(WHAT´S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY
(NOEL´S udtalelser stammer fra et NME
interview )
HELLO
Noel : "This opening track was premiered at Glastonbury and
borrows the riff from Gary Glitter's 'It's Good To Be Back'. "It's
one of the three songs on the album that's not about anything. I spend
as much time on the lyrics as I do on the music. I'd like our kid to spend
more time on them but he spends no time at all. Obviously, everyone is
going on about the Gary Glitter thing, but I just had that in for a laugh
".
Linien : "....we live in the shadows and we had the chance
but threw it away..." skulle være Noels bange anelser
for at bandet kunne gå i opløsning pga hans ustabile forhold
til Liam.
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ROLL WITH IT
NOEL : "It's about f-- all. I like the sentiments of that song.
It's just a simple rock 'n' roll tune. And it sold alright."
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DON´T LOOK BACK IN ANGER
NOEL : "It's about not being upset about the things you might
have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment It's
about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look
back on the past or talk about what might have been."
Sangen handler selvfølgelig om at kigge fremad i stedet for
tilbage. Noels sange er ofte om at føle sig fanget af fortiden,
med en lyst til at bryde fri og føle friheden.
"Stand up beside the fireplace
take that look from off your face
you ain´t ever gonna burn my heart out"
Da Paul , Noel og Liam var yngre ville deres mor altid fotografere
familien foran kaminen ved . Drengene brød sig ikke om dette hvilket
fik moderen til at skælde på dem for at få dem til at
smile og se pæne ud.
Derudover er der en John Lennon linie i sangen : "...you said
the brains I had went to my head.....".
Men Sally er ikke en pige som Noel kender. Nogle påstår
at det er navnet på en taxa chaufførs datter som Noel skulle
skrive en autograf til.
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WONDERWALL
NOEL : " This track is a strong contender for release as Oasis'
next single. "People ask me why we had 'Roll with it' instead of 'Wonderwall'
as the single. It seems to be everybody's favourite. It's about my girlfriend,
Meg Matthews. She had a company which folded and she was feeling a bit
sorry for herself. The sentiment is that there was no point in her feeling
down, she has to sort my life out for me because I'm in bits had the time.
We have an ordinary relationship. I met her at Christmas so I've always
been a pop star since I've known her. Right now we've got the best part
of a month off so, while I'm rehearsing, she's at work. When we get home
we just sit down and have a couple of drinks."
Der er mange temaer viklet ind i hinanden i denne sang. Noels sange
er kun sjældent om et emne. Wonderwall er en kærligheds sang
om Meg Matthews men også til Peggy (moderen). Sangen handler bla
også om tiden hvor moderen og de 3 brødre forlod faderen og
fandt deres frihed.
Today is gonna be the day that they´re gonna throw
it back to you..
..by now you should´ve somehow realised what you´ve
got to do..
..I don´t believe that anybody feels the way I
do...about you now....
Pigen på forsiden af single-coveret er en af Megs veninder ,
Amanda , der arbejder hos Creation Records.
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HEY NOW
NOEL : "This is about being in a group. It's a massive step
forward for us. Some people aren't going to like it because they're just
going to want more songs like 'Cigarettes And Alcohol' or 'Supersonic'.
The band has changed a lot there's a deferent vibe. We released Tony (McCarroll,
drummer) because he wasn't that good. We had some of the best drum tutors
in the country and they just said he wasn't very good. There's still me
and our kid and Bonehead and Guigsy and of course Marcus (Russell, Oasis'
manager). But I believe in fate. It had to happen for us from the first
sessions of 'Definitely Maybe'."
SOME MIGHT SAY
NOEL : "That was the gin 'n' tonic getting the better of me.
I had a guy in Swiss Cottage who came up to me when the single was Number
One. He said, 'That song really meant a lot to me' because he's a Christian.
And I asked if he'd heard the group at all and he hadn't. So I told him
we had this song called 'Cigarettes And Alcohol' and being a Christian
he wouldn't really dig that. He seemed like a really down-to-earth bloke.
And he's telling me a song means a lot to him as a Christian and I'm having
a conversation with him when I'm drugged up to the eyeballs. It's a laugh,
man."
CAST NO SHADOW
NOEL : "It was inspired by Richard (Ashcroft) from The Verve.
I sussed Richard wasn't very happy for a while so l wrote it for him and
about three weeks later he quit. It's about songwriters in general who
are desperately trying to say something. I'd like to be able to write really
meaningful lyrics but I always end up talking about drugs or sex. People
tend to ask my advice about a lot of things. I'm good at giving it but
I'm shit at taking it. But people like Richard and Paul (Weller) will look
after me they'll make sure I'm conscious in a chair or that I can get home."
SHE´S ELECTRIC
NOEL : "It was the first song we wrote for the album. Someone
asked me if it was about Blur, but it's not. It's like a Small Faces song
or something by The Kinks."
Noel skulle efter sigende have tyvstjålet "the middle eight"
(b-stykket) fra Beatles sangen "While my guitar gently weeps".
MORNING GLORY
NOEL : "It's a cynical song about drugs."
CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA
NOEL : "Some of the lyrics were written when I was out of it.
There's the words: 'Someday you will find me/ Caught beneath a landslide/
ln a Champagne Supernova in the sky'. That's probably as psychedelic as
I'll ever get. It means different things when I'm in different moods. When
I'm in a bad mood being caught beneath a landslide is like being suffocated.
The song is a bit of an epic. It's about when you're young and you see
people in groups and you think about what they did for you and they did
nothing. As a kid, you always believed the Sex Pistols were going to conquer
the world and kill everybody in the process. Bands like The Clash just
petered out. Punk rock was supposed to be the revolution but what did it
do? F all. The Manchester thing was going to be the greatest movement on
earth but it was f all. When we started we decided we weren't going to
do anything for anybody, we Jut thought we'd leave a bunch of great songs.
But some of the words are about nothing. One is about Bracket The Butler
who used to be on Camberwick Green, or Chipley or Trumpton or something.
He used to take about 20 minutes to go down the hall. And then I couldn't
think of anything that rhymed with 'hall' apart from 'cannonball'. so I
wrote 'Slowly walking down the hall/ Faster than a cannonball' and people
were like, 'Wow, f , man'. There's also the line 'Where were you while
we were getting high?' because that's what we always say to each other.
But the number of people who've started clubs called Champagne Supernova
is f ing unbelievable. And the album isn't even released yet."
Tilbage.....! (What´s
the story) Morning Glory ! - Definitely
Maybe ! - Be Here Now ! -
B-sider !