Worst most moronic Oasis album title

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? and Be Here Now preexist Oasis, yeah? "What's the story, Morning Glory?" is a line in a song from Bye Bye Birdie (Broadway, 1960) that was in the vernacular of that era, maybe earlier.

Be Here Now has fresh relevance whenever I want to bark it at motherfuckers who won't put down their motherfucking mobile toys for 5 minutes in a social environment.

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Be Here Now (or Remember, Be Here Now) is a seminal 1971 book on spirituality, yoga and meditation by the Western born yogi and spiritual teacher Ram Dass. The title comes from a statement his guide, Bhagavan Das, made during Ram Dass's journeys in India.

so, standard ILX laziness

Sorry I was lazy in not documenting their laziness in stealing a lazily generic spiritual book title.

Surely they lazily stole it from George Harrison though!

did the gallaghers ever get into Indian spiritualism or do they just think it's a nice idea because the Beatles did it?

Do you even need to ask that?

Be Here, Now! (Don't make me be over there!)

their fourth album was written following noel's adoption of rastafarianism, which he first encountered while listening to a bob marley cd that he had brought back as a souvenir from a two week holiday in the carribean. not only do many of the songs show a heavy roots reggae influence, but its working title, '(we are) standing on the shoulder of jah... ants' referred to gallagher's feelings of humility after his life had been touched by the spiritual magnificence of the emperor haile selassie

Don't Believe the Truth is untoppably stupid

It's so dumb it makes me laugh every time I read it, which I guess ought to count for something.

this thread has me re-reading the interior life of noel gallagher

they are like one rung away from having an album called "get a move on", or "for fuck's sake"

I remember that thread, it was good that.

Huge lol at the Tony McCarroll title. He always reminds me of the Marc and Lard gag that he was hard at work on this drum'n'drum record.

He should have started a group like that Mike Flowers band, he could have called it The Tony McCarroll Singers.

The parentheses in "...Morning Glory?"'s title are the most irritating part

He always reminds me of the Marc and Lard gag that he was hard at work on this drum'n'drum record

Tony McCarroll's Classical Gas

I'd like to think Noel thought of Don't Believe the Truth after reading Sloterdijk's major philosophical work: Critique of Cynical Reason. Or alternately after reading Lacan's seminars on Les Non-Dupes Errent. Though probably not.

Since the departure of singer Phil 'Legs' McCracken, the band was rapidly moving away from their original acid jazz vibe and was instead travelling at lightspeed towards a brave new 'indie' sound. The tracks for their intended debut were hastily scrapped and then rerecorded with new boy Liam on vocals. However, Noel's readings in quantum mechanics still lay at the heart of their vision - lo and behold, Schroedinger Scat became Definitely Maybe.

now have the urge to search for titles of Oasis live bootlegs... LISTEN TO THIS BONEHEAD

hahahahah

the hindu times as the first single from heathen chemistry always used to annoy me.

here's a prime candidate for a bootleg-title winner:

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serious lols

that for real? Bootleg production values b high...

appears to be real - tragically, the download link here no longer works: http://bootlegtunzworld.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/oasis-wembley-stadium-2000_2870.html

it was a dvd/vhs bootleg too, apparently, so fans could revel in the visual splendour of an oasis show.

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I don't believe it!

'Don't Believe the Truth' makes sense if they mean by 'The Truth' the now defunct Australian tabloid. But you'd need to stand on the single shoulder of several giants to see how long ago that newspaper folded.

Similarly, "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants" makes sense if they're talking about being stranded on the side of a road named Giants. But Oasis presumably had a fleet of tour buses, support staff, and "mobile" phones, so I can't imagine they'd be stuck there for long enough to start talking about great ideas for their next album title.

There are many things that they would like to say to us, but they don't know how.

Man, Second Night in a Shithole is a great album title.

"heathen chemistry" title very underrated itt

"Liam's Voice is Shot to Shit Again" might be an even more honest title.

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justice is served!

the 'shoulder' flub is apparently deliberate -- at least the story is that he wrote it that way drunk without realizing it and then decided he liked it

"It's not a mistake I meant to do it like that!"

File that alongside "I shut down Creation Records because I wanted to" by Alan McGee

Don't know if it's come up on the thread before but that Isaac Newton quote was supposed to be him taking the p- out of a height challenged rival. But has gone down in history as a great quote from one of our esteemed and far seeing predecessors.

Be Here Now was a beat quote, & worked ok as a Loop track title. One ofr my favs in fact.

What's the story (Morning Glory) is supposed to be how scallies communicate greeting with each other. It is their version of 'hello, good sir, how do you do'

I've heard of that about the Newton quote but wikipedia is sceptical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants

explication of these shitty album titles doesn't make them any less shitty

glad at least one person recognised the supreme shittiness of each of the options available.

Don't Believe the Truth as a call to avoid credulity seems rather too profound for a Noel Gallagher. But maybe he was thinking about what the general public was gathering from tabloid news about him, which would inevitably be 'the truth' innit?

If you think the titles are shitty wait until you hear the albums.

what's profound about Don't Believe the Truth??? not Don't Believe the "Truth", not Don't Believe That Which Unreliable Witnesses May Claim to be the Truth, not Don't Believe Carl "The Truth" Williams, but Don't Believe the Truth - Believe Things That Are Not True - Credulity is Dead Cool and Beatlesy for fuck's motherfucking fuckity fuck fuck's sake

John Lennon never believed the truth, maaaaaaan