold up to first two, in my opinion.
The Mustique demos much better
@@BarnsleyMatchdayDrinkers yeh the composition s are, I know people who prefer it to the album but I just don't like noels voice bar one or two tracks on an album, all opinion I suppose.
Yesss!!!
All the people saying Stay Young should've been on the album instead of I Hope I Think I Know - don't they both have the same guitar solo? Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but would be pretty weird if both on same album
People are saying they wanted Stay Young instead of Magic Pie.
And no, Stay Young and I Hope, I Think, I Know do not share a guitar solo. This is probably why you’ve never seen anyone mention it 😉
Not the same but very similar. Both are upbeat songs in D major and Noel always used simple pentatonics
Brino❤
Maybe after the mega gigs in Main Road and Knebworth they would have just chilled for a few years and then come back with a new album...maybe Be Here Now was just too much
They didn't want to lose momentum and have more success, but creativity suffers as a result
The morse code could be a cipher... just an idea 😉
I kinda like Magic Pie tbh 🤷♂😅
Never really liked this album, not a patch on the first 2. Songs are too long and bloated. Stand by me is still a tune but the rest of it is meh in my opinion.
Such a great video and fascinating interview BUT Be Here Now is just full of so much crap. Stand by Me sucks, Don’t Go Away sucks and Magic Pie is complete and total trash. Do this James: listen to be here now but remove those three songs and you’ve got an amazing record in the tradition of early oasis. If you removed those tracks it would’ve been great. Noel was out of his mind and his ego was out of control. Noels singing sounds like whining ESPECIALLY on Girl In the Dirty Shirt. Cocaine had made Noel lose the fire and think he was better than he was.
I'll never like them, they got their carma
R u kidding one of the last few true rock n roll bands to exist come onnnn man what do u listen to like U2 or smth
@@kg7219 The last greatest bad was INXS
It's my favourite album - it's the album I listen to the most - I love the production - I love the length of the songs and the length of the album - a real feast - living in NYC in 1998 - I'd go into Tower Records on at 1:00am (yes in the morning mid week it was open on Broadway) and this was blasting out allover the 4 floors! Tower played it all summer - absolutely glory days - record shops open till the early hours of the morning blasting Be Here Now... Proper Hi Fidelity vibes!
It’s shit
14:30 and i’ve always loved i hope i think i know for the vocals,it’s something else,one of my favourite oasis songs and the fact no one mentions it is criminal
I distinctly remember that song standing out live on that tour.
@@r.edward5701 I thought they never played that live?
@@maxccfc1927 ha I was wrong. It's getting better man was what I was thinking
@@maxccfc1927 knebworth i think ? No pun
This was amazing to watch. I love Be Here Now and will always remember queuing up on release day excited beyond belief. Thank you for the insights.
I fuckng love Be Here Now. Perfect third album, representing the climax of their album trilogy journey. It never felt the same from album #4 onwards.
Strip back some of the infinite guitar backing tracks and some of the songwriting on this record is some of noels best. You can even hear the maturity level stepping up from the first two to this. Just way too over produced. If this album had been done with mainly acoustic electric sounds with orchestral backing - this would be talked about the same as the first two records
I always thought "be here now" and "standing on the shoulders of giants" were really good albums. Not as great as the first two, but for sure good.
always supporting you, from italy… are you going to knebworth?
Hey Nicolo - yes me and my mrs have got tickets for the Friday show. Can't wait!
The real question is how much cocaine do you need to sniff to think that putting Magic Pie over Stay Young is a good idea?
If Be Here Now was the follow-up album to Definitely Maybe then it would be an instant classic in most people's eyes. I think Noel wanted to separate himself from that album because it represents his last go at the immature drug phase of adulthood and wanted to naturally evolve away from that phase to be a a more mature positive role-model to his family.
Been binge watching these videos again. Great channel with great information
Another excellent video, really interesting watch.
Hasn't changed my mind on the album though! Too bloated, over produced and too many mediocre songs on it. It could have been so much better. Still, fantastic interview and great to get a bit more insight on the album. I7m looking forward to part two.
Lovely stuff!
We could have had Stay Young, Going Nowhere, The Fame, ( I’ve Got ) The Fever and/or Flashbax and instead got Magic Pie 🤢
Man, if stay young replaced magic pie the album would be perfect
Magic Pie is one of the best songs imo
@@durhamviking1809 but Stay Young is better.
that george martin jim carrey story was genuinely amazing
It’s great to hear about Fade in out- one of my favourite songs. I always thought with that scream from Liam he could easily have covered a Linkin Park song for example and scream better than Bennington
HE CHOSE MAGIC PIE OVER STAY YOUNG???????? i cant accept this this is so upsetting
Dont go away is one of oasis’s best songs imo , hits the hardest
Beautiful awesome lovely song with touching lyrics
It’s really written by the real people, and Noel stole it
@@richardmooreswhats the story behind it?
Jesus wept… stay Young bumped for magic pie
Noel's continued slagging off of his drummers bugs me. Especially since in the same breath he will talk about how he and Owen Morris pissed away massive amounts of studio time and money on bullshit that never made it to the records, and his response to that is: "Well, that's just how it was..."
But God forbid Whitey or Tony blow a few takes. That was unforgivable to Noel, who claimed he recorded a full orchestra through a single Fender amp or some nonsense like that.
Owen Morris said that Tony’s drumming was basic but he had perfect timing. The band weren’t as good after he was sacked. That’s my opinion anyway. I know a lot of people will disagree with me and that’s cool. It’s no coincidence that he was the drummer on the best album they ever made though!!
@@mrkipling2201 Alan White was the drummer on the best album they ever made - WTSMG
Sorry but I have to disagree with you on that.
James what a great inside to be here now. One of my fave oasis albums. The first 4 oasis albums are their best! Thank you for this video!
Cheers Curtis!
I still love BHN. Top quality album
SOTSOG 🤮
@@Drummer8282 Who Feels Love was decent ?!
@@PayneKiller I don’t mind 3-4 songs but as an album, it’s the shits. Should have just kept those 4 good tracks for the following album.
Dbtt and doys >>>>> sotsog and bhn.
I love this album. Only "Magic Pie" is one i would have liked to have seen replaced by reworked versions of "See the Sun" or "Control my life"
No ! Replaced with "Stay Young"
@@Bob-hq5lj good call. Still, I wish the two I mentioned had at least been reworked into any Oasis album. Better than some of their later stuff.
You mean Colour My Life? lmao
and no, that's a terrible idea
@@Bob-hq5lj Going Nowere. The album should have had at least one slower acoustic noel song.
Great video James, best of luck with the EP! Be here now is my fave album for Liam's voice, some of the songs ain't great and have no deep meaning for me, but I put it on now and again just like I sometimes put a Sam Cooke or Aretha record on, just to listen to the voice. ..... X
Big thanks for that James. Really great interview with Nick, looking forward to his book coming out next year. Keep the great content coming!!👍🏻
I love your mention of the Fade In-out live version compared to the album one.. it absolutely SLAPS at the Gmex. The album version is still good but it's just not the same.
I just don't believe the "Magic Pie" title reasoning. Paul McCartney released an album called "Flaming Pie" 3 months before Be Here Now, and we all know Noel mirrors everything McCartney/Lennon.
I Went 2 The Newcastle Metro Arena In About 1997 And Noel Said It Was Alright...
...Nothing 2 Wright Home About You Fu@king Space-Cadets...
This was amazing especially to hear the back story's from be here now I know many fans are not keen on the album but I think it's great album. Thanks again James keep up the great work 👍🏻
What bugged me about 'Magic Pie' was that in the instrumental break theirs a click that I can never unhear, like an error when it went for pressing/burning. They didn't even bother to remove it when it came to the remaster.
Dude I remember I had pirated it when I first listened to it and always assumed it was just from the fucked quality of the download but going back and listening later and hearing that I was like how tf did they let this happen LMFAO
Noel is right though, the album was a bit of a flop. Some of the songs just don't make sense, it feels out of place at times. Acquiesce, the masterplan, half the world away, had they added songs like that and taken out magic pie, be here now, and fade in/out, the album could have been very different. The drumming is bland, the mix is lacking, but the rest of the songs tell wonderful stories of hope and love, struggles with fame. It's alright. It's still a classic record, underrated in my view but it wasn't the blow out Oasis could have managed to end the 90's with.
Fascinating interview - many thanks!
My most listened to Oasis album after all these years.
Mine too. I much prefer it to WTSMG unlike a lot of people.
This is utterly fantastic! It's great to finally get some insight into BHN and how they made it. That Jim Carrey/George Martin story takes some beating. Talk about surreal!
The album is okay. Noel's 2016 remix of D'Ya Know What I Mean is really good. Had they applied that production style to the rest of the record it would have improved many things. Some songs are unforgivable tough - Magic Pie (!!!) Then on the other hand: the insane production makes the record iconic and hilariously funny at times. If you want a good comparison between two records that aimed for a colossal sound, listen to Siamese Dream by the Smashing Pumpkins and follow that up by Be Here Now. Butch Vig and Billy Corgan got it right. Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher got the coke - with foreseeable results :)
Stay Young would've been a #1 single!
That's my favourite from this era of Oasis. Straight up classic.
What a dude! Loving the channel. Great work.
Thanks for all this information, I love the three albums and I always listen to concerts, great that you have automatic translation on your channel, greetings from Perú.
This was exceptional James! Thank you!
Every time I hear a Be Here Now song done live, it suddenly becomes SO DAMNED MUCH better; My Big Mouth @ Knebworth is a beast! But the album version.... Meh. Abd I did prefer 'Stand By Me' by the pool version as well!
Be here now was the start of the beginning of the end for me with oasis. After that album I kind of lost interest in them. Maybe because I was just coming into my 20s who knows. I thought they still had good tracks but, I moved on.
Wow! What a video. An instant classic to memorialize a legendary album!
Defo wish they had swapped stay young for magic pie
Another top video James and great to see you're able to be getting this type of interview with people like Nick and Brian Cannon. Keep up the good work.
A woodwind instrument on "Be Here Now"? Where?
Maybe the whistle part? Could be.
That shirt makes it look like u got no arms Lmfao
Stay Young is the best song from those sessions. Would have been an iconic track 2 and could have been on the LP in place of several other songs haha, Fade In/Out? Meh. Girl in the Dirty Shirt? That song screams b-side.
Whereas on DM and MG Noel had something to say, by BHN creatively he was running out of ideas and relying on bloated, coke fuelled guitar songs and old fillers that weren’t good enough for earlier albums.
Magic Pie great, especially the ending with the massively layered Noel harmonies
I have grown my appreciation for Be Here Now over the years. Its such a shame that for the 2016 reissue and the 25th anniversary last year that they could not include the live versions of Fade In/Out and Be Here Now
Fantastic Interview what a nice bloke Nick is can tell just by this interview he would be great to work with..... Would like to ask him what he thinks of the mix on the latest knebworth release !
Love this video!! X
Mate I'm English, I dont acknowledge the British tag....
I brought this album the day Diana died.
Professional friend 🤣...I could do that..Gizzer job 😂
I hope I think I know is a belter it's always been my favourite track on this album liams vocals are amazing I like the pace of the song as well
When I was a kid, I had a brilliant Oasis fanzine, Lasagne, in which Noel commented on the meanings of at least some of the Be Here Now tracks.
It's the morse code equivelent of 95% of Noel's lyrics.
This record to me is when the oasis train derailed and they never recovered
Magic Pie was about the meeting with the Stone Roses at the dead of night in the studio and Ian Brown was all mystical. Read the lyrics James you should have seen this. 👍🏻
Ian Brown is always mystical. Connected in an unusual way.
For me this was the last album to have a unique sound definitely maybe very heavy rock then morning glory had a perfect mix of rock with more ballad kind of songs and then be here now was never going to live up to it but was still a great album but from then I think every album following it seems like they weren’t as creative u can pretty much interchange all of them except a few songs and there isn’t a proper identity to any of them after be here now I’m a major fan but the original 3 albums and The masterplan were the Oasis I still listen to regularly and know all the chords and words but I think they kinda lost something along the way around 2000 almost like they went into autopilot and a bit lazy from then
90s Oasis is how I will always remember them as I lived it through my youth
aw man sotsog is so interesting tho.. some of their weirdest and most off the wall shit and some of my fav songs are on there. some of their worst are on there too for sure lol but whatever. i wish liam at least had leaned more into some harder weirdo shit the tracks he did with death in vegas and the prodigy are dope he has such a cool voice that i honestly feel was wasted on soulful ballads and all that lol
Why did u say member of Mick Jagger's famíliy If you'd already said It was his kid?
probably shot the interview and the commentary in a different order, interview first, learned whose it was, then shot the commentary and gave the new info, was just edited in reverse. or he just mispoke i mean its an interview ur put on the spot even as the interviewer and its such a small detail it rly doesnt matter in the grand scheme lol
Amazing stuff James.
Fantastic video . Keep up the hard work 🙏👏👏
Hi James! I am desperate to find the parody that starts at 2:09. Could you tell what that show was?
Bo selecta
excellent stuff, nice one James! Nick's Jim Carrey story is bloody fab.
you seemed to know more than he did and he was there lol!
Amazing content 👏🏻
I'm sure I read somewhere that 'I hope I think I know ' was originally called The Red, White and Blue but Noel changed the words because it sounded too nationalistic and right wing.
Superb James - thank you
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