The Interior Life of Noel Gallagher: A Speculative History

imagine if your job was to be on the other end of that phone

i will install a bar in noel gallagher's house....in this life or the next

Wow he has extremely poor taste in beer.

not the first time noel gallagher's been connected to a vastly popular product which is also total shite

"We live in crazy times where the music on the radio is so bland and safe, and you turn on the news and it's so horrific, like videos of people getting burned in cages and fucking shit like that. It used to be the other way round: the news was Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, whatever, and the radio was 'Bittersweet Symphony', 'Get Your Rocks Off', 'Supersonic'."

http://thequietus.com/articles/17242-noel-gallagher-high-flying-birds-interview

i think he's being hard on himself there, listening to Supersonic isn't that much like being burned alive in a cage.

oisis

Tennents .Pasteurised, bland shite.

I detect bedfellows

Rocks and Supersonic roughly contemporaneous w Rwandan genocide iirc

+ Yugoslavia. I'd assume he just didn't see any news in the 90s but wasn't he on that War Child album?

kind of need a thread for ageing musicians who just happen to think music was a lot better back when they were relevant.

corollary tho for music writers that are only interested in the next 16 yr old. seems a pairing of groups that must ever circle each other warily and tbh ilm would be a lot better of ignoring them both and carrying on with whatever ilm was going to do before it got distracted. another poll I suppose.

top marks for oisis obv nick

corollary tho for music writers that are only interested in the next 16 yr old.

is there really a pandemic of these creatures?

we might even have one or two on this very board!

can't imagine why journalists would be interested in current trends

not journalists. music writers.

Stop ruining this beautiful thread.

lol darragh otm

Do you have a favorite Seinfeld episode?

I was watching "The Summer of George" last night. That's pretty fucking good. The one where George starts doing the opposite — that's a good one.

his appearance on motd2 was next-level grim. saying 'the brodge' over and over again followed with a little beady-eyed smirk, everyone in the studio force-roaring with laughter like he'd just burped gold. like he's the CEO's spoilt child, humour him or else. awful small-minded unfunny man, gives off the vibe that he truly believes he could forge a new career as a stand-up comedian if only he could be bothered. baffling how he's got this reputation as a scathing wit - hasn't said anything truly witty in years and even then that 'man soup fork' line is only 5/10 on the smarts scale

Shit interview on RTE last weekend although the guy interviewing him wasn't much better

http://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/luke-haines-the-auteurs-black-box-recorder-talks-noel-gallagher-and-the-scourge-of-dad-rock/

From one curmugeonly retrogressive has-been to another.

Luke isn't one for self reflection.

https://twitter.com/damianjones1/status/658957091319738372

poignant

lonely guy thinking baout Bono

Esquire UK cover story

Radiohead? When do people listen to them? Is it when they go out, or is it when they come in? Because I’m struggling to think.

I tell you what I think about Liam and this is just an opinion. He would fucking aggressively disagree. He was rightly put up there as this fucking huge rock star but he didn’t write a note, not a word. From my perspective I don’t know how comfortable I’d feel about the mania surrounding us, and you knowing in your fucking soul that you were responsible for really wearing the clothes.

Morning Glory was slated when it came out. And then when it became the biggest thing ever – and I’ve been told this by two editors – they thought, “We’re not going to be caught out next time.” And they lauded Be Here Now, which was clearly a shit fucking album, full of fat fucking rock stars, and then they got caught out again. And they never forgave us. They were just like, “Wankers. We can’t fucking get on it.”

I’ll tell you what’s wrong. Fame’s wasted on these cunts today. Bar Kanye. You watch him on the MTV Awards and you think, “You can fucking stay, you’re alright.”

i genuinely love the excess of BHN.
its just so one dimensional in its love for widescreen imax sonic overload.
the fact that its main creator is now in denial about its coked up brilliance makes me think it could be the best oasis album ever.

i'll rep for My Big Mouth. nowt else. i wonder if somebody could do a decent remix of the whole thing and take all the screeee off it.

id gone off oasis by the time bhn came out and entirely for superficial, non-musical reasons (i was a teenager, oasis were ubiquitous, and weren't cool). despite this i listened to the album because if it was as good as the previous two i would've said f being cool and listened to it. it's awful. d'you know what i mean as lead single, urgh

mark e otm

kevin shields remix, add more screeee

due to my own personal emo connection i have not heard BHN in a very long time.
so, i have just listened to it on my upgraded hi-fi.
its even better/madder than i remembered.
the excess is insane, and the floorstanders reveal so much more.
there is not a second of sonic space in the mix.
i think i love it even more now.
could this be the last massive budget album ever ?

it is their singular achievement and their legacy. I enjoy it from time to time

Morning Glory was slated when it came out.

this isn't true iirc. nor is it true that be here now was praised.

nor is it true that be here now was praised.

i seem to recall that the album was given massively positive reviews.
the love was immense.
mojo/Q were all over BHN.
now i wish i had kept my magazine archive.

Be Here Now - 9/10 Vox, Aug 1997. Dele Fadele wrote it.

That's exactly right. In the UK music press, Morning Glory was reckoned to be a disappointing follow-up to Definitely Maybe. Everyone felt it was a load of toss-offs and that Champagne Supernova and the title track were the only decent bits. I remember Hello was thought to be a particularly rotten opener, with its Gary Glitter lift. Q, which was arguably the journal of record, gave it a two-/maybe three-star review and then ended up honouring it st their awards after it had gone up like a rocket. Noel came and accepted the Best Album award "on behalf of a crap album with crap lyrics" or words v much to that effect.
No-one wanted to be similarly wrong-footed by By Here Now, and everyone knew it would be instantly massive, so it was near enough five-star reviews across the board, almost to a suspicious extent, as if editors were all making their pitch for ongoing interview access. The critical consensus quickly fell away when everyone heard it, but the first word from the music press was wall-to-wall raves. No-one wanted to prick the bubble. And also, it sounded big, so it could briefly be confused for good, whether it was or not. I don't usually post, but I read the music press avidly in those days, and that is what happened.

NME gave whats the story 6/10
NME gave Be Here Now 9/10

What's The Story is a 6/10 record all the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL6aDrzs3Fs

now I have the phrase "shite bucket challenge" in my head

thank you wump.

def true that MG was dissed (a proper kicking from Stubbs in MM, NME were sniffy, 3/5 by Dave Cavannagh who said he struggled to get work the year after the review because of it! etc etc) and yeah BHN was worshipped. 5/5 in Q, MOJO etc. there's a brilliant bit about the BHN review hype it in 'The Last Party' that quotes someone (i forget who) in one of the top papers (Independent maybe) that compared it to 'Revolver'.

First real negative piece post-BHN I remember was a Reaper diss of Morning Glory in Uncut (which just started I think, not sure if the Reaper was Stubbs but it makes sense)

ha would love to read that.

have to say "Thom Yorke should give us a shout when he's written a song as good as Mony Mony" made me laugh.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/06/noel-gallagher-everybodys-out-to-please-the-guardian

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