Your music's shite it keeps me Polling all night: OASIS (ILM artist poll 78) --- Voting open until Sunday August 21, 2016

I remember liking She's Electric okay - the Beatlesy moves there, like the vocals on the outro, worked very well for me as a teen - though it certainly has a B-side-ish quality. Probably needed to stay on the album to establish that they were still "fun" and pub-ready or something. I remember a review claiming it was basically Digsy's Dinner pt. 2 which isn't quite right, but not totally off either. I think if the "And I need more time" part were a little more interesting the whole song would work better - as it is every verse sorta ends with "and I'll write more lyrics to this later."

Listening to "Some Might Say" right now and I think it might end up higher on my ballot than I'd figured - it's almost totally empty as a lyric, total McCartney nonsense-writing, but it sounds great, super hooky and the guitars just pound away at it. Great swirling racket around this basically upbeat jaunty kinda rock number. Whoever decided to run that echo effect over all the vocals was OTM, it makes even stuff like "Ah my dog's been itchin' / itchin' in the kitchen once again" sound so good.

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As for 'Hey Now!', I always thought that one was a touch underrated even at the time, but I can understand why - it's kinda dwarfed by many of the other tracks on the record, and I don't think Oasis actually played it live at all. I do like the way the strings build up at the end, though. I think 'The Swamp Song' "snippets" on the record work better than the actual track itself, particularly as an interlude between 'Morning Glory' and 'Champagne Supernova' (the whole "radio tuning in"/"waves" part) ... 'She's Electric' and 'Hello' are probably my two least favourite tracks on the LP at this stage, the former is kinda the 'Digsy's Dinner' of the album, whereas 'Hello' is definitely down there at the bottom of the Oasis 1994-1998 pile for me. I don't think the band themselves considered it to be one of their better songs either - it had disappeared from the setlist even by the Be Here Now tour, and unsurprisingly (for obvious reasons) never made it into their set on subsequent tours.

yeah "Hello" is kinda a rubbish opener

I wonder if Noel ever commented on that, by the way... the 'Hello' lift was legally cleared and the songwriting credits were shared right from the moment the LP came out, and the album sold a fucking truckload. Must have been fucking embarrassing given what happened afterwards.

I agree, the Swamp Song transition to Champagne Supernova is great - but bumping it up to a "track" status kinda feels like faking a full LP's worth of material when you don't have it. It's forty seconds long and there are several rather long tracks on the album, so just making it part of Morning Glory wouldn't have been uncalled for.

I like "Hello" though! Even if some of that comes from Gary Glitter, I think it's an all right opener. It's got the right attitude and I think it's catchy enough. As far as setlists go... were they using it as an opener? If so, I could imagine it just getting replaced with other things in that role, but I really don't know much about live Oasis.

Y'know, I don't think they ever did open with it! I think they'd normally open with 'The Swamp Song' and then go into 'Acquiesce', although if I remember, it was 'The Swamp Song' into 'Columbia' at Knebworth.

I love 'Hey Now', it's the best example of the wall-of-guitars approach actually working.

Listening to Be Here Now again now and thinking there's only really one song on there that I really, really dislike: 'The Girl In The Dirty Shirt'

TBF Thriller does have 'The Girl Is Mine'.
thinking this DBtT track will crack my list:
vhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiVJD10Bv7k

I remember when I saw FLCL for the first time my initial thought was "Man, I love this music. It sounds like Japanese Oasis!". This was before I knew of the phrase "Power Pop".

spending time with morning glory today. i really enjoy "hello"! "roll with it" is garrrrrbaaaage

'Roll With It' is easily the weakest single from the album, and their weakest single up to that point. I still like it, though. 'Sunday Morning Call' ... now, that's garbage.

turrican otm about noel's harmonies elevating "cast no shadow"

I have loved me some O back in the day (it's Better People prob my favorite track) but I was sure everything that needed to be said about them has been said 15 years ago

lol u guys only one song from Morning Glory was ahead of She's Electric and Cast No Shadow on my ballot

she's electric sucks

"The Girl Is Mine" is great! Certainly beats "Roll With It" as a first single.

Anyone considering voting for 'Angel Child'?

I liked 'Roll With It' at the time (bought the cassingle too!). It's easily one of the weakest songs on WTSMG but I still prefer it to Country House (xposts).

fuck almost all of the morning glory and be here now b-sides are incredible

"going nowhere"!

Oh yeah, don't forget about 'Sad Song', which was a vinyl-only track on Definitely Maybe, which they never issued as a B-side...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5efXnQIBmc

it's on the deluxe edition of def maybes

Sadly, I can't really recommend the Blur pisstake 'Bonehead's Bank Holiday', which was the vinyl-only track on Morning Glory... heh!

i listened to that one for the first time today and it's unbelievably stupid which makes it kinda...enjoyable

I think it's meant to be unbelievably stupid... Noel wrote it as kinda like a "Ringo" track for Bonehead to sing, but Bonehead decided to go out and have a couple of drinks with Liam first to steady his nerves. When they both got back, they were both too hammered to sing, so Noel ended up singing it but you can hear Bonehead and Liam in the background talking drunken gibberish.

.. dont'cha knowwwww

i still like Bonehead's Bank Holiday.

the first few lines of verse 2 of Hey Now are the worst, least thought-out lyrics i've ever heard in my life, literally sounds like they were being made up on the spot as he was singing them, those aside it's in my Top 5 funnily enough.

i always liked the cough between Roll With It and Wonderwall which is part of neither of those songs in their single form, so it's an album-only bonus!

i, so far, have a handful of ballots, only one worst song ballot. maybe not a good idea, will see.

those are called (untitled), lol.

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this is turning out to be a fun experience, hope to go all out for this poll.

i might be way sick of them by the end, haha.

starting to see what mookieproof is talking about, i'm oblivious at at times.

probably will never change, it's too late for me. ;-)

a bit too much Gin tonight, i see

i never vote in these things but listening to sad song for the first time since i was 16 has made me kinda excited to see the results of this poll.

The lyrics to She's Electric are so terrible that sometimes I forget the song itself is not bad

Giving Morning Glory a listen now and... yeah, it's really not surprising at all why this album was what it was.

imo it'd be an actual classic if "acquiesce," "underneath the sky," or "step out" were on it but the singles are all very good and it feels like an important album, i.e. less flimsy than it occasionally is

anyway i'm hanging out with be here now rn and wow, such digital distortion

There's no doubt that it would have been even better if some of the B-sides had been on it, but it didn't do too badly as it stands!

For an album that sold over 20m copies worldwide and still gets cited as one of the best albums of the '90s, I'd say it already was an "actual" classic.

i mean understand, i'm not an oasis fan, and i kinda think an album with "she's electric" and "roll with it" on it kinda marginally sucks. i get that it's a classic in the sense that it's anointed forever

i'm only halfway through and i feel like i've been listening to be here now for days

"my big mouth" is prob gonna make my ballot though, it's ridiculous

stunned that the two b-sides i've heard from be here now ("stay young" and "going nowhere," which are both on the masterplan) are imo maybe the two best oasis songs...ever? and yet this is the album from which they were cut. :|

'Stay Young' was bumped off the LP for 'Magic Pie', 'Going Nowhere' was recorded after the LP came out and was written before Definitely Maybe.

There's probably four or five songs from Be Here Now that are going on my ballot - I won't say which ones!

Important reference material perhaps: Worst/most cringeworthy lyric on Oasis' 'Be Here Now'