OASIS: The Art Of The Outro
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2021
- At a time when most songs in the charts lasted 2-3 minutes, Oasis released an album in which many songs were twice that length - and it went to #1.
Join James Hargreaves to dig under the surface of four songs from 'Definitely Maybe' (each one increasingly more complex than the last) and to examine the important function of one of Oasis' least appreciated strengths - their outros.
Listen to 'Sometime Tomorrow' here - open.spotify.com/track/2JumRs...
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Many thanks, JH.
Slide Away is probably the strongest outro on the album.
Agree, or live forever. Just wish the 'don't know, don't care, all I know is you can take me there' part was slightly louder in the mix
Yeah it's immense
Thats the only good thing about it..the song itself is dreary
I'd add Bring It On Down to!
Always thought that dragged like fook tbf
Bonehead during Be Here Now sessions: What's the chord sequence for the outro then?
Noel: THIS CHORUS IS SO FUCKING AMAZING LETS JUST REPEAT IT 30 MILLION TIMES 🤑
Hahahahahahahahaha sounds about right
Can’t believe people don’t like Columbia?!?! What a fucking tune!! Greta video again mate! Any update on the unsigned band radio list?
Hahahaha yeah apparently there's a small hardcore of Oasis fans out there who just don't rate it as a song. I'm not one of them, I think it's banging
Really don't like it. Worst song on DM, worse than anything on MG. Tied with Magic Pie and She is love and Mucky Fingers as a 4/10 track,
PS - the unsigned radio list is still growing! Watch this space, it's coming
my favourite followed by slide away
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar awesome stuff mate, proper top bloke you are!
It's crazy that anyone could dislike it, because Columbia was THE song that convinced me that Oasis were something special. It blew my mind the moment that the guitar and drums kicked in, it blew my mind when Liam started singing and it blew my mind through every second of the outro.
It inspired me to pick up my guitar again and I haven't stopped listening to it since. It's almost like it was precision engineered to be exactly the sort of music that I love, and it cemented itself, the album and the band as my all-time favourites.
Yeah I love Columbia. Quality tune
columbia white label version absolutely outstanding
I've never really noticed this before, but now that you point it out, the outros on this album are phenomenal. :)
Yeah they are - and really unique for the time of release
In a trance😵💫 that’s exactly the way to describe it. That’s exactly what happens.
On the money James ✌🏼💙
Nice one thanks Dee-Dee
James, I started watching your videos about Oasis because I'm an Oasis fan. I looked you up on spotify to hear your own songs and they're seriously good. I was blown away.
Anyone who is into Oasis should give James Hargreaves' music a listen. You'll love it.
Well done mate.
Slide away outro haunts me every time I listen to it... it has power to make me nostalgic
Yeah it's the high point of the album for me
No as good as Live Forever - fact!
@@ThePogue95 SA outro is inch better than LF, as SA has vocals too. Of course, LF is equally legendary song...
Great video, the live outros are even better. I’ve seen Oasis and Liam live and I couldn’t put my finger on what was missing at the Liam gig and it clicked. The songs at Liam’s gig just ended
Interesting point. Liam has a great team of songwriters working for him, I'd love it if they started embracing some of these old Oasis production points
I found the same with other songs I’ve heard that have the same effect as the outros in this album. PDA by Interpol off of Turn on the Bright Lights is a great example. The outro of that song puts me in a trance
27 years later, and it is still my go to album. Columbia, always been my favourite track. I am not musical at all, but the breakdown and the explanations of the songs and Outros, pretty much explains to me why I love Columbia, Rock and Roll Star, and Slide Away. ! Keep it up!
Cheers Lee, will do
Really enjoyed this one James. Keep up the good work mate.
Amazing quality on your videos, great work
Thanks Mason! Much appreciated mate
Live forever outro is one of the most haunting outros of all time
It's a classic
I always turned up the outros of Columbia and Slide Away to maximum volume to try and get more and more out of them when I was playing guitar along with it (mum and neighbours weren't impressed lol). Finally I discover someone else gets it! Subscribed.
Lol excellent!
Thanks and welcome BV!
Really great video James it's something you don't think about but really does make a huge difference the video really inspiring thanks man ❤️
No worries dude - yeah the outros are easy to forget, but they're a massively important part
Another fantastic idea for a video, James, and a superb bit of analysis. The outdo to Rock n’ Roll Star sounds to me like it came out of a jam. I’m reminded that NG listed ‘Tonight’s the Night’ among his favourite albums of all time. That album is characterised by long jams and a deliberate looseness in the structure of its songs. I wondered if you feel that what NG has done is bring this element of old progressive rock into a pop format? Revolver was in that favourite albums list too and that’s an example of experimental pop closer to NG’s style. Love your idea of a chill-out section after the main part of the song has finished, giving you time to just linger in the trance that song has put you into. Thank you for another bright patch of enlightenment.
Cheers Steve, thanks for watching!
Great video man. Outros is one of the main things I started playing guitar.
Cheers EB, thanks for watching :)
Great video as per usual :)
Cheers Sammy!
Great video, James. Slide away has one of the great outros in music. Tony McCarroll might not have been the best drummer but his simple style worked great for the band and even Owen Morris said the band weren't quite the same again without him although I do see why Noel wanted a more skilled drummer. Great work in the rebuild of this song too btw.
Cheers Kenny! Yeah it was a lot of fun doing this one
Very cool that you've got a green screen or a background now James looks a like a lot more professional product now, I do love seeing you at your computer tho haha. So happy to see your channel growing!
Thanks man! Onwards and upwards as always :)
Very nice video as always. I hear Pulp's "Like A Friend" in the outro of Sometime Tomorrow.
Thanks! Ah interesting... I dig pulp
Live Forever outro almost sounds like David Gilmore and Slide Away outro is one of the best on any Oasis tune.
Yeah agreed
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar I couldn’t place it for the longest time till I was listening to the album version of “Live Forever” and those riffs at the end (frets 5-7 James! Those same frets AGAIN) I thought sounded at bit like Pink Floyd. Never noticed it before but it def sounds like Gilmour.
The Outro to Slide Away is something else. Even works well acoustic, search for Noel Gallagher Slide away Chicago, mind blowing!
The little solo / riff at the end of Go Let It Out... 😎
Yeah those mad Beatley chords. Pretty cool
Another cracking analysis... could you possibly do a focus on the differing outros between the album and live versions of Supersonic? The live outro is absolutely incredible, not a long jam or anything but really caps the song brilliantly unlike the album fade-out... Earls Court 95 is the best example :)
Thanks Edward
Interesting idea... may look into it in future
I love the build up outro in the Alive demo
My favourite oasis tunes are,..
bring it on down and Columbia .😉👍🎶🎶
Cracking tunes
Great video, I find that the intro to the live version of Columbia much better than the the album version , on ‘Live by the sea’ it’s one of the best versions they play
Yeah it's cool live definitely
you're a bonafide professor of rock musicology, the english rick beato. that was a really profound observation of this aspect of song composition
Thanks! I'll take that!
Been called that a lot now... Also been repeatedly told I look like Bonehead hahahahahahaha
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar nah you’ve got too much hair.
Totally agree with this - of course the Stone Roses did a fair few long outros (Resurrection comes to mind).
Wow sometime tomorrow is amazing new fan here!
Thanks XS and welcome!
The outros are so amazing because they knew if they didn’t have them Liam’s voice and the amazing impression it makes may take away from the rocking tunes, way better than it does on Be Here Now, which is a classic album for a different reason
One more effective outro strategy that Oasis used was essentially the opposite of the outro from "Slide Away". Instead of building up and getting more intense, the music would get noticeably quieter and less intense. Such is probably best exemplified by "Don't Go Away" and "Little by Little": in both songs, their massive and emotionally powerful double choruses give way to muted guitars and gentle percussion that calmly wind the songs to a close and give the listener time to process what they'd heard before.
Yeah the outro to Don't Go Away is great, those overlapping acoustic guitars. Sounds like snow / rain to me whenever I listen to it
Another fantastic outro from the Britpop era is Beetlebum by Blur - Graham Coxon's reverb-drenched guitar riff repeating over and over is just sublime
noels acoustic slide away live outro is amazing.. 2 chords ! but i love it
Yep, it's awesome, just a massive build-up, even acoustic
Slide Aways live "What For!?" Should of Been on the recorded version!! Also Bring It On Down's got a Quality Outro!! Thanks Again James
Cheers Eddy
Oh dude cigarettes and alcohol outro with Liam going “WHOO” gets me so hype every time… best gym tunes
Yeah its mega
Love the oasis "sounds " ....vocals , guitar effects, voices
Here in Canada, Digsy's Dinner is misspelt as Digsy's DINER on the back cover, I always thought it was about a restaurant. ANYways, I always loved that song, no matter what anyone including the band thinks about it. It's kind of like She's Electric off of Morning Glory, just silly but still fun. I always wished they did more stuff like Columbia. I've watched your other videos about how that song came about, cool story, but shame they never did another like it.
Sometime tomorrow is a fucking belter!!!! proper going mad at a gig tune 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed 👍👍
All around is the greatest outro of all time
-Noels nah nah nah vocals
-Liam’s vocal lines
-“I know what I know”
- “please don’t cry never say die”
- Noels lead guitar riff
Yeah All Around The World is ace
Great analysis of one of the best British albums ever made!
Also, Bring It On Down was going to be the first single, until Noel wrote Supersonic in a flash!
Cheers Paul!
Yeah apparently Tony McCarroll just could not get the drums right so they had to make other arrangements!
Mental.
Supersonic was also recorded when the band were struggling to record Bring It On Down, so maybe it was deliberate to release Supersonic.
The Rock 'n' roll star outro goes so far as to change to a different time signature - the main song is in 4/4 time, the outro starts in 4/4 but then switches to 3/4 waltz time after a few bars. We used to add this ending onto Neil Young's "Rockin in the Free World" when we gigged and it was 50/50 whether we'd all get the change right at the same time!
Nice! Sounds like a cool idea re Neil Young
T In The Park 2002 has an incredible version of Columbia if anyone wants to check it out.
nice
Can you dissect and analyse 'gas panic' ?
What a tune
May have a look at that sometime soon
I love columbia.
Yeah man!
Wooooooooooooop
Columbia's outro is a mantra
Columbia is rock and roll trance music
Yep!
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Swamp Song too! (Those songs are unidentical twins) 🤘
I love Colombia like being freed from a difficult day.
It's the song I enjoy listening to the most
It's a mega song
Yea I love Columbia, sounds good with just guitar and vocals
Great tune
❤
Would be interested in you doing a comparison of the Oasis songs that we heavily "inspired" by The Real People songs... There are quite a few!!
I know oasis fans seem to skip over that part or know little about it. Chris and Tony Griffiths helped oasis a lot and had a massive influence on them so much so noel ripped them off multiple times.
Yeah - I am looking into this. Very interesting subject
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar There are also at least 20 oasis songs that lifted bits (like T-rex intro/all the young dudes/my sweet lord solo/etc) or where the melody/intro/outro is very similar to songs by Stereophonics, The Who, Rolling Stones, The Las, obviously Beatles...
Oasis need demystified..but not as much as The La's they are they most overated band of all time..they all just hype each other up..
LOVE Columbia (by the way , d'you know why is it named "Columbia"?)
The best part about Columbia is all of the guitar lines in the tune could have been riffs for other songs on their own and noel put em all in one tune.....brilliant.
Yeah, tons of cool little bluesy licks. I may tab it out at some point
Slide away is one of the great outros
I wonder if this shows some stone roses influence - just thinking of songs like Where Angels Play, Standing Here (and many others tbh!)
Yeah could be - they did do the long outro thing first
Digsy’s Dinner is fucking awesome
Cool white background
Thanks!
i need 'sometime tomrrow' on another streaming dude!
Hi BN, do you not have access to Spotify?
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar i have only itunes and apple music dude 🥲
Hadn't noticed this and I've listened to it a lot. Needs another spin 🤔
Always fun hearing an old classic in a new light
Digsys dinner is pretty decent imo
Yeah every track on the album is mint. I just noticed that people tend to not really be bothered about Digsys Dinner for some reason. Random
Nowhere near the worst song in my opinion. I love it!
LOVE columbia
Me too. Tune
Columbia is my favourite Oasis song
I'm an absolute bastard for a long outro. A rock song is almost always exponentially better with this feature, particularly one which fades-out.
R&RS, Columbia, Supersonic, Slide Away, Some Might Say - just a few good examples of that
Also, Columbia is my favourite track from Definitely Maybe that doesn't begin with the word 'Slide'.
HA good call
Fender have now reissued CuLiFe wide range pickups…..they cost but you would really nail a vintage Tele deluxe tone….unless your deluxe was made prior to 1980.
No…I don’t work for Fender!🇳🇿🇬🇧
Pretty sure atleast 60% of the 11 million Up In The Sky streams were me.
Hahahaha it's a tune!
It probably comes from the fact that they played I am the Walrus to pad out a gig so that they played long enough to get paid. Noel was very much the driving force behind all the best decisions and the direction of the band, not just the songwriter.
Ah very interesting bit of history, didn't know that about Walrus.
It would go a long way to explaining how that mega-long outro thing of theirs developed - a happy accident
@James Hargreaves Guitar Yeah I can't remember where I read it but it wasn't the King Tuts gig, it was before that. Apparently they had to do 20 minutes or something like that to get paid in some club and they only had 3 "good" songs at the time so they ended up playing IATW at the end and just kept the outro going until they had played long enough. They did also the King Tuts gig with IATW too though. ruclips.net/video/rpozn3nedMs/видео.html
@@smitcher Very interesting info mate! thanks!
Columbia is massive man
I think it's only the guy from Oasis Podcast who doesn't like Columbia but he's amazing so we will let him off haha
Am one those people that will fucking die for columbia it is the song that made me start my own og songs
Yeah it's a top tune
I think that's one of the reasons people tend to be dismissive of Oasis's later work. Songs like the Hindu Times and Falling Down have more radio-friendly run times and tend to finish after the final chorus. With no extra time to bask in the song's atmosphere after the lyrics have finished, it could be argued that the song's emotional weight leaves less of an impact. The short-and-sweet pop single approach is still great, but maybe a bit jarring for people who have come to expect every song to be 6 minutes long 😄
Yeah I definitely preferred the longer arrangements. Like Some Might Say's outro, or Roll With It, they still did some on WTSMG, and then they went bonkers with them on Be Here Now... I think that's another thing they really lost after 2000
WHAT people dont like Columbia do they even have hears
Lol I love that tune
I thought Columbia was one of the very best Oasis’ tracks by general consensus
WHO DOESN'T LIKE COLUMBIA? I'LL FIGHT YOU!
Hahahahahahahaha I love that tune
Columbia was really just an instrumental that was played by Chris Griffiths and not sure how much Noel actually contributed to Columbia. It was a Realies instrumental with Chris writing most of the words and Liam apparently writing the chorus. Noel just "re-purposed" it, much like when he borrowed much of Feel the Pain for the Oasis song Don't Go Away...
@@badgasaurus4211 Chris Griffiths said it on the Oasis podcast, available on Spotify. You'd have to search for the episode in the descriptions.
It's episode 33
Also it wasn't a real people instrumental. Oasis had it before they met them and used to play it before Liam walked out. Chris said it was too good to be an instrumental and wrote the first verse, Liam wrote the chorus and Noel wrote the the second verse. Also according to Chris he wrote ad-libs at the end too.
Yeah my bad. I'm positive it was one of Noels chord progressions that he just showed to Chris. Chris was playing it when someone suggested they put words to it but i'm pretty sure that Noel contributed little to the lyrics. It was Chris and Liam.
True I think it was mainly Chris and Liam that wrote it
Well the Beatles started this "fashion" and of course Oasis did the same ....
I think the songs being overly long is one of the biggest downfalls of this album.
The album wouldn't be the same with Tony
Tony honestly had the most memorable drum parts
@@heggy_69 The drums at the start of live forever are just brilliant
He certainly wasn't the most technically proficient drummer, but his raw and heavy drumming style was absolutely perfect for Definitely Maybe
Yeah I love his groove and sense of energy
He played simple but his drums were loud !
Outro length to of lines of coke consumed?
hahahahaha possibly, judging by the length of the outros on Be Here Now...
It's actually the thing I hate most about Oasis. Elongated, boring outros that do absolutely nothing for me. I skip the vast majority of them. This was interesting, at least.
6:41 Columbia is one of oasis’s worst songs? Uhhhh, I’m pretty sure that title belongs to put yer money where your mouth is, Columbia is awesome.
I really didnt like most of the B-Sides from Heathen Chemistry onwards, or the half-arsed instrumental tracks. So it would be one of them at the bottom of the pile for me. The Cage perhaps.
Columbia is a 1000x better song than Slide away, I've never heard that slide away has been regarded as oasis's best tune, just bonkers.
I haven't listened to an oasis album start to finish for maybe 20yrs and after be here now I lost interest in the band.
Whatever and columbia are the only songs I have on my playlist nowadays.