At a press conference at London’s Electric Cinema today, ex-Oasis bro Noel Gallagher revealed details of his new solo project. The band’s called Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and their debut album is out 10/17 on his Sour Mash Records. “There are echoes of Oasis,” Noel promised reporters, “but there’s no guitar solo until the sixth song.” Liam Gallagher has already deemed it shite. And there’s more: a second album, another collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous, will follow in 2012. Here’s the tracklist for High Flying Birds, which was recorded by Noel and David Sardy:
01 “Everybody’s On The Run”
02 “Dream On”
03 “If I Had A Gun…”
04 “The Death Of You And Me”
05 “(I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine”
06 “AKA… What A Life!”
07 “Soldier Boys And Jesus Freaks”
08 “AKA… Broken Arrow”
09 “(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach”
10 “Stop The Clocks”
“The Death Of You And Me” is thought to be the first single, and a tour is confirmed for the fall. Stay tuned to the new @NoelGallagher for details.
UPDATE: Here’s a clip from the Q&A:
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The big question is how many times will we hear the words.. Slip, slide, fade etc etc on this album
Don’t forget ‘shine’.
I think you me Sheeeeeeeeiiiinnnnne.
“Fly,” “why,” “try,” “sky,” and “die” have also been very popular over the years.
I get that people think that Oasis was obnoxious (they were), but I think it’s pretty hard to argue that Noel Gallagher hasn’t written some classic songs. Once you look past all the fighting and just “Wonderwall,” there is some real musical substance under the surface on the early records. Look up some of the b-sides to the first two albums if you don’t believe me.
You are totally right. The first two albums are very good, as are the b-sides. However, they really should have stopped after that because Noel had exhausted his entire lyrical repertoire and they ended up becoming a parody of themselves.
I always liked Oasis, I don’t care if they used the same rhyme schemes and notes. It worked for them.
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I think the problem at the point in there career is that Noel was trying to write songs as if he was still a 20 year old something from Manchester gigging in bars. Noel’s life had changed completely at that point so his lyrics became more detached because he wasn’t that kid anymore. As a whole the band wasn’t as good yes, but they had the occasional tune.
I don’t think anyone makes the argument that Noel Gallagher is Morrissey or Joe Strummer. That said, I think some of the songs really do convey some genuine emotion, feeling, and meaning. “Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” off of Definitely Maybe is a song about being in the audience of an amazing concert and looking on at the seeming glory of performing on stage and desperately wanting that for yourself despite growing up with nothing. “Live Forever” is an expression of youthful uncertainty and hope with the eventual acceptance that if we just have each other, we can still somehow make it. The whole first album (and especially B-sides like Listen Up and Fade Away) is filled with songs about the desperation of being young and poor, trying to find something to hold onto, and grappling with making the best of being working class. Be Here Now is a coke-fueled noise fest but still has some swagger. As for emotional depth, that is harder to find on that record.
I’ve always been curious as to how a Beatles cover band could garner so much press.
Guess you could say that Fleet Foxes is a Beach Boys cover band then, right? What about Wolfmother being a Sabbath cover band? What about Springsteen being a Dylan cover band? What about Zeppelin being a Willie Dixon cover band? What about La Roux being a Yaz cover band? On and on and on…
STOP THE CLOCKS! Godamn, it’s been, what? Almost a decade that this song has been kicking around and we finally get to hear it. Psyched.
That’s not the only one from the tracklist.
Stop the Clocks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uidygBUsVI)
Record Machine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NGSLB2F0cg)
If I Had a Gun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20cSWSnmNW4)
Everybody’s on the Run (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIwSipxNbZc)
Be Here Now is a pretty killer album (even before you consider that, according to a lot of interviews, Liam and Noel can’t remember the majority of the recording sessions).
Noel Gallagher has been great through out his career. There are fantastic songs on each of the Oasis albums and he is much more versatile then he gets credit for. Falling Down off of their last album is one of the best he has ever written, same with The Importance of Being Idle off of the one before that. Liam really fucked things up towards the end. Especially the songs he wrote(save for Songbird)…
You can’t just blame the split on Liam. True, he’s an obnoxious brat, but they both are really, and you can’t land the blame on solely Liam just because he wrote bad songs. He’s a legendary rock singer and frontman… Though if I had to go for a drink with one of them it’d definitely be Noel.
I didn’t blame the split on Liam. Noel called it quits, after all. I meant sonically he fucked it up. His voice got really bad and he had very little range. It just prevented them from exploring new ground. Which is why Noel has so many vocals on the later albums. “Fucked up” was a little harsh on my end. Liam had a vision of rock and roll, and he stuck to that.
Completely agreed about him being a legendary frontman. His presence on stage is immense. The greatest intensity which completely made up for his voice going. I always enjoyed seeing them live.
I can’t believe these guys are still talking about each other. I mean, they must love it. Look how much detail they go into. I think the band is just an excuse for them to be able to spout these insanely, self-involved dialogues about each other.
It’s too bad I will never be able to offer an unbiased opinion about this, considering Noel Gallagher is a tool.
” Liam Gallagher has already deemed it shite.”
Hahahahah
To be fair, Liam Gallagher has probably deemed his wife and kids shite.
Wow, what a bunch of dorks on this thread. Oasis has made great music over the course of their career. It’s not deep lyrically and it’s not meant to be. If you want lyrical depth go listen to Blonde on Blonde or Blue by Joni Mitchell. Oasis are more about a spirit and and attitude communicated through some amazing tunes. They’ve been incredibly successful and influential because their music connects to people that are tuned into what they were doing. They are the last of the great British bands and belong in the class of the Stones, The Who, and The Kinks. Instead of reading biased press articles about Oasis, try to actually listen to the breadth of the catalog instead of repeating lazy critical assessments and stupid tabloid headlines…or better yet, go listen to all those albums you bought because you were told by critics that they would make you cool and hip (Tune-Yards anyone?).
I bought the first Tune-Yards album when about 50 people knew who she was, and I am someone who is very hard on singer/songwriter types and pretty much anything that doesn’t somehow involve an electric guitar. I liked it because it was distinct, soulful, uninhibited, and personal music. She was playing a ukelele and using a loop pedal and fusing styles of music that I normally wouldn’t listen to (excepting the Slits and the Raincoats) into some kind weird rock amalgam that was utterly charming and had some backbone. And wow, those vocals. The bare-bones solo performance she gave at her first SXSW appearance a couple of years ago to a small circle of people remains in my mind one of those magical SXSW moments that justifies all of the brutal heat and walking one must endure at that insane (but also insanely wonderful) festival. Oasis have no business being mentioned in the same breath as those bands you just mentioned, and for all their pomp and swagger and millions of dollars, they never gave a performance as great as Merrill Garbus on her worst day because, for the most part, they steadfastly refused to bare their souls. And if you think that Oasis were the last of the great British bands, then you are way, way out of touch with music, and I actually feel bad for you, not just because you haven’t the credibility to be taken seriously in a music discussion, but because you have obviously missed out on so much music that is worthwhile. I’ll leave you with this: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Liam-Gallaghers-Tambourine/118707031473994?sk=wall&filter=12#!/pages/Liam-Gallaghers-Tambourine/118707031473994?sk=wall
You’ve definitely got your ‘I Listen To Bands That Don’t Even Exist Yet’ t-shirt on right now. Been listening to all kinds of music for over 40 years. To say I am ‘way, way out of touch with music’ made me crack up. I enjoy visiting the fringe, I just don’t think it’s a country worth setting up a home in most of the time. And what the hell does ‘…(Oasis) never gave a performance as great as Merrill Garbus on her worst day because, for the most part, they steadfastly refused to bare their souls’ mean? Bare their souls? You’ve been sold something by someone that demands you ask for your money back. “Bare their souls’ is one of those silly intangible phrases you hear in repeated by people who think they have figured out what art is (or at the SXSW cool-con). What about just having tens of thousands of people singing in unison at the top of lungs while the singer stands stoically singing into a microphone? I think that’s fairly tangible evidence of a successful musical performance myself. Think Merrill makes such a powerful connection with multitudes of people like that? Surrrrrrrre she does. (No offense, Merrill, I’m sure you’re a nice person :-)
Anyway, I leave you with this: ‘One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.’ – Frank Zappa
you freaking nailed it. and thank god I don’t know who Tune-Yards are!
My point had nothing to do with me being totally awesome for listening to obscure bands. Frankly, I wish there were a lot of mainstream stuff worth listening to, but unfortunately this isn’t the ’60s. In your previous post, you tried to make it sound like the only reason anyone would listen to Tune-Yards is to be one of the cool, hip kids. My point was that I liked her for reasons that had nothing to do with what anyone else thought because, at the time, virtually no one was thinking about her. There are actually very few people who listen to indie music to conform to some preconceived notion of “cool.” The people who disagree and perpetutate the hipster myth are usually those who are just too close-minded or lazy to look for bands to listen to outside of what is spoonfed to them. I don’t think I could change your mind because you are mindless, like the people you describe who are apparently content to sing along to what is really a jingle being blasted through large amps.
The reason most all bands are obscure, especially in this day and age of self-publishing artists with wide access to audiences via the internet, is that their music doesn’t connect with enough people to become ‘mainstream’. I don’t know about you but as an artist wouldn’t you want to connect with more people than fewer? U2 does a great job in doing that. So did Oasis. If Merrill knew how to create music that touched millions, she’d do it, don’t you think?
Although I like Tune-yards t and one of the first records I ever loved was Definitely Maybe, you don’t get your point across by bashing other people’s tastes in music. Oasis’s music is more than just a jingle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iul4SBlHIf8). Watch that and say that song means nothing. At the same time, it is unfair to assume someone simply likes music because it’s cool. People said the same thing about numerous other bands that we now regard as great.
Yes tbonespop, the most popular music is usually the best. Oh wait, only an idiot would think that, and U2 is boring. I would argue that most people do not really connect with popular music; they simply consume it like they would a carton of milk or a box of cereal. Not that it matters at all, but as long as you brought it up, all of the Tune-Yards performances I attended at this year’s SXSW were completely packed. In the ’60′s, the people that ran record labels were people who loved music and had good taste in music. The general public will always first gravitate toward the simplest music that is most readily available to them, especially if it is wrapped in a nice shiny package. When people who were first and foremost businessmen, not music lovers, took over the music industry, the “artists” that received the most backing were the ones with the most marketable images and music. The tastemakers had no taste, but people continued to follow the big labels blindly because people tend to be lazy and close-minded about art unless they are pushed to be otherwise. I don’t have anything else to say to you; you clearly don’t know anything about music. I don’t even know how you found your way to this website.
Wastelander, like so many before you on this thread, you apparently did not read my posts and are actually reinforcing points I already made. I said I thought Oasis’s first two albums were good, and to be more specific, I really like Don’t Look Back in Anger. All but one person on this thread has referred to the first two abums every time they wanted to defend Oasis. My stance has always been that since the first two albums were good and the rest of their output was mostly silly and disposable, Oasis should have broken up and Noel should have retired a long time ago.
Wow. You really like Don’t Look Back in Anger? Don’t you know that Noel ripped off that chorus chord progression (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA-2hl1Vbc) and that the intro is Imagine? Shame on you. I thought (unlike myself who clearly doesn’t ‘know anything about music’) you would eschew any music that was a blatant rip. Tsk tsk. Guess you have some populist weaknesses that indict your musical superiority.
And this lazy line about Oasis only releasing 2 good albums is usually repeated like bleating sheep by people who never bothered to listen to the albums after Morning Glory because Oasis fell out of favor with the critics. My intuition tells me you don’t have the balls to admit you like anything post-Morning Glory because 1.) you haven’t listened to it, and 2.) you would lose your precious music cred with your too-cool SXSW journo snobs if you did. The only thing silly and disposable are your arguments.
lol
How’s about we hold off on all this squabbling before we even hear one track off the new record…shall we?
Not squabbling about Noel Gallagher’s new project. We’re discussing Oasis. They broke up 3 years ago. Please read the posts before trying to moderate them next time.