New Oasis single has leaked!

lordgoat

christ go and listen to something without an acoustic guitar in it

Goodshape

Sounds like the same old same old to me.

Yawn very much.

ThatBloke

Got it earlier, it's ****ing awful, the worst single they've released yet, if that's the best of the album they might as well give up now

Creamy Goodness

lordgoat wrote:

christ go and listen to something without an acoustic guitar in it

what's wrong with an acoustic guitar?

kensutz

i want it to see what its like

Jonny Arson

I heard Lyla for the 1st time this morn. Its good catchy typical Oasis but thats the problem. There is a lack of progression and inventivness about their music which frustrates me. They could be one of the greatest bands ever but N.G. seems happy to charn out the same type stuff album after album. Heathen Chemistry was great but if the newbie sounds the same i will go insane. :eek:

Dublin's Finest

Noel said it's only the 7th or 8th best song on the album so maybe there'll be some more inventive stuff on there. The new(ish) members have written some stuff too.

BolBill

I like Oasis a lot but this song stinks, think Liam wrote it, they may explain things - hes still a t*at

comet

BolBill wrote:

I like Oasis a lot but this song stinks, think Liam wrote it, they may explain things - hes still a t*at

No Noel wrote it, some of Liams songs are expected to be the best on the album.

Jonny Arson

Dublin's Finest wrote:

Noel said it's only the 7th or 8th best song on the album so maybe there'll be some more inventive stuff on there. The new(ish) members have written some stuff too.

You know N.G. He is the biggest bullsh*tter in Rock and Roll. I don't believe that is only the 7th/8th best song on the album. Why would they release Lyla as a single then. I'm not dissing Lyla. Its a good catchy tune but it lacks that cutting edge and newness that Oasis badly need to do with their music.

From what I know N.G. has done 6 songs on the album. I don't know what you guys think but I think the songs Liam has written from the previous 2 albums have been quite bland. N.G. should write all of the songs again. He is the true genius.

comet

Here was what someone on the Oasis site who got to hear the album 2 or 3 times thought.........


1- Turn Up The Sun (4:01 minutes)
Great pumping rocksong. As i already said, very cool and dirty sound to
it and suitable to Liam's voice. It starts with two rounds of 4 chords,
a bit like the intro of Why Does It Always Rain On me by Travis. After
it it stops and a some powerchords and heavier drums kick in. Liam
starts singing: 'I carry madness.... tu-dum-tu-dum.... everywhere i
go...'

In the chorus Noel also sings, he sings the higher notes. The lyrics are:

'Come on, turn up the sun. Turn on (up?), for everyone'

Could be great live this song and would be even greater if i was able to
play it at loud volume, but that wasn't possible...

Verdict (after 3 listens at softer volume): 8 out of 10

2- Mucky Fingers (3:56 minutes)
For me this was the typical Noel-skip-song. Like She Is Love at the last
album, or like Magic Pie. Not stylewise, but qualitywise.

Three electric chords al the way through with a drumrhytm that keeps
going on and going on. Noel sings very fast like he sounds bored and is
rehearsing of writing a new song. I wrote down the line:

'I know you think you deserve an explanation on the meaning of life'
(which is sung in about 4 seconds)

The song ends with Noel singing (in falsetto) 'I don't mind' or 'It's
all mine' over and over again.

To me, the worst song on the album.

5 out of 10 after 2 listens.

Btw update: at start the chords reminded me a bit of 'la bamba' only
played slower and less happy. There's also a harmonica near the middle
and the end of this song


3- Lyla (5.12 minutes)

Well, the first single. According to Noel is was extremely catchy and
indeed, the chorus melody is still in my head. But it isn't realy a
great melody as far as i'm concerned. The song drives around one central
electric chord (probably A or over which Liam sings most of the
verse-lines. The first line of every verse has the exact same melody as
the first line of Street Fightin Man.

A line i wrote down out of one of the verses:

'Lift me up and take me where i stand'

The chorus is sung by Liam and Noel together and goes (something) like
this:

'Heeeeeeey, Lyla, the stars about to fall, the world around us makes me
feel so smaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall, Lyla, catch me if i fall, so what do you
saaaaaaaayy, Lyla'

There's a guitar break somwhere in the song with a sort of solo/riff.
Not very impressive.

My feeling was 6,5 out of 10 after 2,5 listens


4- Love Like A Bomb (2.54 minutes)

Very easy, sweet acoustic song by Liam. His singing annoyed me in this
one, too nasal. Sweet little melody that repeats itself, bit like the
Beatles. The chorus goes like this:'

'You turn me on, and love's like a bomb, blowing my mind' (repeats
itself a few times)

Halfway through the song there's a nice little piano solo and at the
starts of the second round of verses a soft drumbeat kicks in, making
the song sounding a bit better. There's also a middle piece where Liam
sing 'blowing my miiiiiind' in falsetto, which sounds very
Beatles/Lennon-wise. During the piano solo Liam 'na na na's' the song
melody, which sounds quite sweet.

Nice, easy and sweet. Those words appeared in my head while listening to
the song. It was good, but not pure brilliance.

7 out of 10 after 3 listens


5- The Importance Of Being Idle (3.40 minutes)

Ok now we're talking. An instant popclassic sung and written by Noel.
It's Oasis own better version of 'I'm only sleeping' by the Beatles.
Great happy song about a guy who is just lazy and wants to be left alone.

Almost half of the song is sung falsetto. The first word of the song is
sung falsetto. Noel does a great job. Some lines i remember/write down:

'Iiiiiii (<--falsetto) don't mind, as long as there's a bed under the
stars that shine'
'hooooold (<--falsetto) me tight, bla bla bla...........................'

'You can't seem to win it when you're heart's not in iiiiiiiiiiiiit'
(not to sure about the first part of this line)

Halfway after the first chorus there's a great happy poppy guitar riff,
followed by a sort of easy bending solo, which is pure genius.

Kinks, Beatles, whatever. You name it. This song is absolutely
brilliant. Noel's my hero again.

9,5 out of 10

comet

6- The Meaning Of Soul (1.43 minutes)

Well, not much to say about this one if you already head the
Glastonbury-version. The only difference is that it's played with an
acoustic guitar. I'm not to sure if there even was a bass during the
verses. It sounded like they were only acoustic guitar and drums. The
rest sounded almost exactly like the live-version, only in better sound
quality. Vocals not too great if i remember well.

6 out of 10

7- Guess God Thinks I'm Able (3:25 minutes)

Starts off with an intro of a few acoustic chords (played on higher
frets, not the usual G C Am D). Then Liam starts singing and immediatly
it made me say: John Lennon.

If i remember well there's no bridge. Just verses and a chorus. The
chorus goes something like this:

'Let's get along, there's nothing we can do
let's go find a rainbow
la la la la................
guess god thinks i'm able'

In the verses there's lines like:'

'I could be your lover
you could be you're mine'

'you could be my railroad (i'm serious...)
la la la la.............'

I think this was the structure:

two verses, chorus, one verse, chorus, xxx

xxx is a part where Liam sings in falsetto again. He sings:

'No (<--falsetto) one could break us
No (<--falsetto) one could take us
if they try'

O the background Noel or a little choire is doing 'aaaahhh' 'aaaahh'.
Sounds very sweet and nice. Best part of the song, and also the first
line of the chorus is a nice melody change.

At the end eveything is quiet, then all of a sudden there's drums and
electric guitars coming in and liam sings one sentence like 'Let's go
and make it tonight'. Just that one sentence, and then the song's over.
A weird ending of a very good acoustic song. Nice melody's and good
vocals, especialy the falsetto parts.

8 out of 10

8- Part of the Queue (3.50 minutes)

I'll have dissapoint you regarding this one, cause didn't write down any
lyrics and i can't remember much of the song. Don't ask me my, but i
noticed when i was looking through my notes.

I do remember that the song had a real atmosphere around is. A weird
acoustic guitar rhytm and nice drums. Noel did a good job singing and
listening to the song you could just picture yourself walking through a
busy, rainy city. I do remember finding it a good song, very different
and not comparable to anything else.

I can't realy give it a grade, but if i had to judged on what i felt
listening to it twice i would say 8 out of 10


9- Keep The Dream Alive (5.47 minutes)

Congrats to Andy cause he wrote a killer of a song. The verses
(accompanied by electric guitar chords) annoyed me bit especially the
way Liam sang it (through the nose again), but when the chorus kicked in
it send shivers down the spine. Majestic, fantastic melody and a magic
feeling to it. The lyrics of the chorus went something like this:

'I'm no stranger to this place
where rèè-al life and dreams collide
even now i fall from grace
i will keep the dream alive'

The verses had a line like this:

'Every night i hear you scream
but you don't say what you mean'

There's a little guitar solo in it, but very easy and no real killer.
But the chorus made eveything up for me and made this one of of the best
3 tracks on the album, along with TIOBI and LTBL.

8,5 out of 10

Btw, on the promo-disc i heard there was NO secret/hidden track. I
searched for it, but after LTBL the cd just stops. But maybe it's just
the promo...

10- A Bell Will Ring (3:09 minutes)

Well this is where i was quite dissapointed. I head the live-version a
few times already and didn't like that one that much, but had the
feeling that it had lots of potention to make it an epic, Champagne
Supernova-like song with good production and the adding of some guitars
and na na na's. But as is said: i was dissapointed. The song was exactly
the same as the live version, the production of it was boring. They
could have added lots of cool stuff, background vocals, guitar parts,
piano, whatever but it was just the electric guitar like at Glastonbury
(same intro also, same moment where the drums kick in). And just like at
Glastonbury, i felt that at some moments the timing and rhytm was a bit
weird.

This song could have been so much better and should have been at least 2
minutes longer...

6 out of 10


11- Let There Be Love (5.29 minutes)
The album closer is a classic for me. Forget that crappy demo we once
heard called It's A Crime, the lines 'it's a crime' aren't even in this
song. The lyrics are totaly different, apart from the Let There Be love
bit.

It starts off very calm with an acoustic guitar and a piano. It's played
and sung very slow, even slower than the demo of it's a crime. When the
singing started i thought: hey, that's Noel. But the second half of the
first line i thought: hey, it's Liam. An after the first few lines i
started thinking: i think it's Noel and Liam, bothing singing parts of
one sentence, but not at the same time. Mixed through one another on a
weird but fantastic way. Liam's best vocal on the album that's for sure.

After the first verses and 'let there be love' bit there's Noel singing
the part which in It's A Crime had the lryics 'and i never knew' etc.
The lyrics here are different, like for instance (picture that part of
the song in your head)

'Come on baby blue, shake up your eyes, the world is waiting for you'.

The part where Noel went falsetto in the demo is different in this song,
it's not one falsetto (and it 'makes' me feel etc...), but three
falsetto-lines after one another. Also different lyrics again. When the
part is over the song seems to stop. It gets very quiet and then Liam's
there again with the verse melody:

'Who keeps a whole in the sky, so the heavens come down on me' or
something like that.

For the second time the 'Let There Be Love' (sung by Liam and Noel)
kicks in and it's being sung more often than after the first verses.
Drums kick in like they did and sounded in Imagine, an extra guitar
kicks in. It's magic, pure magic.

I said at the beginning there's wasn't a real singalong and that's true,
but only because this song is being played and sung so slowly. It
doesn't make you wanna sing along, just whisper along maybe. It's
absolutely beautiful and sweet. A classic song about love with
tearjerking vocals and melodys and good lyrics. I loved it.

9,5 out of 10

lordgoat

This was posted:

Great pumping rocksong. As i already said, very cool and dirty sound to
it and suitable to Liam's voice. It starts with two rounds of 4 chords,
a bit like the intro of Why Does It Always Rain On me by Travis.


and we all know what a pumoing rock song 'why does is always... sound the same' is by the kings of bland travis...

predictions for Oasis's new album - loved by the everyone that liked their old music and hated by everyone else, new fans made = +3

Dublin's Finest

yeah zane, i know. NG is the biggest bull****ter in rock n' roll! i think lyla's a good catchy song. i miss that raw sound they had though.

he was probably saying it's the 7th or 8th best song to cover his ass for NME who slate every oasis album.

As usual there will be about four killer tunes t d the rest will be filler. i actually like Liam's stuff though...it's a little different.

Jonny Arson

Something related to new Oasis album and N.G.'s bullsh*tting. About a year and a half ago Noel was proclaiming this song called Stop The Clocks as the greatest thing he had ever written. So where is this mysterious Stop The Clocks? Its not listed on the album. Did it ever exist i wonder? :rolleyes:

Dublin's Finest

the pair of them come out with some quality quotes. what's the story with liam's farmer joe look? weird.

Serbian

Dublin's Finest wrote:

Noel said it's only the 7th or 8th best song on the album so maybe there'll be some more inventive stuff on there. The new(ish) members have written some stuff too.

"Hey guys, I have this great idea. Why don't we release one of the worst songs on our album to promote it. That way, everyone will want it!".

I doesn't make sense to release the "7th or 8th best song" on your album as singles are generally taken as representation of the other material on the album, so Noel Gallagher is full of crap. Sounds like he's making excuses already, before the album is even released.

Serbian

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

So where is this mysterious Stop The Clocks? Its not listed on the album. Did it ever exist i wonder? :rolleyes:

He could have changed the name I suppose, but yeah, it's more than likely bull.

Bungalow Bill

Serbian wrote:

"Hey guys, I have this great idea. Why don't we release one of the worst songs on our album to promote it. That way, everyone will want it!".

I doesn't make sense to release the "7th or 8th best song" on your album as singles are generally taken as representation of the other material on the album, so Noel Gallagher is full of crap. Sounds like he's making excuses already, before the album is even released.

They wanted an upbeat loud song to kick off the album, its what they do with all of them and besides if it really is only sixth best or whatever it could be a great album.

Jonny Arson

The bottom line is that Lyla is a great if unorigianl song. If its only the 7th or 8th best song on the album then great, the album will be great then. However N.G. BS' all the time. I love Oasis, I'm still 'Mad Fer It!' but I'm worried about Don't Believe The Truth.