Noel gave up drugs about that time he went cold and suddenly stopped, don’t know if that affected his songwriting ability “concentration“The production (plus the mountains of cocaine) was always the issue with Be Here Now, rather than the songs themselves. Noel decided to revisit it in 2016 and start re-producing the songs but gave up after doing D'You Know What I Mean. Shame, as it sounds miles better than the original so would have been interesting to hear the full album re-done like that.
Make sure you come on and tell us about it you could break all the rules and use your camera phone so I get an idea of what I missedThere won’t be any nonsense mate.
The crowd will be proper Mancunian gig veterans like my bad little self and my man @paulpowerstash
We’ll be to busy looking cool as fuck in our cagoules for any mischief.
Must have been after Be Here Now cos he's talked many times about coke messing up the recording and production of that album...Noel gave up drugs about that time he went cold and suddenly stopped, don’t know if that affected his songwriting ability “concentration“
Liam sang a great version of “do you know what I mean” at 48hrs at Rockfield
Must have been after Be Here Now cos he's talked many times about coke messing up the recording and production of that album...
“It’s the sound of … a bunch of guys, on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck,” Noel summarised in 2004. “There’s no bass to it at all; I don’t know what happened to that … And all the songs are really long, and all the lyrics are shit, and for every millisecond Liam is not saying a word, there’s a fuckin’ guitar riff in there in a Wayne’s World stylie”.
It's certainly nowhere near as bad as a lot of people like to make out. Yes,it's massively over-produced but there's still some good tracks in there (and, more importantly, some great memories!)And they ended up producing a masterpeice. D'ya Know What I Mean, Stand By Me, Be Here Now, Don't Go Away, All Around the World are all amazing tracks. Any band producing them now would have the best music in the last 20 years.
It's certainly nowhere near as bad as a lot of people like to make out. Yes,it's massively over-produced but there's still some good tracks in there (and, more importantly, some great memories!)
I beg to differ - I like it.Be Here Now was an embarrassingly bad record. At the time I think Noel Gallagher was too up his own arse to think about a new direction.