"Wonderwall": I Don't Get It

I'd be fine with using that as a comparison, or even with calling him a limited guitarist, but, running over this quickly this morning, I will say that using a pedal point on E - the natural minor seventh scale degree of F#m - makes the progression a lot more interesting than it would be otherwise.

I couldn't agree more!

(Obv, he wasn't so limited that he couldn't play a standard chord progression without this sort of pedal point, as he did on "Don't Look Back in Anger".)

Well, I never once said that he couldn't play a standard chord progression - I merely pointed out that he uses these type of chords a lot, which he does! Gallagher, by his own admission, is a limited guitarist and I agree with him. In the big scheme of things he undoubtedly is, and his musical vocabulary is painfully small, although he throws in the occasional surprise from time to time (such as the second chord in the chorus to 'Let There Be Love')

Tom's just frustrated with himself at this stage and lashing out, bless him.

Using pedal tone is fine as long as you're not a fake funk band.

xxpost:

Or the diminished chord in 'Don't Look Back In Anger'

Too Lazy to Funk. Good song title!

(xp) Awwww, he knows the name of a chord, ain't it cute?

"Too Lazy to F**k" by Prince

One of the best things about Turrican is the inevitable point where 90% of what he has said has been stricken down and made fun of and it inevitably turns out the last 10% is just something he has read somewhere that he repeats without really understanding it.

x-post lol

Not half as cute as being asked if I'm still alive by someone acting like they're having a coronary, but don't hesitate to grow up, Tom. It's okay to be wrong.

Good to also see Frederik's usual textbook late entry into the thread where he fires off nonsense and does his Scrappy Doo routine.

I love that you use 'textbook' as an insult. As if you deserve anything better but the basics.

The definition of insanity is to write the same thing over and over and expect a different response.

Who's the Liam of the thread, d'yathink?

I know who the Bonehead is.

So do I: Most Retarded-Looking Family Stone Member on the Cover of "A Whole New Thing"

But how limited a guitarist was Bonehead anyway? Let's ask an expert...

As for Frederik - well, I rest my case. Still more coherent than his political posts, too.

That's it, give it your best shot, dumbo, it's the almost entertaining.

I know what'll happen when the petrol-drenched man finally flicks his Bic but I can't peel my eyes away from the spectacle.

I dunno, I suppose "dumbo" is a slight step up from calling someone a [redacted].

Not a step up in your case however.

Almost damning with faint praise in fact.

Wouldn't know. You seem to have form, though!

Par for the course, there's not a lot you do know.

He is implying you have big ears, Turrican.

A trunk and big doleful eyes.

sund4r as usual the only person who actually knows what the fuck he's talking about makes an interesting, reasonable post but no one bothers to digest it

Pretty much.

How dare you suggest I don't know what I'm talking about (digs up something you wrote in your high school newspaper as bizarre attempt at ad hominem retort)!

I just checked on Spotify and it's impressive that "Wonderwall" has 3 times more plays than their second most played, "DLBIA" (440M/145M), considering it was only #2 and "DLBIA" was #1 (UK charts).
I suppose that belongs in the thread about songs that were not the biggest hit but the most popular now !

I can attest that 'Wonderwall' was much bigger in the states, at least.

thought Oasis had a track called "DLBIA (440M/145M)" for a minute there and got all excited

eheh. it was a collab with Aphex Twin !

considering it was only #2 and "DLBIA" was #1 (UK charts)

bear in mind tho that Oasis had a bunch of #1 hits in the 00s and nobody can recall what they were or how they went including the band

yeah, I just found out on their wiki !
"Indu Times" ?? "Lyla" ?? "The Importance of being Idle" ??
(especially when you consider that none of their singles from the first album got to #1...).

"The Hindu Times" wins the award for most unlikely song title of Oasis.

However, what could they do, call it "God gimme soul in your rock'n'roll (babe)"

xpost, funnily enough.

"The Importance of being Idle" was the one that proved that they could have actually been really good after all. And the video could have been "from the movie" that would have been as good as "hard days night" meets "catch us if you can"

But there you go.. Oasis, a synonym for "could have been"

Have they ever used the word "baby" in one of their songs ?

eheh. it was a collab with Aphex Twin !

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lol

xpost yes.

5. Slide Away by Oasis
need you now - you've knocked me off my feet I dream of you - and we talk of growing old But you said please don't! Slide in baby - together we'll fly I've tried praying - but I don't know what you're saying to me Now that you're mine We'll find a wa...
6. Let There Be Love by Oasis
e the words that we sing in our dreams Let there be love - Let there be love - Let there be love - Let there be love Come on baby blue Shake up your tired eyes The world is waiting for you May all your dreaming fill the empty sky But if it makes you ...
7. The Turning by Oasis
come on, shake your rag doll, baby Before you change your mind Then come on, when the rapture takes me Will you be by my side? Then come on, when the rapture takes me Be the fallen angel by my side So come on, shake your rag doll, baby Before you cha...
8. I Hope, I Think, I Know by Oasis
t there You know I dont care, You know I dont care As we beg and steal and borrow Life is hit and miss and this I Hope, I Think, I Know And if I hear the names you call If I stumble catch me when I fall Cos baby after all, You'll never forget my name...
9. I Can See A Liar by Oasis
Baby the time is right to tell it all like it is And now that I feel god like there's nothing that can't be kissed The name of a lonely soul is scratched into my brain He thought he was king creole Until he found out, until he found out He sits upon a...

oh ok, thanks !
I though Noel didn't like that word (hence the "maybeeeee" in "Live Forever")

Also their cover of Mungo Jerry's 'Baby Jump' from the abandoned 'Pleidol Wyf I'm GwlMAD' sessions.

"An Ornament and a Decoration"

slowly walking down
faster than a cannonball
you're my wonderwall

*the hall

I seem to recall 'The Importance of Being Idle' and Don't Believe the Truth marking some sort of resurgence for the band. They'd always had a large hardcore fanbase, but circa 2005 it felt like even lapsed fans were beginning to climb back on board.

I'm glad this thread has got back on topic after Tom D's foray into talking shite and spouting off comic book insults, though.

Importance of Being Idle was kind of a rip off of something I can't quite place my finger on... wasn't it like a Travis soundalike or something?

Ricky Martin iirc

My favorite Gallagher lyric isn't even from an Oasis song.

How does it feel like?

From the Aphex Twin collab.