Champagne Supernova

CD - 663344 1

01: Champagne Supernova (Radio Edit)
02: Champagne Supernova (Album Version) 
03: Slide Away

 

Champagne Supernova is a song by Oasis. It was written by Noel Gallagher. The seven-minute anthem is the closing track on the record-breaking album (What's The Story) Morning Glory? Though only released as a single in Australia, France and the United States, a music video was released to the music channels and, as a result, the song received much television and radio airplay. The song achieved US success, becoming the band's second number one single on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

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The song is a fan favourite, and has received widespread critical acclaim. This is despite the fact that Noel claimed in a 2005 interview that he has still not made up his mind as to what the song actually is about, though he thinks it might be about reincarnation.

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In the music video, Liam bears a resemblance to John Lennon, wearing rose-colored glasses and a beard.

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Although the song was a commercial success, it did take its criticism mainly to the line: "Where were you while we were getting high?"

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In a radio interview for BBC, Noel said that rhythm guitarist Bonehead began crying when he heard the song because it was so beautiful. This story was backed up by Ian Robertson who claimed, in his book Oasis: What's The Story?, the first time Noel played the song to the rest of the band – an acoustic version on the tour bus – Bonehead did indeed cry.

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Paul Weller, former frontman of The Jam and friend of Oasis, provided the lead guitar and some of the backing vocals on the track.

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The song is included on Oasis' compilation album Stop The Clocks.

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In May 2007, NME magazine placed Champagne Supernova at number thirty nine in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.

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Champagne Supernova was the first song to feature on the Video Vault of the 2008 revival of The Chart Show.

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Alternative versions

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An official remix of the song was produced by Brendan Lynch, and was issued on the b-side on a promo-only 12" of Oasis's cover of Cum On Feel The Noize. Known as the Lynchmob Beats Mix, this track has been reissued on promotional material for Oasis'album Stop The Clocks.

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Live versions of the track were released on …There and Then, Familiar To Millions and Knebworth 1996.

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Covers

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Angie Aparo covered Champagne Supernova on the album The One With The Sun released 2003.

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Ben Folds Five released a live cover of this song as a B-side of their single Battle Of Who Could Care Less. The performance, which took place in London, was introduced as a country song and performed in an exaggerated country-music style.

The song was covered by American band Matt Pond PA specifically for use on the hit TV show The OC.

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90's dance act Urban Cookie Collective did a dance cover of this song but Noel Gallagher stopped them from releasing it as a single.

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The Early November covers this song as the end of No Good At Saying Sorry (One More Chance) when played live.

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Hootie & the Blowfish covered the song at their live shows during their 2007 and 2008 summer tours.

Falling Down

CD 

01: Falling Down (Album Version) 

02: Those Swollen Hand Blues

03: Falling Down (The Gibb Mix) 

04: Falling Down (The Prodigy Version)

7" vinyl

01: Falling Down (Album Version)

02: Those Swollen Hand Blues

12" vinyl

01: Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Remix) 

Digital bundle 1

01: Falling Down (Album Version)

02: Those Swollen Hand Blues

03: Falling Down (Demo)

Digital bundle 2

01: Falling Down (The Gibb Mix)

02: Falling Down (The Prodigy Version)

03: Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble

 

Release Date: March 6th 2009

Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 10

Falling Down is a song by English rock band Oasis, featured on their 2008 seventh studio album Dig Out Your Soul. Written and sung by lead guitarist Noel Gallagher, it was released as the third single from the album on March 0th 2009, with the digital release occurring a day earlier.

The song debuted at number ten in the UK Singles Chart with first week sales of 21,448, but the song only achieved a chart position of number 37 in the UK download chart in the same week.

Falling Down posted a subtle improvement from its predecessor I'm Outta Time on the UK Singles Chart, reaching number ten in its chart entry week.

Falling Down is the only Oasis single, other than Sunday Morning Call, on which all songs are sung by Noel rather than Liam.

The intro of the song shares a similarity with The Doors' The Crystal Ship. The heavily compressed drum-rhythm and sense of disillusioned psychedelia bear a strong resemblance the Beatles song Tomorrow Never Knows, being cited as Noel's finest effort so far to emulate the atmosphere of that song.

An excerpt of the b-side song Those Swollen Hand Blues appears at the end of Mucky Fingers, second track of Oasis' 2005 album Don't Believe the Truth.

The lyric: "Catch the wheel that breaks the butterfly" references the quotation: "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" from Alexander Pope's Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot.

Alternate versions

Various alternative versions of the song have been produced: remixes by Marilyn Manson bassist Twiggy Ramirez and producer Dave Sardy – the "It's the Gibb" remix – and The Prodigy will be featured on the CD single and the second digital bundle; the A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble remix, by Amorphous Androgynous, will be released on the 12" vinyl and second digital bundle versions; and The Chemical Brothers remix previously featured as the B-side to The Shock Of The Lightning.

In his tour blog, Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere, Noel Gallagher described the twenty two minute A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble remix as "A staggering piece of music. Monumental even."

Music video

The video depicts a woman who is supposed to be part of the Royal Family who enjoys parties, one night stands and drugs. When she meets the band in the video, the members refuse to shake her hand because of the way she hides her party lifestyle. When the 'Princess' offers her hand to Noel Gallagher he is seen to say "Nah" and turns away in disdain. Prince Charles appears at the conclusion of the video.

Who Feels Love?

CD - RKIDSCD 003

01: Who Feels Love?

02: One Way Road

03: Helter Skelter

7" - RKID 003

01: Who Feels Love?

02: One Way Road

12" - RKID 003T

01: Who Feels Love?

02: One Way Road

03: Helter Skelter

Cassette - RKIDCS 003

01: Who Feels Love?

02: One Way Road

The UK CD also contains the promo video to Who Feels Love?

Helter Skelter was recorded during the sessions for Be Here Now.

Release Date: April 17th 2000

Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 4

Who Feels Love? is a song by Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher. It became the second single to be released from the album Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, peaking at number 4 in the UK singles chart.

The album was noted for its psychedelic feel, and Who Feels Love? was held up as the most extreme example of this. Mark Stent was praised for his production on the song, creating a "trippy" feel like that found on Beatles songs such as Rain. With the psychedelic and eastern sound, the song also reminds of George Harrison achievements like Within You Without You and also some of his solo work.

However, despite the high-quality production, the song was not well received by the critics, NME said that the production "triumphs over any real sort of feeling... pure mock Maharishi spirituality that not even Liam can salvage from the realm of self-parody".

One of the B-sides is a cover of The Beatles' Helter Skelter. It was played live during the Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants tour of 2000. Paul Weller recorded a version of b-side One Way Road for his covers-album Studio 150 in 2004. The Weller version was subsequently used as the theme tune to Jack Dee's sitcom Lead Balloon.

Songbird​

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CD - RKIDSCD 27

01: Songbird
02: (You've Got) The Heart Of A Star
03: Columbia (Live) 

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7" - RKID 27

01: Songbird
02: (You've Got) The Heart Of A Star

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12" - RKID 27T

01: Songbird
02: (You've Got) The Heart Of A Star
03: Columbia" (Live) 

Columbia was recorded at the Barrowlands, Glasgow, on October 13th 2001.

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DVD - RKIDSDVD 27

01: Songbird
02: Songbird (demo) 
03: Exclusive interview and live performance footage 

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Release Date: February 3rd

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Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 3

 

Songbird is a song by Oasis, from their fifth studio album Heathen Chemistry. It was written by Liam Gallagher and included on Oasis' 2006 compilation album Stop The Clocks.

 

The song was released as the fourth single from that album on February 3rd 2003 and peaked at number three in the UK charts. It was the first time the band had released a single not written Noel Gallagher.

It is the shortest running Oasis single at 2:07.
 

Liam has said of the song: "I like beautiful things...It's not all dark in Liam World. I take my shades off every now and again and have a look at the world and see some nice things." The demo of the song is a typical Oasis approach to the song, featuring overdriven guitar and a stronger beat, as well as a guitar solo.

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The video was filmed in Regent's Park in London, and featured Liam playing an acoustic guitar under a tree, and also being chased by a dog.

Let There Be Love

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CD - RKIDSCD 32

01: Let There Be Love
02: Sittin’ Here In Silence (On My Own)
03: Rock 'n' Roll Star" (Live At City Of Manchester Stadium - 2nd July 2005) 

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10" - RKID 32

01: Let There Be Love
02: Sittin’ Here In Silence (On My Own)
 
DVD - RKIDSDVD 32

01: Let There Be Love
02: Let There Be Love" (demo) 
03: Excerpts from the forthcoming film Lord Don't Slow Me Down and the Let There Be Love video.

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Release Date: November 28th 2005

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Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 2

 

Let There Be Love is a song by Oasis from their sixth studio album, Don't Believe The Truth and was written by Noel Gallagher. It was released on November 28th 2005 as the third and final single from the album in the United Kingdom and as the second single in the United States.

 

It reached number two in the UK charts, capping a very successful year for the band. Many critics cited this song as proof that Oasis had returned to the form seen in the mid-'90s.

A demo for the track was recorded during sessions for Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants. A bootleg of these demo sessions was leaked onto the Internet in early 2000. This track was given the unofficial title It's A Crime on many bootlegs as the track was unknown and unreferenced anywhere before then. The album version of the song is structurally almost exactly the same as the demo with a slight change in melody in the part that Noel sings. The lyrics to the chorus remains intact, but the verses and bridge have totally rewritten lyrics.

The single version of the song omits the second verse and chorus.

A second, Noel-sung demo was released on the Let There Be Love DVD single. It has the same lyrics as the album version, and in fact the album version takes some elements from the demo such as the piano. It was probably recorded sometime in 2003 or 2004, prior to the main Don't Believe The Truth recording sessions.

The video is a montage of some of Oasis' live shows during the summer of 2005 including clips of the gigs at Hampden Park and the City Of Manchester Stadium. The clips don't actually show the band playing Let There Be Love.

Shakermaker​

Shakermaker​

CD - CRESCD 182

01: Shakermaker

02: D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?

03: Alive (8 Track Demo)

04: Bring It On Down (Live)

7" - CRE 182

01: Shakermaker

02: D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?

12" - CRE 182T

01: Shakermaker

02: D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?

03: Alive (8 Track Demo)

Cassette - CRECS 182

01: Shakermaker

02: D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?

Release Date: June 20th 1994

Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 11

Shakermaker is a song by Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher. First appearing as a single, released on June 20th 1994, which peaked at number eleven in the UK Singles Chart. It was later released on Oasis' debut album Definitely Maybe.

It was the first song performed by the band on Top Of The Pops.

Noel Gallagher admits 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 Trebour 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 Sifter's (a record shop in Burnage, Manchester). Noel penned the lyric and it became part of the song.

Noel used to frequent the store to buy music before Oasis started releasing albums and Mr Sifter refers to the owner of the record store.

Music Video

Part of the video was shot in Bonehead's garden outside of their house.

The field they are playing football in is Didsbury Toc H rugby field in Ford Lane (Didsbury South Manchester) near Fletcher Moss.

The album Liam shows to the camera in the tracks music video is Paul McCartney's Red Rose Speedway from 1973.

The Hindu Times

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CD - RKIDSCD 23

01: The Hindu Times
02: Just Getting Older
03: Idler's Dream

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7" - RKID 23

01: The Hindu Times
02: Just Getting Older

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12" - RKID 23T

01: The Hindu Times
02: Just Getting Older
03: Idler's Dream

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DVD - RKIDSDVD 23

01: The Hindu Times
02: The Hindu Times (demo)
03: 10 Minutes Of Noise And Confusion

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Release Date: April 15th 2002

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Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 1

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The Hindu Times" is a song by Oasis, and was the first single to be released from their fifth album Heathen Chemistry on April 15th 2002. It was written by Noel Gallagher. Noel got the name The Hindu Times from a t-shirt he saw in a charity shop. The song was the band's sixth UK number one single, staying on top for one week before being dislodged by the Sugababes Freak Like Me.

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The title has little to do with the lyrics of the song, which are more in the vein of Definitely Maybe's Rock 'n' Roll Star. It has been speculated that the title refers to the main riffs' similarity to Indian music in sound, sounding as if they were played on a sitar. Gallagher himself says that it is because he had already named the song before any lyrics were written for it.

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The song, which combines the powerful fast rock of their earlier work with the psychedelic feel of their later work, was one of the first Oasis singles since (What's The Story?) Morning Glory to receive almost unanimously positive reviews from the critics. However, some fans have criticised the song, stating that the main guitar riff was stolen from the Stereophonics song, Same Size Feet, which was released in 1997 on their Word Gets Around album and uses the exact same, or at least very similar, guitar riff.

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The song was unveiled during Oasis' Autumn 2001 Noise and Confusion Tour. The song was due to be released commercially at the same time but Noel decided the track needed more work done on it to be suitable for release.

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The B-side, Just Getting Older, was written at the time of the release of Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants.

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The demo version of The Hindu Times is radically different from the finished album version. Most of the lyrics (sung by Noel) are different, and the slower sound of the song is much more "grungy", with a heavy drum loop running throughout the song. It is also a semitone higher in the demo.

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The 10 Minutes... documentary is the first part of a unique feature covering forty eight hours on the road with Oasis during the Tour Of Brotherly Love which took place in the USA with the Black Crowes during May and June 2001.

Lyla

CD - RKIDSCD 29

01: Lyla
02: Eyeball Tickler
03: Won't Let You Down
 
7" - RKID 29

01: Lyla
02: Eyeball Tickler
 
DVD - RKIDSDVD 29

01: Lyla
02: Lyla (demo)
03: Can You See It Now?

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Release Date: May 16th 2005

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Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 1

 

Lyla is a song by Oasis. It was released on May 16th 2005 as the first single from their sixth studio album, Don't Believe the Truth. Lyla was the band's first single following the departure of their long-time drummer Alan White, and replaced by Ringo Starr's son and the Who drummer Zak Starkey as an additional drummer of the band.

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The song was written by Noel Gallagher, who has varyingly described the track as "specifically designed for pogoing", "annoyingly catchy", and the "poppiest thing since Roll with I". Noting the varied influences of the song, Gallagher says that it's "a bit like... The Soundtrack Of Our Lives doing The Who on Skol in a psychedelic city in the sky, or something".

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Similarities
 

However critics have argued that Lyla is perhaps more than simply influenced by other bands, noting the striking similarities between the song and Confrontation Camp by The Soundtrack Of Our Lives and to a lesser extent Street Fighting Man by the Rolling Stones. The first line of the song reinforces the notion that the song was also partially inspired by The La's.

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Noel has also joked with the fact that the Lyla in the song is actually the sister of the Sally mentioned in the Oasis single Don't Look Back In Anger. Also, he had said that the song is a "love song", being about Sally Cinnamon's sister.

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Originally claiming that he wasn't very fond of the song, Noel has said that Lyla isn’t "even the fifth best track on the album". The song had existed as a demo since the early recording sessions for the album but was all but forgotten until practically the last minute. However, on the Lock The Box feature on the Stop The Clocks, Noel admitted that he "didn't realise how good it was until [we] played it live," and admitted he loved the "guitars, the drums, and the vocals" of the song.

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Origins
 

Noel says that the song existed in an early form as a song called Sing and dated from the Heathen Chemistry-era. He also says that the title for the final song should have been "Smiler", but was changed seeing as guitarist Gem Archer's previous band, Heavy Stereo, also had a song called Smiler.

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Sony's insistence that it should be released as the first single from the album has helped to fuel the tension between the band and their record label, which has led to Oasis not renewing their contract with the record label following the release of Don't Believe the Truth.

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Lyla became the band's seventh UK number one when it reached top spot in its first week of release. The song also debuted at number thirty one on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and reached as high as number nineteen. It is the first Oasis song to appear on any US singles chart since 2000 when Go Let It Out hit number fourteen on the Modern Rock chart.

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Live Performance

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When performing on the UK music chart show Top Of The Pops, Liam, who was forced to mime to the music, made no secret of the fact, walking away from the microphone with his mouth closed mid-way through lines that he was supposedly 'singing'. It would be Liam's last performance on the programme before its demise in late 2006. However, Noel and the rest of the band would return in August 2005 to perform The Importance Of Being Idle.

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Lyla leaked on the internet during late March 2005, weeks before its May release date, after an unauthorised early airing on Polish radio station Radiowa Trójka.

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Lyla was covered by Foo Fighters during a performance at BBC Studios.