OASIS: 10 Super Rare Oasis Songs You've Probably Never Heard Of
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- Oasis have always hidden away brilliant songs and incredible recordings in unexpected and hard-to-find places. Many of their finest moments were released as B-sides only, and many of these only made it onto CD singles, not vinyl or tape.
Join me to dig into the Oasis back catalogue to discover ten obscure but great Oasis songs that most people have never heard of!
Who Put The Weight Of The World On My Shoulders? - • Oasis - Who Put The We...
Cast No Shadow (UNKLE Beachhead) - • Oasis - Cast No Shadow...
Within You Without You - • Oasis-Within You Witho...
Shakermaker (Slide Up) - • Oasis - Shakermaker (S...
Can Y'See It Now? (I Can See It Now!!) - • Oasis - I Can See It Now
Carnation - open.spotify.com/track/7GGAQC...
Merry Xmas Everybody - open.spotify.com/track/27N1Ki...
Bring It On Down (Monnow Valley) - • Oasis - Bring It On Do...
Whatever (ATYD Version) - • Whatever (Young Dudes ...
Wonderwall (US EP) - • Oasis - Wonderwall - S...
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Many thanks, JH.
"Can you SEE it Now" is a perfect crescendo to the build up of a good idea ...in the head of a mastermind
I love who put the weight of the world on my shoulders. You can really hear the pain in Noels voice and lyrics on that one.
Agreed. You can always tell when he means it
Noel probably likes that phrase and has used it in other songs like Black and White Sunshine. Also Liam on Nothing Nowhere
One of my favourites has always been “If We Shadows”, from Be Here Now’s deluxe. Only a demo with Noel on acoustic but it actually works. Very strange lyrics and clearly unfinished but the melody is so haunting that it’s stuck with me for years. I’d love to hear someone finally talk about it.
That's such a great song, very overlooked
‘If We Shadows’ is brilliant ❤
@@dee-dee333 I agree! Finally someone else 😂
I wish he would’ve released it as is, such a beautiful acoustic song
I'm a hardcore Oasis fan and I haven't heard of most of these. Thanks for highlighting these tracks!
Uhm, not an hardcore fan then!
Just when I thought I'd heard every rare oasis track. You blow me away with yet another selection of absolute hidden gems
Funnily enough, that "Get on with it" at the beginning of Talk Tonight (US Release) is the EXACT same recording as the one at the beginning of "The Masterplan." Thank you, to the #1 Oasis Nerd!
Wow, I had never heard of Who put the Weight.... this is even more crazier than the B sides saga! just releasing gold like that! Great video James
I consider myself a pretty huge Oasis fan but these are new to me, this is one of your best Oasis videos. I feel like I'm rediscovering them.
I’ll definitely be there to support your band. Proper love all your vids. Really appreciate them 👍
Great, hopefully see you there 👍👍
Thank you!! Great video
Great video and have a great gig!
Great video as always! Hoping for a video on mansun. One of them forgotten bands no one ever seems to talk about
The "Get on with it" is actually on the end of "Round Are Way" on the US single (it's the same for the UK version). It appears again at the beginning of "The Masterplan". I wonder if at some point "Round Are Way" and "The Masterplan" were ment to be joined together on the single but then they put "The Swamp Song" between them instead. I always found it weird that the "Get on with it" was used twice on the single that way.
Now that is a very interesting point re joining the tracks… I never made that connection before
Cool
One of my favourite obscure Oasis songs is “Solve My Mystery”, which was later released by Noel as “Revolution Song”. It is essentially the same song but in my opinion the original was way better in terms of arrangement and Noel’s singing.
I agree the original acoustic version was a lot better.
One of your best videos yet - we'll done 👍 worthwhile for that version of Rockin Chair alone
This was great! I'd forgotten all about Carnation; I love that cover.
As always, thanks!
I knew all of them, "Within You Without You" might be one the best covers ever
Hah. How funny that I got this video recommended to me on an Oasis song I had never heard before and was recently released on the official Oasis channel. Wasn't disappointed either as I indeed did not know any of the songs you listed!
You have a very wholesome and soothing voice. Liked and faved!
You gotta love Oasis because they really honour so many great bands too. Bonehead once said its all the best bits of all the best bands rolled into one.
Another great video bro, thank you
Boy With The Blues (on Spotify on the NCIS soundtrack 2009) and I Believe In All from the Japanese version of Dig Out Your Soul (on CZcams). Both great tunes. Think both were written by Liam.
Who put the weight is soo good. Excellent video, thanks for this. I hadn't ever heard some of these. What a gift. Heres a prayer that these brothers can come together again. I dont care if oasis never get back together. I just want them to bury the axe.
An interesting fact both Noel Gallagher and Rivers Cuomo from Weezer wrote approximately 50 songs before taking the rock world by storm. They both chose the path of the songwriter, which turned out well for them and their fans. Rivers was a shredder and metal head before. He has some serious chops to go with his songwriting expertise. Also I've observed that both fan groups nerd out over their b-sides, which at times are as good or better than their a-sides. As always good stuff. I'll be going down this rabbit hole in the description section.
Top class as always, James 👏
Who Put The Weight.... has been one of my favourite Oasis songs ever since I first heard it about 17/18 odd years ago.
First time you heard it was 8 hours ago. Stop trying to impress folk by telling lies. You’ve probably only heard 2 oasis songs. Wonderwall and don’t look back in anger.
@@rhendry5832 What's Wonderwall??
@@rhendry5832 Anyway, it's not *that* rare. It was featured in Goal, which was a big film back in 2005, around the same time as Don't Believe The Truth came out so I don't have to say any more than that you troll.
@@khizarjamil7664 google is a great thing
Excellent recommendations!
Smashing video.
nice brother, appreciate all you do. Also the no beard look is great. What are your thoughts about Suede?
Looking good clean-shaven, man!
For the UNKLE Beachhead mix of Cast No Shadow, there exists a promo CD with the finished mix and the instrumental mix, and using phase cancellation between the two, you can isolate Noel's vocal track. So it is entirely possible to improve the sound of Noel's vocal track!
That's a brilliant idea!
Fab remix love comments
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I think it's worth mentioning "Shoot Down" by Prodigy which features Liam's vocals on it.
Two more fun alternates to note:
Where Did It All Go Wrong? (Semi-Acoustic Version) - Epic promo CD, not sure if it ever got a UK release. Alternate mix of the album version with a more stripped back approach.
The Hindu Times (demo) - from the DVD single. Most of the demos are just demos but this is practically a different song. Much darker lyrics in a Gas Panic vein. "The ghost that is your soul, it leaves me cold, babe/'cause you get so high you just can't feel it/got no sunshine, just got rain". Drugs're bad, mkay?
James ! THANK YOU for this amazing ultimate fan info! Shakermaker is one of myfavorite songs -for example- BUT you confirmed the -shall we say -INSPIRATION😂- for the melody❤❤❤
"Trip Inside" from the Mustique Demos is an unknown instrumental masterpiece in my opinion
Trip inside is be here now with different title.....
Did I dream this but was there a song called the Cage as a hidden track at the end of an album.
End of heathen chemistry i think?
“Birth of an Accidental Hipster” the most rarest of them all
Well SAID! Michael Nesmith sang this on what became his final tour with the MONKEES - a live version ( with Mickey Dolenz of course) can be found on The Mike and Mickey Show. Mike sounded strong - the song structure is great -- as a fan I was blown away by a Noel Gallagher/MONKEES intersection!!
Still have the album (and GOAL album which is horrendous) and single re the Carnation single. It was a strange time as they were almost incognito. This appeared and I just had a feel that something wasn't right within the band, I don't know what. Just felt weird. I didn't realise the band as we knew them were never going to be seen again.
And on a sidenote, the Carnation cd being that weird clear disc thing as a precursor to the SOTSOG's singles is geekily noteworthy 😂
How about purple parallelogram? not sung by Noel but co written by him. That’s another good one, when he was writing great songs for fun.
Hi James, great video. Could you do one for super rare oasis covers? Noel doing bitter sweet symphony is one of them for me 😊
Cheers james i thought id heard them all but i stand mistaken
So job done fella 👍
Im off to listen to them
Geezer man
I cannot believe as a life long oasis fan that I've never heard that Unkle remix of cast no shadow.
I LOVEEE THE GOAL SOUNDTRACK
Aaaah Class list ... 2 there I didn't know of .... that Goal CD ....
Great idea James. Your clearly an Oasis obsessive, any chance you could do more of these for other bands or singers? Im thinking for other Manchester bands of the era like Stone Roses and The Verve.
James you look WAAAAAAAY better with longer hair. Keep it growing mate.
James, have you ever did any digging into how/why Gem managed to get on vocals for the Heathen Chemistry Tour? I saw them a lot on that tour and always saw Gem with a mic and did some vocals, however the mix was always too low that i could never hear him. He never said anything into the mic and none of the bootlegs i have heard you cant even hear him. I am just wondering if there was any way of finding out how exactly it came about and why it also then ended on that only tour.
A few other ones come to mind. I really like this one Where Did It All Go Wrong? (Semi-Acoustic Version). The demos from the Heathen Chemistry and Don't Believe The Truth DVD singles are also interesting.
My man dig up some gems up there
You could have also mentioned the instrumental hidden track at the end of Heathen Chemistry after a few minutes of silence after Better Man. A nice relaxing psychedelic tune, a bit Pink Floyd-y.
And if you are considering non-Oasis releases, I would recomend checking out the Death in Vegas song Scorpio Rising, sung by Liam. I love that song.
Some other ones I'd suggest checking out are the SOTSOG demos with Noel on vocals, particularly Go Let It Out and Who Feels Love. There's also a demo version of Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is, with Noel on vocals.
There’s another song where Noel referenced All the Young Dudes: Don’t Look Back in Anger.
During the refrain (so sally can wait…) there’s a guitar playing the notes of the melody “all the young dudes…”
That’s specially audible in the SACD remix.
There’s also some similarities in the chord progression of these two songs.
The 'Get on with it' at the start of Talk Tonight is the same as talking part at the start of The Masterplan
Great video as usual. However, surprised you didn’t notice that can y see it now is essentially. mucky fingers slowed down. You can pretty much sing the entire song over it.
I have all of these songs way back then. Shakermaker I was able to download through Napster
Whoa! Clean shaven!
I always ❤ that version of carnation festuring OCS and weller. It used to appear on mtv2 back in the day
Noel did Merry Xmas Everybody for the Royle Family I believe, it’s on a Christmas Special.
I got the fever from the stand by me single is a corker.
I love that film Goal
3:24 The cast no shadow from the excellent “Sitting here in silence” gig is this version right? One of my favourite Noel performances.
I have only just realised I can see it now wasnt on the UK album. I got a pre release version of Don't Believe The Truth with I can see it now as the last track. I always thought it was supposed to be there. Didn't understand what you were on about in this video!😂
James, hope you can do a video discussing the rare Vox CD singles box set
See The Sun is in my opinion one of the best Oasis songs ever. It's a crime it has never been properly recorded and released. I understand its vibe is quite "madchester" and didn't fit Definitely Maybe, but they should have put it out as a B-side like they did with Alive and Cloudburst.
Who Put The Weight Of the World on my Shoulders was one of the early oasis tunes I knew
I can still hear the monitor mix of I Am The Walrus on my end. Must be a rare occurrence where the track got blocked in select countries.
All the young dudes over the outro was the in the live version- similar to shakermaker I think it was just removed to prevent having to pay out a fortune to the original writers
Throwing “Boy with the Blues” in here. On spotify and a fantastic Liam-penned track.
Oasis have so many unknown fantastic songs and they shouldn't put into it early days B-sides.
In my opinion Oasis is the best band ever about it and Noel is truly genius.
It's like I got a new Oasis album!
I've always loved "I Can See it Now". The nearest Oasis ever got to krautrock!
I want to hear a full early recording of All Around the World
The Quiet Ones is such a good one
What I've always wanted to hear is Slide Away without fading out at the end.
The Cast No Shadow on GOAL kinda makes me think of a sort of a Cast No Shadow if made in the SOTSOG era, just the vibes are similar
In my opinion, the demo version of "Stop The Clocks" is the best thing. The only thing that I edit from this song is the outro. Instead of it, the repeating and fading out of the last word of Noel "sound". Like an echo. Follow by "Those Swollen Hand Blues" and "Who Put The Weight Of The World On My Shoulders". Cheers.
Couple other things to point out from one Oasis nerd to another:
The Japanese-only 2014 reissue bonus tracks are not exclusive to the 3CD edition - they're also on the Japanese 1CD edition. This holds true for all three Chasing The Sun reissues (which have the acoustic demos of Hello and All Around The World, plus the Saturday night Knebworth Wonderwall). Of course, they weren't as popular as the 3CD editions and are quite a bit harder to find. But if, like me, you already have the "normal" 3CD edition, and the Japanese 1CD edition is cheaper than the Japanese 3CD, you can save a bit of money.
Can Y'See It Now? was also on a V/A comp called Brand Neu! in 2009. A much cheaper way to obtain the song!
The American Wonderwall single has a different mix (possibly the Orinoco mix) of Wonderwall. It's the same alternate mix as on Stop The Clocks/Time Flies, except the channels are reversed. Talk Tonight is actually not a different mix; the difference in tone you're hearing is down to the mastering. It does of course use the original ending but I wouldn't call that an alternate mix, just an alternate edit. Ditto Rockin' Chair, which is the same mix but sounds quite different due to much darker EQ. Round Are Way and I Am The Walrus are the same mixes as the Creation singles, but the channels are swapped on I Am The Walrus for some silly reason. Also, all the songs except Rockin' Chair are less brickwalled than the Creation CDs - still quite loud and compressed, but with quite a bit more dynamic range than we're used to.
Interesting! I knew there was something different about the overall sound.
Thanks for the info :)
I’ve had Pass Me Down the Wine in my head for a couple days now. That is another great one from the great ones (Oasis). ATM, I forget if that’s a Liam or Andy song…think it’s Liam… 🤔
I love the noel remix of Unkle the knock on effect with the led zeppelin sample 👍🏻
Does anyone remember Liam talking about a song he wrote as far back as 1996 called The Lost Chord? It never emerged but the year after he released that song he co-wrote with John Squire for the Seahorses. Noel also mentioned in 2001 a tune Revival that never surfaced and I think in those demos for Be Here Now there were two tunes called Everybody's A Winner and The Red, The White, The Blue which never got officially released.
The red white blue appears to have turned into I hope I think I know, done alot of digging into this. Rumour has it , it was originally quite offensive and almost EDL
Heard all of them
Not sure if you’ve mentioned it before James, but how about “boy with the blues” from the TV show NCIS. That’s a pretty obscure track
They used to tag All The Young Dudes onto the end of Whatever live
I remember hearing Merry Xmas Everybody on the radio at christmastime on Radio 1
one rare I had but can't find any more is into the night a slow acoustic tune (noel sung) wish he'd release it anyone else hurd or know a thing more about it?..what about strange thing.
I got on tape Noel doing a version of Hide your love away from a Gary Crowley session from 95 I think it was..The war child album version of dreams we had as children is cool...Live at Glastonbury 95 version of I'm the walrus is f***** awesome....
Fade away on help cd is awesome
Before the I am The Walrus Studio Version Got deleted off the web. I downloaded it and Liam sounds brilliant!
Fancy sharing a link to it?
@@CVIN33 I’ll Share a downloadable link to the audio later today
It won’t let me post the Link because it thinks it’s a scam link
I just put the Link to it in my Account Bio Thing.
Superb mate thank you!
See the Sun is a banger!
Eyeball Tickler! Gem reminds the band on how to write punk rock
u ever heard Noel gallagher's/Oasis' version of Trouble by Cat Stevens? i can send it over, i for some reason have it saved here on my PC/storage of oasis b sides but can't find it online anywhere and want the world to know about it because it's simply beautiful and 1 of the best covers of Trouble
i also have a live version mp3 of carnation
See you there
The Colour Of My Life, prob not many would of heard that
I heard bits and pieces of a demo of One Way Road with an electric guitar in the intro, but I can't find the complete song anywhere. I think that would be interesting to find and hear.
I’ve heard that version too. I think it was on a youtube video as Noel was walking out onstage at a gig ?
@@AJ19855 not sure about that, but here it's a little bit of the song czcams.com/video/oaqvAwailq8/video.html&pp=ygUXb25lIHdheSByb2FkIG9hc2lzIGRlbW8%3D
Theres the prodigy track guns with liam singing and i think noel played bass? Boy with the blues and i believe in all are kinda rare liam tunes from around the doys period.
A couple of very rare songs by Oasis (but not that great) are "Colour My Life", and the terrible "Life In Vein". I am not sure who wrote those songs. Both have Liam in the leading vocals
“All the Young Dudes” or “All
The Young Blues” (as in Man City fans)? They did sing the latter in concert
Noel sings all the young dudes on the MTV unplugged version of whatever. You probably know that already.
There is a song I found on limewiire decades ago called heathen chemistry in which Noel announces that his bell end smells of leather.. no shit. I cannot find it anywhere now
Posting before watching… try me! Let’s see.
I got most of them! I’d add Simple Game of Genius from the deluxe version of High Flying Birds as an incredible track that many Oasis fans won’t know.
Not technically Oasis I know, but there is the 18 minute Hong Kong sound check version from ‘09..
Some might say noel Gallagher in vox, drums, bass and guitar demo version is a favourite of mine
I love that demo version of Some Might Say. It's slower, and the intro solo is different. I remember me and my band at the time used to cover that song and after hearing the demo one day I played the demo intro solo, and the rest of the guys looked at me and asked "what the hell did you do there?" implying that I had messed up, so I had to explain to them, hehe.
James, I love the Setting Sun acoustic versions Noel used to play before Fade In Out during the BHN tour. I had the version he played in Brazil in March/98 recorded on cassete, I used to play it all the time.
Within/without you is brilliant. And it was Liam who chose to make this track.