Oasis signed to independent record label Creation Records in 1993 and released their record-setting debut album Definitely Maybe (1994). The following year they recorded (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) with drummer Alan White, in the midst of a chart rivalry with peers Blur. Spending ten weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? was also an international chart success and became one of the best-selling albums of all time. In addition, it stands as the fifth-best-selling album in the UK and the biggest-selling album in the UK of the 1990s. The Gallagher brothers featured regularly in tabloid newspapers for their disputes and wild lifestyles. In 1996, Oasis performed two nights at Knebworth for an audience of 125,000 each time, the largest outdoor concerts in UK history at the time. In 1997, Oasis released their third album, Be Here Now. It became the fastest-selling album in UK chart history.
Oasis' popularity later declined and McGuigan and Arthurs left in 1999 as Oasis released Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (2000). They were replaced by former Heavy Stereo guitarist Gem Archer and former Ride guitarist Andy Bell. White departed in 2004, replaced by Zak Starkey and later Chris Sharrock. Oasis released three more studio albums, Heathen Chemistry (2002), Don't Believe the Truth (2005) and Dig Out Your Soul (2008). The group abruptly disbanded after the departure of Noel Gallagher in August 2009.
As of 2009, Oasis had sold over 70 million records worldwide. They are among the most successful acts on the UK Singles Chart and Albums Chart, with eight UK number-one singles and eight UK number-one albums. The band also achieved three platinum albums in the US. They won 17 NME Awards, nine Q Awards, four MTV Europe Music Awards and six Brit Awards, including one in 2007 for Outstanding Contribution to Music and one for the "Best Album of the Last 30 Years" for (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. They were nominated for two Grammy Awards.
Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_(band)
Studio albums
Definitely Maybe (1994)
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
Be Here Now (1997)
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (2000)
Heathen Chemistry (2002)
Don't Believe the Truth (2005)
Dig Out Your Soul (2008)
Members:
Liam Gallagher – vocals (1991–2009)
Noel Gallagher – lead guitar, vocals (1991–2009)
Paul Arthurs - rhythm guitar (1991–1999)
Gem Archer – rhythm guitar (1999–2009)
Paul McGuigan – bass guitar (1991–1999)
Andy Bell (Oasis) – bass guitar (1999–2009)
Tony McCarroll – drums (1991–1995)
Alan White (Oasis) – drums (1995–2004)
Zak Starkey – drums (2004–2008)
Chris Sharrock – drums (2008–2009)
Be Here Now
Oasis Lyrics
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Flash your pen at the song that I'm singin'
Touch down bass livin' on the run
Make no sweat at the hole that you're diggin'
Wrap up cold when it's warm outside
Your shit jokes remind me of Digsy's
Be my magic carpet ride
Kickin' up a storm
From the day that I was born
Sing a song for me, one from Let It Be
Open up your eyes, get a grip of yourself inside
So wash your face in the morning sun
Flash your pen at the song that I'm singin'
Touch down bass livin' on the run
Make no sweat of the hole that you're diggin'
Kickin' up a storm
From the day that I was born
Sing a song for me, one from Let It Be
Open up your eyes, get a grip of yourself inside
Inside
(Get a grip) inside
(Get a grip) inside
(You betcha)
(You betcha)
So wrap up cold when it's warm outside
Please sit down, you make me feel giddy
Be my magic carpet ride
Fly me down to Capitol City
I've been kickin' up a storm
From the day that I was born
Sing a song for me, one from Let It Be
Open up your eyes, get a grip of yourself inside
(Get a grip inside)
(Get a grip inside)
(Get a grip inside)
(Get a grip inside)
(You betcha)
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Yeah, yeah, yeah
The lyrics of Oasis's song "Be Here Now" speak of living life with a carefree attitude, not worrying about the future or the past, but living in the present moment. The song begins with the lines "Wash your face in the morning sun/Flash your pen at the song that I'm singin'" which set the tone for the rest of the song. The idea is to embrace life with enthusiasm and take risks without worrying about the consequences. The lines "Touch down bass livin' on the run/Make no sweat at the hole that you're diggin'" suggest that one should keep moving forward and not get bogged down by obstacles or setbacks.
The song's chorus, which repeats the lines "Kickin' up a storm/From the day that I was born/Sing a song for me, one from Let It Be/Open up your eyes, get a grip of yourself inside," emphasizes the importance of living in the moment, enjoying life, and not worrying too much about the past or the future. The lines "Wrap up cold when it's warm outside/Your shit jokes remind me of Digsy's/Be my magic carpet ride/Fly me down to Capitol City in the sun" suggest that the song is about letting go of worries and enjoying the simple pleasures of life.
Overall, "Be Here Now" is a call to live life with a carefree attitude, enjoying every moment and not worrying about what might happen next. It's a reminder to take risks, embrace life, and make the most of the present moment.
Line by Line Meaning
Wash your face in the morning sun
Start your day with positivity and a fresh start
Flash your pen at the song that I'm singin'
Join me and engage with the music we're making together
Touch down bass livin' on the run
Embrace the fast-paced, always-moving lifestyle of being in the music industry
Make no sweat at the hole that you're diggin'
Don't stress over the challenges and obstacles that come your way
Wrap up cold when it's warm outside
Do your own thing, even if it means going against the norm
Your shit jokes remind me of Digsy's
Your humor is simplistic and unoriginal, like a friend named Digsy
Be my magic carpet ride
Join me on my journey and experience the excitement and adventure of it all
Fly me down to Capitol City in the sun
Let's go to a place that represents power and success, and do so confidently and happily
Kickin' up a storm / From the day that I was born
I have a lot of energy and have been active since day one
Sing a song for me, one from Let It Be
Sing something that's meaningful and inspiring, popular like a Beatles song
Open up your eyes, get a grip of yourself inside
Wake up to reality and take control of your thoughts and emotions
Please sit down, you make me feel giddy
You make me feel dizzy or lightheaded, so take a break and relax
(You betcha)
Absolutely, certainly
Come on, come on, come on, come on / Come on, come on, come on / Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah / Come on, come on, come on, come on / Come on, come on, come on / Yeah, yeah, yeah
Encouragement to keep pushing forward and enjoying life
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Noel Gallagher
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Mickaël Binos
Tracklist:
0:00 D'You Know What I Mean?
7:42 My Big Mouth
12:45 Magic Pie
20:05 Stand by Me
26:01 I Hope, I Think, I Know
30:24 The Girl in the Dirty Shirt
36:14 Fade In-Out
43:06 Don't Go Away
47:55 Be Here Now
53:09 All Around the World
1:02:29 It's Gettin' Better (Man!!)
1:09:30 All Around the World (Reprise)
Juan Camacho
Fade in-out 36:14
Get on the rollercoaster
The fair's in town today
Y'gotta be bad-enough to beat the brave
So get on the helter skelter
Bowl into the fray
Y'gotta be bad-enough to beat the brave
You fade in-out
You fade in-out
Without a doubt
I don't see no shine
Today is just a daydream
Tomorrow we'll be castaway
Coming in-out of nowhere
Singin' rhapsody
Y'gotta be bad-enough to wanna be
Sitting upside a high chair
With the devils refugee
Is gonna be blinded by the light
That follows me
Don't go away 43:06
Cold and frosty morning
There's not a lot to say
About the things caught in my mind
And as the day was dawning
My plane flew away
With all the things caught in my mind
I don't wanna be there when you're...
Coming down
I don't wanna be there when you hit the ground
So don't go away
Say what you say
Say that you'll stay
Forever and a day...
In the time of my life
'Cause I need more time, yes I need more time
Just to make things right
Damn my situation
And the games I have to play
With all the things caught in my mind
Damn my education
I can't find the words to say
With all the things caught in my mind
Me and you, what's going on?
All we seem to know is how to show
The feelings that are wrong
Be here now 47:55
Wash your face in the morning sun
Flash your pen at the song that I'm singing
Touchdown base living on the run
Make no sweat at the hole that you're digging
Wrap up cold when it's warm outside
Your shit jokes remind me of Digsy's
Be my magic carpet ride
Fly me down to capital city in the sun
Kicking up a storm
From the day that I was born
Sing a song for me
One from 'Let It Be'
Open up your eyes get a grip on yourself inside
All around the world 53:09
It's a bit early in the midnight hour for me
To go through all the things that I want to be
I don't believe in everything I see
You know I'm blind so why d'you disagree?
Take me away 'cause I just don't want to stay
'Cause all the lies you make me say
Are getting deeper every day
These are crazy days but they make me shine
Time keeps rolling by
All around the world
You've gotta spread the word
Tell 'em what you've heard
You're gonna make a better day
All around the world
You've gotta spread the word
Tell 'em what you've heard
You know it's gonna be okay
So what you gonna do when the walls come falling down?
You never move, you never make a sound
So where you gonna swim with the riches that you found?
You're lost at sea then I hope that you've drowned
It's gettin' better 1:02:29
Say something
Shout it from the rooftops of your head
Make it sort of mean something
Make me understand or I'll forget
The people here on life's beaches
Wish upon the waves that hide the sand
Let them know that life teaches
You to build a castle in your hand
Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong
Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone
Bring it on home and it won't be long
It's gettin' better, man
Hey, what was that you said to me?
Just say the word and I'd be free
And when the stars are shinin' bright
We're gettin' better, man
And crashin' in upon a wave
It's callin' out beyond the grave
And on the fire in the sky
We're gettin' better, man
Build something
Build a better place and call it home
Even if it means nothing
You'll never ever feel that you're alone
And what was that you said to me?
You told me one day I'd be free
And when the fire's burning bright
I'm gettin' better, man
Juan Camacho
D'You Know What I Mean 0:01
Step off the train all alone at dawn
Back into the hole where I was born
The sun in the sky never raised an eye to me
The blood on the trax and must be mine
The fool on the hill and I feel fine
Don't look back cos you know what you might see
Look into the wall of my mind's eye
I think I know, but I don't know why
The questions are the answers you might need
Coming in a mess going out in style
I ain't good-looking but I'm someone's child
No one can give me the air that's mine to breathe
I met my maker, I made him cry
And on my shoulder he asked me why
His people won't fly through the storm
I said 'Listen up man, they don't even know you're born'
All my people right here, right now
D'You Know What I Mean?...
I don't really care for what you believe
So open up your fist or you won't receive
The thoughts and the words of every man you'll need
Get up off the floor and believe in life
No-one's ever gonna ever ask you twice
Get on the bus and bring it on home to me
My big mouth 7:42
Everybody knows... but no one's saying nothing
It was a sound so very loud... that no one can hear
I got something in my shoes... it's keeping me from walking
Down the long and winding road... back home to you
Around this town you've ceased to be
That's what you get for sleeping with the enemy
Where angels fly you won't play
So guess who's going to take the blame for...
My big mouth, my big name
Who'll put on my shoes while they're walking
Slowly down the hall of fame?
Into my big mouth, you could fly a plane
Who'll put on my shoes while they're walking
Slowly down the hall of fame?
I ain't never spoke to God
And I ain't never been to heaven
But you assumed I knew the way
Even though the map was given
And as you look into the eyes
Of a bloody cold assassin
Only then you'll realise
With whose life you have been messin'
Magic pie 12:45
An extraordinary guy
Can never have an ordinary day
He might live a long goodbye
But that is not for me to say
I dig his friends, I dig his shoes
He is just a child with nothing to lose
But his mind, his mind
They are sleeping while they dream
But then they want to be adored
They who don't say what they mean
Will live and die by their own sword
I dig their friends, I dig their shoes
They are like a child with nothing to lose
In their minds, yeah, their minds
But I'll have my way
In my own time
I'll have my say
My star will shine
'Cause you see me, I got my magic pie
Think of me, yeah that was me, I was that passer by
I've been and now I've gone
There are but a thousand days preparing for a thousand years
Many minds to educate the people who have disappeared
D'you dig my friends? D'you dig my shoes?
I am like a child with nothing to lose in my mind
Yeah, my mind
We'll have our way
In our own time
We'll have our say
'Cause my star's gon' shine
Stand by me 20:05
Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday
I've got a lot of things to learn
Said I would and I'll be leaving one day
Before my heart starts to burn
So what's the matter with you?
Sing me something new... Don't you know
The cold and wind and rain don't know
They only seem to come and go, away
Times are hard when things have got no meaning
I've found a key upon the floor
Maybe you and I will not believe in
The things we find behind the door
Stand by me, nobody knows the way it's gonna be...
If you're leaving will you take me with you?
I'm tired of talking on my phone
There is one thing I can never give you
My heart will never be your home
I Hope, I Think, I Know 26:01
They're trying hard to put me in my place
And that is why I've gotta keep running
The future is mine and it's no disgrace
'Cause in the end the past means nothing
You tell me I'm free then you tie me down
And from my chains I think it's a pity
What did it cost you to wear my crown?
You don't like me why don't you admit it
D'you feel a little down today?
Bet you ain't got much to say?
But you're gonna miss me when I'm not there
You know I don't care, you know I don't care
As we beg and steal and borrow
Life is hit and miss and this
I Hope, I Think, I Know
And if I hear the names you call
If I stumble catch me when I fall
'Cause baby after all, you'll never forget my name
The girl in the dirty skirt 30:24
If I may be so bold could I just say something
Come and make me my day
The clouds around your soul don't gather there for nothing
But I can chase them all away
Why d'you need a reason to feel happy
Or be shining for the rest of the world
Give me just a smile and would you make it snappy
Get your shit together girl
You got a feeling lost inside
It just won't let you go
Your life is sneaking up behind
It just won't let you go
No it just won't let you go
What I'm trying to say...
Is would you maybe, come dance with me
'Cause to me it doesn't matter
If your hopes and dreams are shattered
When you say something you make me believe
In the girl who wears a dirty shirt
She knows exactly what she's worth
Knows exactly what she's worth to me!
That I can see, I can see
If you ever find yourself inside a bubble
You've gotta make your own way home
You can call me anytime you're seeing double
Now you know you're not alone
Hey Jude
this should have been the Be Here Now track lists
1. D'You Know What I Mean? (shorter and to the sound of NG's 2016 Rethink)
2. My Big Mouth (remove over recordings and make it cleaner)
3. Be Here Now (shorter and no overdubs)
4. Stand By Me (remove overdubs)
5. I Hope, I Think, I Know (same as Stand By Me)
6. Going Nowhere
7. The Fame
8. Stay Young (same as Stand By Me)
9. It's Gettin' Better (Man!!) (shorter and with the sound of Air Studios)
10. All Around The World (make it last 5 minutes and remove the repetitive choruses)
11. Don't Go Away
I have a playlist on my channel with the playlist I made, if someone makes a Be Here Now video, with the songs from the playlist it would be "Biblical"
Nuno Lima
Amazing album ! Its rocks !
I try to change the order of the tracklist to sound better. Check if sounds better.
propose Tracklist :
1_ All Around the World
2_ D'You Know What I Mean?
3_ The Girl in the Dirty Shirt
4_ Magic Pie
5_ I Hope, I Think, I Know
6_ Stand by Me
7_ My Big Mouth
8_ Fade In-Out
9_ Be Here Now
10_ Don't Go Away
11_ It's Gettin' Better (Man!!)
12_ All Around the World (Reprise)
i hope you guys like !
pwoswald
Album didnt get enough credit. Imagine if this was their first album. People would have gone ballistic. Love the progression, the length of some of the songs. Love Oasis
fshoaps
Most songs should be cut down in length. I'm struggling to find a song on the album that truly benefits from their long length..?
pwoswald
@fshoaps dyou know what I mean , magic pie, girl in dirty shirt
All around the world is too long I agree
Paul Forster
Favourite album 💯👌
MrAvocado
how old are you, five? it was hailed as a five star masterpiece by the British music press on its initial release and was the most overhyped British release of the nineties and people did go ballistic. However It's now rightly viewed by most as a coke addled, bloated, unimaginative disaster and the death knell of Brit Pop. Even NG think it's a load of shite.
Dill T Dog
Excellent album that sold in great numbers.
The lads tried something different here and it worked.
For me at least.
Built to be played at festivals and in stadia.
Nikko
For me the only oasis Albums I will ever own are :
This …
Morn Glory
Def Maybe
The Master Plan
Heathen Chemistry
Stand on shoulder - nah
Dig out your soul - nah
The importance - nah !!
Mickaël Binos
Tracklist:
0:00 D'You Know What I Mean?
7:42 My Big Mouth
12:45 Magic Pie
20:05 Stand by Me
26:01 I Hope, I Think, I Know
30:24 The Girl in the Dirty Shirt
36:14 Fade In-Out
43:06 Don't Go Away
47:55 Be Here Now
53:09 All Around the World
1:02:29 It's Gettin' Better (Man!!)
1:09:30 All Around the World (Reprise)
Eugene Ax
Thank you, love this album
Mr. Lee Gibson
Txs Mate 🤘😎🍻🎸🥁🎶🎙🌎🌊☀️