"Wonderwall": I Don't Get It

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 !

― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, April 4, 2018 9:06 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

It sounds like Noel was trying to write a song in the vein of 'Harry Rag' by The Kinks, but it does sound like a direct rip of something that I can't place. The intro in particular.

(xxpost)

xpost More accurately, it's from the second Aphex Twin collaboration, 'New Hat Pix'.

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.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), 4. april 2018 17:40 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You want the thread to be about Oasis, then fuck off and take your pathetic insults with you.

without insults how can the thread be about Oasis

The amusing thing is that Frederik was the one spouting the pathetic insult!

By which I mean - I agree with you, I want this thread to get back on topic so fuck off :)

are you Noel or Liam

I'm Turrican, Frederik is Scrappy Doo. Given Tom's fondness for flying off the handle, I assume he's Elton John.

*sign of the cross gesture*

You know that line from Justified, Turrican? If every discussion you're in starts smelling, it might be because you're a piece of shit.

Jim, instead of throwing your toys out the pram, perhaps you'd like to actually read the conversation that happened beforehand prior to me joining the discussion where the supposed sophistication of the chords were being discussed.

At the risk of repeating myself: yes, the chords are not straight open chords, yes, they've been chosen because the songwriter liked the sound of them but also because Gallagher is a limited guitarist. I mean - none of this is difficult to comprehend. Seemingly unless you're one of the immediate posters above that aren't me.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, April 3, 2018 11:11 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is no more difficult to play the non-minor 7th (or whatever they're called) versions of these chords than it is to play them as noel does. if anything it's easier to play the non-minor 7th versions as they involve holding down less frets.

I'm Turrican.

https://radiotoday.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/alanpartridge-radio-norwich.jpeg

Somehow reminded of this discussion

I didn't fall out with him on that thread! In fact, I never used to but the drip drip drip got to me.

You know that line from Justified, Turrican? If every discussion you're in starts smelling, it might be because you're a piece of shit.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, April 4, 2018 11:36 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha wow, to be confronted with this twice in one conversation is...impressive

"Wonderwall": I Don't Get It

Lol, I didn't click that link. It's just so apt.

You know that line from Justified, Turrican? If every discussion you're in starts smelling, it might be because you're a piece of shit.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:36 (twenty-six minutes ago) Permalink

This doesn't apply to me.

pfffffffft