BE HERE NOW
 
I den engelske avis "THE SUN" d.30/7 1997 beskrev Noel Gallagher sang for sang det nye album :
Bassisten Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan´s kommentarer er fra ZOO MAGAZINE nr. 9 :
 
PLADE COVERET
(Fra ZOO MAGAZINE nr 9) Billedet er taget ved Stocks Golf & Country Club nær Tring , Hertfordshire.Den hvide Rolls Royce i svømme pølen kan vække associationer til den nu afdøde The Who trommeslager Keith Moon. Han var en kendt gæst i netop denne klub, og han fejrede efter sigende sin 20 års fødselsdag i 1967 ved at køre en hvid Lincoln Continental i en svømmepøl nord for Detroit. Den røde scooter som Liam står ved siden af er hans egen.
 
TITLEN
(Fra ZOO MAGAZINE nr 9) "Be Here Now" er bl.a. en hippie grundsætning fra 60´erne, hvor det at leve i nuet var en central ledesnor - som bl.a titlen på Beatles nummeret "Tomorrow never knows" illustrerer. Det er også titlen på en bog skrevet af 60´er LSD guruen Timothy Learys partner Richard Alpert. Titlen kan også referere til Vedic-lærdommen, som siger at hvis man dvæler ved fortiden eller fremtiden , så er man død i nutiden. Det siges at John Lennon efter at have læst bogen sagde "The whole Beatles message was be here now".
 
SANGENE
 
D'You Know What I Mean?
NOEL : I was going to make some profound statement in the chorus but I couldn't come up with anything that fitted. Then I just thought "All My People, Right Here, Right Now. D'You Know What I Mean..." Very vague, very ambiguous. Looking in the mirror and wink while you sing it and it's quite saucy. The morse code in the background was inspired by Strawberry Fields. If anyone can tell me what it means, please let me know.
GUIGSY : Omkvædet er en hyldest til alle fansene.
 
My Big Mouth
NOEL : Even I'm not interested in what I've got to say half the time. "But I've aint never spoken to God, and I've aint never been to heaven" that's about fans who think they've been on the phone to John Lennon and you have all the answers.
GUIGSY : En punkrocket Madness - agtig sang.
 
Linien "That´s what you get from sleeping with the enemy" , hed i starten "that´s what you get from sleeping with the NME" (NME er en forkortelse for musikbladet New Musical Express).
 
Magic Pie
NOEL : I sang this one and of course me and Liam had a row about it, but it's his favourite track now. The first line, "An extraordinary guy? Can never have an ordinary day." comes from him asking me, "How come you never get into any of the situations that I get into?" And I borrowed something from Tony Blair's speech at the last Labour conference. "There are but a thousand days, preparing for a thousand years."
GUIGSY : Det er en meget underlig sang........ikke lig noget vi har lavet før. Akustisk guitar og så bliver det heavy. Det er en virkelig god sang, meget afslappende....laid back.
 
Stand By Me
NOEL : It starts "Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday" When I first moved to London me mam kept on ringing up and asking if I was eating properly. So I tried to cook a Sunday roast and puked up for two days with food poisoning. It was back to Pot Noodles after that. "There is one thing I can never give you, my heart will never be your home." That's about the private space you have to keep - the place where I go to write my stuff. Meg was fairly upset by that.
GUIGSY : Det er en ballade. En virkelig , virkelig god sang. En af de bedste på albummet. Alle kan synge med på den.
 
I Hope, I Think, I Know
NOEL : I liked the demo but it's too pop for me now. It reminds me of the Buzzcocks but I think it's going to be like Hey Now on Morning Glory - the one that nobody mentions.
GUIGSY : Et rock n roll nummer , lidt Stones inspireret. Alan (White) er virkelig god på trommer. Lidt Keith Moon-agtig.
 
The Girl In The Dirty Shirt
NOEL : Meg is the girl in the dirty shirt. We were doing a gig in Brightonjust before me and Meg were going out. She was at the hotel ironing a dirty shirt because she hadn't bought enough clothes with her. I know it sounds a bit soft. Liam will read this and say "You wanker" because he thinks all the songs are about him. He even thinks Wonderwall is about him.
GUIGSY : Den har et sjovt beat. Ganske stille.
 
Fade In/Out
NOEL : The first part of this song is from the Mustique demo with Johnny Depp playing slide guitar. I like it because it's the first blues song I've done and Liam does the best singing I've heard from him. I said "Pretend you're a black man from Memphis" He's not got very good rhythm and we made him stamp his foot all the way through it. He couldn't sing for a week after.
GUIGSY : Johnny Depp spiller slide guitar på nummeret. Det har vi aldrig lavet før. Den er sådan lidt "old fashioned" , Nashville-Chicago blues-agtig - men det er alligevel ikke en blues sang.
 
Don't Go Away
NOEL : This is about my mam. A week before Meg and me went to Mustique my mam was in hospital. They thought it was cancer though it wasn't and she's fine. It's a very sad song about not wanting to lose someone you're close to.I never had that lyric until the day we recorded it. "Me and you. what's going on? All we seem to know is how to show the feeling that are wrong." It's after a row. Quite bleak.
Noel said that it has a Burt Bacharach feel as he was the "master of break up songs" and it certainly is an emotional song.
GUIGSY : En ballade sang med et godt omkvæd.
 
Be Here Now
NOEL : Wrote it on the beach near Mick Jagger's house in Mustique. The opening is played on a toy plastic piano belonging to one of Jagger's kids. Anyway - I nicked the piano - I can't help it, I'm from Burnage. Mick can have it back later if he wants. Later. Oasis' producer Owen Morris told me one of the greatest drum loops of all time was the opening to Honky Tonk Women. We played it and it was the same time signature as that piano.
GUIGSY : En traditionel 70´er rock-sing along-song. Lidt a la Small Faces.
 
All Around The World
NOEL : I wrote this one ages ago, before Whatever. It was twelve minutes long and we couldn't afford to record it, but now we can get away with a 36 piece orchestra. The longer the better as far as I'm concerned. I know what people are going to say, but fuck 'em basically. The lyrics are teeny bob.
GUIGSY : Den bedste sang der nogensinde er skrevet. Den er ligesom "all you need is love" (Beatles) - bare bedre !!
 
It's Getting Better (Man!)
NOEL : I wrote this jamming on stage with the band in America. A really happy tune even though there was a load of bad shit going down. Because we get connected with the Beatles all the time I thought I'd write a Rolling Stones song. You can almost see Keith and Ronnie with fags in their mouths giving it some.
GUIGSY : Det er en af mine favorit numre. Solid rock ´n´ roll - lidt a la "Cigarettes and alcohol"...samme rock ´n´ roll attitude.
 
All Around The World (Reprise)
NOEL : I was running out of guitar lines so I faded it in with backwards guitar. The feet clumping at the end belong to Brian Cannon, the sleeve designer. The door slamming has never been done before. We got a Penny Lane piccolo trumpet in because a guy in the brass section stood up and said, "You should have a piccolo trumpet on that - and I've got one".
 
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