POLL With It - OASIS (ILM artist poll #78) --- The results thread

I'm also a little mystified by the appearance of 'Lyla', but 'I Hope, I Think, I Know' was going to be high up on my ballot so I'm naturally delighted to see it make an appearance. I honestly didn't think it would.

never seen that promo sleeve before, the one that's on Ebay at the minute is £67!

Wow

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37. The Importance of Being Idle
From: Don't Believe the Truth and Single
Single Released: 22 August 2005
Charted: UK = 1
148 Points, 6 Votes

Yeah, this was one of the post-1998 Oasis tracks that I was expecting to turn up at some point, but even though I would never have voted for it I'm still surprised to see it so low, because it's probably one of their most popular late period tracks. It's pretty much the direction Noel seems to have followed for his High Flying Birds, too.

I think I've said something like this before, but if I were making the Oasis biopic, it would begin with a scene of Noel and Liam as kids, Liam feeling sad for being beaten up just because he acted like an asshole, Noel cheering him up by playing a new song he just wrote 'All around the world / gotta spread the word / you know it's gonna be okay.' 'You know Liam, one day we are going to be Rock and Roll stars, and we're going to turn this song into the biggest song ever. At several of the early shows they play stripped down versions of the song, at the recording of both Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory they're asked if they want to include the anthem. 'Not yet' says Noel. 'Not until we have the budget to make it fucking right.' The film culminates with a painstaking reconstruction of the recording process of All Around the World, done in black and white, cinema verité style, but also imitating the famous bell-making scene from Andrei Rublev (it goes without saying that my biopic is a 3 hour monster like Nixon or something). Final scene of film is a one-take of Noel, dejected, angry at Liam, coked out of his mind, feeling the dream has gone to shit, putting on the song, the masterpiece he dreamt about since he was a kid, and over 9 painfull minutes realizing just how bad it is, just how much he fucked it up. For the last couple of minutes he is bawling his eyes out, lying on the floor, snot coming out of his nose. Roll credits, soundtracked by Country House.

― Frederik B, Thursday, August 25, 2016 8:29 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry to interrupt the countdown, but just want to say that this is already one of my all-time favourite ILM comments.

hey everyone, i just got promote. on my day off nonetheless.

it's a very big promotion and they put me in a very important role.

i work for Uniltedhealthgroup, the six biggest company in the US.

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36. Married with Children
Ferom: Definitely Maybe
Released: 29 August 1994
149 Points, 5 Votes

http://i.imgur.com/BuVVSpl.gif

Recap, so far:

36. Married with Children
37. The Importance of Being Idle
38. Songbird
39. I Hope, I Think, I Know
40. Lyla
41. Stop Crying Your Heart Out
42. My Big Mouth
43. Stand By Me
44. I'm Outta Time 
45. Don't Go Away
46. Falling Down
47. Headshrinker
28. (It’s Good) To Be Free
49. D’Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman?
50. Go Let It Out

i loved this part of the poll, so far.

and i think i only voted for two of these.

this had made me realize how deep their catalog actually is.

Loving this poll. Wish I submitted a ballot!

i hoped to start a bit earlier tomorrow. but now celebrating a bit because of a promotion and, oh yeah, it's Saturday.

Someone up thread asked if Oasis ever made a good video. Noel's commentary only gets celebratory when "Idle" came on.

Have to say, if they had made that movie, it might well have been better than 'Help'

it's a very big promotion and they put me in a very important role.
i work for Uniltedhealthgroup, the six biggest company in the US.
― Bee OK,

this is brilliant news bee ..

Congrats, Bee!

I voted for "I Hope I Think I Know" for its energy and momentum (really piling one hooky bit on after another in the best Noel songwriting fashion) but it's also a classic case of a near-great song; as I noted previously it really only has two stanzas worth of verse, and it's four and a half minutes long. I think if Noel could have been bothered to write something, anything to make it feel like this song goes somewhere and is about something, it could have practically been the album's centerpiece and yeah would have made a fine single. Certainly better than "Stand By Me." I really love all the hooks in this and it's probably one of the Oasis songs that gets stuck in my head the most often - just wish there were more to it.

i'm up

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35. Digsy's Dinner
From: Definitely Maybe
Released: 29 August 1994
173 Points, 6 Votes

Liam's delivery of "lasagna" kinda sums up everything I love about him as lead vocalist.

love this song

had a flat tire in the household...

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34. Bring It On Down
From: Definitely Maybe
Released: 29 August 1994
176 Points, 6 Votes

and there is the threesome from Definitely Maybe.

Have never understood anybody who dislikes "Bring It On Down" - feel like it's a really essential part of DM in terms of insisting on a certain wall-of-noise, band-from-the-rough-streets, basement club credibility. Probably the most convincingly raucous and grungey they ever got on record, and then Liam's voice cutting through it with a vocal ambiguously on the edge of identifying with the "you" in the lyric, and mocking them: You're the outcaaaaaast! The title line doesn't do much for me, kinda generic, and maybe it goes on a little too long, but it's great imho.

Didn't vote and not really a fan but still TOO LOW for Bring It On Down

Spotify: ILM Oasis

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33. Listen Up
From Single: Cigarettes & Alcohol
Released: 10 October 1994
181 Points, 6 Votes

and there goes my number 3.

"No, I don't mind being on my own"

"Listen Up" - one of the best Masterplan discoveries for me and one I almost had forgotten about until this poll. Also wonderfully noisy and loud, but with that chorus riff sounding almost like a synth or something. Love Liam reaching for the "leEAVE you all behind." It's as much of a "young man with big feelings" Bildungsroman song as "Live Forever." Something the later Oasis almost by nature couldn't capture.

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34. Hey Now!
From: (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Released: 2 October 1995
207 Points, 6 Votes, 1 Number One

i thought i voted for this but checking my ballot i see that i didn't.

Aw 'Hey Now' was my numerous uno.

'Listen Up' is shorter on The Masterplan than the mix on the original single.
I think they decided to lose about 30 seconds of guitar solo as it went on a bit. Both versions are on Spotify.

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33. Shakermaker
From Single: Shakermaker
Released: 13 June 1994
220 Points, 8 Votes

Noel Gallagher states that the lyrics are taken from the world around him. For example, a Shaker Maker was a popular toy in the 1970s, the character of "Mr Soft" was taken from a Trebor Soft Mints commercial, which featured Cockney Rebel's song "Mr. Soft", "Mr. Clean" is a song by The Jam, one of Gallagher's favourite bands, Mr Benn is a British children's cartoon and the entire last verse - "Mr Sifter sold me songs/When I was just 16/Now he stops at traffic lights/But only when they're green" - was written in a taxi on the way to the recording studio to record the song. Apparently, Liam Gallagher was pestering Noel to finish the song. At this point, the taxi stopped at the traffic lights outside "Sifters" (a record shop on Fog Lane, Didsbury, Manchester), named after people 'sifting' through records and run by Peter Howard since 1977. Noel penned the lyric and it became part of the song. Noel used to frequent the store to buy old records before Oasis started releasing albums.

"I liked to buy the world a Coke"

Ha, I'd always associated that whole bit with the Mr. Men line of children's books.

See also Monty Python's"I like traffic lights"

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32. Round Are Way
From Single: Wonderwall
Released: 30 October 1995
221 Points, 8 Votes

yay, my number 11.

I like / have mild college nostalgia for enough songs by this band to have taken a minute to vote, w Shakermaker my vote for worst. the chorus is painful, probably a good litmus test for how big a fan you could become, just a grind, I guess a truer British grunge than Bush

ha, someone did vote for it in the worst track part of this poll.

damn it, somehow messed up the numbering:

32. Hey Now!
31. Shakermaker
30. Round Are Way

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29. Stay Young
From Single: D'You Know What I Mean?
Single Released: 7 July 1997
222 Points, 7 Votes, 1 Number One

One of the B-sides, "Stay Young", has become a popular Oasis song, so much so that fans voted it onto the B-sides collection The Masterplan - one of only two B-sides from the Be Here Now period which made the album. The song was originally intended to be the "Digsy's Dinner" of Be Here Now (the lighthearted novelty track, such as "Digsy's Dinner" on Definitely Maybe and "She's Electric" on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?), until Noel set it aside in favour of "Magic Pie".

also someone's number one and one less vote then the last few.