Setlist
Pretty Boy
Council Skies
Easy Now
We're Gonna Get There In The End
Open The Door, See What You Find
We're On Our Way Now
AKA... What a Life!
AKA... What A Life!
The Masterplan
Going Nowhere
Little By Little
Live Forever
Don't Look Back in Anger
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CD - CRESCD 212
01: Roll With It
02: It's Better People
03: Rockin' Chair
04: Live Forever (Live At Glastonbury '95)
7" - CRE 212
01: Roll With It
02: It's Better People
12" - CRE 212T
01: Roll With It
02: It's Better People
03: Rockin' Chair
Cassette - CRECS 212
01: Roll With It
02: It's Better People
Release Date: August 14th 1995
Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 2
Roll With It is a song by Oasis written by Noel Gallagher. It was released on August 14th 1995 as the second single from their second album (What's The Story) Morning Glory? Reaching number two in the UK Singles Chart.
Roll With It received a great deal of attention when Food Records, the label of rivals Blur, moved the original release date of single Country House to clash with it, sparking what came to be known as The Battle Of Britpop. The British media had already reported an intense rivalry between the two bands and this clash of releases was seen as a battle for the number one spot. The media sensation was spurred on by verbal attacks from the respective camps (in particular Noel and Liam Gallagher, Damon Albarn and Alex James), that extended beyond the music industry to the point where the two bands were regularly mentioned on the evening news. In particular, public imagination was sparked by the contrast between the gritty, working class Oasis and the artsy, middle class Blur. In the end, Blur's Country House single sold 274,000 copies to Oasis' 216,000 copies of Roll With It. The singles charted at number one and number two respectively.
In the week of its release, Damon Albarn was asked what he thought of the song. He dubbed the band as "Quoasis" and sang "Down, down, deeper and down" in reference of the song's likeness to Status Quo's 1975 hit Down Down.
The song is like several other songs, such as Supersonic, in that it preaches the importance of being yourself. Noel Gallagher does not like the song at all. In a 2005 interview he described it as "appalling".
Top Of The Pops performance
When Oasis played Roll With It on Top Of The Pops, the Gallagher brothers switched roles with Liam pretending to play guitar and Noel pretending to sing (equipped with Liam's tambourine). It mocked the institution of miming on programmes such as Top Of The Pops (it is widely believed that the brothers' dislike of miming led them to do it). The set ended with the band erupting in laughter at the Gallagher's impressions of each other. A video of the performance can be seen on YouTube.
Artwork
The photograph used on this release was taken on the beach at Weston Super Mare. In the background is the Grand Pier which burnt down in July 2008.
Oasis had been following in the footsteps of The Beatles, who were photographed on the beach wearing Victorian bathing costumes in 1963.
CD - (RKIDSCD55)
01: I'm Outta Time (Album Version)
02: I'm Outta Time (Twiggy Ramirez Remix)
03: The Shock Of The Lightning (Jagz Kooner Remix)
7" - (RKID55)
01: I'm Outta Time (Album Version)
02: To Be Where There's Life (Neon Neon Remix)
7" - (RKID55X)
01: I'm Outta Time (Twiggy Ramirez Remix)
02: The Shock Of The Lightning (Jagz Kooner Remix)
Digital bundle
01: I'm Outta Time (Album Version)
02: I'm Outta Time (Twiggy Ramirez Remix)
03: I'm Outta Time (Demo)
Release Date: December 1st 2008
Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 11
I'm Outta Time is a song by Oasis, featured on their seventh studio album Dig Out Your Soul. The second single from the album, succeeding The Shock Of The Lightning. I'm Outta Time was written by Liam Gallagher and released on December 1st 2008.
The song has been noted as one of the highlights of the album by fans as well as the band themselves, with Noel Gallagher labelling it "deceptively brilliant". It has also been praised by music critics, with NME calling it a "ballad" and comparing it to the music of Oasis-admired rock band The Beatles.
It charted at number twelve in the UK Singles Chart - the first Oasis single to miss the top ten since 1994, ending the band's streak of twenty two consecutive top tens.
The song features a short speech sample from John Lennon taken from one of his very last interviews in 1980. The speech sample says: "As Churchill said, it's every Englishman's inalienable right to live where the hell he likes. What's it going to do, vanish? Is it not going to be there when I get back?".
Style
The song bears similarity, in style, to John Lennon's work in the early 1970s. The piano which features on the track partly emulates that of Lennon's Jealous Guy, with the three octave jumps in C major. This was intentional, given that the track was written by Gallagher as a tribute to Lennon. Liam jokingly claims that it took him nine years to write the song.
CD - RKIDSCD 31
01: The Importance Of Being Idle
02: Pass Me Down The Wine
03: The Quiet Ones
7" - RKID 31
01: The Importance Of Being Idle
02: Pass Me Down The Wine
DVD - RKIDSDVD 31
01: The Importance Of Being Idle
02: The Importance Of Being Idle (demo)
03: The Importance Of Being Idle (video)
04: The Making of (Documentary)
Release Date: August 22nd 2005
Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 1
The Importance of Being Idle is a song by Oasis from the bands sixth album, Don't Believe The Truth, written and sung by Noel Gallagher. It was the second single released from the album in the UK, on August 22nd 2005, where it debuted at number 1.
It was also the first time that Oasis earned two successive number 1 singles in the same calendar year. It was written sometime during the summer of 2004, before the band made their final attempt at recording what would become Don't Believe The Truth. Noel Gallagher got the title from the book of the same name, which he found whilst cleaning out his garage (it belonged to his girlfriend Sara McDonald).
Structure
Musically, as Noel has commented, the song sounds like tunes from two British bands, The Kinks and The La's. In particular, the guitar playing, as well as the sentiment expressed is noticeably similar to The Kinks Sunny Afternoon and Dead End Street, and the use of falsetto for every other verse line recalls The La's Feelin'. The guitar sound is similar also to The La's b-sides Clean Prophet and Over. It also is a breakaway from the sound of Oasis's latter albums, especially the straight ahead rock 'n' roll anthems of Heathen Chemistry. The keyboard used on the pre-chorus sections was bought by Andy Bell on eBay.
Inspiration
Noel has said that the lyrics of The Importance Of Being Idle are inspired by his own laziness. Some of the second verse, with the reference to begging his doctor for "one more line", seems to be referring to an actual event as this resembles Noel's account of how he gave up cocaine in 1998.
Reception
Most reviewers acclaimed the track as one of the highlights of Don't Believe The Truth, which itself was widely praised as a marked return to form. The band mentioned in interviews in June that it would become the second single, after the UK Number One Lyla. The b-sides are Liam Gallagher's Pass Me Down The Wine and Gem Archer's The Quiet Ones.
Q Magazine readers placed the song at number one in a list of 2005's greatest tracks.
The song is included on Oasis' compilation album Stop The Clocks.
Music Video
The promo film was directed by Dawn Shadforth, (whose previous videos include Kylie Minogue's award-winning Can't Get You Out Of My Head. Shadforth's film for The Importance Of Being Idle starred Welsh actor Rhys Ifans and pays homage to the style of early 1960s kitchen sink drama British films, and is set during the build up to a funeral procession in a northern town, with the extravagant undertakers parading the coffin at the video's climax and Ifans playing the part of a high-kicking funeral director whose funeral it is.
The video is based on the film and play Billy Liar with Ifans playing the role of Billy. Noel and Liam therefore play Shadrack & Duxbury, the owners of the funeral parlour where Billy works. The rest of the band (Gem, Andy and Zak) make a brief appearance as lazy workers playing cards in an undertaker's office.
It was widely acclaimed at the time as being probably the best video Oasis had ever made, not least by the band themselves, who were said to be very happy with the finished product. The video is very similar in style and concept to the music video for Dead End Street by The Kinks.
Every year, Oasis fans pose the same question: will Noel and Liam finally bury the hatchet and re-form the group? As the biggest band to emerge from the UK in the 1990s, the Manchester legends hold a special place in the hearts of those who treasured them at the time. And, in the past decade or so, their popularity has grown ever bigger, as subsequent generations have embraced the band’s timeless, Beatles--inspired music and the intrigue of the Gallagher brothers’ relentless feuding.
But while we’re unable to watch Oasis perform live, we still have their sizable musical legacy to enjoy, as well as the recordings Noel and Liam have made since the group’s explosive split in 2009. But while Oasis’s first two albums, 1994’s Definitely Maybe and 1995’s (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, are unimpeachable classics, how have their other studio albums stood the test of time? And what of their compilations, live records and overlooked gems tucked away on B-sides or released as bonus tracks?
Written by MOJO’s team of experts, Oasis Essentials provides you with all the information you need to piece together your ultimate collection. Together with an in-depth album-by-album guide – with details of expanded reissues and anniversary editions – we revisit MOJO’s interviews with Noel and Liam around the time of the original releases and put every single Oasis B-side under the microscope. We also celebrate the band’s powerful concert performances with appraisals of the Familiar To Millions and Knebworth 1996 live albums, recommend the best Oasis books and films, and bring the whole story up to date with a detailed survey of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds material and Liam’s output with Beady Eye and as a solo artist.
With dozens of iconic and rare images, MOJO’s Oasis Essentials in an indispensable purchase for all Noel and Liam fans and music connoisseurs.
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