http://www.nme.com/news/oasis/32155



Oasis to begin recording new album

Oct 30, 2007

Oasis will enter London's Abbey Road studios on November 5 to record their seventh album. They have already completed work on two songs set for the album, and have demoed the rest.

Speaking to BBC 6Music, Noel Gallagher revealed that the band already began initial recording at the studio six weeks ago, and plan to mix the album after a Christmas break.

"We start in Abbey Road a week on Monday [November 5]," he said. "Then we'll probably work through a couple of months there, have Christmas off, then go and mix it and see where we're at.

"We all write separately, but for some reason all the songs sound like they've got a common thread. We've been focusing round the grooves more this time."

He added: "The last album ['Don't Believe The Truth'] was quite 'songy', if that makes any sense - it was quite a British, retro, '60s sounding album. This [new album] is focusing round the grooves more."

Gallagher went on to explain that he'd been having difficulty coming up with lyrical inspiration.

"I've literally got nothing left to write about," he said. "I've written about being a youth, and I've written about being a rock star, and I've written about living life in the big city."

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[bigred]Standard Edition[/bigred]



Product Description
Oasis, one of the most commercially successful rock bands in history, joins Warner Bros (for North America) for the iconic British band's seventh studio album (produced by Dave Sardy), Dig Out Your Soul. The group's first album since 2005's Don't Believe The Truth, Dig Out Your Soul marks a new sound for Oasis. Hailed as the band's best work in a decade, Dig Out Your Soul offers a musical oasis for rock fans everywhere!

1. Bag It Up
2. The Turning
3. Waiting For The Rapture
4. The Shock Of The Lightning
5. I'm Outta Time
6. (Get Off Your) High Horse Lady
7. Falling Down
8. To Be Where There's Life
9. Ain't Got Nothin
10. The Nature of Reality
11. Soldier On

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[bigred]Special Edition[/bigred]



Product Description
This Special Edition disc includes a DVD with a 28-minute making of the album, as well as a making of 'The Shock Of The Lightning' video. It also includes a 24-page bound booklet.

Bonus DVD:
1. Making Of The Album
2. Making of 'The Shock Of The Lightning' Video

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Hey, apparently this is the only way to get the new Oasis single "Lord Don't Slow Me Down" on CD. It is available all over as a download. This collection also has an exclusive Keane track and a bunch of other (previously available) good stuff!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000WS4PCE/?tag=imwan-21

Hey Dan, did you see what the one reviewer had to say?

Wow, he's trying to make me feel old and out of touch like the old uncle. :}

Rick A.

He should be as cool as we are.

Ehh. He's an elitist snoot.

DanO, thank you so much for finding this! I ordered it specifically for that Oasis track the reviewer thought so little of. Here are more details about this compilation, from NME and Amazon ...

http://www.nme.com/news/oasis/32641



Oasis' 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' gets CD release

20.Nov.07 2:01pm

Oasis' download only single 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' will get its first CD release exclusively on the new 'NME Essential Bands' CD.

The album, which is out in the shops now, also features songs from Amy Winehouse, Kaiser Chiefs and Biffy Clyro.

'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' was previously released only as a digital single, and feature on the band's DVD of the same title.

Speaking about the track Noel Gallagher told NME.COM: "That got left off the last album because it was the same verse all the way until the end. It's kind of locked into (the 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down') documentary now because it appears at the end of the film. It's quite rocking. It's just the 12 bar blues really, but it's good."

'NME Presents: The Essential Bands 2007/08' is out now and features the following tracklisting:

Disc 1:

Oasis - 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down'
Amy Winehouse - 'Valerie'
Hard-Fi - 'Suburban Knights'
Kaiser Chiefs - 'The Angry Mob'
The Killers - 'Read My Mind'
Kate Nash - 'Foundations'
Razorlight - 'Hold On'
Fall Out Boy - 'This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race'
The Twang - 'Either Way'
Maximo Park - 'Books From Boxes'
The Hours - 'Ali In The Jungle'
The Fratellis - 'Whistle For The Choir'
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Down Boy'
PJ Harvey - 'When Under Ether'
Noisettes - 'The Count Of Monte Christo'
The Maccabees - 'About Your Dress'
Milburn - 'What Will You Do When (The Money Goes?)'
Alterkicks - 'Cannibal Hiking Disaster'
The Rumble Strips - 'Girls And Boys In Love'
The Holloways - 'Generator'

Disc 2:

Arctic Monkeys - 'Brianstorm' (Live)
Babyshambles - 'Delivery'
Reverend And The Makers - 'He Said He Loved Me'
Lily Allen - 'LDN'
The Enemy - 'Away From Here'
Klaxons - 'It's Not Over Yet'
Ian Brown - 'Illegal Attacks'
Keane - 'The Night Sky'
Bloc Party - 'Hunting For Witches'
Biffy Clyro - 'Folding Stars'
The Gossip - 'Jealous Girls'
CSS - 'Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above'
Battles - 'Atlas'
Hadouken! - 'Liquid Lives'
Patrick Wolf - 'Get Lost'
Nine Black Alp - 'Burn Faster'
Pull Tiger Tail - 'Hurricanes'
Stereophonics - 'It Means Nothing'
The Cribs - 'Moving Pictures'
The Wombats - 'Kill The Director'



Amazon USA:
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Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000WS4PCE/?tag=imwan-21

So if mixed in January and promotion has started, release can't be too far off. Yay! Despite the naysayers, I think Oasis remains a fab little rock and roll band. Good tunes, great hooks. As much as people knocked the last few records, I enjoyed them.

zzzzzzzzzzz

Chris = naysayer

I'll be buying it as soon as pre-orders go up.

http://www.nme.com/news/oasis/36429



New Oasis songs leak online

May 6, 2008

Three songs reportedly for Oasis' next album have leaked online.

Links to downloads of the tracks, ' I Wanna Live A Dream (In My Record Machine)', 'Nothin' On Me' and 'Stop the Clocks' started appearing on messageboards and fansites throughout the day (May 6).

Since then some fans have copied the clips and made them available via sites like Youtube. It appears steps are being taken to remove the demos with several previously working links now dead.

Of the leaked tracks, NME.COM has had a listen to the three songs and here is our initial impression.

'Nothin' On Me'
A relentless crunchy riff from Noel Gallagher and a sneery nasal vocal from Liam characterise this rollocking new Oasis song. It's a meaty return for the band, more Led Zeppelin-inspired than their more subtle recent work, such as 'The Importance Of Being Idle'. "They got nothing on me," Liam repeats, "I don't care what they say – all I want is the truth". A forceful return from the Gallaghers, although lacking the smash'n'grab choruses of some of their other anthems.

'I Wanna Live A Dream (In My Record Machine)'
Opening with a soft tambourine shake cut through by Noel Gallagher's sombre acoustic guitar, Noel sings John Lennon-style vocals on this quieter number. Tambourine and bells rattling in the background throughout give a Doors-esque edge to the affair, with drummer Zak Starkey's glammy stomp pumping in a minute in to add weight to the song. "Take Me, back to the darkness where they sent me," Noel Gallagher sings on this subtle yet uplifting and punchy number. "I want to live the dream" he sings on an uprising chorus, "I want a piece of the world", before weighty piano stabs add to the build. Towards the death a classically understated Noel Gallagher riff brings the song home. Understated yet upliftingly epic, it's a song of fine balance and poise.

'Stop The Clocks'
Noel Gallagher is a huge fan of this song, naming their 2006 'Best Of' album after it. Noel sings lead vocals over urgent acoustic strums, while a psychedelic guitar sound effect again adds a Doors-esque element to the intro. Noel cuts in over his own more conventional vocals with an echo-effect voice sample before his bandmates add to the build by adding layered backing vocals. It's a lighters-in-the-air moment for sure, although without the immediacy of a 'Wonderwall' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger'. "Stop the clocks and turn the world around," he sings. "Let your love lay me down…". "When the night is over there'll be no sound", he continues in a Lee Mavers-esque repetitive croon, before a drumbeat pounds and clatters towards a riffy crescendo, with a sudden twang to finish.

The leaked tracks are unfinished recordings, missing some instrumentation and backing vocals. The two Noel-sung tracks are classic Oasis, the Liam track sounds more like B-side fodder to me, but judge for yourselves:

http://www.youtube.com/user/RedlandsmaN87

I don't know how long that YouTube user's uploads will remain live ...

I'm really liking Noel's vocals much more than Liam's these days.

http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/uncut/news/11538



OASIS SAY LEAKED TRACKS ARE OLD DEMOS, NOT NEW MATERIAL

What were thought of as three brand new Oasis songs which leaked online earlier this week (May 6) are apparently not tracks from the band's forthcoming studio album, the band have stated.

Fans had found links and posted them across fansites and messageboards fuelling rumour that these must be new material from the band who have been recording their eighth studio album, due for release this September.

In a statement on Oasis' official website Oasisinet.com, the following statement has been posted: "A number of old Oasis songs have appeared on the internet amidst claims that the band's new album has leaked.

The songs are actually all old demos from previous sessions and well informed fans will have known that these tracks have been in circulation for some time. In fact, most are versions of songs that have already been released.

None of the songs are from sessions for the band's new studio album."

The three songs were entitled "I Wanna Live A Dream (In My Record Machine)", "Nothin' On Me" and "Stop The Clocks".

The tracks are still available to hear on this MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/newoasissongs.

The new album, the follow-up to 2005's Don't Believe The Truth, has been produced by Dave Sardy, whose previous credits include the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash and Primal Scream.

They are most definitely demos, unfinished recordings. But none of the three tracks have been previously released, and the "official statement" above sounds just like the tech-unsavvy response Oasis' management gave for the early leaks of their last two albums. I'm glad these songs have made it out in some form, anyway ...

I prefer to think of Chris Sharrock as World Party's drummer, not Robbie Williams's. Same goes for the song "She's The One."

Excellent news! We are getting closer to a release.

BTW, for those who didn't know, the bass player's name is not pronounced like "Jem" but like "gum" except with an E in the middle.