Oasis, Wonderwall - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 15 мар 2023
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For the second sound-sample of the 90s in this rapid overview of each decade, this is my first introduction to a band which had tremendous success in the 90s. Hailing from England, they are said to resemble the Beatles, which must be a coveted comparison for any band!
Here’s the link to the original song by Oasis:
• Oasis - Wonderwall (O...
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She’s slowly recognizing the evolution of popular music because she’s hearing the influences of older bands on the more recent bands.
The Beatles on Oasis and Pink Floyd on Soundgarden.
Great video.
Yes, and luckly that was the point. When we go back for a detailed study, it will all become clear.
It's hard to describe how utterly massive this song and Oasis were in the UK in 1995.
And much of the world.
Hailed as the next Beatles but didn't have the longevity and nowhere near as prolific.
@@steve8510 Yeah, the 3rd album burst the "next Beatles" bubble.
@@steve8510that's coz oasis were better
@@oasis4185 Aside from the fact they were worse in every metric.
You are quite right to pick up on The Beatles influence. The Oasis sound is highly reminiscent of mid-60s Beatles, such as Strawberry Fields Forever. The Gallagher brothers worshipped The Beatles. Even this song, Wonderwall, is named after a film soundtrack composed by George Harrison of The Beatles from around 1968.
You guys are so early, you went back in time, good job youtubez!
David Bennett, a music RUclipsr and Beatles fan, called Oasis a Beatles tribute band.
Unfortunately the brothers, Liam in particular I think, are extremely unpleasant people.
I see Oasis as a mixture of The Beatles,and The Stone Roses,another important influence for the band.
@@paulhagger3895 No, they're not. They're very friendly and funny.
There's no-one on this planet that hasn't heard this song. It's the first song from the 90's to get a billion streams on Spotify.
☠️☠️
Well, if we assume that some people just never consciously listen to any pop music and that some people listened to this song on Spotify more than once, there might still be quite a few people out there who never actually listened to Wonderwall, at least not the full song or deliberately.
From 1994 to 2000 Oasis was pure gold
Oasis had a single called, "Whatever", which has an orchestral backing and echoes some familiar classical pieces.
As does The Masterplan. As good a song relegated to a b-side as any you'll hear.
Whatever is a great, great Oasis song.
Have any of you heard the mtv acoustic version of whatever on youtube it's a tune even without the orchestra. I think it's mtv must be an English version as it has Devina Mcall hosting it from 94. P.s The Masterplan and Whatever, Aquiesce should have been on Be here now.
@@paulanthony5274On the same mtv concert is the best version of Live Forever, at least to me.
'What's The Story Morning Glory' is pretty close to being a masterpiece.
And it’s not even their best album. Says alot about Oasis.
It is, imo - one of the best album from the 90s and one of the most influential record ever
It is a masterpiece
@@BreakneckTVWhich one is to you then? Definitely Maybe or The Masterplan?
@@esmeltorlath all are masterpieces to me don’t get me wrong. I like Definitely Maybe even better personally.
While you're at it, be sure to check out Oasis' "Don't Look Back in Anger." As a classical musician, you'll hear the subtle tones of Pachelbel's Canon in the background. Oasis is one of my favorite bands - there are so many fantastic songs to choose from.
"I do like this" talking about one of the most loved sounds of this decade. 😂
Eleanor Rigby would be a real treat for her 😄
❤ All the lonely people…… ❤
Absolutely. Classical backing, and just an iconic piece.
She needs to definitely do it sometime in the future.
The cello was a mellotron, which uses tape loops of analog sounds when you press the keys.
I thought it sounded like a mellotron. Should have checked the comments before leaving my own.
It is a Cello on the official video.
Everything I find says the recording is a mellotron.
I thought it was a cello but now that I listen closely it has that Mellotron thing that I can’t describe.
Agreed, It is my understanding that there were no stringed instruments (less guitar and bass, although they are fretted instruments) on the album Whats the Story Morning Glory. Good call!
This song will out live us all
Good song and arrangement. Great commentary that added to my appreciation. Thank you and all the best to you all.
I'm now obsessed with your reactions! Your perspective as a Classical musician gives these reactions a completely unique feel! Love it
Loved your enthusiasm and open mindedness. Keep up the good work Amy.
You should check out the Oasis song "Whatever". There's loads of violins in that one and it's an amazing song.
couldn't agree more.
@@JoeyAllen08 😎👍
Very much look forward to a in-depth analysis this song! That would be wonderful.
Yes, please do an in depth video! 💯
Loved your review ❤ My favorite song of the 90s if not of all time.
This is why I love these reaction videos. To get a classical musician to not only listen to this tune, but like it! Great video!
I love this song. Takes me back. The 90s and the 60s in my opinion were the best decades in music.
This is a certified classic piece and also a frequent beginner level song to learn to play. The open chords are different from the E minor/ G major ones that are often taught first. This is because they all fit into the E minor blues scale, not Em octave scale.
You really can’t go wrong with Oasis. So many great tunes.
It is amazing that not knowing, you hit it perfectly with the Beatles huge influence in Oasis music. I love your musical input and your intuition too.
Oasis is my favorite rock band of All Time! Top of the top for me anyway. It’s funny when we lived in France and my sons were small. I used to bast this, it was in the 90s. My told me he used to hate it when I did that. Now he is an adult they are his favorite band of all time.
I liked that Amy liked this. With regard to the cello, it made me think of other great 90s songs, by The Verve, especially Bittersweet Symphony. Cheers, Chris (UK)
Crazy thing is. the symphony part of "Bittersweet Symphony" was originally an orchestral arrangement recorded in 1965 by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra, as a side project for the Rolling Stones song "The Last Time". There was some copyright issues that were eventually resolved when Mick and Richards asked/told the record company to turn or the right to use the music back to the Verve.
@@gtrgar4561 that’s pretty cool of them to tell the lawyers to shove it basically in support of other artists
I like Live Forever better. But yeah I always associate Bittersweet Symphony with the movie Cruel Intentions… we were underage and snuck in the movie theater to see it. 😂 Now I feel nobody really pays attention to that stuff, but that was around the time suburban parents were railing against Marilyn Manson and Eminem. Blaming them for their parental failures.
But also I remember that The Verve Pipe had that song Freshman out around the same time and it was weird that they had similar names.
Ride. Please say Ride.
Glycerine by Bush is the ultimate 90s cello song. Most people don't even realize that it has no percussion, only cello for the bass.
I was ready to bet on Radiohead's "Paranoid Android" as the second song, but this also makes sense.
I believe you would find Radiohead interesting, by the way.
Me too. Picking 2 songs to represent the rock evolution in the 90's it has to be 1 from the grundge era and 1 between the alternative rock (Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, etc) or the nu metal.
For the second pick I would choose something from the OK Computer album (1997), like "Paranoid Android".
By the way, if she liked the cello from "Wonderwall", I wonder how she would feel about Smashing Pumpkin's "Disarm". Well...
Apologies , just watched the little angel video you have shared, congratulations she’s beautiful 👌🏻 reminds me of when my three daughters were born 😊
This song is a living legend in my life! As the last song in your History of Rock Session, this song has a big meaning in my life. This is one of the songs, if playing in the clubs oder pubs our group of friends visited, we sing and dance....make the floor our own ;-)
And years after, on some of the marriages of this friends, the song was surely played again...and again we sang and dance to this wonderful piece of music.
This, for me, is a evergreen. A legendary song! Thanks for listening to this and share your thoughts with us.
Thank you for you're videos! They're so cool for real. Also. Oasis brings be back to being so very young but I'm the youngest sibling
Oasis The master plan is a must. Especially, from the MTV music live
Wonderful song!
There actually WAS a band called Wonderwall six years or so later! 😄 They were a German girl trio singing Folk-Pop songs in English, and they had a hit called 'In April' in Germany (where I'm originally from, and also not long before I moved to NZ) 🙂 I found out only last year that a friend of mine had played the guitars on their recordings! 😀
I love your channel! I’m going to recommend Steely Dan again, because you are going to have your mind blown. They are perfectionists and weird, like many classical composers in that sense. Their style is not like anything else- they are considered a rock band but they are a genre unto themselves.
AJA!!!! 😃
Reeling in the years with a Steely Dan recommendation, i second the motion :)
@@Tommy-he7dx But... Steve Gadd on drums!!!! 😃😃
@@mikes9305 If we're dropping the Steve Gadd bomb, can we please use the correct reverence....."The LEGEND that is Steve Gadd" :)
The man has more credits to his name than Elon Musks future wealth :)
I only dropped the "Reeling..." reference simply because My Bad, for some reason Steely Dan have totally slipped my mind, but that is changing right now, I Currently have "Can't get a thrill" Blasting out and educating the neighbours about good music :)
@@Tommy-he7dx 😄
I'd like to see a gear tour of that room x
Once again, that smile is totally worth it.
So glad you included brit pop in the 90s rock do check out Don't look back in anger by oasis
Her saying “I kind of like this” to hearing one of the most popular songs of all time is so wholesome and funny
So glad you like this a great 90 song
Love your perspective on these pieces. The one thing that seems overlooked is the vocal style. The attitude, the brash young man thing. A lot of appeal is surely how we all relate to the energy of the performer. How much are they invested in the song.
Vocals are really the stand out thing about this song
Thanks Amy ❤
Sometimes simple is fucking classic!!!!
Love this, especially being from North West England. Oasis's first album is their highlight for me...raw and full of good memories of the time. At this time...I would be intrigued to see the Rock Virgin's reaction to THE UK artist of the moment, Ren, and his live one-take song-cum-piece-of-theatre 'HI REN'. A masterpiece of our time.
"This reminds me of The Beatles." You just made Noel's day.
Lol, I was thinking the same thing.
Brothers in Arms, The Boxer, and Wonderwall.
Yay! She likes the same music I like.
Amy, I am from Germany and a big fan of Prog Rock and naturally of your channel.
You are a wonderful Harp player and i like it when Rock groups use your instrument.
I want to introduce to you a very special Song from JonAnderson, singer of yes.
It is from his first solo Album and it is called:
Dance of ranyart/olias
It is so beautiful and i think you like it
By the way, I am seventy years old
I recommend you do a series of "best of". You pick one of the artists and react to their best songs, perhaps even two songs in one video, so it doesn't take to long to get through. You could Start with Elvis and then continue through the decades. Just an idea. That way you would get much better picture of what some artists are about and rock in general.
I KNEW Amy would go for later 90s rock! I’m biased because that’s when I started really getting into rock music, but there’s just so much there that’s so appealing, even if it doesn’t get quite the same reverence that older songs and bands get.
In particular I'm not worried about what songs are chosen, instead I'm coming to this place because I like music. In fact, I like to learn about music listening to it, because I've never studied theory. Amy is an incredible opportunity for me in that sense... she knows a lot, and at the same time she's so humble and candid. I agree that Amy is very special, and at the same time I like this project very much. I hope that soon I'll have time enough to follow Amy's course and learn some theory. It would be amazing.
Oasis often had a very long vocal melody progression in the verse (verse + pre chorus) which is relatively rare in rock.
Like all music genres, it's matures as time goes on.
I'm glad you enjoyed this song Amy, I also like it. For whatever reason, Oasis wasn't that much on my radar back in the 90s (my 30s). I would hear a few of their bigger hits from time to time, but not very often. I'm sure it had to do with what radio stations I listened to. I was hearing a lot grunge, other 90s alternative rock bands, and a little bit of fairly mainstream metal (Metallica, Megadeth, Tool, etc.). I know they were huge in the UK, and also Europe, and I am guessing some markets in the US. I have listened to their music more in recent years than I did back then and much of it I really like now.
Somehow, Oasis never interested me. Even the so-called similarity with The Beatles I find shallow, maybe even more than comparing Marillion to Genesis. But there are far worse things and I can understand they may be interesting to many people.
In the 90s, I would be mostly exploring 70s rock, jazz, blues, some early metal, having fun with the electric guitar... What the music industry was feeding radio and TV in general didn't (and doesn't) really interest me, though I eventually grew more fond of grunge. "Money Good, Napster Bad" no, but Megadeth and Tool, oh yes.
I find interesting that Amy gives quite a bit of attention to production work, from arrangements to mastering. It makes perfect sense, actually. 👍
@@Pedro_MVS_Lima Great perspective Pedro. How successful were they in Portugal in the 90s? When I said they weren't that much on my radar back in the 90s, I think it was just that they never really stood out to me. I think if I really liked or even disliked them back then they would stand out more in my memory of that time. I am guessing I was probably just indifferent, and spent my time listening to a lot of the other 90s bands instead. I became more aware of their importance later on, so I started paying attention to more of their songs. I won't argue against this choice like I have against some other choices, because I recognized how influential they were in the UK. And the UK is in need of a spot. The UK bands just should have shown up in the 70s when they were having a huge impact in the US and the rest of the world. She did the Beatles in the 60s, but that wasn't enough to represent the huge impact UK bands had on the rock of the 60s and 70s.
@@LeeKennison I really don't know for sure, as I didn't live it, I rather went through it, but I recall they were played a lot, maybe too much of a lot at that, and I intentionally tried to ignore them as much as I could, as my interests lied elsewhere and I had a career and family life.
I guess their popularity at the time accompanied the huge airplay they were getting, that's how the entertainment industry goes and, I admit, I'm not at all at peace with that principle, as it kind of reminds me of a lie being repeated too many times. As for representing the 90s, I don't think Oasis is a bad choice, actually.
Regarding influences, I have the good fortune of being able to easily hear on the media stuff that will not get any meaningful airplay in the USA or the UK. In that respect, I think the 90s were good times for many portuguese bands, some of them did creatively incorporate portuguese musicality in more contemporary settings, and I think these are being quite influential in here nowadays. Maybe those will sound a little odd or surprising to other cultures, maybe not, but then again, it may be fun to try different things.
@@Pedro_MVS_Lima Similar to me in a lot of ways. One of the things you mentioned was having a career and family life. Since I was in my 30s, and my tech career took up a huge amount of my time (both at work and outside work), the importance of music took a secondary role for me, so I didn't focus on it like I did from the late 60s to early 80s. In the late 80s I was more focused on classical music and jazz. The 90s brought me back to rock, but not with the same intensity I had when I was in my teens and early 20s. So my mental bandwidth was much more limited on what I could focus on. I will have to check out some Portuguese rock sometime. I am more aware when I hear Spanish influences in other bands than I am at noticing any potential Portuguese influences. Although I wouldn't be surprised if what I am sometimes thinking is a Spanish influence, may actually be a Portuguese influence. Not sure how similar these influences might sound to the uninitiated.
But they were big in America, just not maybe the top of the charts.
See from comments below you mention the Beatles. I remember being in a record store in the 90s and they were playing the Beatles white album. Some kid asked if it was the new Oasis! 😅
In between again a good song with real melody. 🙂
Does she take requests? I would love to hear her thoughts on Steely Dan. Kid Charlemagne or Deacon Blues or Babylon Sisters. It would be awesome!
Kansas has a nice stringed instrument section in Dust In The Wind.
If you like Wonderwall, it's worth checking out the "Stop the Clocks" version. I really like that remaster.
Or Mike Flower's Pops version 😂
Live Forever
Wonderwall is actually a late 60s film scored by George Harrison and input from The Fool art collective (see Eric Clapton's SG during the Cream era). I remembered Roger Daltrey of The Who being in it, but digging in I don't see it - and I no longer own the film. Anyway, I think the song is reaching back to a rock history touchstone.
Catchy as hell.. Liam had a great voice
I missed this First Listen and Reaction from Amy when it premiered. Love the song and the Gallagher brothers had a few other fab songs. Interesting Amy referred to the Beatles, as it is well known that Oasis are big Beatles fans, and have a similar background coming from the Liverpool/Manchester area and of Irish descent.
They make me smile big, too...
Please do a deep analysis of it👍👍
I never liked this song quite as much as I felt like I should. I like it better now :-) I really look forward to the in-depth analysis on this one. I think what threw me off of a lot of later music was that the instruments seemed to all get mushed together and it was hard for my ear to separate it. I like to hear the individual instruments. I've been listening to an old The Doors song and a CSNY song on good headphones lately. In those, with headphones, the individual instruments were "placed" in a location between the ears.
So, there is one instrument in far left, one in far right, one in center right, etc. And that makes it much easier to hear the individual instruments as one would if it were live. For some reason, the music producers or mixers or whatever they are called stopped using stereo, it seems.
This bothers me especially in Tori Amos (my favorite musician). Some of her songs have a great deal of subtle little sounds and/or many different instruments and little backing vocals chiming in at unexpected times, and you can't QUITE make it out as well as you'd like to. It's just this big wall of sound.
Maybe some people like the big wall of sound, but I don't. I honestly haven't listened to this particular song on headphones, so I don't know for sure if this is one that has the big wall of sound, but it comes from a time when that's what many of the songs were like, and I bet I would always have thought they were higher quality (and not just some pleasant almost-pop song) if they didn't do that.
Listen to Ryan Adams version of Wonderwall. D
You have to try “Common People” by Pulp.
If you are doing 90s and like cello, listen to Therapy? Either song Stories or Bad Mother and hear electric cello used in an actual band dynamic not just overlayed strings. It adds a great dimension, fits between the guitar and bass. You may find that interesting
GOT HER!
I've heard this many times; but I never noticed the cello before.
Hi Amy. Someday listen to Mike Oldfields Tubular bells. He plays 10 instruments and composed and arranged the album.
I personally think Tubular Bells 2 was the best version. TB 1 was good, TB3 was a disappointment, TB Millenium was...
I would absolutely love it if you listened to the The Masterplan which is a B-side to Wonderwall.
(Not to be confused with the Oasis B-side album also named The Masterplan.)
Favourite Oasis song, lyrically and musically.
So much Beatles. It’s intentional. “All the roads we have to walk are winding.” “The Long and Winding Road” by the Beatles.
You're so adorable! 🥰
Can you do The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony? Would be great.
Awesome channel ❤
It is on my list.
@@karlsloman5320 Thank you. I appreciate it good sir.
No surprise it reminds you of the Beatles. Oasis LOVED the Beatles more than anyone.
Weil, I can‘t do Wonderwall 😉 will be back for the discussion. ❤
Don't know how much he had to do with the actual composition and production, but Noel Gallagher's a musical genius. Each time he and his High Flying Birds hit the local festival and they play Don't Look Back in Anger (Oasis song, with which he references David Bowie and John Lennon), and 10s of thousands of people sing along to this masterpiece it just takes my breath away.
Don't know if I can post links, but here's the last one of those iterations: ruclips.net/video/YOT4TdalCdU/видео.html&ab_channel=lllukplahM (Got to love that Arctic Monkeys background hanging at the top of the stage, and that Manchester City flag, mind you this wasn't even the year he brought out Vinnie Kompany) And so Sally can wait... 💔
And for people thinking it's just the people in front singing along: I've never watched him from the front, always from somewhere in the middle, there's people in front of me, people around me and people to the back of me singing along. It's pretty much everyone. It's like kind of like that one time Paul McCartney came and everyone was singing "Hey Jude" for like an hour after. These are the GOATS.
Agreed!
Renaissance song of Scheherazade album version. PLEASE
Try Whatever also by Oasis - some nice strings on that as well
Ohhh my god🙀🙀
Liam have One of the worlds best voices
Not listened yet, will after working this evening...but cudos for the second 90s choice being Britpop! Most people on the western side of the Atlantic ignore that. I have to admit though, the only Britpop band I really liked were Pulp. Different Class really is one of the best rock albums of all time. Wonderwall is a decent song though....
Yes. I’m impressed Karl had waded into Brit Pop. So will his lesson actually discuss the genre, Blur, & the Battle of Brit Pop? I hope so.
My favorite band. Yes, this song is massively overplayed, but in the end, we all end up singing it!!🤣
Exactly, I came into work this morning and song belting out on the radio in the dept I walked through was this song, I couldn't help but sing along,
Please try Bjork
If you're still open to suggestions for 09s rock songs and assuming you like the cello here, definitely check out Disarm by The Smashing Pumpkins.
It's mid 90s (1995) rather than late but I'll let that slide. 🙂 Oasis have so many great songs, even their b-sides were top quality.
Black Hole Sun- album released March 1994.
Wonderwall - album released October 1995
You got two MID 90s songs this cycle, not an early and late like earlier cycles
Although I tried to space songs out, I did not get too caught up in it, because sometimes haveing a song from the beginning of a decade would then be too close to one at the end of a decade, i.e. 1979 and then 1981. It is more about getting a cross section of what was going on, in this case Grunge, vs Adult Contemporary. But your point is well taken. I think I have about 70 songs from the 1990s to go through with Amy, so there will be lots that are close together. Thanks for the comment.
You’d probably enjoy Whatever by Oasis more, has more classical feel with violins etc. Always been one of my favourite Oasis songs.
Love to you all from Scotland💙🏴
Funny how much a cello can add to a song even when it doesn't do much that's interesting. Just a minimal ostinato pattern but the whole texture of the song is transformed.
It's not a cello but created using a mellotron.
I find the constant separation of music by decades at the naughts trouble some. The 5's tend to actually group music history in a much cleaner fashion. 85-95 was an amazing 10 years for music just as 65-75 also was. Peace/JT
Listening to you saying how much you like it, I wonder if you would have appreciated it that much if you hadn't listened to and analyzed other songs previous to this one.
If you like this you’ll love Whatever or Masterplan by Oasis.Both have Orchestras in them.
I love that she likes this
Oasis The Best siiuuuuuu 🙊👌
I think, given that you've been exploring The Beatles and Oasis, you may also be interested in a group called The Stone Roses. They stand in between The Beatles and Oasis. They have a number of songs on their eponymous first album that might be of interest to you.
Nice. Its much better while you comment during the playing of the song
Tambourine. There were quite a few bands from the 90s that used classic string instruments.
Maybe you now need to do all the Manchester bands including the smiths joy division /new order stone roses happy mondays etc
All Grea bands... Of course New Order is considered to have done the first EDM song with Blue Monday.
Oasis is my fav band and I’ve got a giant record collection. They used to say Oasis had a “wall of sound”. That’s what u are picking up on. Something about Noel Gallagher’s (songwriter and guitarist) songwriting. Oasis speaks to me much moreso than the Beatles. Also, Liam Gallagher (Noel’s little brother and lead vocalist) has a very distinctive voice. U either kinda love it or hate. I love it. Notice the blues notes in his voice throughout the song on the “maybe’s”, etc. As a guitar player, I find your analysis interesting. P.S. Noel wrote every album by ear. He knows zero music theory but he’s one of those that is very gifted.
3:00 "I kinda like this" well I'm not sure many people hate this song. Haha ❤😊
4me this song noel trying combination acoustic nirvana"the man sold bla bla unplugged " & tightrope THE STONE ROSES..