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[00:01:03] Speaker B: Foreign.
[00:01:14] Speaker C: Welcome back to another episode of Rock Roulette Podcast. That's right, the crazy ass podcast that took over 1, 500 albums, stuck them in a list, stuck them in a wheel, and typically every other week we spin the wheel. She picks a record for us and we go through it track by track. We talk about the music, the lyrics, the production, the melody and the arrangement and we give it scores. Again, just a bunch of friends who love music want to do a podcast. We want to really thank the listeners. For whatever reason, man, we got a major uptick recently. Whatever it is, we thank you so much and hopefully it means we're doing something right. Maybe we some of you guys are starting to spread the word. Whatever it is, man, we really, really appreciate it. You know, keep spreading the word and reach out to us. Tell us what you like, what you don't like. Maybe some things we can tweak. We're more than happy to listen. Again, we're just a bunch of friends who love music, man. We just want to get together and do this for you guys and we really apprec Appreciate it. Tonight we are a trio. We have Frank.
[00:02:05] Speaker B: My name is Frank.
[00:02:12] Speaker C: And I'm Sexy.
[00:02:20] Speaker D: Hello everybody.
[00:02:22] Speaker C: We have Mark. Oh, hi Mark.
[00:02:24] Speaker E: What's up guys?
[00:02:25] Speaker C: And I'm sad.
Last week we celebrated the three year anniversary. Maybe it's taken three years, like I said, really made a mark last couple of weeks. We really appreciate that the way we've been typically doing it. We started with Jimi Hendrix and we've been doing the follow up to the previous album for every anniversary with A Cry of Love, which was an unfinished album where they took pieces and kind of put together and did the best that they could. I thought there were probably three or four really standout tracks on it. The rest of it to me did sound somewhat unfinished. Some of it sounded a little stuck for Hendrix and that's a compliment to him. Where does that album Stand with you. As far as his discography, there are.
[00:03:05] Speaker E: Two or three finished songs that I think are finished. Everything else is kind of piecemeal to me. I think there's lots of good stuff on there. Unfortunately, he couldn't finish it, and that's really the downfall of the record. The production wasn't as good as I would normally think from Eddie Kramer, but again, under circumstances, I understand why it's not up to par for the other three prior albums, but I thought it had a lot of good stuff on it. There's actually other stuff out there that was moved into other albums that was still recorded during that time that we didn't do. So I don't know what we'll do next year. Maybe we'll throw a bunch of those together. Who knows? But in general, I like the album. It's probably number four in all my albums of the studio stuff.
[00:03:40] Speaker C: Frank, what did you think overall of it?
[00:03:42] Speaker D: Liked it a lot. I personally listened to it again during the week. Man, I just thought to myself, wow, imagine if he actually would have been able to finish this album. I liked it a lot. I'm not a huge Hendrix fan. Not listening with the same kind of critique like a mark would. Yes. You could tell there's certain parts of it that's not done. Even the 80% completed album that Hendrix put out is better than some other bands. 100 and 110%. It's really good. I liked it a lot. And it's definitely something that I'm going to continue listening to.
[00:04:08] Speaker C: Yeah, I'll probably go back and check out the ones that I like for sure. That is that tonight we get to spin the wheel again, which we have not done in a while because we did the Audible with Pretty Boy Floyd, we did the Aussie tribute, and we did the Jimi Hendrix. Tonight we get to officially get something random, which will be fun. I guess we'll talk a little bit more about that later. But before we do that, we have our newest segment. It's our new Bets wheel. In a world where new music is not easy to find.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: Welcome to New Bets.
[00:04:52] Speaker E: All right, here we go. Here's the new Bets wheel.
[00:05:07] Speaker C: Okay, I'm gonna assume that that's driven. D R O V Y N. What it sounds like I would ask you where you got it, Mark, but I'm pretty sure you don't know.
[00:05:15] Speaker E: I have no idea what this is.
This is Karma by Driven.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: Sam.
Burn I burn you to the ground no bike get lost and don't get down I'm await the Fate I'm close to Kate and I'll do it with a smile on my face Y' all come up and you're a sa me for faith I'mma close the gate and I'll do it with a smile on my face Sam, you're going to get what's coming for you.
You're going to I'm coming far yeah I bu get lost and don't get found I will wait for fate I'mma close the gate and I'll do it with a smile on my face Y come and you're a Sam.
[00:10:21] Speaker C: That wasn't bad. I didn't like the snare sound. I didn't mind the rest of the drum sound. I like the guitar sound. Tried incorporating different pieces into it. His voice was a little bit low, I thought, when he was singing compared to the rest of it, but I thought the rest of it wasn't bad. Not bad.
[00:10:37] Speaker E: Done better by other bands. And there was a clunky switch from that other part back into the regular chorus. Is real clunky.
[00:10:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:44] Speaker C: But I kind of see that as I think they're. This is. They're brand new, so I don't know how old they. I really can't find much on them. They're from Ohio. That's all I could find. But I almost feel like, okay, maybe they're just kind of starting out, trying to incorporate little different things. I didn't mind it. The transition wasn't perfect. I agree. Was a little bit. I was like, okay. It kept my interest.
[00:11:04] Speaker D: Overall, I like the theatrical beginning with the bass. Really great. It's not my kind of metal. It was good. I liked it. Again, I agree with you. The voice didn't match the energy in certain parts. But overall, not bad.
[00:11:16] Speaker C: Yeah, the guy's a good voice. I just thought it was the production. It was a bit low at those points. That's all it was. I might go back to that one.
[00:11:22] Speaker E: I'm overruled.
Well, if you like it, let us know. If you don't like it, let us know. Let's rubber stamp it. Here we go.
[00:11:30] Speaker C: In a world where new music is not easy to find.
[00:11:37] Speaker B: Welcome to new Bets.
[00:11:49] Speaker C: What do you guys want for the wheel? Mark, you go first. If you could pick something or a range.
[00:11:57] Speaker E: I'm gonna try to throw the wheel a little bit of a change up, and I'm gonna say something. In the 70s. I've been saying grunge for a long time, and it doesn't want to do that. So I'm gonna try to reverse psychology it, Frank.
[00:12:07] Speaker D: It'll be nice to get something classic from the 70s. I agree, as always.
[00:12:11] Speaker C: I say something heavy or a little Curveball would be a not so known album from a famous person. One of those kind of anomalies in the catalog. I mean, we've gotten stuff like that before. It has happened. So it isn't definitely not uncommon on this show.
[00:12:27] Speaker E: All right, here we go.
[00:12:49] Speaker C: Oasis, definitely. Maybe this didn't fit into any of our categories, but what the hell. Big as hell, that's for sure. To set the course for a big career.
[00:12:59] Speaker E: And they're back together.
[00:13:00] Speaker C: Yeah, still together, still playing.
[00:13:03] Speaker E: So far they haven't been together.
Who knows how long they will stay together is the question.
[00:13:08] Speaker D: Will they finish the tour? That's the question.
[00:13:11] Speaker E: Without killing each other? Yes, that's the question.
[00:13:13] Speaker D: Yeah. Unlike My Jane's Addiction.
[00:13:17] Speaker E: Would that last like four shows before they tried to kill each other?
[00:13:21] Speaker D: Miserable.
[00:13:22] Speaker C: Do you guys have any experience with this record?
[00:13:24] Speaker E: Oh, I've heard this record. I haven't heard it in a long, long time, but I've heard it. This is 1994, right?
[00:13:30] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:13:30] Speaker E: This is the debut album. Album. This doesn't have their biggest song on it because that's on the next record. Song that everybody knows, even if they don't know who Oasis is.
[00:13:38] Speaker C: But there's a couple of massive songs on here, too. At least two massive songs.
[00:13:42] Speaker E: Only went platinum. Really thought it would be bigger. Yeah, Only platinum. It's kind of strange. I'm trying to see where it was in the charts.
Billboard 258. Not as big as you think as far as selling stuff, but there's gigantic songs on here. Regardless, this is a good album to come back from. Our self imposed wheel. Exile.
[00:14:02] Speaker C: Yeah, it's different, it's big. Especially compared to the stuff we've been doing recently. Technically, this would have been alternative back then. I remember what the last alternative record would have been that we've had.
[00:14:14] Speaker E: I don't know. We haven't had a lot in the 90s, believe it or not. I mean, this is not grunge. It is in the grunge era, though technically, 94 is still in grunge. Would they say that that Bush album we did was the last real grunge album, which was 96?
[00:14:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:27] Speaker E: I'm excited about this. I haven't heard this in a long, long time. Frank, when's the last time you heard this?
[00:14:31] Speaker D: Probably when it first came out. I was already a big Oasis guy.
[00:14:35] Speaker C: When the second one came, it clicked and then I Went to this one and I fell off. Going back through the catalog now. I gave up on them way too quickly, without a doubt. And, you know, my son's gotten into them now. His friends should be good. See where it all started.
[00:14:49] Speaker E: Frank's not a big fan of Brit pop.
[00:14:51] Speaker D: Not even a little bit.
[00:14:53] Speaker E: Did you think they sounded like the Beatles too much for you?
[00:14:55] Speaker D: I don't think so. Maybe certain parts, but honestly, it just wasn't my thing. There was, like, that short period of time. It felt like a lot of Brit pop was coming out already. I was just hearing a lot of Oasis, one of those two.
[00:15:07] Speaker C: Now, there was a Brit pop.
[00:15:08] Speaker D: There was, right?
[00:15:09] Speaker C: Yeah. There was this. There was Blur, Corner Shop. There was. There was a few.
[00:15:14] Speaker D: Okay. Yeah.
[00:15:14] Speaker E: So.
[00:15:15] Speaker D: All right, so I wasn't crazy. That's the 90s. There was, like, these little pockets of movements like Brit pop. You had your rockabilly, you had your big band come out during that time.
[00:15:24] Speaker E: And technically, grunge was the biggest. But it didn't last that long. It only lasted five years, four and a half years. Then it was gone.
[00:15:30] Speaker D: Well, comparison to these other podcasts, like.
[00:15:32] Speaker C: I tell my son at one point, it was just alternative.
It was all alternative. This is all on Dre back in the day.
[00:15:38] Speaker E: I'm excited. Let's do this. Unfortunately, I have to read lyrics again now that Steve is gone. Steve being back was great for me because I didn't have to read lyrics. All right, here we go. This is Rock and Roll Star, 1994. Oasis.
[00:15:54] Speaker B: SA too fast for me I need some time in the sunshine I've got to slowly ride down the things may be just too fast for me I live my life all the stars and shine People say it's just a waste of time Then they said I should be my best to be was just a day better I'll take my car I drive real far. You're not concerned about the way we are in my mind my dreams are real now we concerned about the way I feel so now I'm a rock and roll star I'm a rock and roller star.
[00:17:27] Speaker C: I think it's great. Catchy. Great.
I like these guys.
[00:17:31] Speaker E: The song is good. They know how to write a lyric. They know how to write melody. I find most of their stuff to be basic, and that's not a bad thing, being basic or songwriting. They know how to write a song. I mean, you can't take that away from them. This is not as catchy as some of the bigger stuff that they've written, but I Like it? It's good.
[00:17:45] Speaker D: It's okay.
It's not for me, but I do like the start. I like how the song kicks in, gets right in there. I like this. That part. But not for me.
[00:17:54] Speaker E: Frank is channeling Frank from the 90s.
Okay, so here are the lyrics. I live my life in the city and there's no easy way out the day is moving just too fast for me I need some time in the sunshine I've got to slow it right down the day's moving too fast for me I live my life with the stars that shine People say it's just a waste of time Then they said I should feed my head that to me was just a day in bed I'll take my car and drive real far they're not concerned about the way we are in my mind my dreams are real now you're concerned about the way I feel Tonight I'm a rock and roll star Tonight I'm a rock and roll star Are I think that anybody who's been in a band has had these things said to them. What are you trying to do? It's nothing. It's just wasting your time. Go to school, learn something. Try to do that. And this is a sentiment that's been in rock and roll since the get go. I think it's nothing earth shattering. It's a good sentiment. If this is what you do, this is the time they're doing it. They're in a band telling them, you can't do this. It's a waste of your time. Go to school, get a regular job like everybody else. It seems to have worked for them.
[00:18:57] Speaker C: Them.
It worked out well for them.
[00:18:59] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:18:59] Speaker C: And the theme of rock star. Rock and roll star is very common in rock music.
[00:19:05] Speaker E: Yeah. One of the stock things that everyone uses. This is not my favorite song from them, but it's not a bad song. His vocal stylings are a little strange, though. I can see why some people would not like the way he sings.
[00:19:16] Speaker C: He's doing that weird thing, which is funny. And I have to think about who it reminds me of. Because I want to say it's something almost hair metal. I can't put my finger on it. When he does it again, I'll see if I can nail it.
[00:19:28] Speaker E: Didn't you say that the guy from Pretty Boy Floyd? I think you did.
[00:19:31] Speaker C: He was doing some stuff that was.
[00:19:33] Speaker E: The exaggerated vocal, the way he exaggerates. It's different. But it's the same idea, though.
[00:19:37] Speaker C: Listen, don't say stuff like this with Frank, cuz He's going to say that this guy bit off of that guy.
[00:19:42] Speaker D: I'm just saying that.
[00:19:43] Speaker C: There you go, Mark.
[00:19:44] Speaker D: It's like you hear Bitty Boy Floyd everywhere.
[00:19:49] Speaker E: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that.
[00:19:51] Speaker C: You did it.
[00:19:52] Speaker E: Crap. Oh, damn it. All right, let's continue. Here we go.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: No easy way out it takes me just too fast for me I need some time in the sunshine I've got to slow it right down that's really jumps too fast for me I lift my eye from the spots and shine People say it's just a waste of time Then they say I should beat my head well, that's a little extra damn bad. I take my car, I try real far. You're not concerned about the way we act in my mind my dreams are real now you're concerned about the way I feel today.
I'm a rock and roll star, so yeah, I'm a rock and roll.
[00:21:21] Speaker C: It's not Pretty Boy Floyd, by the way. It's Johnny Rotten the Sunshine, the way he said that.
[00:21:26] Speaker E: Oh, thank God.
[00:21:27] Speaker C: Everybody relax.
That's what it was. It was definitely not Pretty Boy Floyd the way you said it. It could have been, because I did mention the way he was doing certain things, and I know Frank was going to jump on that one right away, but I wasn't sure if it was him. But, yeah, now I know who it was.
Sorry, Frank. I'm sure Pretty Boy Floyd was an influence on Oasis.
[00:21:47] Speaker D: We're gonna hear it. I'll know it.
[00:21:49] Speaker E: The only part that I don't like is that they got super lazy and they didn't write any more lyrics. They just repeated the lyrics twice.
[00:21:56] Speaker C: I think it's a common theme for him. I could be wrong, but I think it's a common theme. So be ready.
[00:22:02] Speaker E: It's a little lazy, though. Why would you use the same exact ly lyrics again and again and again?
[00:22:06] Speaker C: He's a rock and roll star, man. He doesn't have to write more lyrics, okay?
[00:22:11] Speaker E: That would be the reason lots of people don't like Oasis.
A little bit of the attitude, I think, turn people off. Did that turn you off, Frank? Is that why you don't like them? Because they think that they're bigger than they are?
[00:22:21] Speaker D: I mean, there is definitely that. They walk around with the strut. I'm like, dude, relax. You got a couple of good songs here, but relax. Okay?
[00:22:29] Speaker C: You need to watch the singer, though, in interviews and look at his X page. He's actually very down to earth and very Frank.
[00:22:37] Speaker E: Doesn't believe that whatsoever.
[00:22:39] Speaker D: Clearly, they had a very huge fan base because they. I believe they sold out MetLife. Right. That's what they're playing, MetLife.
[00:22:45] Speaker E: They're selling out every place.
[00:22:47] Speaker D: When I heard Oasis, I'll be like, okay, that's cool. We'll go and watch them at Irving Plaza or something. But clearly I was wrong.
[00:22:56] Speaker C: Were you thinking of a different Oasis?
[00:22:58] Speaker D: No, no, no. I just didn't think they were that big, that's all.
[00:23:01] Speaker E: They were really, really, really big.
[00:23:04] Speaker C: Wrong band.
[00:23:05] Speaker D: Yeah, listen, I know they were big. There were a lot of big bands in the 90s, you know, they're not so big nowadays.
[00:23:12] Speaker E: Oh, well, obviously they are.
[00:23:14] Speaker C: Well, they haven't been together for a while.
[00:23:16] Speaker D: STP was big in the 90s. So them a couple years ago, playing in a brewery, smaller venue.
[00:23:22] Speaker E: It's not really STP anymore, even though it's everybody besides Scott Weiland. Once Scott Weiland was gone. Yes, it's stp, because the guys who wrote the songs are there, but the face of that band is gone. So there's not really much you can do. You're not going to play Metlife that way. I think their first concert got sold out like, crazy fast, right? The one in their hometown.
[00:23:40] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. I mean, it was all over the news.
[00:23:43] Speaker C: I mean, not that they weren't big. Regardless, they also haven't played together in a lot. It is an event. My son and I wanted to go, but it was the tickets. I think the cheapest tickets were starting in the 200s.
[00:23:53] Speaker D: Who's opening for them? The Struts.
[00:23:55] Speaker C: I don't know. Who's opening? I didn't really look. Could be.
[00:23:58] Speaker E: They haven't played together in 20 years. Right?
[00:23:59] Speaker C: It's been a while.
[00:24:00] Speaker E: Here we go.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: Sam.
[00:24:35] Speaker C: You'Re not going to hear Van Halen.
[00:24:38] Speaker E: No.
[00:24:38] Speaker C: I know you know that, Mark. I think you have to judge these solos within the context of the song. And I think it's fine with this song. It's a little separate piece. It's kind of my bound, and you can kind of hum along to it. I think it's fine. I don't know what you think.
[00:24:51] Speaker E: Oh, yeah, you're not getting Guitar Hero vibes out of this guy. But that's okay for the song. The solo was fine. It was good. I've heard a lot worse solos. At least me. I'm sure there were people who were kids in the 90s, younger than we were, that said, oh, I picked up a guitar because of Noel Gallagher. I'm sure there were people People that said that that wouldn't be me. I had already passed that point where that wouldn't really have done it for me. I mean, I guess you could have some kind of a virtuoso playing guitar here and it still would be good. His solos are fine. I don't think I have a problem with his solo. The music's not going to be the issue, I don't think, in this at all.
[00:25:21] Speaker D: Honestly. I don't associate Oasis with guitar solos. It doesn't fit. I don't remember an outstanding solo by Oasis. But I think this here is just the right solo. It's not overpowering. It just kind of almost blends with the song.
[00:25:33] Speaker E: I think you'd be surprised how many guitar solos there are. There are more than you think there are. Because I think everyone thinks Wonderw.
[00:25:39] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:25:39] Speaker E: You know, I mean, that's all they think of. I think in general. Their solos. Almost everything. Probably.
[00:25:44] Speaker C: I believe so.
[00:25:45] Speaker E: Yeah. It doesn't really stick out, that's all.
[00:25:47] Speaker D: What was their biggest. Biggest hit?
[00:25:48] Speaker E: I remember Underworld.
[00:25:50] Speaker D: Was it?
[00:25:50] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:25:52] Speaker E: I would think so.
[00:25:52] Speaker C: I would think so. At least here in the us.
[00:25:55] Speaker E: Yeah. That's the song that everyone knows, even if they don't know Oasis generally.
[00:25:59] Speaker C: Yeah. It's Wonderwall.
[00:26:00] Speaker E: I figured it out. To me.
[00:26:02] Speaker C: I wanted to make sure because again, I'm judging by here. But you don't know sometimes what sells elsewhere. I was thinking over all.
[00:26:09] Speaker E: Just curious, how much did it sell and how high did it go?
[00:26:11] Speaker C: It sold 4.8 million units in the UK, making it the UK's biggest selling single that never reached number one.
[00:26:19] Speaker E: Wow. It never reached number one in the UK. Did it reach number one here?
[00:26:22] Speaker C: Nope. Number eight.
[00:26:23] Speaker E: Number eight. Okay.
[00:26:24] Speaker C: In the US that's still impressive.
[00:26:26] Speaker E: Yeah. Anytime you're in the top 10, man, that makes your whole career. Okay, let's play it out. Here we go.
[00:26:40] Speaker B: A rock and roll sty I'm a rock and rol sa just rock and roll it's just rock and roll it's just rock and rol.
[00:28:20] Speaker C: Wasn't too crazy about that ending. It doesn't ruin the song for me. I think it's a great song.
[00:28:24] Speaker E: The weird ending. I wasn't happy about the ending. Little slide guitar in the ending. That's a little weird for them too. It's pop music. Nothing wrong with it. And there's no more lyrics for me to read, so I'm good.
[00:28:33] Speaker C: Hey, listen, that'll make it easier for you if he does repeat a lot of stuff. Stuff. Doesn't it?
[00:28:37] Speaker E: You Know what? I was just thinking that. Yes, Frank, why don't you go first?
[00:28:40] Speaker D: Hey, listen, it is a good song, even though I'm not a fan. The lyrics are great, very well composed. I'm gonna give this seven all the way across. It is a solid song. The musicianship is there. I like the fact that they didn't go crazy with the guitar solo, that it was just enough to say, hey, here you go. Enjoy it. And the lyrical writing is great for me. Seven's across. It's great to be here. Thank you. It's quintuple seven just for Nicolo. Nikki Titty baby.
[00:29:03] Speaker C: Great. He doesn't even have to say it.
[00:29:05] Speaker E: I know.
[00:29:05] Speaker D: Clowns.
[00:29:08] Speaker E: Why don't you go next?
[00:29:08] Speaker C: I will say seven on everything except for the lyrics. The lyrics are okay. Say six on the lyric. Great song. I'd definitely go back to it again and again.
[00:29:15] Speaker E: Mark, I'm doing the same thing as you are. If he didn't short the lyrics on the second verse, I'd probably do sevens across. Produced well. It's played well. It's a good song. Ending's a little weird, but I'm not gonna really knock them too much for that. Okay, the next song is Shake Make.
[00:29:33] Speaker B: Sam.
I like me.
I want to build myself a house the se out surround me.
[00:30:39] Speaker C: This one's okay. I remember this one as well. Reminds me a bit of I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.
[00:30:48] Speaker E: I was gonna say that it's very 60s ish sounding in a certain time in the Beatles time span. That's what it feels like to me. Maybe it's his vocal and just the way it's going. I don't know.
[00:30:59] Speaker C: I think the music that's actually going on behind it is pretty interesting. There's stuff going on, the way he's playing the guitar and everything that I think is interesting. It's okay. This one.
[00:31:07] Speaker D: It's good. It's really, really good. I' trying to get into it, that's all.
[00:31:12] Speaker E: The 90s bias is still there. He can't get past it.
[00:31:15] Speaker C: Hey, he gave sevens on the first one, so.
[00:31:17] Speaker E: I know.
[00:31:18] Speaker C: Not too bad.
[00:31:19] Speaker E: What's up with that?
[00:31:20] Speaker D: Just because it's not for me, doesn't not making good music. I mean, that's what you listen to. You want to hear good lyrics, good sound, good production, all those things. So whether you like it or not, on a personal level, you can't be dismissive of those other components when. When ranking it.
[00:31:33] Speaker E: No, true. At least you're being honest. About that. Even if you don't like it, it's fine.
[00:31:36] Speaker D: A couple of weeks ago, I'm not gonna bring up the band's name. You gave us some good marks and I appreciated that.
[00:31:42] Speaker E: Doesn't always have to come back to the Floyd. Always hear the lyrics. I'd like to be somebody else and not know where I've been I'd like to build myself a house out of Plasticine Aha, shake along with me Aha, shake along with me Looks like they actually use different lyrics here with. Surprised. Yeah. All right. They're not being lazy. Let's see here.
[00:32:07] Speaker B: My friend, Mr. Star, Mr. Cle, Mr.
Living in my Eyes.
I should go with me.
[00:32:45] Speaker C: It'S growing on me I like the music. It didn't sound as plot me this time.
[00:32:50] Speaker E: I can't get the song that you said before out of my head. I keep thinking of the stupid Coke commercial from the 70s. Yeah.
[00:32:56] Speaker C: I was going to say, do you.
[00:32:56] Speaker E: Want to buy your coke by the world a Coke? Every time I hear him singing, I'm like, I'm waiting for that to happen. Maybe that's on purpose, though, because he does mention other things in the lyrics that have something to do with pop culture people. So maybe that was on purpose.
[00:33:10] Speaker C: Could be.
[00:33:10] Speaker E: Verse two is, I've been driving in my car with my friend Mr. Soft, Mr. Clean and Mr. Ben. They're living in my loft. Back to chorus. I mean, lyrics are fine.
[00:33:20] Speaker D: I do appreciate them. Get into it. I promise. I'm committed.
[00:33:24] Speaker E: He's trying. Let's continue. Here we go.
[00:33:38] Speaker B: Sa.
[00:34:05] Speaker C: More of an interlude. I really like the music. One thing about Oasis 2 is that the music is very loud. Even on the second album, Wonderwall is tame, but when you listen to the production of the first two albums, probably going in through the rest, it's very big production, not very tame at all.
[00:34:20] Speaker E: It's very loud production, but not loud. And like, bad loud, good loud, no.
[00:34:24] Speaker C: Good, leveled to big production. It's very well done. It isn't. Whatever it is now, the compression, whatever they call it now, you know, and everything, we always say, oh, everything sounds like it's at 11. All the microphones and amps, everything sounds at 11. It's not balanced. This is balanced.
[00:34:40] Speaker E: The production's good. I can't really fault that at all. The music's fine. It's good. Like I said, I'm not going to look for big, gigantic guitar solos. As long as they work and they sound good, that's what you want out of this. All right, here we Go.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: Shake along.
[00:35:18] Speaker C: With me.
[00:35:21] Speaker B: Shake around with me Shake it out with me Shake it out with me.
[00:35:49] Speaker C: Cool little bridge fits. Not much more to say. That's probably my favorite part of the song so far. The bridge. I'm kind of digging it again.
It's growing on me. Without a doubt yeah, it definitely has that melody in it. Without a doubt and I think anybody who's ever heard that and hears this will associate it. But the music is interesting. There's a lot of little things going on that I think are pretty. Pretty cool.
[00:36:10] Speaker E: Yeah, I like it. I think it's good. I don't know if I'd like it better than the prior song. I like the bridge, too. That's good. I like that they changed the chorus up to Shake Along With Me. I like that because the first couple of choruses weren't as long. I think it works better a little bit longer. Let me read the bridge. I'm sorry, but I just don't know I know you said I told you so when you're happy and you're feeling fine Then you'll know that it's the right time Then you know that it's the right time yeah, I like it. The records that I've heard, I've been a fan of. Mm. I haven't heard this record in a long, long, long, long time.
[00:36:39] Speaker C: He's a good songwriter. Are there things that are borrowed in styles that are borrowed? Sure. I think when it comes to writing a hook and a song, and whether or not I think his vocals fit as well, fits the music, you're 100% right.
[00:36:53] Speaker D: He definitely knows how to write a great song. And now I understand why he took over the duties of writing the songs for the band when he came in as the fifth member. Really good lyrics. The music is good. I can't take that away. It's great. The production. I do hear that loudness, as you mentioned, for sure.
[00:37:07] Speaker E: Sa. It's killing him a little bit. It's killing him inside. He knows it.
[00:37:10] Speaker C: Oh, it's killing Frank.
[00:37:11] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. He's dying inside because he has to say he likes this.
[00:37:14] Speaker C: Oh, well. Maybe he thought he didn't like it, but he did. It's possible.
[00:37:18] Speaker E: Yeah. Maybe by the end of this record, he'll be an Oasis fan. Who knows?
[00:37:21] Speaker C: Mark, do you remember when we did Vitalogy by Pearl Jam? You said you had written them off because of the COVID but meanwhile, that came out way before the COVID and he said, oh, I probably let them go too soon. There's definitely some good stuff. On there.
[00:37:31] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:37:32] Speaker C: Sometimes you just associate things and you don't really think about until you really listen to it. And that's why this form, sometimes it's good for this.
[00:37:39] Speaker E: I have to say, Frank, I thought I didn't like Pearl Jam after the first record and I was wrong.
So maybe this will change you up. Who knows?
[00:37:45] Speaker D: Yeah, let's see.
[00:37:46] Speaker E: All right, let's continue. Here we go.
[00:38:10] Speaker B: SA Shake it out with me Shake it out with me Shake it out with me Shake it out with me Shake it out with them Shake it out with me Shake it out again.
[00:39:36] Speaker C: The verse melody of this song was taken from I'd like to Teach the World to sing in Perfect Harmony, a song famous for being used featured in 1970s Coca Cola ad Oasis was sued and forced to paid up to $500,000. When asked about the incident, Noel Gallagher stated, now we all drink Pepsi.
[00:39:56] Speaker E: Listen, you can't take something like that and not expect that to happen. Coke didn't sue him. Whoever wrote the original song sued him. Coke had to get the rights to use that song in the commercial. I'm guessing I don't want to say.
[00:40:06] Speaker C: Got sued as well knows.
[00:40:08] Speaker E: Well, who knows?
[00:40:09] Speaker C: Meanwhile, anybody who's listening to this is probably you idiots. Don't you know what happened? They get sued.
[00:40:14] Speaker E: All right, let me read verse three and then we can do our ratings. Mr. Sifter sold me songs when I was just 16. Now he stops at traffic lights, but only when they're green. And then the chorus, and then he just changes the chorus at the end. Shake along with me Shake along with them Shake along with me. I'm gonna defer to Savino first.
[00:40:30] Speaker C: I'll make it simple. I'll say seven on production, six on everything else. I don't like it as much as a first, but I don't think. I think it's bad. I actually think that if the tempo was up a little bit more, I would probably enjoy it more. Just because it drags a bit because of the tempo. And maybe for some people it works because of the temple. But just for me personally, it grew on me mark.
[00:40:50] Speaker E: I'm pretty much gonna do sixes across except for melody. Because they stole it. I'm gonna give them a five. Other than that, it's a good song. I don't think it's better than the one prior. I know there are better songs on here that I like more than this. I don't think it's bad. I wouldn't turn it off if it was on the radio or if it came up on Spotify or anything else, I would leave it on, Frank.
[00:41:09] Speaker D: I'm with you, Mark. Sixes across. It's not as good as the first song. The lyrics are okay. Again, when you have such a great first song and you have this follow up, just going to bring it down on production. I like it. Still really good. Everything else is great. It's just overall not as good as first.
[00:41:23] Speaker E: Okay. The next song is Live Forever.
[00:41:36] Speaker B: Maybe I don't really wanna know Are you guiding? Gross.
Cause I just wanna fly lately.
Did you ever feel the pain in the morning rain as it soaks you to the bone?
Maybe I just wanna fly what if I don't want to die? Maybe I just want to breathe Maybe I just don't believe Baby, all the same as me we see things I'll never see you and I live for.
[00:42:21] Speaker C: You guys know this one, right?
[00:42:22] Speaker E: 100%.
[00:42:23] Speaker D: I think you had to live underneath the biggest hole in the earth if you didn't hear this song.
It was like the anthem of almost every Irish bar in our area was constantly playing.
[00:42:32] Speaker C: I think it's a great song.
[00:42:34] Speaker D: Yeah, it is a good song.
[00:42:35] Speaker C: Lyrics are good, music is good melody production. I've always been a big fan of this. What do you think, Mark?
[00:42:39] Speaker E: Oh, no, it's a great song. Alternative airplay 2 mainstream rock 10 in the United States. It only went to 8 in UK but it sold in the United Kingdom. 1.8 million.
[00:42:49] Speaker D: What was the billboard? Billboard 100.
[00:42:51] Speaker E: It wasn't on that really. 39 on radio songs, 2 on alternative and US mainstream rock 10. But it was everywhere. Like you said, you couldn't get away from this song. So the verse is maybe I don't really want to know how your garden grows because I just want to fly lately. Did you ever feel the pain in the morning rain as it soaks you to the bone? And the chorus is maybe I just want to fly Want to live I don't want to die Maybe I just want to breed Maybe I just don't believe Maybe you're the same as me we see things they'll never see. You and I are going to live forever. Now question the beginning part. That first melody in the verse, is that something, something else or is. I'm just remembering this song. Could be it feels like it's something else.
[00:43:33] Speaker C: Probably things throughout here you'll hear that are borrowed and it could be. Maybe. I'm gonna putting my finger on it.
[00:43:38] Speaker E: Yeah. I just didn't know if it was a Beatles thing that I don't know about or I heard. And it just is in my head somewhere. I don't remember. I always thought that it sounded like something else.
[00:43:46] Speaker C: You won't have to read a lot of lyrics here either, by the way.
[00:43:49] Speaker E: Okay.
All right, here we go.
[00:43:58] Speaker B: I don't really want to know.
Have you got it, Rose?
Cause I just want to fly lately did you ever feel a pain in the morning rain?
I just sold you to the ground maybe I will never be all the things that I want to be now is now the time to cry Now's the time to find out why I think you're the same as me we see things I'll never see.
Sam.
[00:45:28] Speaker C: Great musical piece. Fits within the song. Brings in the melodies. Great, great song. Nothing else to say.
[00:45:34] Speaker E: Yeah, the solo's great for the song. It's the best so far of his solos. I thought it was good. I don't have to read a lot of lyrics because they just basically repeat over and over and over. That, to me, is just a little bit lazy.
[00:45:43] Speaker D: Peep is how drunk people remember songs.
[00:45:48] Speaker C: The verse is the same, but the chorus. Chorus was different.
[00:45:50] Speaker E: Is it different?
Oh, yeah, a little bit. So I have to read that, don't I? Okay, let me read it. Maybe I will never die all the things that I want to be now is not the time to cry Now's the time to find out why I think you're the same as me. We see things they'll never see. You and I are going to live forever. It is a little strange to change the chorus and leave the verse the same, I guess. He uses it again and then the chorus goes back to the first one, I think.
Come on, man. I mean, you can. I mean, he's not that lazy of a writer. And people only sing the chorus anyway, so it doesn't really matter. Frank. When they're drunk, the chorus needs to stay the same.
[00:46:24] Speaker C: Not in this song. This is a song where the verse is catchy, too.
This is a catchy verse.
[00:46:31] Speaker E: I'm just saying in general. I'm not saying for this song specifically. I'm saying in general, drunk people sing the chorus.
[00:46:36] Speaker C: But, you know, drunk people belt it out.
[00:46:38] Speaker B: Maybe.
[00:46:40] Speaker E: This is very true. Yes, this is very, very true.
[00:46:43] Speaker C: He is smart, though, because the verse and the choruses both start out with maybe, so they can scream. Maybe both times drunkenly.
[00:46:51] Speaker E: We may be making fun of this, but I think that is totally on purpose.
[00:46:55] Speaker C: I'm not making fun of it, but I'm saying if you're taking it from a drunken perspective, that maybe you know, get belted out.
[00:47:01] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, well, yeah. I can tell you 100.
[00:47:05] Speaker E: And I really haven't talked about the drums. Drum sounds really good.
I don't really hear a lot of the bass parts yet because I don't know if they mix them a little low. I haven't really been paying attention, tell you the truth. I've been concentrating on. On lyrics and stuff.
[00:47:17] Speaker C: I've been listening to it as a whole.
[00:47:19] Speaker E: The drum sound is good. Sounds like drums, which is something we complain about all the time with modern music, that it doesn't sound like drums anymore or it sounds like one drum set for everybody. There was none of that going on. You had to get a good drum sound. So they got a great drum sound. Let's finish this out. Here we go.
[00:47:43] Speaker B: I just want to play Lately did you ever feel the pain in the modern way?
I consult you to the power maybe I just want to fly Want to live I don't want to die maybe I just want to breath maybe I just don't believe maybe all the same Same as me we see things I never see Got to live forever Got to live forever Got to live forever La Sam.
[00:49:40] Speaker C: Change it up a bit at the end, but that actually worked. I really like that end piece, the way he's saying, want to live forever that changed a bit. Actually became a little bit more somber at the end, but it bit. I thought it was a great, excellent song.
[00:49:51] Speaker E: Yeah. You can't not like this song. It's a great song. I've read some interesting things about Nirvana and them. Nirana wrote a tune called I Hate Myself and I Want To Die. And I was like, well, I'm not having that. As much as I like him and all that, I'm not having that. I can't have people like that coming over here on smack saying that they hate themselves and they want to die. That's fucking rubbish. Kids don't need to be hearing that nonsense.
[00:50:13] Speaker C: Yeah, I read a few of those things too.
[00:50:15] Speaker E: He liked Nirvana, but he didn't like the message they put out.
[00:50:18] Speaker C: I think just wound up getting released right before Kurt Cobain died.
[00:50:21] Speaker E: And he said that he had everything and he was miserable. He had everything and we had nothing. We still got up in the morning and it was the greatest fucking thing ever because you don't know where you'd end up at night. And we didn't have a pot to piss in, but it was fucking great. Got to give him credit for the very positivity in the middle of grunge's negativity. I'm gonna go first since I didn't go first yet. I'm only gonna say six on the lyrics cuz I would like him to not repeat the same over and over, that's all. Other than that I think I'm gonna give it an 8 across. If it wasn't for the lyrics I would give it an 8 across. Otherwise great song Frank.
[00:50:52] Speaker D: I'm giving this 7 across. It is a really good song. It's something that you heard everywhere. At one point especially late night, near closing time, you heard this song played often. What I really like about this was the guitar solo was not over overpowering. It just blended really, really well into the song. As far as the bass playing, you know Mark, I think this is more like one of those fundamental foundation of the song. If you take it out I bet you'll miss it right away. You don't hear it but it's there and it's just what the song is built off of. At least that's what I'm hearing. Nikki titty baby quintuple.
[00:51:21] Speaker E: Seven.
[00:51:22] Speaker C: I will say seven on the lyrics and eight on everything. Debating about six or seven. I do like to change in some of the lines that are used in there. Obviously he doesn't get credit for the amount of lyrics he writes.
[00:51:35] Speaker E: He's a good songwriter. I can't figure out why he can't come up with some other.
[00:51:37] Speaker C: I told you though. Did I tell you after the first one you're going to find a few of these like that.
[00:51:41] Speaker E: I mean maybe that's just the way he wants to write. He wants to go to the pub, I guess. And he can't go to the pub if you're writing.
[00:51:46] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:51:46] Speaker E: All right, here we go. This is up in the sky.
[00:52:29] Speaker B: You want to be me well that could have been cuz it be for me.
How does it feel when you're inside and you wearing the crown Making no sound that made you feel down brother Just too bad welcome to my world hey you stealing the light and made up the sh Gone out of your eye well it's just too bad welcome to.
How does it feel when you're inside?
[00:53:35] Speaker C: You have to read more lyrics this time, Mark. Sorry. I think it's another great song. I think the melody is great, the music is great for the production is great.
[00:53:42] Speaker E: Yeah, no, I like this song a lot. The chorus is a little bit of a letdown for me I think.
[00:53:47] Speaker C: Agreed. I was going to say that there isn't much to the chorus but the verses are really good. It isn't like. Well, the verses are. And then the chorus is whatever. Because I figured they'd probably make it up in the bridge, which they seem to do. The bridges have always really been good. That's another thing. They do have a lot of bridges. A lot. Some bands don't. Remember we talked about Poison. Like, so is a bridge before this whole solo, Almost as most of the songs had them. Yeah. Great song.
[00:54:10] Speaker E: I like Bridges Taste.
[00:54:13] Speaker C: Me too.
[00:54:14] Speaker D: This one really does sound very Beatles. Like, it's okay. It's good. I'm just very surprised. Like, this is the one. You can actually. I thought Mark was joking in the beginning when he said, oh, you hear the Beatles. No, I actually do hear in this one.
[00:54:26] Speaker E: It's the guitar. That's what it is. It's that riff.
[00:54:29] Speaker D: Got it.
[00:54:30] Speaker E: That riff is reminiscent of something else.
[00:54:32] Speaker D: Hard Day, Night. Maybe.
[00:54:33] Speaker E: Maybe it's not a total rip, but it's the feeling. The feelings. Very Beatles.
[00:54:38] Speaker C: I think the music is more Stones and the melodies Beatles. I got more the Stones from the riff. I could be wrong.
[00:54:45] Speaker E: I don't know. It could be right. I don't feel they're dirty enough to be the Stones. That's my thing.
It's not dirty enough. Stones is a little more bluesy than this. There's a little more poppy. I just feel that that riff is something that could be very Beatlesque. And that's not a bad thing. I know people rag on them for being a Beatles cover band. I think it's a little bit his vocal because he has a little bit of nasally John Lennon thing going on.
And I think that's what does it. And then when you have a riff like this, everyone's like, oh, look, they just steal from the Beatles. And they're from the uk, so that doesn't help them either. But listen, they're laughing all the way to the bank.
All those people who said, oh, they're just the Beatles cover band. Yeah. Where are you now?
All right, so here are the lyrics. Hey, you up in the sky learning to fly Tell me how high do you think you'd go before you start falling? Hey, you, up in the tree, you want to be me well, that couldn't be because the people here, they don't hear you calling and of course, is how does it feel when you're inside me? Verse 2. Hey, we're in the crown making no sound I've heard you feel down well, that's just too bad welcome to my world hey, you, stealing the light I've heard that the shine's going out of your life. Well, that's just too bad. Welcome to my world. And the chorus, it's a little more angry lyrics. They're not usually angry.
[00:55:54] Speaker C: A little bit more upset. But I like it. Changes it up too.
[00:55:57] Speaker E: Supposedly it's a song about the musician who used their position to become the voice of a generation like Bono of U2 and today's Kanye West. Oh, so you know, going against. Going against Bono.
[00:56:09] Speaker C: He's caught more flack than. Than anyone. Some of it deserves. Some of it probably not.
[00:56:14] Speaker E: Still good song though. I figured I'd let two verses go through this time just because there's never any enough lyrics. And I figured I have to read something, so I let it go.
[00:56:21] Speaker C: Plus, the chorus isn't that big either. It is very minimal.
[00:56:25] Speaker E: Yeah. I don't know what he means by how does it feel when you're inside or inside me? Does it mean when you're that big? How does it feel when you're inside the machine? What does that mean?
[00:56:33] Speaker C: I'm not sure.
[00:56:34] Speaker E: I don't know. No clue. All right, here we go.
[00:56:43] Speaker B: It's just a case of breathing now before you breathe it in how does it feel when you're inside?
I can feel can you feel me?
You up in the sky Letting to light Tell me how I did. There you go.
Before you start falling hey you up in the tree if you want to be me well I could have been cuz it's before Feel how does it feel.
[00:58:05] Speaker C: Now? I hear Paperback Writer could be wrong.
[00:58:08] Speaker E: You know what? Thinking about that. Yes. Probably that's what it is a bit. That's why it sounds the way it sounds.
[00:58:13] Speaker C: Still a great song.
[00:58:14] Speaker E: Oh, definitely. Great song.
[00:58:16] Speaker C: Paper Regretter. A great song too.
[00:58:18] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:58:18] Speaker E: It's the Beatles. Yes, of course it is.
Okay, gonna read the bridge. You need assistance with the things that you have never seen it's just a case of never breathing out before you breathe it in and back to the chorus. And then they do repeat the first verse again. But they're not the first person to do that.
That has happened a lot. Where after the. Whatever instrumental part, then they'll do first verse again. I'm not gonna knock them too much about that.
[00:58:40] Speaker D: Yeah, this is not gonna be one of my favorites. Like I said. I just hear a lot of Beatles here, which. Which is not bad thing. You know, it's just I. I could see a lot of folks were just saying they might sound like a cover band. And this is that song for me.
[00:58:52] Speaker C: So it says in 2004 we were on the dole at the time under consider conservative rule. It's about establishment figures who didn't have a clue about how people were really living in England and what they done to the country. It's quite an angry song lyrically. To a happy tune. I mean, based on that, what it says. How does it feel when you're inside me? What does it feel to be me? The common person. That's how I take it now.
[00:59:14] Speaker E: All right, let's finish it out. Here we go.
[00:59:19] Speaker B: Never ever seen.
It's just a case of every breathing out before you breathe it.
How does it feel when you're inside Sam?
[01:00:21] Speaker C: They always do something interesting at the end, whether you like it. I mean, I like that it wasn't just a simple fade out. Just had that other thing kind of going over it. It's good. Great song.
[01:00:31] Speaker E: I am usually a fan of the fade. I don't know if I wanted the fade in that song though.
I like the fade a lot. I. I just don't in this case. I don't know if I want the fade there.
[01:00:40] Speaker C: You wanted more of like a boom boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Kind of like that kind of thing.
[01:00:44] Speaker E: Yeah, I think so. Okay, Frank, you go first.
[01:00:47] Speaker D: I'm going to try to keep personal bias out of this one.
[01:00:49] Speaker C: Let it out, man. Be honest. If you don't like it, you don't like it.
[01:00:52] Speaker D: I'm going to Give the lyrics 6, the music and the production. That's really a shining point so far throughout all the songs you heard. I'm going to give that a seven for each and arrangement. I'll give it seven as well. Is that.
[01:01:03] Speaker C: I'm going to say eight on production and arrangement and seven on everything else. I think this is a really good song. I actually didn't remember this one, so I'm really glad. Mark, what do you think?
[01:01:12] Speaker E: I'm gonna say seven with the lyrics. Cuz I like the lyrics. I think the chorus could be better. I'm so. I'm gonna ding it there for melody six. I think the music, the production and the arrangement are great. I'm gonna give that a seven. I like that guitar riff. It probably is Paperback Rider, now that I'm thinking about it. You said that it's not a total.
[01:01:27] Speaker C: R. It's not exact.
[01:01:29] Speaker E: No, but it is very similar. Very similar.
[01:01:31] Speaker C: But I'd be okay if you brought that. I wouldn't say, oh, this Paperback Rider like. Oh, it's kind of like.
[01:01:35] Speaker E: It's not really just to defend all the people who hate them because of what they sound like. Because the vocal stylings of the singer and the riff a little bit too much maybe. I kind of understand why people get a little annoyed about that. Because it was the thing back in the day. That's what the thing was about them. They're a Beatles ripoff. I never said that. Anyway, the last song we're going to do on this side or whatever, it's going to be because it's 11, so I'm going to stop it at 5. This is Columbia.
[01:02:05] Speaker B: It Sam that we were now here we are all this going to be as nothing's the same Tell me that we were now here we are all discuss the an I can't tell you the way I feel because the way I think Feelings are so new to me I can't tell you the way I feel because the way I feel so new to me.
[01:03:54] Speaker C: The music is very good. Production is good. Melody's a bit man. But it's very interesting what's going on behind. I think it's way different than anything.
[01:04:04] Speaker E: They got their Jimi Hendrix going on.
I think this is maybe my favorite song on the side so far. I like the guitar playing.
[01:04:11] Speaker C: I think the music's great.
[01:04:12] Speaker E: Yeah, the music's great. I hear the bass in this a lot, which I didn't hear prior. It's very psychedelic with the guitar. Has. Supposedly this is about a hotel they stayed at while they were recording. And they did a lot of acid in there, which makes sense about why this sounds this way.
[01:04:26] Speaker C: Yep. I read the same story and I said, this is going to be a trip. And it is.
[01:04:30] Speaker E: And I like the melody a lot. Actually. I think I like this melody more than others.
[01:04:34] Speaker C: It's not bad. Maybe it's. I want him to be louder. That could be it. Not sure yet.
[01:04:38] Speaker E: His vocal is a little back, you.
[01:04:40] Speaker D: Know, I really like that build up, that beginning there, that spooky sound. I'm not going to mention where I first heard it, but I like it. I'm digging it so far.
[01:04:47] Speaker E: That is like five stars from Frank. Ten stars.
[01:04:52] Speaker D: Cinco diamantes.
[01:04:55] Speaker E: So supposedly the intro words are. I've seen you so much to disgust Mother Take me into your arms how am I to protect you? And then the verse is, There we are now here we are all this confusion Nothing's the same to me There we were now here we are all this confusion Nothing's the same to me and the chorus is. I can't tell you the way I feel because the way I feel is oh so new to me I can't tell you the way I feel because the way I feel is oh so new to me it must be the acid.
[01:05:23] Speaker C: It sounds exactly what somebody would write on their first acid trip.
[01:05:27] Speaker E: Yeah.
[01:05:27] Speaker C: I don't know if there's a first acid trip, but it sounds like somebody's first acid trip.
[01:05:31] Speaker E: Yeah. No, I like it. I. So far, this is my favorite song. Let's continue.
[01:05:39] Speaker B: What I heard it's not what I hear I can see the signs but they're not very clear what I heard is not what I hear I perceive the signs but they're not very clear so I can't tell you the way I feel it counts away I feel so beautifully I can't tell you way I feel because you. When I.
This is confusion I'm on the.
This is the future this is peculiar we don't want pe.
This is peculiar we don't want to.
[01:06:54] Speaker C: Fail you I would enjoy doing a cover of this every once in a while. We say things like that. It's so loud and there's so much going on as that other guitar. Without a doubt, you have to say the production arrangement on these songs is really good. They really build this wall of sound. It's pop, yes, but it's loud pop. I've always known this about them, but obviously now actually paying attention even more to it on headphones and everything. Because the second album is the same. It's loud, but again, within the right parameters.
[01:07:27] Speaker E: I am still digging it. I don't know if I like the bridge as much. It feels like it's just an extension of the chorus because the melody sounds very similar. That's the only bummer, a little bit that they didn't change up the bridge. Other than that, though, I like it. There's a lot more guitar in this. More heavy guitar, I should say, than in most of the other songs. But listen, they know how to write songs. Melodies are good, the arrangements are good. You're not going to be not satisfied with that. That kind of stuff.
[01:07:50] Speaker D: So some of these songs I'm hearing almost for the first time. I'm just trying to listen to the lyric, read through it sometimes after you read it, just to see what the premise is. But I'm starting to dig a little bit more.
[01:08:00] Speaker E: So have you never heard this album before?
[01:08:02] Speaker D: I have. I've heard it when it first really released. It was not something I was listening to over and over. There's some albums I'll listen to once a week since the first Time they released in the 90s. This is definitely not one of those. So just getting reacquainted with it after so many years.
[01:08:16] Speaker E: I think I would listen to the second album more than I listened to this.
[01:08:19] Speaker D: I'm with you on that. I think we're part of that bigger pool of people that we've heard the second one more than the first.
[01:08:24] Speaker C: But I feel I've mentioned it before, I've lost out because I bought the next two after the third and the fourth. And actually, I think the B side, the master plan, like. But then get introducing it to my son and his friends, talking about Oasis going back and you. You didn't like anything else and then kind of skimming through it. This is good, this is good, this is good. It's one of those things, they don't vary much. They write very solid songs and it's something that continued. But sometimes you just put the kibosh on things and you stop. You don't really pay attention enough. And who knows? Maybe if something doesn't grab you right away and something's grabbed you and the next one doesn't, instead of really saying, okay, well, let me just try it again, you kind of go back to it. And sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. Right? It depends on the mentality.
[01:09:11] Speaker E: Hey, listen, I was wrong, okay? I was wrong.
[01:09:13] Speaker C: Frank, too. You texted me a couple of times recently where you've sent me songs and you said, have you ever heard this? I said, yes. And he. So where has this been? And it's from the 90s, you had mentioned. Just a quick example, Nine Inch Nails, a song you did with David Bowie. My son is telling me about bands in the 90s now that I listen to. I'm like, holy shit, this was good. Bands like Hum Failure that I didn't listen to, or even hum I'm listening to, saying, I didn't. I wasn't crazy about it back then, I'm listening to it now. I'm like, these songs are really, really good. What state of mind was I in not to appreciate it then? And I told him, I think maybe sometimes you haven't enough of something, maybe. So you don't really get to appreciate it. Kind of go into something else and you have to go back to it to appreciate it again.
[01:09:54] Speaker D: But in fairness, there's so much good music during that time.
So much good music, Absolutely. Wonderwall is a classic exam. It says here that it was released in March of 95, and you look at what came up In March of 95, there was some really good songs it was up against.
[01:10:10] Speaker C: There's a lot of good music in the 90s.
[01:10:12] Speaker D: There really was. Across the. All genres.
It was very easy to overlook or miss on a gem of a song or a gem of a group because there was just so much going on.
[01:10:23] Speaker C: And that's why I'm glad we're doing this. We say discovery and rediscovery.
[01:10:27] Speaker E: That should be our tagline or should be our motto. Discovery, rediscovery. Let's continue. Here we go.
[01:12:28] Speaker C: Building. I like that part. The baseline is carrying the song. The simple bass line because it's holding it down. And he's able to do that stuff on the guitar. I've heard them do like the tambourines and the hand claps to fill out the sound. It's full. That's what I like too, about songs when they're full, when you feel like they've used every single, single channel.
I've always loved that.
[01:12:51] Speaker E: I have a question, speaking of Pearl Jam. Isn't that riff in the guitar solo some Pearl Jam thing? It's not from a live, is it?
Isn't that what it is?
[01:13:02] Speaker D: How's it going?
[01:13:07] Speaker C: Oh, wait, are you thinking of black?
[01:13:11] Speaker E: Oh, maybe.
Maybe it is black.
[01:13:15] Speaker C: That one is a little more somber. This one's a little bit happier.
[01:13:18] Speaker E: That little guitar part, though, the piece, that's what I'm hearing.
[01:13:21] Speaker C: You look up the tabs and you'll be like, it's the same thing.
But I understand what you're saying. The kind of. The rhythm you mean kind of.
[01:13:27] Speaker E: No, the actual guitar line. I'm pretty positive it's something similar. I'm blanking out right at the moment. But whatever. The ace frilly Pearl Jam thing from Alive, because that's the same thing from she, which is basically the same thing from the Doors. It's a third hand rep. I'm sure I'll listen to it later and figure out what it is. Too late now. My brain's not working. I thought, you know, it was fine for this thing. I mean, I would have liked a little bit more of a ripping solo there. I thought that would have been good for the song. It's just not what he does. But I do like the song a lot. Like I said, I think is my favorite song so far. Let's play it out. We're almost done. Here we go.
[01:14:08] Speaker B: Sam.
[01:14:55] Speaker C: Just so you know, I was humming Pearl Jam songs that whole time, trying to think. I don't know if you managed the second part of the live riff, but we'd have to go back and listen to it now. You've got me thinking.
[01:15:05] Speaker E: I'm pretty positive because he didn't do it again.
[01:15:07] Speaker D: How did it go, Sav? Well, what is it you hear? Can you hear from me again?
[01:15:11] Speaker C: So live is.
[01:15:14] Speaker E: No, not that part. No, it's a solo thing.
No, it's a solo thing. It has nothing to do with the riff.
It's that little thing in the middle he's doing. I'm pretty positive. I think it's a really good song. Again, my favorite song so far. I guess I'll go first here. I'm probably going to give it. I don't know, I'm going to have to maybe give eights to some things here because they have eights to live forever. And I do like this song, I think, maybe better than that. I don't know. Let's do seven on the lyrics, eight on the melody, eight on the music, seven on the arrangement. I like the production a lot. I'm going to do eight. I like it a lot. I thought it was good. Saf.
[01:15:54] Speaker C: Yeah, I'll say seven lyrics, seven melody. I'll say it on everything else, too. I don't know that I like it as much as that one, but I think. Think it's worth the eights, in my opinion. Think it's the. The way it's produced, the way it's arranged, the riff and everything. It's a powerful song. That's one thing that they will not bore you. Right.
[01:16:10] Speaker D: I was just reading through the lyrics one more time. I'm going to give the lyrics and melody sevens the music. I really do like the music a lot so far, what I've heard, and I'm going to give that an 8. The production arrangements, all eights across the way. I have to say I am very surprised how good the music is again.
[01:16:26] Speaker E: So do you think it was the stigma of them being the Beatles cover band that maybe stopped you from listening to them?
[01:16:32] Speaker D: No, it's. At that time, there was just. Again, I mean, there was so much music happening that when this came out, it just wasn't something I was interested in. We had a lot of great grunge going on. We had a lot of great alternative music going on. There was just so much going on that when this came out, I was just like, ah, that's okay. I got everything else over here, and I just kind of tossed it to the side. Years later, you already digested all the other music. Now you're hearing whatever. You didn't have a time to to listen to at that time and starting to appreciate a little bit more. This might be one of those albums for me.
[01:17:02] Speaker E: I think he's turned the tide.
[01:17:03] Speaker C: Yeah. I know at least one person who lives in my house that hates Oasis, so.
[01:17:09] Speaker E: Wow.
[01:17:09] Speaker C: I won't mention her name, but she hates them, really. She also hates the Beatles, so maybe it goes hand in hand, right?
[01:17:18] Speaker E: Maybe.
Well, this is a cool album to get. After our exile of the Wheel for six episodes. Glad we got this. This is a big album I haven't heard in a long time. So even though it's not like a weird album in the Oasis catalog, it's something I haven't hear a long, long, long time.
Probably since somewhere in the 90s, I would guess I stopped listening to this, but I know I listened to it a long, long time ago. Again, second album, a lot more, but I'm glad we got it. It was a good thing.
[01:17:44] Speaker C: Some big scores coming next week, I can tell you that. One of my favorite Oasis songs ever. It's coming.
[01:17:49] Speaker E: I think I know which one it is, too. All right, Sav, why don't you do your thing?
[01:17:52] Speaker C: We are part of the Deep Dive Podcast network. Like I always say, great bunch of guys. Suck us in right away. If you want individualized podcasts about bands, check them out. You got Rush, Judas Priest, Tom Petty, Right, Heap, you name it. It's probably on on there. So check it out. And Mark, where can they find us.
[01:18:06] Speaker E: On the Interwebs Rocketlit pod, on all the social media. Rockwelletpodcast.com do the merch, do the polls, put in a new bets. You know what to do. Put us on the auto downloads so you can get us every time we release and rate us 5 stars wherever you listen to your podcast, because that helps move us around. And maybe that's happening because we're getting a big surge right at the moment, which we love to see. Next week we'll finish this one off. We get Savino's favorite Oasis song coming.
[01:18:29] Speaker C: One of my favorites.
[01:18:30] Speaker E: One of your favorites. And we can pull Frank maybe into the Oasis thing more than he wanted to be kicking and screaming.
All right, I guess we'll see you next week.
[01:18:40] Speaker C: Ciao. Ciao.
[01:18:41] Speaker D: Good night, everybody.
[01:18:42] Speaker E: Later.
[01:19:00] Speaker B: It.
