Music Appreciation

highplainsdem

(59,632 posts) Tue Dec 23, 2025, 05:02 PM 14 hrs ago

Oasis - Columbia (Sawmills Outtake) [Official Lyric Video]

Those in the media
All we can say to ya
This is confusion
Am I confusing you?

This came to mind after the confusion about why an interview Rick Beato did with Noel Gallagher of Oasis won't be released: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034156576
(And I love this version of the song.)

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Oasis - Columbia (Sawmills Outtake) [Official Lyric Video] (Original Post) highplainsdem 14 hrs ago OP

Oh Yeah! speak easy 13 hrs ago #1

Definitely (no maybe about it). This version highplainsdem 4 hrs ago #2

speak easy

(12,593 posts)

1. Oh Yeah!

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Dec 23, 2025, 06:01 PM

13 hrs ago

Rock 'n' Roll !!

highplainsdem

(59,632 posts)

2. Definitely (no maybe about it). This version

Reply to speak easy (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 02:42 AM

4 hrs ago

is both raw and hypnotic, and Liam's vocal is brilliant. That falsetto...

I wonder if we'll ever find out exactly who wrote how much of the song. Noel just had an instrumental version at first, used as Liam's walk-on song. Then, when Noel wasn't around, Liam came up with the vocal melody and some of the lyrics, and their friend Chris Griffiths of the Real People added more. Noel was happy later to hear Chris had come up with some lyrics, but reportedly not happy when told some lyrics AND the vocal melody were Liam's contribution, and Noel took all the official songwriting credit. Ah, sibling rivalry... Noel said in the liner notes for the 2014 20th-anniversary reissue of Definitely Maybe that "somebody had the idea of adding lyrics" to the instrumental - lol. That somebody wasn't even in the same room as Noel when the vocal melody and initial lyrics were added.

Columbia could have been stuck as an instrumental forever if Liam hadn't rescued it.

Btw, I can't think of any other version of the song that includes the verse about the media.

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