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Post by Fuzzy Dunlop on Jun 28, 2018 14:18:05 GMT
Andy really let the side down Dwayne's fault really though as I remember Andy saying that he submitted about 5 demos to him for the album and was surprised that he picked this one out to be on it. |
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Post by forever on Jun 28, 2018 23:34:30 GMT
The Nature of Reality
Speaking of turgid, this DOYS track makes TIOBI sound like Headshrinker. What a shoddy, sloppy mess. Between this and DBTT's Keep the dream alive, Andy really let the side down - he'd go on to contribute much better efforts on the two Beady Eye albums, but this is just terrible. It's about religion (did he get into Dawkins around this time?) which he addresses in a much better way on BE's Shine a light. Liam's vocals are irritating, the melody's super slight, bad all round. 5/10 The worst Liam-sung Oasis song. 2/10 at best. |
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Post by lino on Jun 30, 2018 3:13:16 GMT
The Quiet Ones
Throwaway b-side from DBTT, this is poor indeed. I can't imagine anyone caring for this. 5/10
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Post by lino on Jul 3, 2018 10:49:15 GMT
The Shock of the Lightning
The Oasis by numbers lead single from DOYS, following on from THT and Lyla, it's a song of opposites, with some musical callbacks to the golden years (the backwards Champagne Supernova clip at the end), and the band's only drum solo - it's fine but nothing spectacular. A late era Beatles reference doesn't help matters, nor does it make much sense at all ("Love is a litany - a magical mystery"). The video ties in with the album art, and would go one to be essentially re-purposed by U2's Sexy Boots clip. Liam has that horrible bell-shaped hairdo at this point. I did get an avatar out of it for a while; looking at it in HD now though I don't think that is Liam after all. 6/10 
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Post by Tuckerman on Jul 3, 2018 10:58:14 GMT
Shock of The Lightning is a total 10 for me.
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Post by danscouse on Jul 3, 2018 17:14:49 GMT
hasn't stood the test for me, I'll give it a 6. id say that whole album is the one I'd have least interest in. even hc has some great moments. but doys? nah
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Post by barny on Jul 3, 2018 17:58:41 GMT
8
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Post by lino on Jul 5, 2018 11:32:29 GMT
The Swamp Song
Instrumental b-side known to most via the untitled snippets inserted as tracks on WTSMG, this Weller assisted B-side is a thrill. What glorious noise; the wailing guitar (?), the thumping drums when they arrive - it all sounds like action. I can't help but think of the first few minutes of the There and Then VHS/DVD, with Noel in the green and blue jacket greeting the crowd, egging them on. If I ever win some kind of election, I'm emerging on stage to this. 8/10
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Post by danscouse on Jul 5, 2018 15:26:41 GMT
6, I don't think I've ever had the urge to listen to it.
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Post by forever on Jul 5, 2018 23:14:45 GMT
The live intro to that 95/96 tour is massive, the snippets on WTSMG are nice teasers but the "studio" version doesn't add a huge amount and should have been canned off The Masterplan in favour of Round Are Way. In order: 10/10, 7/10 (for both tracks 6 and 11) and 4/10.
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Post by lino on Jul 6, 2018 12:33:38 GMT
The Turning
Pretty much filler from the final Oasis album, it has a slightly interesting sound for the band, but the lyrics are clearly a first pass. These placeholder lines could have easily been improved with a few hours set aside to focus, Noel.
Obviously there's the Cliff Richards lift which is pretty distasteful, but then they have form, what with the Gary Glitter bit from Hello. The DOYS bonus disc gifted us the Alternate Version #4 which sounds a lot like Lyla and features Noel's weaker vocals. Musically it's as good, really.
All in all, let down by the frankly embarrassing lyrics. 6/10
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Post by lino on Jul 8, 2018 8:07:56 GMT
Those Swollen Hand Blues
Late era b-side, obviously a rush job, likely unfinished. Noel on vocals, piano-led (a bit Sexy Sadie at the start) - some absolute clunkers in terms of lyrics - "I can't find the birds or the bees - hope they're down the back of my sofa", but there's some tender self-reflection too: "I'm the apple of my eye - if only I could keep myself sober I'd remind myself why". Kind of interesting in how un-Oasis it sounds. 5/10
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Post by danscouse on Jul 8, 2018 17:53:41 GMT
haven't listened to it foe years but isn't it keys (down the sofa)
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Post by danscouse on Jul 8, 2018 17:55:12 GMT
no you're right!
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Post by danscouse on Jul 8, 2018 17:59:53 GMT
I'd say it's probably the first time I've listened to it all the way thru, and it'll be the last time I do. that said, I didn't mind it, had some nice sounds on there. probably should have worked on this a bit more than some of the other doys songs....but it is very much of that era...lots of style not much substance. 6/10
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Post by lino on Jul 9, 2018 11:09:49 GMT
To Be Where There's Life
Gem's tune, which gave the album its name, the sitar is actually a children's toy rather than the real thing or a synth. The track's a droner, not much melody on offer - even Liam can't save this. 5/10
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Post by srk on Jul 9, 2018 15:09:43 GMT
Been a minute since I said anything but the quiet ones is by a comfortable margin the worst thing oasis ever did. NEGATIVE 5 OUT OF 10.
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Post by Fuzzy Dunlop on Jul 9, 2018 16:45:23 GMT
Big fan of this live version of TBWTL:
Album version: 7/10
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Post by danscouse on Jul 9, 2018 17:35:37 GMT
again very doys for me...it sounds cool, the drums and bass they obviously worked hard on the sound with this album but theres no melody or chorus, or even a memorable lyric 6
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Post by lino on Jul 10, 2018 11:14:35 GMT
Been a minute since I said anything but the quiet ones is by a comfortable margin the worst thing oasis ever did. NEGATIVE 5 OUT OF 10. I'll need to grab scores or estimates of same for the past - gee - 24(!) songs later since everyone stopped offering opinions. I'm still more likely to listen to The Quiet Ones (and to play it in company) than High Horse. Turn Up the Sun
The DBTT opener, it's very much an album intro and wouldn't really work elsewhere on a tracklist. I like that the coda ("Love one another") fits nicely with the album's closing track Let There be Love. The instrumentation in the intro gives it a cold, Winter feel, before a classic sounding Oasis riff comes booming in. The first few lines are massive (I've wanted to throw together a t-shirt design with the "I carry a madness - everywhere I go" on it), but unfortunately most of the other couplets are cringeworthy, including the second line - "over the border and back to the snow", never mind "I got a piano - I can't find the C". With better (or good) lyrics this could have been a 9 - instead? 7/10 |
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